Surveillance Blog

As many of the sessions at XLoD Global - London made clear, solving the data problems faced by trade...

At this year’s XLoD Global – the largest event of its kind ever – one of the most interesting develo...

We are used to hearing that European privacy laws are a stumbling block to the surveillance of broad...

Model risk management (MRM) teams were deeply involved in validating surveillance models (determinis...

Does anyone still care about market abuse? It’s a slightly tongue in cheek question, but it’s being ...

A cynic might argue that the cost of surveillance is essentially the cost of generating and disposit...

Surveillance teams have arguably never been under more pressure. Huge enforcements in communications...

One of the key areas in which the hype around artificial intelligence (AI) may not be exaggerated is...

My recent blog on how some banks were dealing with investigations into data completeness around venu...

We spend a lot of time talking about how new technology will transform surveillance, but unless surv...

Despite the high-profile acceptance of Cloud by any number of financial institutions, when it comes ...

It’s easy, but unhelpful, to discuss surveillance and compliance technology in terms of ‘financial i...

Over many 1LoD events there are repeating themes – and one is that banks feel that the regulators ar...

Regulators and banks themselves are keen on the idea of ‘risk-based’ surveillance – the idea that su...

It might not seem as though the sad demise of Credit Suisse has much to teach surveillance professio...

More than 30 of the most senior surveillance professionals in London came together at a 1LoD Surveil...

If everyone uses the same underlying data management and search engines, then what is the value-add ...

As physical FCA visits restart, it’s a good time to remember that while regulators are often critici...

Models set up to monitor credit risk or trade FX have a direct impact on a bank’s P&L and potentiall...

The recent news that Morgan Stanley was fining bankers up to $1 million for breaching compliance rul...

Anyone who has been to any of our events over the past few years cannot fail to have noticed the wid...

At our recent XLoD event – I hope you were one of the 650 or so attendees – there was an enormous am...

In a recent conversation around the US enforcement actions on message channel capture, 1LoD was told...

While in the US regulators are clamping down on the basics, in Europe it’s still unclear who is comp...

It seems pretty clear that the size of the fines levied by US regulators for comms capture failures ...

After the government’s reversal of its plan to lower the top rate of tax, and rumours of further bac...

In April this year, the OCC issued its first-ever consent order involving a cryptoasset bank for ant...

Participants in the energy trading markets face an increasingly difficult surveillance challenge. Re...

Surely there’s something wrong with a regulatory environment in which it takes four years to fine a ...

The need for better capture, the drive for surveillance of broader populations and the need to apply...

Ask surveillance professionals at banks whether surveillance should move away from its current (and ...

So far three big US banks have been hit with $200 million fines for, basically, not capturing conver...

While Amazon and others have come under fire for high-tech monitoring of employees, surveillance and...