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Upcoming Webinar: GenAI and LLM case studies for Surveillance, Screening and Scanning
12 November 2025 11:00am ET | 3:00pm London | 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 Minutes As Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) move from pilot to production, compliance, surveillance, and screening functions are seeing tangible results — and new risks. From trade surveillance to adverse media screening to policy and regulatory scanning, GenAI and…
Upcoming Webinar: Managing Non-Financial Misconduct Under SMCR
9 October 2025 11:00am ET | 3:00pm London | 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 Minutes Non-financial misconduct—encompassing behaviours such as bullying, sexual harassment, and discrimination is a key focus of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR). The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has underscored that such misconduct is not only unethical but also poses significant risks…
Upcoming Webinar: Hearing from the Experts: AI Governance Best Practices
9 September 2025 10:00am ET | 3:00pm London | 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 Minutes The rapid spread of artificial intelligence in the financial industry presents data teams with novel challenges. AI’s ability to harvest and utilize vast amounts of data has raised concerns about the privacy and security of sensitive proprietary data and the ethical…
FCA Off-Channel Comms Survey Reveals 41% Senior-Level Incidents
On 7 August 2025, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its multi-firm review into off-channel communications across 11 wholesale banks. Eight of the firms disclosed 178 breaches of their own internal policies over the previous 12 months, with 41% of recorded incidents involving individuals at director grade or above. The FCA stresses that a…
AI in Action: 11 Firms Rewiring Compliance for Speed, Clarity and Control
Regulatory change isn’t slowing, and neither is the demand for defensible decisions. Compliance teams need tools that are clear about what they do, how they’re governed, and where their limits are. LLMs and agentic AI in compliance will feature in A-Team Group’s RegTech Summits in London (16 October) and New York City (20 November) with…
FCA Advances Bond CT to Auction Stage; ESMA Confirms fairCT as First EU Bond-CTP
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has opened the price auction phase for shortlisted bidders for its bond market consolidated tape (CT), a single, real time feed of post trade bond data drawn from every UK trading venue and Approved Publication Arrangement (APA). The initiative is intended to make bond markets “more transparent, efficient and…
The Data Backbone of Defence: Powering Next Generation Surveillance
A unified data fabric is fast becoming wholesale finance’s front line of defence. By fusing millions of voice calls, chat messages and trade records into a single analytical view, next generation surveillance promises to detect misconduct in minutes and to satisfy regulators who increasingly ask firms to prove that capability. A-Team Group RegTech Summits in…
EU’s AI Act Loads Data Responsibilities on Institutions but also Offers Opportunities
Financial institutions are under pressure to put their data estates in order as the European Union’s artificial intelligence regulation comes into force this week, threatening huge fines for failures to observe its tough rules on the safe and fair use of the technology. Nevertheless, the introduction of stringent measures that will place new compliance burdens…
RepRisk Feeds Business Conduct Data into BlackRock’s Aladdin to Bolster ESG Oversight
Reputational risk specialist RepRisk has integrated its AI driven dataset—covering 100?+ risk factors across 400,000?+ public and private entities—into BlackRock’s Aladdin investment platform. The link gives portfolio managers real-time “outside in” alerts on corporate misconduct directly inside their trading and risk workflows. “We are proud to serve the global asset management and asset owner community…
Nasdaq Verafin Pilots Agentic AI AML-Workers
Nasdaq’s anti financial crime arm, Verafin, is piloting a set of agentic AI ‘digital workers’ designed to handle the labour-intensive parts of anti money laundering (AML) compliance – tasks such as clearing false positive sanctions alerts and performing routine enhanced due diligence (EDD) reviews. Financial crime teams remain under heavy pressure. In a survey of…