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...
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...
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...
