Compliance must keep pace in AI arms race

In markets increasingly dominated by automated and algorithmic trading, banks must ensure their compliance departments have the computational firepower to match the trading desks

The foundation stone of a liberalised market in energy and commodities is integrity.

But in an era when markets are increasingly dominated by automated and algorithmic trading, the gap is widening between the surveillance capabilities of regulators and compliance staff, and the capabilities needed to catch highly sophisticated wrongdoers. This gap needs to be bridged as soon as possible, and involves taking a holistic approach to compliance using the latest machine-learning and artificial