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Less than 3 Months until Canadian OTC-Derivatives Trade Reporting Rewrite Enters Force
Canada’s long-awaited rewrite of its OTC-derivatives trade-reporting regime enters force on 25 July 2025, completing a multi-year effort by the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) to bring national rules into line with global data standards and the U.S. CFTC’s 2024 “swap-data” overhaul.? The amendments—first published in final form on 25 July 2024—touch every province and territory…
ACA Insights from FCA 2024 STORS Report (Insider Dealing Dominates)
In March, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its annual breakdown of suspicious transaction and order reports (STORs) filed during 2024. The headline figure – 4,528 STORs received – reflects continued vigilance in monitoring for potential market abuse. While the volume remains largely consistent with previous years, the detailed breakdown offers valuable insights for…
Data Hurdles, Expertise Loss Hampering BCBS 239 Compliance
A combination of data management hurdles, talent shortages and poor succession planning are bedevilling banks as they struggle to respond to a long-standing risk data aggregation directive – even after repeated European Central Bank (ECB) criticism of their compliance shortfalls. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting…
Data Concern Over EU’s Streamlining of Green Regulations
Financial institutions may have to rely more heavily on their data teams and vendors to surface sustainability risks in their portfolios after the European Union watered down some of its key corporate ESG reporting regulations. The EU’s Omnibus package announced earlier this year is intended to streamline the compliance processes for regulations including the Corporate…
November 2025 Deadline for ISO 20022: Are We Ready?
Global payment networks are undergoing a fundamental transformation as the financial industry transitions to ISO 20022 – a structured messaging standard designed to replace legacy formats and drive interoperability. In capital markets and treasury operations, this shift is most evident in the SWIFT cross-border payments network and high-value systems like the U.S. Fedwire. SWIFT’s Cross-Border…
AI-Driven Insights Give Financial Crime Teams a New Edge
Digital intelligence firm Fivecast is bringing its AI-powered platform—originally used in national security—into the financial crime space. The platform is designed to help compliance and investigation teams better detect risk by surfacing insights from vast amounts of online, publicly available data. Built around open-source intelligence (OSINT), it applies machine learning to identify red flags across…
Flagright Secures $4.3M to Expand AI-Native AML Platform and Global Footprint
As financial crime grows increasingly sophisticated—with deepfake scams and AI-powered fraud on the rise—compliance teams face mounting pressure to match that pace of innovation. One startup, Flagright, is doing just that by building a full-stack AML compliance platform powered natively by artificial intelligence. Co-founded in 2022 by Baran Ozkan and Madhu Nadig, Flagright has raised…
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…