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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…
Waystone Positions ManCo Platform as Infrastructure for Global Fund Expansion
For asset managers expanding into new markets, launching funds across jurisdictions means navigating different supervisory expectations, different disclosure regimes, different distribution rules and different interpretations of similar underlying obligations. The operational burden is growing at the same time as managers remain under pressure to control costs, protect margins and bring products to market faster. That…
CUBE Launches Certified Connector for Service Now
CUBE has launched a certified connector for ServiceNow Integrated Risk Management (IRM), making its regulatory intelligence and change management capabilities available within enterprise risk workflows. The integration is aimed at helping firms, particularly in highly regulated sectors such as financial services, connect regulatory updates and obligations more directly to compliance, risk and legal processes. The…
FinCEN Overhauls AML and CFT Rules with a New Effectiveness Standard
Published April 7, 2026, FinCEN’s latest Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) is a sweeping overhaul of anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) programmes, recasting them around effectiveness, risk-based design and the fight against illicit finance. “For too long, Washington has asked financial institutions to measure success by the volume of paperwork…
Canoe and Bloomberg Advance Portfolio Analytics and Risk Workflows with Private Fund Data
Canoe Intelligence and Bloomberg have launched a certified integration designed to automate the delivery of private fund data into Bloomberg PORT Enterprise, addressing a long-standing operational challenge for asset owners managing portfolios across public and private markets. The integration is intended to reduce manual reporting and make private fund information more accessible within established portfolio…