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Reclaiming Value in a Shifting Legal Landscape: The 2025 Top 100 Settlements Analysis
While 2025 saw its challenges, the year ended on a high for securities litigation in the US marketplace, raising the prospect of an expanded rebound in 2026. The latter part of the year saw four settlements that exceeded $200million in value in addition to a single, significant settlement reaching $740million, providing a late-year boost to…
Electronic Communications Monitoring: Leveraging AI for More Effective Surveillance
The proliferation of electronic communications channels available to financial professionals and their clients has created a headache for compliance teams charged with mitigating against market abuse, insider trading and other illegal activities. In an era of heighted regulatory scrutiny, compliance teams are finding it challenging to put in place the appropriate systems and processes, particularly…
Securities Litigation in EMEA Comes of Age: Your Guide to Complex EMEA Securities Litigation
Navigating the complex and increasingly active securities litigation landscape across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, remains a thorny challenge for investment management operations teams. Unlike North America, where virtually all investors passively await settlements, EMEA is characterised by active litigation, frequently confidential settlements, and the fact that many jurisdictions in EMEA are still grappling…
Dispelling Myths About North American Securities Class Actions
Securities class actions serve an important role in protecting and enhancing shareholder value. However, recovering settlement proceeds can sometimes be overlooked due to the perceived complexity, limited resources, or lack of in-house expertise. In particular, North America has one of the most extensive and developed class action frameworks in the world. But despite the system…
Unlock the Future of APAC Capital Markets: Your Definitive Guide to Technology, Data & Innovation
The Asia Pacific (APAC) capital markets are navigating a period of profound transformation, driven by relentless technological advancement and a complex regulatory environment. To stay competitive and drive sustainable growth, financial institutions need a strategic roadmap built on authoritative insights. A-Team Group presents “The State of Capital Markets Technology in Asia Pacific,” a comprehensive new…
How Advisory Firms are Integrating AI in Compliance
Two years after ChatGPT brought Generative AI (GenAI) into the mainstream, financial institutions are still exploring how best to harness this technology within their compliance functions. While the promise of increased efficiency and enhanced accuracy is clear, many compliance teams proceed cautiously, mindful of risks related to data security, regulatory compliance, and the need for…
Getting Control of Access to Key Market Services
Use of single dealer portals that allow banks to trade assets on behalf of their clients is growing rapidly, particularly among firms in the fixed income and foreign exchange markets in particular. But while trading portals offer great benefits in terms of broader market reach and enhanced client functionality, they bring risks too. Firms are…
Next-Generation Network and Vendor Management: mitigating operational risk in relationship networks
The complex network of relationships that financial institutions have built with multiple partners has created a huge operational burden, resulting in significant operational risk as well as financial and compliance risk. Dating back decades, many of these relationships are now managed as a separate business function, costing organisations millions of dollars. Add in regulatory obligations,…
Minimising Market Manipulation False Positives: The Trick is in the Data
The focus on market manipulation has probably never been higher. In the wake of the Financial Crisis of 2008, with its multiple market manipulation scandals, regulators have ratcheted up compliance requirements for firms. The media has also sharpened its focus – the cost of a controls failure in this area can be catastrophic in terms…
Post-trade ETD – where all the sticking plaster got used!
The fund management industry’s shift to passive funds and embrace of smart-beta funds over the past decade or so has shaved margins to the extreme. In this environment, operational efficiency becomes an existential issue. Across a broad swathe of asset classes, front-office technologies have kept pace with massive changes in market structure driven by regulation…