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Bitpanda Partners with Eventus for Enhanced Trade Surveillance Compliance

European cryptocurrency platform Bitpanda has selected the Validus platform from Eventus to enhance its trade surveillance capabilities and ensure compliance with regulatory standards. This strategic move aims to bolster Bitpanda’s defences against market abuse, manipulation, and insider trading through advanced automation. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Vienna, Bitpanda operates across multiple European locations, including…

RegTech Summit New York – Where Innovation Meets Compliance

A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit New York is back in Midtown Manhattan for its eighth year, bringing together industry practitioners, innovators and regulators to share insights into the most pressing regulatory changes and trends shaping the future of capital markets. Prepare yourself for a full day of dynamic discussions, insightful presentations, and networking where industry leaders…

FCA Survey Reveals Gaps in Governance and Policy on Non-Financial Misconduct

The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) – Culture and non-financial misconduct survey – highlights challenges, gaps, and key trends in how firms detect, address, and prevent incidents of bullying, harassment, discrimination, and other forms of non-financial misconduct (NFM). Regulators are recognising the negative effects on workplace culture, compliance, and overall trust from these behaviours. The…

Exemptive Relief Expiry Alert: Fidessa Prepares for February 2025 CAT Deadline

The long-running consolidated audit trail (CAT) project has been a major industry achievement but with a compliance deadline rapidly approaching, exemptive relief on some particularly complex reporting issues is due to expire in February 2025. RegTech Insight caught up with ION’s Douglas Craig, Senior Product Manager at Fidessa who had raised concerns on the complexity…

FinCEN’s Final Rule Puts the Buy-Side on Notice – AML/CFT Compliance by Jan ‘26

The US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) long-anticipated final rule on Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) – issued in August – closes a significant regulatory gap that previously allowed certain advisers to operate with limited oversight. This made them potential targets for exploitation by illicit actors, including money launderers and…

RegTech Summit London Delivered the Goods – Here’s What You Missed

By Reena Raichura, Founder of Finergise, Senior Fintech and Capital Markets Executive, FTSE 250 NED. As a strategic advisor, NED and capital markets SME, as well as keeping on top of all the cool technology and innovation that’s out there, I like to keep updated with the latest regulatory and compliance changes, so I was…

QuantCube Tackles ESG with Macroeconomic Data

Macroeconomic research specialist QuantCube Technology is targeting environmental, social, and governance (ESG) compliance with a new asset-mapping database aimed at helping financial institutions monitor the risk exposure of their physical assets. The tool focuses on the data gap faced by banks, insurance companies, asset managers, and corporates in assessing (ESG) risks at a granular level,…

Recorded Webinar: Practical considerations for regulatory change management

Regulatory change management has become a norm across financial markets but a challenge for financial institutions that must monitor, manage and adapt to ensure compliance with both minor and major adjustments to obligations. This year is particularly troublesome, with major upgrades to EMIR Refit, Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Markets in…

Recorded Webinar: How to ensure employees meet fit and proper requirements under global accountability regimes

Fitness and proprietary requirements for employees of financial institutions are not an option, but a regulatory obligation that calls on employers to regularly assess employees’ honesty, integrity and reputation, competence and capability, and financial soundness. In the UK, these requirements are a core element of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR). They are also…

What to Expect at This Year’s A-Team Group RegTech Summit (London)

Now in its eighth year, A-Team Group’s RegTech Summit (London) returns on October 3 to London at the Hilton, Canary Wharf, bringing together industry practitioners, innovators and regulators to share insights on the most pressing regulatory changes and trends shaping the future of capital markets. Prepare yourself for a full day of dynamic discussions and…