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From e-Comms to AI Validation: Key Findings from ACA’s IMCT Survey 2025
Artificial intelligence has risen to the top of compliance priorities according to the 2025 Investment Management Compliance Testing (IMCT) Survey by the Investment Advisor Association (IAA), ACA Group and Yuter Compliance Consulting. Based on responses from 577 adviser firms, AI usage ranks as the year’s “hottest” topic (57%), ahead of AML readiness (41%) and cybersecurity…
Kaizen Unveils MAR360 to Tackle Market Abuse Risk with Integrated Surveillance and Training
Kaizen has unveiled MAR360, a new compliance suite aimed at helping financial institutions manage the complex challenge of detecting and preventing market abuse. The release reflects a growing regulatory push to tighten controls and ensure firms can demonstrate robust frameworks to supervisors. The suite brings together three elements: a market abuse risk assessment tool, trade…
Social Media-Linked Surveillance by Deutsche Börse, Scila and Stockpulse
Deutsche Börse has expanded its market surveillance capabilities by incorporating social media intelligence into its Scila powered surveillance platform. The move reflects a growing recognition of the role social media plays in market dynamics and the risks it presents for manipulation and misinformation. The integration, delivered through a collaboration between Scila and German analytics specialist…
Symphony and the Future of Market Communications: T+1, DORA, and Deepfake Defence
In May 2024, the U.S. capital markets made the long-awaited transition to T+1 settlement, with RegTech company Symphony playing a quiet but pivotal role. The integration of its platform with DTCC’s Central Trade Manager (CTM) gave firms the ability to resolve trade contract breaks in real time, reducing the risk of settlement failure. “The DTCC,…
Shield and PwC Partner on Communications Surveillance
Shield and PwC UK have joined forces to help financial institutions modernise their approach to monitoring digital communications. The collaboration combines Shield’s AI-first platform for governance and archiving with PwC’s experience in surveillance delivery, compliance, and programme execution. The initiative is aimed at enabling firms to adopt more proactive and scalable risk management. By uniting…
Ascent Joins Acuity to Boost AI-Led Digital Transformation Capabilities
Acuity Knowledge Partners has agreed to acquire Ascent, a European provider of AI-powered digital transformation services, in a deal due to close at the end of September 2025. The move is set to expand Acuity’s Data and Technology Services (DTS) division, strengthening its technology and AI-led solutions. Ascent brings a team of 550 specialists in…
From Sandbox to Scale-Up: How the FCA Plans to Shape UK Fintech Growth
In her address at Merchant Taylors’ Hall on 17 September 2025, Jessica Rusu, the FCA’s Chief Data, Information and Intelligence Officer, set out a comprehensive programme of initiatives underpin the regulator’s growth and innovation agenda. The speech, “Regulating for growth – the future is now”, presented four central pillars: strengthening crypto oversight, advancing artificial intelligence…
FCA AI Update 2025: How the Regulator is Embedding AI Oversight into UK Financial Rules
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has now issued its AI Update (2025), a significant step in its regulatory journey. It builds on the 2022 Discussion Paper on AI and Machine Learning (DP22/4), which set out early questions about AI’s transformative potential and the risks it introduces. Three years on, the FCA’s position has sharpened:…
Audit-Ready AI: How Fenergo Is Redefining Financial Crime Compliance
Regulators are losing patience. In the first half of 2025, global financial institutions were hit with fines totalling $1.23 billion, a 417% increase on the same period the year before. Sanctions failures alone surged from $3.7 million in H1 2024 to $228.8 million this year, underscoring just how closely watchdogs are monitoring AML, KYC and…
Recorded Webinar: Hearing from the Experts: AI Governance Best Practices
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 and legal use of external information. Robust data governance frameworks provide the guardrails needed…