Thought Leadership

Why use AI translation for compliance?

From increased efficiency, accuracy, and scalability to decreases in cost and security risk, AI-enabled translation and transcription is bringing a range of benefits to compliance and surveillance teams in highly regulated industries.

A complete guide to ChatGPT recordkeeping

ChatGPT use in financial services has dramatically increased over the past year – especially in North America – raising questions about whether firms are addressing generative AI compliance gaps and aligning with evolving regulatory guidelines.

$65,000 FINRA fine for firm’s multiple recordkeeping rules breaches

A California-based firm has been hit with a sizable FINRA fine for multiple recordkeeping and Regulation Best Interest rules failures, including off-channel communications.

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.

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.

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