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Upcoming Webinar: Detecting and Preventing Market Abuse

In an era of record-breaking fines and global regulators relentlessly expanding their oversight, preventing market abuse has become a major compliance challenge for financial institutions. In 2024 alone, we witnessed a major trading house settle for $55 million for improper handling of inside information and manipulative trading practices, while a global banking giant faced a...


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Rethinking Regulatory Reporting with Regnology

In a financial services industry that moves millions in milliseconds, it’s sobering to realize that the regulatory reporting processes underpinning these markets remain stuck in the past. Despite advances in technology and regulatory data management, regulatory reporting operates primarily on what Maciej Piechocki, Chief Revenue Officer at RegTech and SupTech provider Regnology, calls “digitalized paper.”...

Reporting Seen Among Use Cases Benefiting from Cloud-based Data Management for AI

Artificial intelligence is being adopted by financial regulators at pace, putting pressure on the financial institutions that the overseers serve to double down on their reporting capabilities. It’s no surprise to find that the same AI that’s helping regulators can aid organisations in getting those reporting procedures in place. To do so, however, they need...

Key Takeaways from FINRA’s 2025 Oversight Report

FINRA released its 2025 Regulatory Oversight Report (the Report) in January, highlighting several rapidly evolving challenges confronting its member firms. From the rise of “deepfake” AI that empowers criminals to carry out convincing cyberattacks, to newly highlighted dangers of synthetic identity fraud, the Report details how malicious actors continue to adapt their methods. Along with...

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Upcoming Webinar: GenAI and LLM case studies for Surveillance, Screening and Scanning

6 November 2025 11:00am ET | 3:00pm London | 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 Minutes As Generative AI (GenAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) move from pilot to production, compliance, surveillance, and screening functions are seeing tangible results — and new risks. From trade surveillance to adverse media screening to policy and regulatory scanning, GenAI and…

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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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Unleashing the Power of AI for Financial Institutions with Snowflake and Amazon Web Services

Financial institutions are among the largest users of AI, deploying it for a range of use cases that, while already wide, will broaden in the future. A report by the International Monetary Fund has forecast that institutional spending on AI will surge 29% to US$97 billion by 2027. The technology has become crucial to automation...

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...

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Upcoming Webinar: Detecting and preventing market abuse

25 March 2025 11:00am ET | 3:00pm London | 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 Minutes Market abuse – unlawful disclosure of inside information, insider trading, circular trading, “pump and dump” schemes, etc. – poses significant threats to the integrity of capital markets. In 2024, global trading house Trafigura agreed to pay a $55 million fine to...

Upcoming Webinar: Managing Off-Channel Communications Compliance

8 May 2025 11:00am ET | 3:00pm London | 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 Minutes Managing off-channel communications – business interactions occurring outside of approved corporate systems – continues to challenge firms’ compliance efforts. The rise of personal messaging apps, social media, and other unmonitored channels – for example, messaging functionality embedded in an order management...

Upcoming Webinar: Best practice approaches to data management for regulatory reporting

13 May 2025 10:00am ET | 3:00pm London | 4:00pm CET Duration: 50 Minutes Effective regulatory reporting requires firms to manage vast amounts of data across multiple systems, regions, and regulatory jurisdictions. With increasing scrutiny from regulators and the rising complexity of financial instruments, the need for a streamlined and strategic approach to data management...

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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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  • Regulatory Data Handbook 2023 – Eleventh Edition

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