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Upcoming Webinar: Post-Trade Transformation: Automating Clearing & Settlement
Date: 1 December 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The UK, EU and Swiss markets move to T+1 settlement on 11 October 2027, but the first binding compression arrives almost a year earlier. ESMA’s amended settlement discipline RTS expects allocation and confirmation completed by 23:00 CET on trade…
Upcoming Webinar: The Next Compliance Frontier: Monitoring GenAI and Unstructured Comms Data
Date: 16 September 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Generative AI is rapidly transforming how employees create, share, and interpret information. From internal copilots drafting client messages to AI tools summarising trading conversations or generating research notes, large language models are increasingly embedded in daily workflows across capital…
FCA Misconduct Rules Put Surveillance Evidence and HR–Compliance Workflows to the Test
The Financial Conduct Authority’s expanded non-financial misconduct rules took effect on 1 September, bringing around 37,000 non-bank firms within a broader conduct regime. Firms now need to show how complaints, communications evidence and employment investigations inform regulatory decisions. New rule COCON 1.1.7FR covers serious work-related bullying, harassment and violence towards colleagues. It brings non-bank firms…
From Regulatory Noise to Defensible Action: Where RegTech Must Deliver Next
A compliance system delivers value when it helps a firm decide what to do next. That remains difficult when the evidence sits across internal policies, siloed data and external intelligence. AI can handle the volume and diversity, but faster analysis does not guarantee a better compliance decision. Firms still need to establish why an alert…
Data Firms Responding as AI Seen Driving Sovereignty Concern
While the criticality of data to financial institutions has made its security paramount, the internationalisation of that information has made it a strategic priority. With ever greater volumes of data criss-crossing the world within and between organisations’ systems, data sovereignty has become a key component of governance policies required by regulators. Once considered relevant to…
UBS AML Enforcement Exposes Underlying Data Weaknesses
A coordinated US enforcement action against UBS Financial Services has exposed how incomplete data feeds, faulty system configuration and weak customer-risk controls can undermine an automated anti-money laundering (AML) programme. FINRA found that UBS failed to monitor adequately more than 60,000 foreign-currency wires worth over $10 billion between January 2019 and June 2023. The deficiencies…
Bloomberg Vault Adds AI Models for Insider Dealing and Personal Trading Surveillance
Bloomberg has expanded Bloomberg Vault with two artificial intelligence models designed to identify electronic communications that may point to insider dealing or breaches of employee personal trading policies. The additions extend the platform’s surveillance coverage to two risk areas that can require compliance teams to examine communications alongside trading and account activity. The Insider Dealing…
Comply Adds Kalshi Data to Employee Trading Surveillance Platform
Comply is adding Kalshi contract-trading data to its compliance platform, allowing financial firms to monitor employees’ prediction-market activity alongside securities, futures, options, cryptoassets and other investments. The integration extends existing employee-trading controls to a market that may fall outside firms’ traditional personal account dealing programmes. Compliance teams will be able to configure monitoring rules and…
A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report
A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of…
Shield Extends Agentic Suite Into Governed Alert Closure
Shield has added two AI agents to AmplifAI, its agentic suite for digital communications surveillance and investigations, extending the platform’s focus from detection and investigation into alert resolution and language coverage. The new Alert Closure Agent is designed to assess flagged communications using message content, risk language and conversation context, and to close alerts where…