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FIX Trading Community Urges Regulatory Alignment in Response to FCA Consultations
The FIX Trading Community has called for significant changes to UK financial regulation in its formal response to FCA consultations on the UK consolidated tape and transaction reporting. Executive Director Jim Kaye emphasised that harmonising UK reporting rules more closely with EU standards would reduce complexity, lower the reporting burden, and improve the quality of…
15 Regulatory Transaction Reporting Leaders, Europe – (2026 Edition)
Transaction reporting in Europe is no longer a question of meeting submission deadlines – it is a question of evidencing control. Core regimes such as MiFIR and EMIR have been in force for several years, but supervisory focus has shifted decisively from completeness toward data quality, reconciliation, and traceability. The EMIR Refit go-live in April…
smartKYC QnA: Accelerating Due Diligence at Scale
Hugo Chamberlain is the chief commercial officer of UK-based smartKYC, which has been automating the KYC process since 2014. Data Management Insight spoke to Hugo to find out how the company is helping financial institutions streamline their onboarding processes. Data Management Insight: Hello Hugo. When was smartKYC created and how does it serve financial institutions?…
Swap Data Was Supposed to Deliver Transparency. A Decade Later, Regulators Are Still Trying to Use It
For more than a decade, regulators have collected vast quantities of derivatives transaction data through swap data repositories (SDRs) mandated by post-crisis financial reforms. Yet despite the scale of these datasets, transforming reported trade data into meaningful supervisory insight has often proved more difficult than policymakers anticipated. A new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the…
FinScan and Nexus AML Partner to Scale Data-First AML Operations
Financial institutions have long invested heavily in transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, and KYC controls, yet many compliance teams continue to confront a more fundamental obstacle: the quality of the data that feeds those systems. Poorly structured or incomplete customer and transaction data can generate large volumes of alerts and manual investigation work, stretching already pressured…
Re-Architecting Regulatory Reporting with REGnosys and Open Source
Regulatory reporting has long been defined by highly specialized jurisdictional knowledge, templates, spreadsheets, and a significant part of the compliance budget. Regulators publish new requirements, firms interpret them independently, technology teams build extraction and transformation layers, and operations teams reconcile outputs before pushing formatted datasets to supervisory authorities. RegTech Insight sat down with regulatory reporting…
Regnology Extends Balance Sheet-Centric Reporting Model with Wolters Kluwer FRR Acquisition
On 1 December 2025, Regnology completed the acquisition of Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Regulatory Reporting (FRR) unit; the deal was announced earlier in July. The company describes the combination as unifying its cloud-first regulatory reporting platform with FRR’s finance and risk capabilities, while extending its reach in key markets – APAC in particular. RegTech…
When 1% Breaks the Fund: The Sanctions Contagion Facing ETF Issuers
Roy Kirby, Head of Core Products at SIX Group, has spent the past four years watching sanctions transform from episodic geopolitical tools into a structural feature of market risk. In sharing insights with RegTech Insight, he sets out how the acceleration and layering of sanctions since 2022 are reshaping compliance obligations for ETF issuers and,…
Recorded Webinar: Sponsored by FundGuard: NAV Resilience Under DORA, A Year of Lessons Learned
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 dependencies, its implications extend deep into core operational processes that are critical to market integrity, investor…
Defensibility: The New Watchword for Data Management
George Tziahanas, VP of Compliance at Archive360. Regulated enterprises are discovering that the hardest part of scaling new technology such as AI isn’t adoption; it’s proving those technologies are properly controlled. For financial institutions in particular – including banks, asset managers, insurers, and capital markets firms – this challenge is intensified by long-standing regulatory expectations…