Six Degrees of Compliance: Your Diligence Doesn’t Stop at the Client
Vendor risk isn’t linear — it’s a web. And regulators now expect you to manage every strand.
Compliance officers at RIAs, CPOs/CTAs, and broker‑dealers know this instinctively, even if they’ve never called it “six degrees.”
UK Crypto Rules Are Final: What Changed and What’s Next
If your firm has anything to do with cryptoassets, buying, selling, custody, staking, or simply marketing them to UK clients, here’s a question worth putting to your team this month: are you treating 25th October 2027 as somebody else’s deadline, or as though it’s already arrived?
The FCA Just Rewrote the Rulebook for AIFMs, and for Once, It’s Good News
Firms that manage, oversee, or advise on an alternative investment fund in the UK should take note of 14 July 2026 as an important day. Not because anything changed on the day itself, but because that’s when the FCA and HM Treasury told us, in plain terms, that the last decade of AIFMD paperwork is finally up for a rewrite.
Leo RegTech Named Compliance Automation Trailblazer Europe 2026
The award recognises our commitment to building technology that genuinely makes compliance easier. From AI-powered policy drafting and regulatory assistance to automated monitoring, onboarding and audit trails, every feature is designed with one goal in mind, giving compliance teams more time to focus on what matters most.
Brexit 10 Years On: UK vs EU for Compliance Teams
On 23 June 2016, the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the European Union. A decade later, the predicted exodus from the City has not materialised, but neither has the deregulated “Singapore-on-Thames” boom that some campaigners promised. The reality sits between the two, and for compliance teams it is rather more nuanced than either headline suggests.
AI Is Transforming AML Compliance … It Should Not Be Making the Decisions
There is genuine excitement in the compliance industry about what artificial intelligence can do for AML programmes and it is largely deserved. AI can process transaction volumes no human team could handle, surface patterns hard to catch through manual review, and substantially reduce the time cost of routine due diligence work. At Leo RegTech we […]
AML Compliance in 2026: What UK, EU and US Firms Need to Know Right Now
One question I hear from clients, including the conversation that prompted this article, is: “Can you give me all the AML updates to add to my policy since January 2025?”
Why Your Inbox Is Trying to Tell You Something About Compliance Training
Here’s a question worth sitting with: when did your firm last update its compliance training, and did it actually change how people behave?
Across the UK, EU, and US, the pressure on firms to get this right is only growing. AML, Market Abuse, SM&CR, Consumer Duty, Data Protection, the list is long, and a slide deck from eighteen months ago isn’t going to cut it.
Leo RegTech Shortlisted for Four Awards Across Two Premier Industry Events
We are proud to announce that Leo RegTech has been shortlisted for four awards across two of the financial services industry’s most respected recognition programmes: the RegTech Insights Awards Europe 2026 and the Hedgeweek European Awards 2026.
FCA Wholesale Markets 2026: What the New Regulatory Priorities Mean for Your Compliance Team
In March 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its inaugural Wholesale Markets Regulatory Priorities report¹, replacing more than 40 individual portfolio letters with a single, consolidated guide for the sector.
This is not just an administrative tidy-up. It represents a deliberate shift in how the FCA intends to supervise wholesale market participants: more outcomes-focused, more risk-based, and, critically, far less forgiving of firms that cannot demonstrate robust systems and controls.
