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Upcoming Webinar: Best approaches for trade and transaction reporting
11 September 2025 10:00am ET | 3:00pm London | 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 Minutes 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…
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)…
Delta Capita Acquires DTCC Report Hub to Deliver Full Stack Regulatory Reporting
When Delta Capita confirmed its acquisition of DTCC’s Report Hub earlier this year, the deal looked, at first glance, like familiar consolidation in a crowded category. Look closer and it signals a broader shift: Delta Capita is moving from adviser and operator to full stack provider in regulatory reporting – pairing managed services with a…
The DORA Implementation Playbook: A Practitioner’s Guide to Demonstrating Resilience Beyond the Deadline
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has fundamentally reshaped the European Union’s financial regulatory landscape, with its full application beginning on January 17, 2025. This regulation goes beyond traditional risk management, explicitly acknowledging that digital incidents can threaten the stability of the entire financial system. As the deadline has passed, the focus is now shifting…
EU’s AMLA Sets Stage for Direct Supervision of High-Risk Cross-Border Banks
The EU’s new Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA – the Authority)) moved from concept to reality in summer 2025 as it began operations in Frankfurt. The Authority has a mandate to drive supervisory convergence, coordinate Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) and, from 2028, directly supervise a set of high-risk, cross-border financial institutions. The EU Anti Money Laundering…
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…
Turning Regulation into an Advantage for UK Financial Sector SMEs
By Jon Lucas, Director and Co-Founder, Hyve Managed Hosting. While security and compliance have always been crucial pillars of cloud hosting, the landscape is shifting. New legislation and stricter regulatory frameworks are placing heavier demands on businesses – particularly in sectors like financial services – forcing companies to invest more time, and resources into ticking…
Data Readiness is No Longer Optional for Banks
By Stuart Harvey, Chief Executive of Datactics. In a landscape marked by increasing regulatory scrutiny and accelerating digital change, data has long since shed its role as a by-product of banking operations and is now a critical strategic asset. The speed at which institutions must demonstrate data integrity, quality, and accessibility has made compliance not…
T minus 17 and Counting: Anticipating Canada’s OTC Reporting Rewrite
With a little over two weeks remaining before Canada’s derivatives trade reporting rewrite comes into force on 25 July, market participants are finalising the broadest data governance uplift the domestic OTC market has ever seen. The year old amendments to Multilateral Instrument 96101 set a single compliance date for every province and territory and align…