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SEC Proposes “Regulation Crypto Assets” to Address Digital Assets Innovation while Congress Moves Slowly on CLARITY Act
In a move that was somewhat surprising given its timing, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unveiled a new regulatory proposal titled “Regulation Crypto Assets“ that is expected to have significant impact not only on those involved in launching native crypto assets but also for the general digital assets and tokenisation space. The SEC’s…
FINOS Puts Common Domain Model (CDM) 7 into Production
In July, the FinTech Open Source Foundation (FINOS) released CDM 7 on GitHub consolidating more than 130 individual upgrades and development releases and followed up with a detailed analysis on August 14. The analysis was authored by Lionel Smith-Gordon and Ben Page of REGnosys, an active corporate member and key technology contributor to FINOS. The…
Data Firms Responding as AI Seen Driving Sovereignty Concern
While the criticality of data to financial institutions has made its security paramount, the internationalisation of that information has made it a strategic priority. With ever greater volumes of data criss-crossing the world within and between organisations’ systems, data sovereignty has become a key component of governance policies required by regulators. Once considered relevant to…
Model Context Protocol Opens Agentic AI for RegTech Platforms
As 2025 was the year GenAI took hold in RegTech solutions, 2026 is seeing the rise of AI agent adoption raising the upside for compliance automation and creating new risk surfaces. Early GenAI solutions enabled unstructured communications, policies and case files to combine with structured transaction and customer data. Early use-cases focused on productivity enhancements…
Why Sanctions Compliance Is Becoming an Intelligence-Led Discipline
By Theodora Papadimitropoulou, Head of Global Product Strategy, GTM at Dun & Bradstreet. For years, sanctions compliance was closely associated with a single task, running a counterparty’s name against the relevant lists, checking for a match and acting if required. How much that tells you, though, depends heavily on the provider and the data behind…
From AI Pilots to Always-On Compliance: The Priorities Shaping Regtech in 2026/27
Artificial intelligence is moving into live compliance workflows. That shift raises immediate questions about control: how much authority firms should give AI systems, where human review must remain, and how compliance teams can explain automated decisions to regulators and senior management. These issues will shape the agenda at RegTech Summit London on 1 October 2026….
AI May Well Be a Big Accelerator, But Let’s Not Forget the Destination
By Chris Livesey, Chief Executive of AutoRek Everyone’s racing to add AI to everything, but are we clear on the finishing line? Across the financial services software landscape, vendors and end-user customers are chasing a new goal: how fast they can AI-ify or agentify everything that moves to claim unique differentiation and plant a flag for their brand as a…
Industry Backs FCA AIFM Reform but Warns of Uneven Costs.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently proposed the biggest overhaul of the UK alternative investment fund manager (AIFM) regime since 2013. The projected benefits will depend on whether greater proportionality can reduce compliance overhead without shifting costs to smaller managers. The proposals in CP 26/28 replace the current distinction between full-scope and sub-threshold AIFMs with…
UBS AML Enforcement Exposes Underlying Data Weaknesses
A coordinated US enforcement action against UBS Financial Services has exposed how incomplete data feeds, faulty system configuration and weak customer-risk controls can undermine an automated anti-money laundering (AML) programme. FINRA found that UBS failed to monitor adequately more than 60,000 foreign-currency wires worth over $10 billion between January 2019 and June 2023. The deficiencies…
AI Expands Buy-Side Compliance Remit as Resources Remain Flat
Four in five respondents to a survey of US investment advisers use artificial intelligence, but many have yet to put testing, validation and third-party oversight behind that adoption. Around 60% of chief compliance officers also hold another executive role, so the added AI duties sit alongside their existing responsibilities. Amended Regulation S-P also requires advisers…