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Reclaiming Value in a Shifting Legal Landscape: The 2025 Top 100 Settlements Analysis
While 2025 saw its challenges, the year ended on a high for securities litigation in the US marketplace, raising the prospect of an expanded rebound in 2026. The latter part of the year saw four settlements that exceeded $200million in value in addition to a single, significant settlement reaching $740million, providing a late-year boost to…
New White Paper: AI and the Operational Reality of e-Comms Surveillance
The rapid expansion of electronic communications channels has fundamentally reshaped how financial firms interact with clients, counterparties and markets. Email and Bloomberg messaging have been joined by collaboration tools, instant messaging platforms, voice calls and video meetings, all of which now sit squarely within the scope of regulatory scrutiny. For compliance teams, this proliferation has…
ThetaRay Extends Agentic AI into AML Investigations with Ray
As regulatory expectations around anti-money-laundering (AML) effectiveness continue to rise, many financial institutions are finding that the greatest operational pressure now sits in investigations rather than detection. While transaction monitoring models have advanced, the downstream work of reviewing alerts, assembling evidence and documenting decisions remains labour-intensive and difficult to standardise. ThetaRay is addressing this challenge…
Seven 2026 RegTech Outlooks for Compliance, Reporting and Financial Crime
As 2026 gets underway, RegTechs are positioning for a shift in regulatory emphasis from refits, rewrites and attestations to demonstrable evidence. Across the jurisdictions supervisors are shifting from consultation and rulemaking into validation and testing whether firms have operationalised reforms through governance, high-quality data, defensible controls and credible evidence. The seven RegTechs that follow have…
UK Equity Consolidated Tape and EU MiFIR – Two Data Regimes, One Control Problem
The UK’s proposed equity consolidated tape is framed as a response to long-standing fragmentation in equity market data. By aggregating post-trade information and an attributed best bid and offer across trading venues, the tape is intended to provide a single, standardised view of UK equity trading. At the same time, transaction reporting under the Markets…
Kaizen RegTech Group Refines Leadership Roles to Support Continued Growth
Kaizen RegTech Group has adjusted leadership responsibilities within its existing structure as the business scales across regulatory reporting and related services. Dario Crispini remains Group Chief Executive Officer, retaining responsibility for overall strategy and growth, while continuing to lead regulatory reporting product development and innovation and staying closely engaged with clients and market initiatives. As…
The Latest Changes to the EU AI Act – What You Need to Know
By Nik Kairinos, CEO and Co-Founder of RAIDS AI. AI’s influence continues to grow, reaching across sectors and across borders. In financial services, it’s fundamentally changing how firms operate, shifting towards more precise, efficient, and innovative ways of working. At a foundational level, it provides the ability to analyse large volumes of data quickly and…
Inside the Uneven Geography of AML Enforcement Outcomes in 2025 – Fenergo Analysis
Fenergo’s latest Global enforcement analysis shows total AML, KYC, sanctions and customer due diligence penalties declining to $3.8 billion in 2025, down from $4.6 billion in 2024 and $6.6 billion in 2023, marking a second consecutive year of decline. Beneath that headline, regional outcomes moved in sharply different directions. North American fines fell by 58%,…
Funding Regulatory Oversight: 2026 Budgets for US Supervisors
On January 11, 2026, the House Appropriations Committee released conferenced versions of two major fiscal year 2026 spending measures: the Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) bill and the National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs (NSRP) bill. While appropriations announcements rarely attract sustained market attention, these packages carry direct implications for how financial…
Introducing RegPass: A New Agentic Paradigm for Regulatory Change Management
After more than a decade shaped by document aggregation, workflow portals, and rule-mapping engines, a third generation of regulatory intelligence platforms is beginning to emerge. These systems move beyond collecting and classifying regulatory updates. Instead, they attempt something more ambitious: to understand, model and reason about a firm’s actual business operations, and to connect regulatory…