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Regulatory Wrap episode 74: The FCA knows what you did last summer

In Regulatory Wrap for the week to October 31, Jay Hampshire breaks down a speech from the FCA, which reinforces its “do the right thing” motto.

Record C$176 million FINTRAC fine for AML failings

Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog fined Xelox Enterprises Ltd C$176 million for violating anti-money laundering regulations under the Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist Financing Act.

Closing compliance gaps: How can enterprise firms unify surveillance across business lines?

Ensuring complete compliance across business lines can be tricky. Learn how firms can satisfy regulators while keeping data secure and operations seamless.

Building AI agents for tomorrow: A governance-first approach

Global Relay Group Product Manager, Chris Lau, tells us how the implementation of AI agents should lead with a governance-first approach, and sets out 12 considerations to build AI agents with future regulation in mind.

What can financial services firms learn from the AWS outage?

An outage of Amazon cloud services that impacted thousands of businesses and millions of users has raised serious questions around Big Tech monopolies – and how firms can increase their cyber resilience.

FINTRAC issues a C$600,000 fine for transaction monitoring failures

Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog fined the First Nations Bank of Canada C$600,000 for violating multiple regulations, including a failure to regularly monitor business relationships for suspicious transactions.

Regulatory Wrap episode 73: Comms compliance gets personal

In Regulatory Wrap for the week to October 24, Jay Hampshire covers FINRA’s $10,000 fine against an individual for off-channel breaches.

Capita fined £14 million for data protection failings after cyber-attack

Capita Pension Solutions Ltd has been fined after it failed to properly protect the data of millions of customers after it was hit by a major cyber attack back in 2023.

How can firms maintain SEC Marketing Rule compliance?

Despite a slowdown in regulatory enforcement actions, ongoing Marketing Rule fines have signaled that compliant marketing messaging remains a priority for SEC. Explore how firms can reinforce compliance posture and implement the right tools to follow the marketing rules.

FINRA fines broker $10,000 for off-channel communications breaches

An ex-Wells Fargo broker has been fined and suspended by FINRA for breaching recordkeeping rules, and attempting to cover up misconduct by deleting messages.

Regulatory Wrap episode 72: FCA’s call to action on financial crime

In Regulatory Wrap for the week to October 10, Jay Hampshire summarizes the FCA’s recent speech encouraging collaboration to fight financial crime.

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