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A7 Exposé Highlights FinCrime Expertise Gaps in Product Due Diligence
Reporting by the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Reuters has exposed the scale of A7, the Russia-linked sanctions-evasion network that allegedly moved $6.9 billion through global banks using front companies and forged documents. FinCEN’s subsequent findings describe a wider operation whose overseas sub-agents processed more than $17 billion between January 2025 and June 2026,...
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From Interpretation to Scalable Application: What Year Two of the NAIC Principles-Based Bond Update Has Revealed
By Kate Lee, Global Head of Regulatory & Accounting Products, Bloomberg. Insurers have now spent much of 2026 applying the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) principles-based bond definition through its second reporting cycle and are quickly approaching year three of implementation. This rule was introduced to modernize statutory bond classification, replacing an approach that...
Breaking the Reporting Remediation Cycle at RegTech Summit New York
At A-Team Group’s recent RegTech Summit in London, speakers described reporting operations dependent on manual workarounds, conflicting transaction data and knowledge held by a handful of people. Maintaining those corrective processes consumes resources that firms need for regulatory change. RegTech Summit New York on 19 November will bring that challenge into focus. Its reporting programme...
The Surveillance Challenge Behind an Increasingly Continuous Market
The shift towards 24/5 equities trading and the rapid growth of prediction markets are presenting new challenges for trade surveillance. With trading activity increasingly spanning multiple venues, instruments and time zones, identifying potential market abuse is becoming more complex, particularly where suspicious behaviour crosses traditional market boundaries. For surveillance technology providers, however, these developments don’t...
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Bank of England Expects Firm Action After Sector-Wide Cloud Outage Exercise
The Bank of England expects firms to strengthen their resilience and crisis response following a sector-wide simulation of a global cloud services disruption. The exercise involved 38 of the largest and most systemically important banks and market infrastructure operators, working alongside financial authorities. The Cross-Market Operational Resilience Group (CMORG) completed the exercise, SIMEX26, on 8…
Behavox Acquires Apiax to Add Cross-Border and Content Compliance
Behavox has acquired Zurich-based Apiax, adding software that converts financial regulation into machine-readable rules for use within firms’ own systems. The deal extends Behavox’s controls platform into cross-border and content compliance, connecting regulatory interpretation with its regulatory change management, surveillance and archiving products. Apiax’s embedded compliance software applies regulatory rules at the point of business….
Feedzai Adds Farol Agent for Fraud Rules, Investigations and SAR Drafting
Feedzai has launched Farol, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent embedded in its RiskOps Studio to analyse fraud-detection rules, retrieve case data, summarise alerts and draft suspicious activity reports (SARs). Embedding the agent within the risk platform gives it access to transaction data and existing investigation workflows. Feedzai positions this approach as an alternative to connecting…
Just 4.7% of Financial Institutions Continuously Update Their Compliance Monitoring and Controls – SymphonyAI Research
Only 4.7% of financial institutions update compliance monitoring and controls continuously as risk changes, according to research from SymphonyAI and AML Intelligence. A further 56.8% have yet to adopt continuous monitoring, are exploring it or remain at the pilot stage. The FinCrime Frontier 2026–27 Report draws on responses from more than 200 financial crime and…
MCO Secures More Than $100 Million to Expand Compliance Platform and AI
MCO, the provider of MyComplianceOffice, has secured more than $100 million in growth financing from Accel-KKR Credit Partners to fund product development, artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities and market expansion. The company plans to expand its technology team and invest further in its integrated compliance platform. MyComplianceOffice brings together controls for employee activity, communications, financial transactions…
ProCredit Selects Teciem’s Kondor Up for Group-Wide Treasury Operations
ProCredit group has selected Teciem’s Kondor Up treasury platform to support funding, liquidity management, trading and risk processes across its international banking network. The group operates ten development-focused commercial banks in South Eastern and Eastern Europe. ProCredit Holding also oversees capital adequacy, regulatory reporting and risk management across the network. Kondor Up will provide front-to-back…
