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FinregE Framework Links Early Regulatory Signals to Policy and Control Changes
FinregE has published a seven-step process for identifying emerging regulatory requirements and preparing operational changes before rules take effect. The framework, detailed in Regulatory Horizon Scanning: Proactive Compliance in 2026, addresses the “implementation lag” between an early policy signal and the changes required across products, budgets, policies and controls. FinregE argues that waiting until legislation…
Smarsh and AWS Target the Governance Gap in AI-Powered Surveillance
Smarsh recently reported what it describes as breakthrough results from its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including a 77% reduction in compliance review workload at one global investment bank. The three-month deployment analysed millions of alerts and, according to Smarsh, produced a 2% decline in true positives. The results provide an early test of…
ESMA’s Data Quality Report Signals a Higher Bar for Regulatory Reporting Data
By Michele Hillery, Managing Director, Head of Repository & Derivatives Services at The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Regulators across jurisdictions are leveraging trade reporting data as a supervisory resource, using it to monitor risk, assess market activity and inform policy and oversight decisions. As this use becomes more sophisticated, firms face an even…
BridgePort Pilots Digital Asset Master Agreement to Streamline Off-Exchange Settlement Onboarding
Institutional digital-asset firms may be able to trade without placing assets directly on an exchange, but establishing the legal relationships behind that model can remain a lengthy process. BridgePort is seeking to reduce that friction with a common contractual framework for off-exchange settlement arrangements involving trading firms, custodians and execution venues. The company is piloting…
Asian KYB Requires Live Registry Data, Not Another Database: AsiaVerify CEO
Asian know-your-business (KYB) controls have an uncomfortable blind spot: firms can spend heavily on onboarding, sanctions screening and case management while still making decisions from corporate records that may be weeks or months out of date – and sometimes more. AsiaVerify CEO Leas Bachatene spoke with RegTech Insight about the KYB challenges for firms with…
Sanctioned Securities Risk Moves Inside the Portfolio
Sanctions screening in capital markets has traditionally been treated as a specialist compliance concern: one for legal teams, sanctions officers and financial crime specialists to manage through lists, policies and escalation procedures. That view is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain in capital markets, where sanctions exposure can be hidden inside the securities, funds and structured…
MAS Moves Agentic AI Governance From Model Oversight to Runtime Control
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has published an industry white paper proposing a runtime governance framework for AI agents operating in financial services, marking a shift from static model oversight towards controls that operate at the point an autonomous system acts. The paper, Safeguards for Agentic Finance at Runtime (SAFR), was developed with financial…
Report Once – ESMA’s Simplification Plan for Regulatory Reporting
ESMA has turned the long-running industry case for “report once” transaction reporting into a staged policy programme for rebuilding EU reporting around reusable, controlled transaction data. Its Final Report On the Call for Evidence recommends a single integrated framework across the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Securities Financing…
Six RegTech Providers Tackling Sanctioned Securities and Financial-Instrument Screening
Sanctions screening in capital markets and treasury extends beyond conventional checks on payments, people and legal entities. Firms need to identify exposure inside securities, issuers, funds (including ETFs), indices, structured products, derivatives and custody positions. They also need to track changes as sanctions regimes, ownership structures and instrument composition shift. That creates a different control…
A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report
A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of…