Eventus Wins Surveillance Tech Award
Financial risk solutions provider Eventus won Market Surveillance Solution of the Year at the FOW International Awards 2026 in London. The award recognizes the company's at-scale trade surveillance platform, Validus. This is the fourth time Eventus has won the award in the past five years.
- The company's CEO, Travis Schwab, previously served as the CEO and Chief Compliance Officer for RGM Securities, a large proprietary trading firm, giving him firsthand experience with the market's need for at-scale surveillance technology. - Eventus' Validus platform is utilized by a wide range of global financial firms including tier-1 banks, proprietary trading groups, crypto exchanges like Coinbase and Binance, and market centers such as Cboe Global Markets. - The technology behind the win, Validus, employs machine learning and robotic process automation to analyze vast amounts of data, which can automatically resolve up to 85% of candidate alerts, allowing compliance teams to focus on the most critical risks. - The FOW International Awards are considered a mark of excellence within the global derivatives industry, with winners selected by a panel of independent market experts, highlighting the solution's industry-wide recognition. - Eventus has a significant international footprint, with nearly 50% of its revenue in 2023 coming from outside the U.S., reflecting strong growth in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific regions. - In a recent move to address emerging markets, Eventus partnered with Integrity Compliance 360 (IC360) in December 2025 to establish compliance and surveillance standards for the rapidly growing prediction market industry. - The platform provides surveillance across a wide array of asset classes, including equities, options, futures, foreign exchange (FX), fixed income, and digital assets, addressing the complex needs of modern financial markets. - The growing need for advanced surveillance is driven by trends like the move toward near-continuous 24/7 trading in U.S. equities and the increasing use of AI to detect complex market abuse patterns that older, rules-based systems might miss.
