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FIS Acquires Droit: Computational Law Moves Into the Core of Capital Markets Infrastructure
Financial technology provider Fidelity National Information Services (FIS) has acquired RegTech firm Droit, a specialist in computational law and automated regulatory decisioning used across global capital markets. The deal brings Droit’s rule-based compliance platform into the FIS capital-markets technology stack, positioning the combined offering to deliver embedded regulatory controls across trading, post-trade processing and reporting…
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,…
Terminus Capital Partners Takes Majority Stake in Eventus
Terminus Capital Partners has made a majority investment in Eventus, the trade surveillance software provider, in a transaction designed to support the firm’s continued product development and global expansion. Financial terms were not disclosed. Under the agreement, Terminus will back increased investment in product innovation and platform capabilities, expansion of global commercial and support operations,…
Beyond Calculation: How DORA Is Redefining NAV Resilience for Fund Managers
Under the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), NAV has been recast as a resilience capability. That shift framed a recent webinar hosted by A-Team Group’s RegTech Insight and sponsored by FundGuard, which brought together a panel of senior experts to examine what “recoverable NAV” now means in practice. NAV Resilience focus is not about…
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…
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…
CUBE Acquires Silicon Valley RegTech, 4CRisk, Delivering Next Generation Compliance and Risk Mapping Automation
CUBE has expanded its regulatory technology footprint with the acquisition of 4CRisk.ai, a Silicon Valley-based RegTech focused on AI-driven policy and control mapping. The move brings together CUBE’s Automated Regulatory Intelligence (ARI) and Regulatory Change Management (RCM) capabilities with 4CRisk’s agentic AI platform, which maps corporate policies and procedures directly to regulatory obligations, controls and…
Financial Crime is a Decision-Speed Problem: Rethinking AI in AML and Compliance Controls
Financial crime compliance is often described as a resourcing challenge. Firms speak of analyst backlogs, alert volumes and the rising cost of surveillance and screening. Kieran Holland, Solutions Engineering Team Leader at Innovative Systems’ FinScan, argues that the underlying constraint has shifted. Financial crime has become a decision-speed problem. “The fight against financial crime is…
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…
MiFIR Schema 1.4.0 Rollout: Testing Clarity Still Pending – April Deadline Remains
As of mid-February 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority’s (ESMA) MiFIR reporting webpage continues to indicate that a dedicated test environment for updated transparency messages would open in February, with exact dates to be confirmed in January. No detailed testing calendar has been published at the time of writing. The result is a compressed…