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From Batch to Real-Time: LSEG Reinvents AML Screening with World-Check On Demand
As financial institutions accelerate toward real-time payments and digital onboarding, compliance teams face mounting pressure to keep customer screening instant, accurate and demonstrable. In response, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has introduced World-Check On Demand – a new cloud-based service designed to deliver “real-time risk intelligence” through API integration, allowing institutions to embed sanctions…
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…
Qomply Brings in Former FCA Regulator to Drive Global Growth
Qomply has strengthened its leadership team with the appointment of Neil Treloar as Chief Operating Officer, underscoring its ambition to scale internationally in regulatory reporting. Based in London, Treloar joins at a pivotal point in the firm’s expansion, bringing a rare combination of supervisory, policy and market experience. Treloar’s career spans more than three decades…
Quantexa Survey Reveals Confidence Gap in Community Bank AML Defences
On paper, mid-size and community banks in the United States should feel secure. A recent survey found that 94% of anti-money laundering (AML) professionals at these institutions are confident in their ability to spot criminal activity. But confidence can be deceptive. Nearly half of those same professionals admitted their investigations are slow, inefficient, and undermined…
Regulatory Data Handbook 2025 – Thirteenth Edition
Welcome to the thirteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a unique and practical guide to capital markets regulation, regulatory change, and the data and data management requirements of compliance across Europe, the UK, US and Asia-Pacific. This year’s edition lands at a moment of accelerating regulatory divergence and intensifying data focused supervision. Inside,…
Navigating the Future of Regulatory Reporting: Insights from Industry Leaders
The landscape of regulatory reporting in capital markets is in constant flux, shaped by technological change, evolving compliance demands, and industry cost pressures. A recent webinar, Best Approaches for Trade and Transaction Reporting, hosted by A-Team Group in September 2025 and sponsored by the Derivatives Service Bureau, brought together senior RegTech executives and compliance practitioners…
Recorded Webinar: Best approaches for trade and transaction reporting
Compliance practitioners and technology leaders in capital markets face mounting pressure to ensure that reporting processes are efficient, accurate, and aligned with global standards. Market developments and jurisdictional nuances in regulatory frameworks like MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR and MAS create a continual challenge for compliance teams. This webinar brings together senior RegTech executives and seasoned…
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…
API-Driven and Template-Free: The Rise of Granular Data Reporting
For decades, regulatory reporting has been defined by templates: thousands of fields to be completed and resubmitted every time a rule or taxonomy changed. That world is now shifting. Regulators in multiple jurisdictions are adopting Granular Data Reporting (GDR) – a model where firms submit transaction- or element-level data once, and supervisors generate the necessary…
REP008, FIT, and Beyond: Navigating the FCA’s Reporting Duties on Misconduct
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has long insisted that “non-financial misconduct is misconduct.” That phrase, repeated across speeches and policy statements, reflects the regulator’s conviction that culture, integrity, and behaviour are inseparable from financial soundness. In 2025, the FCA translated that principle into formal rulemaking, finalising changes to the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SMCR)…