Tag: financial regulation

Why fear of risk is finance’s biggest risk

Financial services firms can invest in sophisticated risk technology, but those systems will have limited impact if organisations continue to view risk primarily as...

Finance sector needs its own AI rulebook, study says

Durham University Business School has published a study calling for a dedicated regulatory framework to govern the use of artificial intelligence within financial services. The...

Source of funds moves to the centre of UK compliance

Source of Funds compliance has spent much of the past decade as a background AML task, a box ticked on higher-value transactions rather than...

UK slashes transaction reporting scope in FCA reset

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed the biggest shake-up of the UK MiFIR transaction reporting regime since Brexit, publishing Policy Statement 26/15 to...

FinCEN scraps beneficial ownership rules for US firms

One of the biggest new US anti-money laundering reporting regimes has effectively just been dismantled, after FinCEN finalised sweeping changes to the Corporate Transparency...

RegTech becomes non-negotiable for US investment managers

US investment managers are being warned that 2026's regulatory landscape is not lighter, just sharper, as the SEC narrows its focus to fraud and...

SEC AI checks put firms’ governance under scrutiny

The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations has begun requesting information from financial firms about their use of artificial intelligence, according to...

Insider trading risk lurks in prediction markets’ rise

Prediction markets have rapidly become one of the most discussed developments in financial services, opening new avenues for participation while introducing fresh compliance and...

Banks face rising control costs with no defensible reason

Ask a bank how many controls it operates and a confident answer is rare. Ask how many it actually needs, and which ones, and...

DORA compliance gap leaves US FinTechs exposed

Risk managers across New York, Chicago and San Francisco are discovering that Europe's operational resilience regime has quietly become their problem too. According to Risk...

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