Tag: SEC

Why AI enforcement is coming for financial firms

AI governance in financial services is not a future problem but a present one, according to Brian Rubin, whose insights were shared in a...

RIAs face day-one AML scrutiny under new FinCEN rule

Registered investment advisers in the US have officially entered a new regulatory era. FinCEN's landmark anti-money laundering rule came into force on 1 January...

Tokenised stocks expose a looming tax compliance gap

The migration of traditional equities onto blockchain infrastructure is shifting from experimentation into institutional reality, and according to RegTech firm TAINA Technology, the industry...

Why allocation surveillance is failing compliance teams

For compliance teams at asset management firms, allocation review has quietly become one of the most thankless tasks in the working day. Hours are...

Why $300bn in compliance spending still isn’t working

Every year, financial institutions collectively spend over $300bn on compliance. That figure, drawn from research spanning global banking, insurance, and asset management, has grown...

How to stress-test a compliance archive before regulators do

Communications archiving has transformed from a back-office checkbox into one of the most fiercely contested battlegrounds in regulated technology this year. Twelve months ago,...

Q1 2026 fines: data privacy and controls failures surge

Corlytics, a regulatory intelligence and risk analytics firm, has published its Q1 2026 enforcement report, revealing that global regulators issued approximately $542m in fines...

Five things every CCO must know in 2026

The compliance landscape is shifting faster than it has in years. At ACA Group's recent spring media roundtable, ACA experts gathered to discuss the...

EU AI Act: Three obligations reshaping comms surveillance

For anyone working in surveillance, records or risk at an EU-regulated financial services organisation, the past few months have brought a familiar mix of...

Managing broker-dealer compliance at scale

When a newly hired registered representative joins a broker-dealer firm, the compliance clock starts ticking immediately. In most firms, it can take two to...

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