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FCA Proposes FRAME Reporting Reform Within £128m Asset Management Savings Package
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has proposed three reforms to UK asset management rules that it estimates would save firms £128 million a year. New fund reporting requirements account for most of the projected benefit, although their introduction would require technology and change projects across a sector managing £16.5 trillion. Fund Reporting for Asset Management…
Smarsh and AWS Target the Governance Gap in AI-Powered Surveillance
Smarsh recently reported what it describes as breakthrough results from its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including a 77% reduction in compliance review workload at one global investment bank. The three-month deployment analysed millions of alerts and, according to Smarsh, produced a 2% decline in true positives. The results provide an early test of…
ESMA’s Data Quality Report Signals a Higher Bar for Regulatory Reporting Data
By Michele Hillery, Managing Director, Head of Repository & Derivatives Services at The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC). Regulators across jurisdictions are leveraging trade reporting data as a supervisory resource, using it to monitor risk, assess market activity and inform policy and oversight decisions. As this use becomes more sophisticated, firms face an even…
Asian KYB Requires Live Registry Data, Not Another Database: AsiaVerify CEO
Asian know-your-business (KYB) controls have an uncomfortable blind spot: firms can spend heavily on onboarding, sanctions screening and case management while still making decisions from corporate records that may be weeks or months out of date – and sometimes more. AsiaVerify CEO Leas Bachatene spoke with RegTech Insight about the KYB challenges for firms with…
Sanctioned Securities Risk Moves Inside the Portfolio
Sanctions screening in capital markets has traditionally been treated as a specialist compliance concern: one for legal teams, sanctions officers and financial crime specialists to manage through lists, policies and escalation procedures. That view is becoming increasingly difficult to sustain in capital markets, where sanctions exposure can be hidden inside the securities, funds and structured…
Reconciliation No Longer Has Time On Its Side as T+1 Approaches
By John Bevil, senior product manager at Xceptor. Europe’s capital markets firms are entering the most consequential phase of T+1 preparation. From 11 October 2027, trades executed in European markets are expected to settle one business day after trade date, reducing the settlement cycle from T+2 to T+1. More than 4 trillion euros of securities…
Report Once – ESMA’s Simplification Plan for Regulatory Reporting
ESMA has turned the long-running industry case for “report once” transaction reporting into a staged policy programme for rebuilding EU reporting around reusable, controlled transaction data. Its Final Report On the Call for Evidence recommends a single integrated framework across the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) and Securities Financing…
Six RegTech Providers Tackling Sanctioned Securities and Financial-Instrument Screening
Sanctions screening in capital markets and treasury extends beyond conventional checks on payments, people and legal entities. Firms need to identify exposure inside securities, issuers, funds (including ETFs), indices, structured products, derivatives and custody positions. They also need to track changes as sanctions regimes, ownership structures and instrument composition shift. That creates a different control…
A-Team Group Announces Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026 Winners and Launches ‘State of the Market’ Report
A-Team Group today announced the highly anticipated winners of the Capital Markets Technology APAC Awards 2026. These prestigious awards celebrate the most innovative solution providers and financial institutions that are reshaping the capital markets technology landscape across the dynamic Asia Pacific region. In conjunction with the awards, A-Team Group has also launched the “State of…
FCA Horizon Scan Calls for Collaboration on AI and Programmable Finance Risks
In a first-of-its-kind publication, the FCA’s Emerging Tech & Research team has published Emerging Technology Horizon Scan 2026, setting out how emerging technologies could combine to reshape financial services, market infrastructure and the control environment that supports trust in UK markets. The report is designed to foster debate and encourage collaboration across the financial services…