VoxSmart Unifies Communications Compliance Workflows in VX1
VoxSmart has launched VX1, a communications compliance platform that brings mobile capture, surveillance, investigations, archiving, alert detection and voice transcription into a single interface. The platform is designed for investment banks, hedge funds and asset managers monitoring communications across voice, mobile and digital channels. The announcement cites WhatsApp and Bloomberg chat among the sources contributing…
Shield Connects Live Surveillance Alerts to Enterprise AI Tools with MCP
Shield has made its Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server generally available, allowing authorised compliance teams to query live surveillance alerts through supported enterprise AI tools. Claude is the first supported AI environment, with further integrations planned. The server provides a permissioned, read-only route between an AI interface and Shield Surveillance. Shield remains the system of…
CUBE Adds Agentic Coworkers to Embed Regulatory Intelligence into Enterprise Wide Workflows
CUBE has added three agentic artificial intelligence tools to its RegPlatform regulatory intelligence platform, extending its automation across regulatory change monitoring, analysis and enforcement tracking. The Priorities, Analysis and Enforcements “coworkers” are available to existing RegPlatform customers. Application programming interface access allows firms to embed the tools within their existing compliance and risk systems rather…
KOR Launches Australian Trade Repository for ASIC Derivatives Reporting
KOR has begun accepting submissions through its Australian derivative trade repository (ADTR), giving reporting entities a second licensed repository option for complying with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s (ASIC’s) Derivative Transaction Rules. The repository supports all reportable asset classes and client segments. Its launch follows ASIC’s decision to grant KOR an ADTR licence, making…
Confluence Embeds AI Validation and Conversational Controls in POINT Launch
Confluence Technologies has launched Confluence POINT, an artificial intelligence-enabled layer designed to automate work surrounding its regulatory reporting, analytics and investor communications products. The first capabilities address two distinct parts of the investment-management workflow. POINT Validation reviews financial and regulatory reporting documents, while a conversational interface allows users of Confluence Revolution to query data and…
Napier AI and Delta Capita Link KYC and AML Workflows
Napier AI and Delta Capita have formed a partnership that combines client onboarding and Know Your Customer (KYC) processes with anti-money laundering (AML) screening and transaction monitoring. The companies will connect Delta Capita’s Karbon client lifecycle management platform with Napier AI Continuum. Napier’s contribution covers client screening, transaction monitoring and transaction screening. Delta Capita will…
Bloomberg Vault Adds AI Models for Insider Dealing and Personal Trading Surveillance
Bloomberg has expanded Bloomberg Vault with two artificial intelligence models designed to identify electronic communications that may point to insider dealing or breaches of employee personal trading policies. The additions extend the platform’s surveillance coverage to two risk areas that can require compliance teams to examine communications alongside trading and account activity. The Insider Dealing…
Comply Adds Kalshi Data to Employee Trading Surveillance Platform
Comply is adding Kalshi contract-trading data to its compliance platform, allowing financial firms to monitor employees’ prediction-market activity alongside securities, futures, options, cryptoassets and other investments. The integration extends existing employee-trading controls to a market that may fall outside firms’ traditional personal account dealing programmes. Compliance teams will be able to configure monitoring rules and…
Fenergo Launches Fen-AI to Govern AI Across Client Lifecycle Management
Fenergo has launched Fen-AI, an orchestration platform designed to help financial institutions deploy AI across client lifecycle management while retaining human oversight, policy controls and an auditable record of decisions. The platform supports Fenergo’s KYRA family of AI agents, which can carry out tasks across client onboarding, periodic reviews, ongoing monitoring and material changes to…
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Behavox Appoints Former Macquarie Surveillance Head Rich Ziegenbalg as Executive Advisor
Behavox has appointed former Macquarie Group surveillance head Rich Ziegenbalg as Executive Advisor, adding three decades of banking experience to its work with compliance and surveillance teams. Ziegenbalg will advise Behavox customers and prospective clients on surveillance target operating models, control frameworks and programme maturity. He will also contribute to the company’s regulatory strategy, industry…
