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 these standards, exemplified by FCA fines on Infinox Capital and Sigma Broking. The 2026 RegTech Insight Awards shortlist highlights fifteen firms that have built solutions around end‑to‑end lineage, automated validation and AI‑driven exception handling. Collectively, these vendors position reporting as a core data‑engineering discipline rather than a simple submission service.
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...
Terminus Capital Partners Takes Majority Stake in Eventus
Terminus Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in Eventus, the provider of the Validus trade‑surveillance platform. The deal, terms undisclosed, will fund accelerated product innovation, global commercial expansion and selective acquisitions. Eventus’ solution now spans equities, options, futures, FX,...
Democratising Surveillance: Why Culture Is the Real Compliance Challenge
VoxSmart CEO Oliver Blower argues that compliance failures stem more from entrenched cultural norms than from a lack of surveillance technology. He proposes reframing communications monitoring as a product discipline that emphasizes explainable AI, fairness, and shared accountability rather than...
Defensibility: The New Watchword for Data Management
Regulated enterprises, especially financial institutions, are shifting focus from merely adopting AI to proving that AI data pipelines are secure and well‑governed. New regulations such as the EU AI Act demand detailed disclosures of training data sources, processing methods, and...
MiFIR Schema 1.4.0 Rollout: Testing Clarity Still Pending – April Deadline Remains
ESMA’s MiFIR reporting page shows the test environment for schema v1.4.0 will open in February 2026, but exact dates remain unconfirmed. The new XML schema removes the separate FITRS quantitative reporting channel, shifting equity transparency calculations to transaction reporting data...
Sanctions Data Has Outgrown the Systems Built to Manage It
Sanctions‑related securities have multiplied severalfold since early 2022, turning a niche compliance issue into a real‑time operational variable. A SIX survey of 291 financial institutions shows senior executives now expect sanctions data to create material challenges across trading, risk and...
Regulator-First AI: Vivox Brings Atomic Workflows to Compliance Operations
Vivox AI offers a regulator‑first compliance platform that automates repetitive first‑line tasks using atomic workflow steps, ensuring each action is auditable and explainable. The solution, live in about 100 countries, targets fintechs, payments firms and digital banks struggling to scale...