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19 RegTech Insights for 2025 from our RegTech Summits

The RegTech Summits in London and New York delivered a deep dive into AI-driven compliance, accelerated settlement, and evolving regulatory frameworks among other key RegTech topics, with industry leaders and regulators weighing in on the biggest challenges ahead. From the implementation of accelerated settlement cycles across global markets to the rise of generative AI (GenAI)...


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Businesses Struggling with ESG Data that will Aid SFDR Compliance

Most businesses are struggling to prepare their data to meet a new European regulation that is designed in part to deliver huge troves of corporate ESG information into financial institutions’ systems. More than four-fifths of companies questioned in a study by data mastering company Semarchy said they lack confidence in their data management capabilities to...

DG FISMA Rejects the ESAs’ Draft RTS for DORA

Less than one week after the Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA) came into full force in the EU, the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (DG FISMA) issued a letter to the Chair of the Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) rejecting the draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) submitted...

“No WhatsApp Ban” – FCA’s Transition from Prescriptive Rulemaking to Outcome-Focused Regulation

There was a flurry of headlines recently following statements from Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Chief Executive Nikhil Rathi on a podcast, where he laid out the FCA’s new five-year strategy and its mandate for growth. In response to a direct question about regulating encrypted messaging apps and WhatsApp specifically, Mr. Rathi stated that they’re not...

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Upcoming Webinar: Best approaches for trade and transaction reporting

11 September 2025 10:00am ET | 3:00pm London | 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 Minutes Compliance practitioners and technology leaders in capital markets face mounting pressure to ensure that reporting processes are efficient, accurate, and aligned with global standards. Market developments and jurisdictional nuances in regulatory frameworks like MiFID II, EMIR, SFTR and MAS create a…

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RegTech Summit New York

Now in its 9th 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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Regulatory Data Handbook 2024 – Twelfth Edition

Welcome to the twelfth edition of A-Team Group’s Regulatory Data Handbook, a unique and useful guide to capital markets regulation, regulatory change and the data and data management requirements of compliance. The handbook covers regulation in Europe, the UK, US and Asia-Pacific. This edition of the handbook includes a detailed review of acts, plans and…

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How Advisory Firms are Integrating AI in Compliance

Two years after ChatGPT brought Generative AI (GenAI) into the mainstream, financial institutions are still exploring how best to harness this technology within their compliance functions. While the promise of increased efficiency and enhanced accuracy is clear, many compliance teams proceed cautiously, mindful of risks related to data security, regulatory compliance, and the need for...

Getting Control of Access to Key Market Services

Use of single dealer portals that allow banks to trade assets on behalf of their clients is growing rapidly, particularly among firms in the fixed income and foreign exchange markets in particular. But while trading portals offer great benefits in terms of broader market reach and enhanced client functionality, they bring risks too. Firms are...

How to Build an Efficient Enterprise ESG Data Strategy in Banking with Cloud and Machine Learning

ESG investing is now integral to financial institutions’ activities, motivated by client demands for sustainable investment options, regulatory obligations and a growing cultural shift towards ensuring that capital is allocated in order to do better for the planet and the people on it. Data is the magic dust that is enabling the translation of that...

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Recorded Webinar: Preparing For Primetime – How to Benefit from the Global LEI

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. Much has been made of the initiative to create a global standard legal entity identifier (LEI). Its backers have taken great pains to explain how the new identifier will improve transparency and contribute to the ongoing regulatory war against systemic risk. After months of...

Recorded Webinar: Practical Applications of the Global LEI – Client On-Boarding and Beyond

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. With the March ‘launch’ of the global legal entity identifier (LEI), the marketplace now officially has a standard it can use for managing entity data. Post-Credit Crunch, the lack of such a standard has forced firms to embark on their own initiatives to create...

Recorded Webinar: FATCA – The time to act is now

This webinar has passed, but you can view the recording here. The US Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – aka FATCA – raised eyebrows when its final regulations requiring foreign financial institutions (FFIs) to report US accounts to US tax authorities were published last year, but with the exception of a few modifications the legislation...

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RegTech Insight Awards USA

A-Team Group has announced the winners of it’s RegTech Insight Awards USA 2024. These awards celebrate providers of leading RegTech solutions, services and consultancy and are uniquely designed to recognise both start-up and established providers who are creatively finding solutions to help with regulatory challenges, and span a wide range of regulatory requirements.

 

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  • Regulatory Data Handbook 2024 – Twelfth Edition

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