Do Private Markets Have a Data Interoperability Problem?
Private markets generate large quantities of data around investors, funds and transactions. Yet much of that information still moves between asset managers, wealth platforms, custodians, administrators and other participants through PDFs, portals and other document-based processes. Information that already exists digitally can be embedded in a document, sent to another organisation, extracted and then entered...
Authologic Registration Brings EUDI Wallets Closer to Institutional KYC
Authologic has become the first Polish company registered to issue Electronic Attestations of Attributes (EAAs) for European Union Digital Identity Wallets. Its registration provides an early example of how the European framework could affect financial-sector identity checks. The registration, granted by Narodowy Bank Polski, allows Authologic to issue and verify EAAs. These cryptographically signed credentials...
ExeQution Analytics Targets the FX Data Gap with Solas
ExeQution Analytics, the Australia-based trading analytics company, has launched Solas, a new analytics platform designed to help sell-side FX desks bring together market, trade, client and hedging data to gain a clearer view of trading performance, client behaviour and profitability. The platform, initially covering spot, forwards and non-deliverable forwards (NDFs), is aimed particularly at banks...
Insights from the Mills Review for Wholesale Surveillance
“Tweak the contract” triggered the surveillance control. But the surrounding exchange concerned a kitchen renovation. Alex de Lucena, Director of Product and Governance Strategy at Shield shared this example in a recent discussion with RegTech Insight following the publication of the FCA Board-sponsored Mills Review in July 2026. In late 2025, the FCA Board asked...
Digital Assets Move Closer to the Institutional Trading Stack as Caplin Launches Hosted Platform
Institutional digital asset trading is beginning to confront a familiar problem: as the market grows, the technology supporting it has to move beyond specialist systems and manual workflows towards the kind of integrated infrastructure already established in markets such as FX. That shift is behind the launch of a new hosted, white-label digital asset trading...
SEC Proposes New Transfer Agent Rules to Allow DLTs to Host Official Ownership Records
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has continued its push to accommodate digital assets and DLT platforms within the legal framework for securities trading with a proposal that formally allows for DLT platforms to be used by transfer agents as a primary record keeper. The proposal represents a plan for the first major overhaul...
Archax Launches US Digital Broker-Dealer; Taps tZERO for Custody, Clearing and Secondary Trading
Archax Group, which already operates a regulated digital asset platform in the UK and EU, has received approval from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), completing its registration as a US digital broker-dealer with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It has also arranged for tZERO Group units to give Archax clients access to a...
Rush to Build AI into Risk Models Creating Dangerous Capability ‘Gaps’
Asset managers may be exposing themselves to operational vulnerabilities as they rapidly integrate artificial intelligence and agents into their risk management systems, often without first ensuring trust in the data that will feed the models. A survey found that three-quarters of 178 senior investment leaders questioned said they expect the pace of AI and agents...
Data Quality Meaning and Importance Transformed by AI: DMS NYC Preview
The data management space has been transformed by artificial intelligence into one that not only seeks to prise maximum value from institutions’ data but also spends almost as much resource ensuring the quality of that information. Without optimised data, the AI and agentic tools to which it is deployed will churn out sub-optimal results. It’s...
Thanks to LayerZero, Tether Extends Reach with Stellar. Ecosystem Benefits Now; More Chains to Follow?
Via an integration developed by LayerZero Labs, Tether – the world’s most popular stablecoin – is now available on the Stellar blockchain. While adding Stellar represents an immediate significant addition to Tether’s USDT reach, by leveraging LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard, in the future, extending Tether to other blockchains theoretically requires little effort. Before...