
RepRisk Roundtable London: Tackling Hidden Sustainability Risk in Private Markets with AI
RepRisk is sponsoring a Sustainability Breakfast Roundtable in London on June 11, 2026, aimed at senior risk, investment, compliance and sustainability leaders. The event will explore how trustworthy AI can improve risk identification, boost visibility into private‑market exposures, and scale sustainability workflows. Speakers include RepRisk’s Alexandra Mihailescu Cichon, Man Group’s Anna‑Marie Tomm and Federated Hermes’ Louise Dudley, who will share practical use cases. Attendees will leave with actionable guidance on moving AI pilots into production for ESG risk management.

Waystone Positions ManCo Platform as Infrastructure for Global Fund Expansion
Waystone’s regulated fund business, overseeing about 1,550 funds with roughly $450 billion in assets, is positioning its ManCo and ACD platform as a global infrastructure for asset‑manager expansion. The model lets firms launch funds across Europe, the UK and emerging markets...

Sumsub and ComplyAdvantage Deepen AML Screening Partnership as Compliance Demands Rise
Sumsub and ComplyAdvantage have deepened their partnership by embedding ComplyAdvantage’s Mesh intelligence layer directly into Sumsub’s verification and monitoring platform. The integration adds real‑time sanction and watch‑list updates—delivered within minutes—and a Bring‑Your‑Own‑Key option that lets clients connect their own Mesh...

US ESG Pullback Opens a New Competitive Question
The U.S. is retreating from mandatory sustainability disclosure as the SEC abandoned its defense of federal climate‑disclosure rules in March 2025 and the White House issued an executive order curbing ESG‑focused proxy advisers. State‑level actions, exemplified by Vanguard’s February 2026...

FinCEN Overhauls AML and CFT Rules with a New Effectiveness Standard
FinCEN issued a sweeping Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that replaces its July 2024 AML/CFT framework with an effectiveness‑based standard. The proposal mandates a continuous, structured risk assessment tied to the agency’s National Priorities and shifts compliance measurement from paperwork volume to...

Canoe and Bloomberg Advance Portfolio Analytics and Risk Workflows with Private Fund Data
Canoe Intelligence and Bloomberg have launched a certified integration that automates the delivery of private‑fund data into Bloomberg PORT Enterprise. The solution extracts, normalizes and loads cash flows, positions and holdings using FIGI identifiers via secure FTP, eliminating manual entry....

ISDA Taps Gentek AI for DRR Traceability Tool
The International Securities Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) has appointed Gentek AI to develop a traceability tool for Digital Regulatory Reporting (DRR). Gentek will adapt its existing attribution and retrieval engine to let users track the full history of DRR...

Enforcement Targeting Weak Control Design – The GRC Fault Line
Regulators are intensifying scrutiny of governance, risk and compliance (GRC) frameworks, targeting weak control design rather than mere documentation. Recent enforcement actions include the FCA fining Dinosaur Merchant Bank for $3.05 billion of CFD trades that escaped automated surveillance, ASIC imposing...

15 Regulatory Transaction Reporting Leaders, Europe – (2026 Edition)
European transaction reporting has moved from deadline compliance to demonstrable data control, as regulators tighten focus on quality, reconciliation and traceability. The EMIR Refit, effective April 2024, raised granularity and validation demands, and by early 2026 regulators are actively enforcing...

ITDR Won’t Save You if You Can’t Recover – Quest Research
Quest’s State of ITDR 2026 research reveals that while financial institutions have heavily invested in identity threat prevention and detection, recovery capabilities remain a critical gap. Nearly 80% of organisations lack adequate tooling to restore identity infrastructure, with 24% never...

Blackwired’s ThirdWatch: Powering Operational Resilience with Cyber Intelligence
Blackwired’s ThirdWatch platform aims to transform cyber‑threat intelligence into actionable operational‑resilience insight for financial institutions. It addresses the systemic risk exposed by the 2023 MOVEit Transfer breach, where a single third‑party vulnerability compromised hundreds of firms. Leveraging Direct Threat Intelligence,...

SmartKYC QnA: Accelerating Due Diligence at Scale
Founded in 2014, smartKYC automates KYC and due‑diligence for financial institutions using AI, multilingual NLP and federated search. The platform creates unified entity profiles that combine identity, risk, network and opportunity data, enabling faster onboarding, continuous monitoring and reduced manual...

Swap Data Was Supposed to Deliver Transparency. A Decade Later, Regulators Are Still Trying to Use It
Regulators have amassed a decade’s worth of swap transaction data through mandated repositories, yet extracting actionable insight remains elusive. A new Memorandum of Understanding between the SEC and CFTC creates a formal framework for sharing derivatives reporting data and supervisory...

Regnology Extends Balance Sheet-Centric Reporting Model with Wolters Kluwer FRR Acquisition
Regnology completed its acquisition of Wolters Kluwer’s Finance, Risk & Regulatory Reporting (FRR) unit on Dec 1 2025, merging its cloud‑first regulatory reporting platform with FRR’s finance and risk analytics capabilities. The deal expands Regnology’s footprint, especially in APAC, and adds a 330‑person...

Reframing Corporate KYC: Encompass Targets Back-Book Exposure with Scalable EC Review
Encompass has introduced EC Review, a scalable service that automates the remediation of legacy corporate KYC records for banks. Using the firm’s EC360 data engine, the solution processes thousands of client profiles in batch, delivering refreshed ownership and control data...