VoxSmart Adds Sales and Customer Engagement Leaders Following VX1 Launch
VoxSmart has appointed Royce Wilkie as Global Sales Director and Andy Faulknall as Head of Customer Engagement following the launch of its VX1 communications compliance platform. Wilkie will lead the company’s sales activity across its target financial markets. He brings more than a decade of experience working with asset managers and investment banks on communications…
Kaizen Appoints DTCC’s Sam North as Chief Product Officer
Kaizen has appointed Sam North as chief product officer (CPO) to lead the regulatory reporting assurance specialist’s product strategy and roadmap. North joins Kaizen after more than 15 years at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), where he most recently served as executive director, product management. His experience covers regulatory reporting, post-trade services, product…
Hawk Appoints NICE Actimize Veteran to Lead Revenue Strategy
Anti-financial crime technology provider Hawk, has appointed Eli Chamoun as President and Chief Revenue Officer to lead its revenue strategy as it seeks to expand adoption of its artificial intelligence technology among banks and payment companies. Chamoun will oversee Hawk’s global revenue strategy and operations, develop its go-to-market team and deepen relationships with banks, payment…
Former Bank of America MD, Andee Schneider Joins Qomply
Regulatory intelligence and reporting specialist Qomply has strengthened its senior leadership team with the appointment of Andee Schneider as Managing Director, North America, adding capital markets sales, execution and client advisory experience as the firm looks to expand its presence across the Americas and APAC. Schneider brings more than two decades of financial markets experience,…
Fenergo Names Lekshmi Nair as CRO
Client lifecycle management specialist Fenergo has appointed Lekshmi Nair as chief revenue officer to lead the global go-to-market organisation and commercial operations. Nair previously worked at Finastra, formerly Misys, where she held roles in software development, delivery, platform sales and enterprise leadership before serving as global chief revenue officer for lending. Based in London, Nair…
FinregE Appoints Paul Lyon to Lead Marketing and Communications
End-to-end regulatory operating system FinregE has appointed Paul Lyon as chief marketing and communications officer, creating a new executive role as the company looks to sharpen its market positioning during a period of growth. Based in London, Lyon will report to Rohini Gupta, chief executive officer, and lead FinregE’s communications, analyst relations, brand, marketing and…
Corlytics Appoints Lisa Miles-Heal as CEO to Drive Next Phase of Growth
Corlytics has appointed Lisa Miles-Heal as chief executive officer, effective June, as the Verdane-backed regulatory intelligence firm prepares for its next phase of international growth. Miles-Heal brings nearly two decades of executive experience in technology-led businesses. Most recently, she oversaw the transition of accounting compliance company Silverfin from a founder-led business into a Visma group…
Kalshi Names Sudhir Jain Compliance Chief as Prediction Markets Face Supervisory Scrutiny
Kalshi has appointed Sudhir Jain as chief compliance officer and head of regulatory affairs, adding derivatives-market supervisory experience as the prediction-market operator expands its institutional ambitions and faces a more contested regulatory environment. Jain joins from Patomak Global Partners, where he worked on derivatives, compliance and risk-management advisory matters after five years at the National…
Muinmos Adds Paul Ford as Investor and Board Advisor
Muinmos has appointed financial services entrepreneur Paul Ford as an investor and advisor to the Board, adding operational risk, RegTech and scaling experience as the firm looks to build out its AI-led compliance capabilities. Ford brings more than 25 years’ financial services and operational experience. He was Founder and CEO of Acin, the London-based RegTech…
CFTC Moves to Defend Federal Perimeter for Prediction Markets
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has sued the State of Wisconsin after the state brought civil actions against Kalshi, Polymarket, Crypto.com, Robinhood and Coinbase over prediction market activity. The action, filed on 28 April 2026, extends a widening federal-state dispute over the regulatory treatment of event contracts. The CFTC argues that Congress gave the…
FIS and Anthropic Target AML Investigations with Agentic AI
FIS is working with Anthropic to bring agentic AI into banking operations, starting with a Financial Crimes AI Agent designed to support anti-money laundering investigations. The agent is intended to assemble evidence from bank systems, evaluate activity against known typologies and surface higher-risk cases for investigator review, with BMO and Amalgamated Bank among the first…
Eventus Names Cameron Routh CEO as Surveillance Vendor Prepares for Next Growth Phase
