Alex Pavel has joined IHS Markit as Sales Director. Based in London, Pavel has responsibility for growing the company’s risk and regulatory compliance business across Benelux (Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg), the Middle East and Africa. Pavel was formerly with Thomson Reuters in Dubai, where he spent four years in enterprise sales. He holds an MBA from the Université Paris Dauphine.
The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into force a year ago, and is reshaping how asset managers, asset owners and fund service providers think about operational risk. While DORA’s focus is squarely on ICT resilience and third-party dependencies, its implications extend deep into core operational processes that are critical to market integrity, investor...
Recent enforcement actions point to sharpened regulatory expectations for evidence of controls capable of preventing, detecting, escalating, and correcting risk. Where firms are falling short, enforcement is landing on design, governance, and oversight failures. Across trading surveillance, client onboarding and valuation governance, regulators are drawing the same distinction between having controls on paper and having...
Now in its 3rd year, the AI in Capital Markets Summit returns with a focus on the practicalities of onboarding AI enterprise wide for business value creation. Whilst AI offers huge potential to revolutionise capital markets operations many are struggling to move beyond pilot phase to generate substantial value from AI.
AI adoption in capital markets has moved into a more disciplined phase. The priority is now controlled deployment: where AI can be used safely, where it can deliver measurable value, and how outputs can be governed, monitored and evidenced. The 2026 edition of the AI in Capital Markets Handbook examines how AI is being applied...
