ClearToken Gains FCA Approval to Tackle Digital Asset Settlement Risk and Unlock Institutional Capital
Digital financial market infrastructure firm ClearToken has secured authorisation from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to launch its Delivery versus Payment (DvP) net settlement system, a landmark move aimed at building a regulated, institutional-grade backbone for the digital asset market. The new service, named CT Settle, is designed to eliminate the costly pre-funding requirements...
Complex Sanctions Environment Demands Powerful Screening Monitors: SIX Report
Sanctions screening technology has never been more important for financial institutions as new geopolitical and economic threats create the riskiest trading environment in recent history. That is the key finding of a new report, that highlights the need for greater resilience among organisations to the raised threat level faced by the global financial system. In...
Buy & Build: Don’t Hire Picasso to Paint Your Living Room
On this episode of FinTech Focus TV recorded at A-Team Group’s Buy AND Build Summit, Toby Babb of Harrington Starr sits down with Paul Humphrey, CEO and Elliot Banks, CPO of BMLL to discuss how historical market data is reshaping trading technology. From the shift from build vs buy to build on trust, to why...
Watching the Future: The Top 10 Surveillance and Compliance Challenges in Prediction Markets
By Joe Schifano, Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, Eventus. Prediction markets are quickly becoming the next frontier of finance – a new class of markets where people trade on what they believe will happen next. From election results to interest rate fluctuations, these platforms turn collective judgment into tradable data. But as prediction markets move...
AI Emerges as Key Focus for the Buy-Side, Says SIX
Three years ago when Swiss financial data and market infrastructure provider SIX launched its first report together with Crisil Coalition Greenwich on the state of play within the buy-side, the subject of artificial intelligence barely made an appearance. Fast-forward to 2025, and AI dominates the latest report. AI is being deployed within a growing number...
Sanctions Screening Takes Centre Stage in Riskier New World: Webinar Review
Financial institutions are battling to comply with an increasingly complex and intense sanctions regulatory environment as they contend with “multi-dimensional exposures” across the globe, experts in a recent A-Team LIVE webinar said. Geopolitical tensions, economic conflict and rapidly advancing technological developments are posing new threats to national cohesion, economies and individuals, sparking a regulatory crack...
S&P Global Data via Cloud: Unlocking Real-Time, Scalable Insights with Snowflake and Databricks Delta Sharing
As organisations accelerate their cloud migration strategies to manage growing volumes of structured and unstructured data, demand is rising for secure, real-time, cloud-native access to trusted datasets. Leveraging Snowflake and Databricks Delta Sharing, S&P Global provides a scalable, agile foundation that allows organizations to directly access and query S&P Global and curated third-party datasets without...
The Great Convergence: How AI, Data, and Open Platforms Are Redefining the O/EMS
For decades, the Order Management System (OMS) and the Execution Management System (EMS) occupied distinct roles within the trading process; the OMS handling the full order lifecycle, from creation to post-trade processing and compliance, and the EMS managing real-time order execution, routing, and optimisation across markets and venues. Today, a powerful convergence is reshaping this...
Redefining Digital Regulatory Reporting with CDM & DRR
Regulatory reporting is evolving from static data submissions to dynamic, process-driven compliance. At the core of this shift are the Common Domain Model (CDM) and Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR), which together define a shared, machine-executable framework for how financial transactions are represented and reported. By standardising both data and process, they enable a consistent interpretation...
FinCEN Issues New Guidance on SARs : Less Box-Ticking, More Signal
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), together with the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), recently issued new guidance clarifying how financial institutions should approach the filing of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs), see Frequently Asked Questions Regarding Suspicious Activity...