A-Team

The shift towards 24/5 equities trading and the rapid growth of prediction markets are presenting new challenges for trade surveillance. With trading activity increasingly spanning multiple venues, instruments and time zones, identifying potential market abuse is becoming more complex, particularly where suspicious behaviour crosses traditional market boundaries.

The widely reported accidental disclosure of sensitive information at Morgan Stanley last month has brought data loss prevention (DLP) back into focus. The incident, in which an email reportedly exposed details of more than 100 investment banking deals, illustrates the risks that remain despite years of investment in communications monitoring and information barriers.

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Artificial intelligence is moving rapidly from experimentation into day-to-day compliance operations at financial institutions, changing not only how firms monitor communications and investigate potential breaches, but also the governance, data and skills they need to support those processes.

That shift was evident during a private executive roundtable hosted by compli...

Reporting by the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and Reuters has exposed the scale of A7, the Russia-linked sanctions-evasion network that allegedly moved $6.9 billion through global banks using front companies and forged documents. FinCEN’s subse...

Chainlink has officially launched CCIP 2.0, marking the next generation of its Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol. The upgraded protocol functions as a neutral interoperability layer designed to allow financial institutions distribute tokenised digital assets across public and private blockchains without needing to rearchitect their existing technology stacks.