In an interview with the Global FinTech Series, Brian Fahey, CEO of MCO, discussed the impact of AI-driven surveillance across regulatory and FinTech frameworks. He explained how AI can help compliance teams review alerts faster, prioritize investigations and analyze large volumes of data while maintaining human judgment, strong oversight and clear controls.
How Is AI-Driven Surveillance Changing Financial Services Compliance?
Fahey described how stronger contextualization can reduce false positives and give investigators clearer signals, allowing teams to spend less time working through volume and more time on patterns and red flags that require deeper review. He also addressed how AI-powered trade-alert summarization and expanded oversight of crypto and other digital assets can support firms as compliance risk extends across new asset classes.
The interview also examined the limitations of disconnected compliance systems. Employee trading, insider information, trade surveillance, communications surveillance and conflicts management are interconnected. Fahey argued that firms need a common view of risk and must apply AI in ways that are transparent, controlled, explainable and defensible.
Read the full interview: Global FinTech Series