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FinCEN Trims CTA with Interim Rule
On March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an interim final rule that significantly alters the reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). This rule exempts U.S.-based entities, previously classified as “domestic reporting companies,” from the obligation to report beneficial ownership information (BOI) to FinCEN. Consequently, these domestic entities are no…
Modern Data Landscape Comes Under Scrutiny at Data Management Summit London
From data products and marketplaces to the new challenges of regulatory compliance and the latest thinking on unstructured data, A-Team Group’s Data Management Summit London 2025 took in the full breadth of topics that chief data officers and their teams are dealing with daily. With a line up of C-suite executives and expert speakers from…
Recorded Webinar: Detecting and preventing market abuse
Market abuse – unlawful disclosure of inside information, insider trading, circular trading, “pump and dump” schemes, etc. – poses significant threats to the integrity of capital markets. In 2024, global trading house Trafigura agreed to pay a $55 million fine to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for trading with non-public information, manipulating a…
Vanquis Banking Group Enhances AML Oversight with FinScan
Vanquis Banking Group has selected FinScan to optimize its anti-money laundering (AML) processes, reinforcing its financial crime risk management framework. The decision reflects a broader industry shift toward technology-driven compliance strategies that improve operational efficiency and regulatory adherence. As a specialist UK bank, Vanquis faces increasing scrutiny over financial crime prevention, making the integration of…
AML Partners Extends Directed Intelligence with AI/ML Agents
With its RegTechONE® platform and Directed Intelligence framework, AML Partners is enabling financial institutions to train their own AI/ML models using internal operational data, ensuring that compliance automation aligns with real-world risk decisions and regulatory expectations. Unlike traditional AI models that rely on opaque, third-party training data, AML Partners’ Directed Intelligence records every compliance decision,…
Key Takeaways from the SEC’s 2025 Examination Priorities
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations released its examination priorities for Fiscal Year 2025 in October, placing a strong emphasis on investor protection, market integrity, and compliance with regulatory standards. These priorities, formulated before the results of the 2024 U.S. election were known, reflect insights from past exams and emerging risks, and…
Oracle Adds Agentic AI to Investigation Hub for Financial Crime
Oracle Financial Services has added a broad set of agentic AI capabilities to its Investigation Hub Cloud Service, aimed at helping financial institutions automate parts of their investigative workflow and reduce manual effort when tackling financial crime. The new AI agents are designed to assist investigators by gathering evidence, surfacing key insights, and generating detailed…
Rethinking Regulatory Reporting with Regnology
In a financial services industry that moves millions in milliseconds, it’s sobering to realize that the regulatory reporting processes underpinning these markets remain stuck in the past. Despite advances in technology and regulatory data management, regulatory reporting operates primarily on what Maciej Piechocki, Chief Revenue Officer at RegTech and SupTech provider Regnology, calls “digitalized paper.”…
Reporting Seen Among Use Cases Benefiting from Cloud-based Data Management for AI
Artificial intelligence is being adopted by financial regulators at pace, putting pressure on the financial institutions that the overseers serve to double down on their reporting capabilities. It’s no surprise to find that the same AI that’s helping regulators can aid organisations in getting those reporting procedures in place. To do so, however, they need…
Sumsub Releases AI-Powered AML Screening Enhancements
Full-cycle verification vendor Sumsub, recently released new AI-driven enhancements to its AML screening and case management capabilities, aiming to help compliance teams reduce manual workload and improve the accuracy of risk detection. The updates address a critical challenge in financial crime compliance—the growing volume of false positives that consume valuable time and resources. Regulatory bodies…