Compliance has long been the thorn in the side of wealth and investment management firms: slow, manual, and often reactionary. Hadrius, an AI-powered compliance automation platform, thinks it has the answer—and it’s now teaming up with BridgeFT, a cloud-native, API-first wealth infrastructure provider, to prove it.
The partnership marries BridgeFT’s WealthTech API, a custodian-agnostic data pipeline, with Hadrius’ intelligent compliance engine. The result: real-time oversight powered by clean, normalized data streams—no CSV exports, clunky file transfers, or piecemeal integrations required.
Why It Matters
In a sector defined by regulatory velocity—the rapid churn of new rules and reporting standards—compliance can’t afford to lag behind operations. Hadrius argues that embedding direct, API-level connectivity into compliance workflows transforms oversight from a defensive cost center into a strategic advantage.
With the integration, firms get:
- Automated trade and portfolio surveillance
- Continuous, real-time oversight
- Regulator-ready audit trails
- Zero data retention policies to maintain privacy compliance
In plain English: compliance officers spend less time wrangling spreadsheets and more time managing actual risk.
Industry Voices
“BridgeFT is committed to delivering modern, API-first data and application infrastructure that unifies wealth management technology stacks,” said Dave Hagen, CCO at BridgeFT. “By partnering with Hadrius, we’re extending that capability directly into compliance.”
For Hadrius, the play is about meeting the complexity of modern regulation head-on. “Compliance today is defined by regulatory velocity and data complexity,” said Thomas Stewart, co-founder and CEO. “This partnership ensures compliance teams have real-time, custodian-agnostic data flowing directly into Hadrius’ oversight modules.”
The Bigger Picture
The wealthtech and regtech sectors have been inching closer for years, but most firms still rely on fragmented systems patched together with CSV imports and brittle APIs. As regulators ramp up scrutiny—particularly around AI-driven investing and cross-border trades—firms that can’t deliver real-time compliance risk both penalties and reputational damage.
By embedding Hadrius’ AI-first compliance framework directly into BridgeFT’s data infrastructure, the two companies are betting they can eliminate one of the industry’s biggest pain points: the lag between data and oversight.
The Future of RegTech
This partnership isn’t just about smoothing workflows—it’s about building future-proof architecture. An API-native backbone ensures scalability as compliance rules inevitably multiply and evolve. And by combining AI-driven surveillance with normalized, auditable data, Hadrius and BridgeFT are positioning themselves at the intersection of regtech and wealthtech, a space likely to heat up as firms face mounting operational and regulatory pressure.
For compliance leaders, the takeaway is clear: spreadsheets won’t cut it anymore. Real-time, AI-driven oversight is quickly becoming table stakes.
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