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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…
RegSensus Combines FundApps and SteelEye Around Regulatory Consensus and Shared Data
FundApps and SteelEye have launched RegSensus, a new entity combining regulatory monitoring and reporting with trade and communications surveillance following completion of their merger in September. The business targets two sources of duplicated compliance work: firms rebuilding datasets for separate obligations and interpreting the same regulations independently. Announced on 27 October, the merger aims to…
Smarsh Expands Solutions for AI, Cyber, and Third-Party Risk
Smarsh has announced expanded communications supervision, web archiving, cyber compliance and vendor risk management capabilities for small and mid-sized financial services firms. The changes include planned capture of Claude Cowork interactions within Professional Archive, alongside tools for reviewing communications, monitoring device security and documenting third-party oversight. Smarsh already captures Claude Enterprise communications through the Claude…
FCA Market Watch 86 Reveals Material Weaknesses in MAR Surveillance
The FCA recently published Market Watch 86 highlighting a number of deficiencies in the systems, controls and governance over market abuse regulation (MAR). This follows supervisory visits to seven large retail oriented broker-dealers with high volumes of single-stock equities playing an important role in identifying and reporting potential insider dealing and exposure to other forms…
Shield Appoints Former HSBC Surveillance Head Michelle Clark to Shape AI Product Strategy
Shield has appointed Michelle Clark as Global Communications Surveillance Expert, bringing experience from HSBC into its product strategy for communications surveillance and risk governance. Clark will help shape the company’s AI development and support customers’ adoption of its technology. Clark brings more than 20 years of global banking experience, including as Global Head of Communications…
Behavox Acquires Apiax to Add Cross-Border and Content Compliance
Behavox has acquired Zurich-based Apiax, adding software that converts financial regulation into machine-readable rules for use within firms’ own systems. The deal extends Behavox’s controls platform into cross-border and content compliance, connecting regulatory interpretation with its regulatory change management, surveillance and archiving products. Apiax’s embedded compliance software applies regulatory rules at the point of business….
The Surveillance Challenge Behind an Increasingly Continuous Market
The shift towards 24/5 equities trading and the rapid growth of prediction markets are presenting new challenges for trade surveillance. With trading activity increasingly spanning multiple venues, instruments and time zones, identifying potential market abuse is becoming more complex, particularly where suspicious behaviour crosses traditional market boundaries. For surveillance technology providers, however, these developments don’t…
Financial Firms Confront the Next Phase of AI-Driven Compliance
Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from experimentation into day-to-day compliance operations at financial institutions, changing not only how firms monitor communications and investigate potential breaches, but also the governance, data and skills they need to support those processes. That shift was evident during a private executive roundtable hosted by compliance recording specialist Luware at A-Team…
Governed Communication Intelligence: Why the Archive Was Never the Finish Line
By Ari Applbaum, VP of Marketing for LeapXpert. Business communication no longer stays within the channels companies own and control. Clients use WhatsApp, WeChat, iMessage and other consumer messaging apps as part of their daily lives. Employees meet them there because it is quick, familiar and often the simplest way to keep a relationship moving….
MCO Secures More Than $100 Million to Expand Compliance Platform and AI
MCO, the provider of MyComplianceOffice, has secured more than $100 million in growth financing from Accel-KKR Credit Partners to fund product development, artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and market expansion. The company plans to expand its technology team and invest further in its integrated compliance platform. MyComplianceOffice brings together controls for employee activity, communications, financial transactions…