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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…
Upcoming Webinar: Managing Off-Channel Communications Compliance
Date: 10 June 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The compliance challenge around off-channel communications has moved beyond the familiar narrative of WhatsApp messages on personal phones. Today, the real issue confronting firms has become communication sprawl: conversations occurring across messaging apps, collaboration platforms, social media direct messages,…
Upcoming Webinar: Holistic Conduct & Surveillance: Unifying Trade, Voice, and eComms Data with AI
Date: 13 May 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Surveillance in capital markets has evolved in silos. Trade surveillance, voice recording, and electronic communications monitoring have traditionally operated as parallel control functions, each with distinct datasets, workflows and alerting logic. Yet recent enforcement actions on both sides of…
Don’t Misread a Shift in Regulatory Tone – Global Relay
US regulators may be stepping back from the penalty-led off-channel communications sweeps that defined recent enforcement cycles, but that does not mean firms can ease up on surveillance or record-keeping controls. The shift under new leadership at the SEC and CFTC should be reviewed as a change in enforcement emphasis: fewer technical cases pursued in…
Eventus Names Cameron Routh CEO as Surveillance Vendor Prepares for Next Growth Phase
Eventus has appointed Cameron Routh as chief executive officer, placing a financial technology executive with more than two decades of experience in software and data businesses at the head of the trade surveillance and financial risk technology provider. Routh succeeds founder Travis Schwab, who has led Eventus for 11 years and overseen the development of…
FCA Market Soundings Review Puts Pre-Deal Controls Under Scrutiny
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has used its multi-firm review of market soundings in UK equity capital markets (ECM) to evaluate how a long-established issuance practice affects market quality, information control and investor targeting. The review covered 63 ECM transactions in UK listed shares between January 2023 and June 2025, including fifty accelerated bookbuilds (ABBs)…
Mizuho Securities Adopts Behavox for AI-Powered Communications Surveillance
Mizuho Securities has implemented Behavox Quantum AI for communications surveillance, extending monitoring across chat and email in Japanese, English and other languages. The deployment points to strategic advancement from standalone surveillance tools towards more integrated control environments, where communications monitoring sits alongside trade surveillance, data retention and policy management. At Mizuho Securities, the project appears…
Shield Advances Archive Modernization with Tiering and Migration Enhancements
Shield has updated its archive platform with a set of enhancements aimed at addressing a long-standing operational problem for financial institutions: how to modernise legacy communications archives without introducing migration risk, increasing storage costs or weakening compliance controls. This latest release focuses on three areas – storage optimisation, large-scale migration and expanded governance – reflecting…
The End of the “Toughest Regulator” Model? Rethinking Global Surveillance Strategies
For years, global banks have built surveillance programmes around a simple assumption: meet the expectations of the toughest regulator and the rest of the world will fall into line. If a compliance framework could satisfy authorities in the United States, United Kingdom or European Union, the same controls could usually be applied globally with only…
Democratising Surveillance: Why Culture Is the Real Compliance Challenge
Institutional culture has always been the defining constraint for effective compliance across capital markets and treasury. Boards may approve ever-larger budgets for surveillance technology and artificial intelligence, and regulators may intensify scrutiny of governance, risk, and compliance frameworks, yet the hardest variable to control remains behavioural norms and internal incentives. For many organisations, the question…