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Regulatory Data Handbook 2026 – Fourteenth Edition
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook. Supervisors increasingly expect firms to demonstrate which rules apply, which data supports each obligation, who owns the control and how exceptions are identified and resolved. Policies and implementation programmes must now be supported by records that can withstand regulatory scrutiny. This edition examines material…
AI Won’t Replace Compliance Professionals, but the EU’s AMLA Will Change How They Work
As the EU’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority raises expectations around AML, firms are moving beyond transaction monitoring towards behavioural intelligence. Adam McLaughlin, Director of Financial Crime at Fenergo, argues that whilst AI will become central to that transition, human judgement remains the deciding factor. Historically, financial institutions have approached anti-money laundering as a process centred…
From Regulatory Noise to Defensible Action: Where RegTech Must Deliver Next
A compliance system delivers value when it helps a firm decide what to do next. That remains difficult when the evidence sits across internal policies, siloed data and external intelligence. AI can handle the volume and diversity, but faster analysis does not guarantee a better compliance decision. Firms still need to establish why an alert…
Why Sanctions Compliance Is Becoming an Intelligence-Led Discipline
By Theodora Papadimitropoulou, Head of Global Product Strategy, GTM at Dun & Bradstreet. For years, sanctions compliance was closely associated with a single task, running a counterparty’s name against the relevant lists, checking for a match and acting if required. How much that tells you, though, depends heavily on the provider and the data behind…
Napier AI and Delta Capita Link KYC and AML Workflows
Napier AI and Delta Capita have formed a partnership that combines client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes with anti-money laundering (AML) screening and transaction monitoring. The companies will connect Delta Capita’s Karbon client lifecycle management platform with Napier AI Continuum. Napier’s contribution covers client screening, transaction monitoring and transaction screening. Delta Capita will…
UBS AML Enforcement Exposes Underlying Data Weaknesses
A coordinated US enforcement action against UBS Financial Services has exposed how incomplete data feeds, faulty system configuration and weak customer-risk controls can undermine an automated anti-money laundering (AML) programme. FINRA found that UBS failed to monitor adequately more than 60,000 foreign-currency wires worth over $10 billion between January 2019 and June 2023. The deficiencies…
BIGTXN Turns Investment Restrictions into Trade-Ready Controls
An interview with Founder & CEO, Haider Mannan. Investment screening has its greatest operational impact before a trade, when a firm needs a defensible compliance decision without delaying execution. BIGTXN founder and chief executive Haider Mannan built the company around that constraint. “Because if you’re holding up execution, it’s costing the business,” he told RegTech…
Hawk Appoints NICE Actimize Veteran to Lead Revenue Strategy
Anti-financial crime technology provider Hawk, has appointed Eli Chamoun as President and Chief Revenue Officer to lead its revenue strategy as it seeks to expand adoption of its artificial intelligence technology among banks and payment companies. Chamoun will oversee Hawk’s global revenue strategy and operations, develop its go-to-market team and deepen relationships with banks, payment…
FinScan Completes LSEG Validation for World-Check On Demand Integration
FinScan has completed LSEG Risk Intelligence’s technical validation process for its integration with World-Check On Demand. LSEG has designated the integration as ready to go to market. The integration gives financial institutions access to LSEG’s risk intelligence within FinScan’s anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions-screening workflows. It is designed to reduce the operational work involved in…
EBA Framework 4.3 Maps the Data Behind AMLA’s First Risk Assessment
The European Banking Authority’s Reporting Framework 4.3 gives financial institutions their first machine-readable view of the data that will support the EU’s selection of firms for direct anti-money laundering supervision. Published earlier this month, the framework marks an intermediate step towards the first formal risk-assessment and selection exercise by the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and…