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Leadership Change at OneTrust Signals Next Phase of AI-Ready Governance Strategy
Atlanta based regulatory solutions company OneTrust has appointed John Heyman as chief executive officer, marking a leadership transition as the company positions itself for its next phase of growth in data and AI governance. Founder Kabir Barday will remain involved in a strategic advisory capacity through his role on the board. The change follows what…
Sanctions Data Has Outgrown the Systems Built to Manage It
By Marion Leslie, Head of Financial Information, Executive Board Member, SIX. For as long as anyone in the industry can remember, sanctions in financial instruments representing holdings in sanctioned legal entities have been treated as a very specialist concern. They sat with compliance teams and were largely invisible to day-to-day market activity. The issue is…
Regulator-First AI: Vivox Brings Atomic Workflows to Compliance Operations
Artificial intelligence has become a default talking point in financial crime compliance. Yet for many regulated firms, particularly those operating across capital markets, payments, and treasury functions, the challenge is no longer whether AI can be used, but whether it can be deployed in a way regulators will accept. For Vivox AI, a young company…
ICE Benchmark Administration Recognised by ESMA Under EU Benchmarks Regulation
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) said that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has granted recognition to ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (IBA) as a third-country benchmark administrator under Article 32 of the EU Benchmarks Regulation. “IBA is pleased to have been granted recognition by ESMA,” said Clive de Ruig, President of ICE Benchmark Administration. “This decision…
Teciem Launches with New Investment Focus on Treasury, Capital Markets, Risk and Regulatory Technology
When Teciem formally launched as a standalone company in early February, it marked the culmination of a process that had been several years in the making. The business, formerly Finastra’s Treasury and Capital Markets (TCM) unit, now operates independently with a singular focus: delivering mission-critical technology for treasury, capital markets, risk management and regulatory compliance….
AI Agents Need Better Data, Not Bigger Models – Daloopa Benchmark
AI-powered fundamental and historical data provider Daloopa has published new benchmark research examining how well leading AI agent systems perform on real-world financial research tasks. Titled Benchmarking AI Agents on Financial Retrieval, the study evaluates whether recent advances in agentic AI translate into reliable outcomes when accuracy matters most. The benchmark focuses on a core…
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…