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Upcoming Webinar: Sponsored by FundGuard: NAV Resilience Under DORA, A Year of Lessons Learned

Date: 25 February 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force a year ago, and is reshaping how asset managers, asset owners and fund service providers think about operational risk. While DORA’s focus is squarely on ICT resilience and third-party…

Introducing RegPass: A New Agentic Paradigm for Regulatory Change Management

After more than a decade shaped by document aggregation, workflow portals, and rule-mapping engines, a third generation of regulatory intelligence platforms is beginning to emerge. These systems move beyond collecting and classifying regulatory updates. Instead, they attempt something more ambitious: to understand, model and reason about a firm’s actual business operations, and to connect regulatory…

Banks Should Optimise Collateral in 2026 to Lay the Groundwork for Greater Efficiency and Innovation

By James Pike, Chief Revenue Officer and Head of Strategy, Taskize. Collateral teams have been tested in 2025. Banks have weathered multiple bouts of high volatility, including the fallout from ‘Liberation Day’ and sell-offs over fears of a possible AI bubble. Sharp spikes in volatility across multiple asset classes have the potential to disrupt collateral…

Regulatory Developments 2026, a Cross-Jurisdictional Outlook

2026 regulatory themes are converging around the theme of continuous evidence – data quality, control effectiveness, and operational resilience demonstrated through repeatable artefacts rather than narrative attestations. In Europe, that direction is most explicit in ESMA’s data platform and supervisory tooling agenda, alongside the ESAs’ DORA-related coordination and oversight planning – see ESMA 2026 Annual…

Trillium Surveyor Extended for Prediction Markets

Trillium Surveyor has gone live with trade surveillance for prediction markets, positioning the firm’s controls toolkit for a segment that has moved quickly from niche curiosity to a retail-facing, high-velocity “event contract” market. The backdrop is a fast-evolving regulatory perimeter. US event contracts that are listed as derivatives on registered venues sit within the CFTC’s…

DORA CTPP List Published, But Who’s Missing?

When the European Supervisory Authorities (ESMA, EBA and EIOPA) published the first list of Critical ICT Third-Party Providers (CTPPs) in November 2025, the step marked a major milestone in the rollout of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). The regulators described the designations as “crucial” to implementing the Union-level oversight framework. Yet despite the significance…

The US Litigation Paradox: Why Passive Participation is the Key for European Asset Managers

In the second blog of our series on securities litigation claims, we look at how the complexity of fragmented legal jurisdictions globally often deters European asset managers from getting involved in litigation and argue that the simplicity of the US system may mean participation is easier than many European firms are aware of. Access the…

Securities Litigation in EMEA Comes of Age: Your Guide to Complex EMEA Securities Litigation

Navigating the complex and increasingly active securities litigation landscape across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, remains a thorny challenge for investment management operations teams. Unlike North America, where virtually all investors passively await settlements, EMEA is characterised by active litigation, frequently confidential settlements, and the fact that many jurisdictions in EMEA are still grappling…

AI Everywhere at A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit (NYC) 2025

Artificial intelligence was the recurring theme this year’s A-Team Group RegTech Summit in New York. Across conversations on AI governance, agentic workflows, crypto compliance, surveillance, AML transformation and regulatory reporting, a single theme cut through: AI is becoming embedded in the regulatory fabric of financial services, but its adoption must remain grounded, explainable, and anchored…

SEC’s 2026 Examination Priorities – 10 Notable Changes

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released its Examination Priorities for 2026, and while many supervisory themes continue from 2025, the tone and structure of the new document reflect a decisive pivot. After years of rapid organisational expansion and broadening remit, the Division of Examinations is now emphasising consistency, prioritisation and the effective…