Eventus has appointed Cameron Routh as chief executive officer, placing a financial technology executive with more than two decades of experience in software and data businesses at the head of the trade surveillance and financial risk technology provider. Routh succeeds founder Travis Schwab, who has led Eventus for 11 years and overseen the development of…
DTCC Expands Board with Senior Market Structure, Treasury and Operations Leaders
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed four senior financial services executives to its Board of Directors, reinforcing governance oversight across market infrastructure, risk, and post-trade operations. The new appointees – Roland Chai (Nasdaq), Massimiliano Ciardi (Citadel), Stephen Hood (Marex), and Georges Lauchard (Barclays) – bring experience spanning exchange operations, treasury and funding,…
Funds-Axis Strengthens Operations as It Scales Internationally
Global investment manager RegTech provider Funds-Axis has appointed Chris Machin as Chief Operating Officer, a move that signals a shift from build-phase momentum to operational scale. The London-based regulatory technology and investment compliance specialist is positioning itself for disciplined international growth, with Machin tasked to lead the operational architecture behind that expansion. The firm describes…
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Date: 1 December 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The UK, EU and Swiss markets move to T+1 settlement on 11 October 2027, but the first binding compression arrives almost a year earlier. ESMA’s amended settlement discipline RTS expects allocation and confirmation completed by 23:00 CET on trade…
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Regulatory Data Handbook 2026 – Fourteenth Edition
Welcome to the fourteenth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook. Supervisors increasingly expect firms to demonstrate which rules apply, which data supports each obligation, who owns the control and how exceptions are identified and resolved. Policies and implementation programmes must now be supported by records that can withstand regulatory scrutiny. This edition examines material…
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Generative and Agentic AI in Financial Markets: From Pilot to Platform
Financial markets are at an inflection point in their relationship with artificial intelligence. The question is no longer whether to invest, it is how quickly institutions can move from experimentation to operational deployment, and what separates the firms that are scaling from those still stuck in extended pilot phases. The gap is wider than most...
From noise to knowledge: why financial AI needs trusted news
Decisions in financial markets are increasingly shaped by machines. Yet the information feeding those decisions is arriving in unprecedented volume, velocity and variety. As a result, the true differentiator is no longer access to more content, but access to news that is trusted, relevant and correct to the moment in time. With AI rapidly becoming...
The Future of AI in Compliance Recording
In an era of escalating regulatory pressure, financial institutions can leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) to transform compliance from a cost burden into a strategic competitive advantage. These technologies, applied to sophisticated monitoring systems, generate structured, high-quality data at scale, converting what was once a static compliance archive into a source...
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Upcoming Webinar: Generative and Agentic AI in Financial Markets: What the Data Really Shows
Date: 15 October 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes Artificial intelligence is reshaping financial markets – but the reality on the ground is more nuanced, more uneven, and more instructive than the headlines suggest. A new A-Team Insight research programme, drawing on responses from senior AI decision-makers at...
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Now in its 10th year, the RegTech Summit in New York will bring together the RegTech ecosystem to explore how the North American capital markets financial industry can leverage technology to drive innovation, cut costs and support regulatory change.
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Upcoming Webinar: Post-Trade Transformation: Automating Clearing & Settlement
Date: 1 December 2026 Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 minutes The UK, EU and Swiss markets move to T+1 settlement on 11 October 2027, but the first binding compression arrives almost a year earlier. ESMA’s amended settlement discipline RTS expects allocation and confirmation completed by 23:00 CET on trade...
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A-Team Group is proud to unveil the winners of this year’s Capital Markets Technology Awards APAC. Now in its second year, this program highlights the exceptional technology providers and financial institutions driving the next wave of innovation across the Asia-Pacific financial ecosystem.
