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Predictions for 2025: Regulatory Climate to Impact Data Management as KYC Initiatives Evolve
By Cenk Ipeker, General Manager, Product Management, Cloud, NICE Actimize. As we enter 2025, financial institutions are likely to witness a shift toward more efficient, customer-friendly, and compliant Know Your Customer (KYC) practices. These changes will occur as institutions navigate an evolving regulatory landscape and technological advancements, with data management becoming a key focus area…
Why is Comms Surveillance Still a Problem? Key Insights from RegTech Summit 2024
More than $3 billion in fines and even higher legal costs have underscored the persistent challenges firms face in e-communications surveillance. Despite abundant evidence of the regulatory, financial, and reputational risks at stake, this problem continues to vex compliance teams worldwide. This provided the context for a group of senior practitioners and RegTech experts convened…
A Holistic Approach to Regulatory Change Management: Insights from RegTech Summit 2024
In November, the RegTech community gathered for A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit in New York City, now in its eighth year. 2024 also saw a record number of national elections including the United States, the UK and six other G20 countries. The details of any changes in regulatory policy and any impact on Governance Risk and…
From Panic to Progress: Tackling the Trade Surveillance Data Challenge
Travis Schwab, CEO, Eventus. Over the past year, global regulators have hit firms with massive fines for lapses in data governance. This has triggered a state of near-panic across trade surveillance teams as they scramble to avoid a similar fate. In fact, there has been little time for much else. As one head of surveillance…
Transforming Compliance: Key Takeaways from the RegTech Summit Panel on GenAI and LLMs
A deep dive on Generative AI (GenAI) in compliance was the focus of the first panel session at the recent A-Team Group RegTech Summit in New York. The panel comprised Erin Preston, Chief Compliance Officer, Wedbush Securities; Harsh Pandya, Vice President, Product Management, Saifr; Brandon Carl, EVP, Product Strategy, Smarsh; and Rachna Srivastava, Head of…
Behavioural Surveillance: Key Insights from the Smarsh -Sponsored Webinar on Conduct Risk Management
A recent webinar hosted by RegTech Insight and sponsored by Smarsh, brought together industry leaders to explore innovative strategies for tackling conduct risk. The panel included Sepehr Irandoost, Head of Global Surveillance Effectiveness and Efficiency, Bank of America; Marili Anderson, Head of Compliance, Rabobank; Theo Hill, Senior Director of Product Management, Smarsh. Managing conduct risk…
FINRA’s 2024 New and Updated Guidelines on AI and GenAI/LLM Integration
In 2024, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) expanded its guidance on integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the securities industry, placing particular emphasis on generative AI (GenAI) and large language models. This builds upon FINRA’s ongoing efforts since 2020 to ensure that member firms adhere to existing regulatory frameworks while adopting advanced technologies. The recent…
Why NatWest’s e-Comms Channel Ban Sparks Debate: Insights from Symphony’s Brad Levy
NatWest’s recent decision to ban popular messaging platforms like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger on company devices has reignited debate over how financial institutions manage off-channel communications. Brad Levy, CEO of Symphony shared his insights with RegTech Insight on why channel bans are only a temporary solution to a complex issue. Levy argues that there is…
UK Budget Puts Corporate Actions Automation Back on the Agenda
By Yogita Mehta, Commercial Product Director – Corporate Actions, Financial Information, SIX. Expectations around the UK budget in October last month have been consistently making headlines since even before its was announced. One area that is expected to be impacted because of the changes announced by Rachel Reeves is market appetite for M&A activity, with…
A-Team Group Names RegTech Insight – USA 2024 Award Winners
You have all voted and the results are in – A-Team Group has announced the winners of its RegTech Insight Awards – USA 2024. The awards acknowledge leading RegTech solutions, services and consultancy to capital markets participants across the USA, and the winners were named following the company’s 8th annual RegTech Summit in New York…