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Behavox, an AI company providing unified controls frameworks for financial institutions, today announced that Polaris, its trade surveillance platform, now covers prediction markets as a new asset class — bringing Polaris's out-of-the-box risk coverage to 10 asset classes. Prediction markets coverage is available in beta to existing Polaris customers immediately, with general availability scheduled for summer 2026.
Polaris trade surveillance now covers prediction markets as 10th asset class, available in beta immediately.
CFTC issued Staff Advisory Letter 26-08 in March and brought first insider-trading enforcement action on event contracts in April.
FINRA Rule 3110 imposes supervisory obligations on broker-dealers trading event contracts, broadening surveillance demand.
Polaris provides out-of-the-box coverage across Fixed Income, FX, Commodities, Equities, Money Markets, Structured Products, Funds, Environmental Products, Digital Assets, and Prediction Markets.
Designed to replace legacy platforms like NASDAQ SMARTS and NICE Actimize with single AI-native platform.
Being showcased at FINRA Annual Conference this week.
"We are getting consistent feedback from customers that our risk coverage, in terms of asset classes, is the widest in the industry," said Erkin Adylov, Chief Executive Officer of Behavox. "Prediction markets are the next frontier for trade surveillance, and our customers want to be ready before the regulatory and reputational stakes catch up with the trading activity. Adding prediction markets as a new asset class in Polaris's risk taxonomy is a direct response to that demand."
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has accelerated its regulatory and enforcement posture on prediction markets in 2026: the agency's Division of Market Oversight issued Staff Advisory Letter 26-08 in March, signaling a supportive but more closely supervised stance toward designated contract markets offering event-based derivatives, and in April the agency brought its first-ever insider-trading enforcement action concerning event contracts. Broker-dealers trading event contracts on behalf of clients or for proprietary accounts also face FINRA supervisory obligations under Rule 3110, broadening surveillance demand beyond CFTC-regulated venues.
For Behavox customers, the new coverage extends the same auditable, explainable controls framework already applied to traditional markets — from regulatory obligation through monitoring, investigation, and evidence collection — to prediction-market activity. With this release, Polaris provides out-of-the-box surveillance coverage across:
"We have seen customer demand for prediction-markets surveillance accelerate quickly over the past quarter, driven by the growth of the asset class itself, the new CFTC regulatory framework, and recent enforcement actions targeting the misuse of non-public information in event contracts," said Nabeel Ebrahim, Chief Revenue Officer of Behavox. "Compliance and surveillance teams want a single platform that already covers their traditional asset classes and can scale to this one without standing up a parallel stack. That is what Polaris delivers."
Polaris is delivered as a standalone trade-surveillance product, separate from Behavox's communications surveillance product Quantum, though both can be deployed together for customers who want unified communications and trade surveillance under a single control framework. It is built on the same AI-native foundation as the rest of the Behavox platform, with direct lineage from geography to regulator to asset class to risk taxonomy, configurable scenarios, and integrated tooling for evidence gathering and regulatory filing. Polaris is designed to replace the legacy, point-solution surveillance stacks sold by vendors such as NASDAQ SMARTS and NICE Actimize.
Behavox plans to continue expanding Polaris's risk taxonomy as new asset classes mature and the regulatory perimeter evolves.
Behavox is an AI company that helps organizations safeguard and enhance their businesses through a unified controls framework. Its AI-native platform brings together communications surveillance (Quantum), trade surveillance (Polaris), regulatory data retention (Intelligent Archive), and policy management (Pathfinder) on a single, integrated platform. Behavox enables firms to detect risk, meet regulatory obligations, reduce operational complexity, and turn enterprise data into revenue. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in London, Behavox serves a global client base across financial services and other regulated industries, with offices in North America, EMEA, and APAC.
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