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Ataccama Gathers Data Capabilities into Focused EU AI Act Package
As the implementation date for the European Union’s AI Act looms, financial institutions are having to put their data estates on a secure footing to ensure they comply with the wide-ranging regulation. The Act requires organisations to have a broad and granular view of their data in order to show that they can trace any…
Qomply Brings Regulatory Intelligence Into AI Compliance Workflows
Qomply has launched QomplyAI, a new capability designed to make its regulatory intelligence available through AI assistants including ChatGPT, Claude and other Model Context Protocol-compatible clients. QomplyAI is intended to let reporting, compliance and oversight teams ask regulatory questions in natural language and receive structured answers that can support workflow decisions. Example use cases include…
CFTC Moves to Defend Federal Perimeter for Prediction Markets
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued the State of Wisconsin after the state brought civil actions against Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com, Robinhood and Coinbase over prediction market activity. The action, filed on 28 April 2026, extends a widening federal-state dispute over the regulatory treatment of event contracts. The CFTC argues that Congress gave the…
UAE Central Bank Taps Norbloc for Nationwide e-KYC Platform
The Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) is developing a nationwide electronic Know Your Customer (e-KYC) platform with Norbloc AB, creating a unified national approach intended to reduce duplicated ‘customer due diligence’ across the country’s financial sector. The initiative forms part of the CBUAE’s Financial Infrastructure Transformation (FIT) Programme and is designed to support more…
CFTC’s Selig Sets Out Agenda for Leaner Rules and Faster Markets
Michael Selig has placed derivatives regulation at the centre of the US competitiveness agenda, using his keynote at the ISDA annual meeting to call for a more proportionate rulebook, deeper SEC and CFTC alignment, and a clearer path for innovation in swaps, clearing, tokenised collateral and market structure. He framed the CFTC’s task as keeping…
Trillium Surveyor Expands Into Prediction Markets as Capital Markets Interest Grows
Prediction markets are finding early adopters in capital markets across brokers, exchanges, market makers, and infrastructure providers. Activity is most visible on the sell side, where firms are building access points, data services, venue capacity, and liquidity provision. Tradeweb’s partnership and minority investment in Kalshi, Robinhood’s build-out of Rothera Exchange & Clearing with Susquehanna International…
FCA Market Soundings Review Puts Pre-Deal Controls Under Scrutiny
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has used its multi-firm review of market soundings in UK equity capital markets (ECM) to evaluate how a long-established issuance practice affects market quality, information control and investor targeting. The review covered 63 ECM transactions in UK listed shares between January 2023 and June 2025, including fifty accelerated bookbuilds (ABBs)…
Mizuho Securities Adopts Behavox for AI-Powered Communications Surveillance
Mizuho Securities has implemented Behavox Quantum AI for communications surveillance, extending monitoring across chat and email in Japanese, English and other languages. The deployment points to strategic advancement from standalone surveillance tools towards more integrated control environments, where communications monitoring sits alongside trade surveillance, data retention and policy management. At Mizuho Securities, the project appears…
DTCC and CME Secure Approval to Expand U.S. Treasury Cross-Margining for End Users
DTCC and CME Group have received approval from the SEC and CFTC to extend their U.S. Treasury cross-margining arrangement to end-user clients of dually registered broker/dealers and futures commission merchants that are common members of DTCC’s Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC) and CME. The expanded service is due to go live on April 30 and…
RepRisk Roundtable London: Tackling Hidden Sustainability Risk in Private Markets with AI
Sustainability risk is moving into the core of capital markets decision-making, closely tied to conduct risk, counterparty exposure and reputational impact. For senior leaders across risk, investment, compliance, sustainability, and supply chain functions, the question how to interpret complex signals from vast quantities of data and apply them with confidence in credit, investment, and operational…