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VoxSmart Unifies Communications Compliance Workflows in VX1
VoxSmart has launched VX1, a communications compliance platform that brings mobile capture, surveillance, investigations, archiving, alert detection and voice transcription into a single interface. The platform is designed for investment banks, hedge funds and asset managers monitoring communications across voice, mobile and digital channels. The announcement cites WhatsApp and Bloomberg chat among the sources contributing…
Bloomberg Vault Adds AI Surveillance Models for Insider Dealing and Personal Trading
Bloomberg has expanded its Vault communications surveillance platform with AI policies for insider dealing and personal trading. The launch follows the integration of BSpeech, which converts recorded calls in more than 50 languages into searchable transcripts. The products extend Vault’s coverage across voice, email and chat. They also address the pressure that rising communications volumes…
Generative AI Expands the Communications Evidence Record
As AI enters communications, surveillance and investigations, firms face a wider record-keeping question: what evidence will explain how a regulated outcome arose? This was the focus for recent webinar hosted by A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight and sponsored by NICE Actimize, The Next Compliance Frontier: Monitoring GenAI and Unstructured Comms Data. Generative AI extends the evidence…
Recorded Webinar: The Next Compliance Frontier: Monitoring GenAI and Unstructured Comms Data
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 markets. At the same time, the volume of unstructured communications data – voice recordings, chat messages,…
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…