Funding Rounds
Real-time venture capital deal tracker and funding updates.
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AI compliance startup Compuvi secures $40m seed round
Compuvi, the LegalTech and RegTech artificial intelligence company behind compliance platform Confinaid, has closed a seed funding round at a $40m post-money valuation.
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GDPR, secrecy laws and the myths stalling AML collaboration
Every week, billions of euros flow through European financial institutions in service of money launderers, fraudsters, and organised criminal networks.
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Over $1bn raised in this week's 16 FinTech deals - Read them all here
Two major deals helped to bring this week's total FinTech funding volume past the $1bn mark, with a total of $1.2bn raised across 16 deals.
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Are wealth managers finally embracing digital assets?
Despite their rising popularity, particularly with younger generations, digital assets still lack widespread adoption by traditional wealth management firms. However, as regulators continue to buil...
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Barclays bets on youth finance with GoHenry deal
Barclays has agreed to acquire GoHenry, a digital money management platform aimed at children aged 6 to 18, from US-based fintech firm Acorns Grow Incorporated.
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UK moves to simplify climate risk reporting for investors
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK's conduct regulator for financial services firms and markets, has proposed scrapping mandatory TCFD-based product-level climate disclosures for investm...
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Prometeia cements credit lending dominance in 2026 report
Prometeia has secured recognition across every segment of the Chartis RiskTech Quadrant for Credit Lending Operations 2026.
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How Ortec Finance helped PKZH measure ESG impact
Swiss pension fund PKZH, which manages CHF23.9bn in assets on behalf of more than 60,000 members, turned to Ortec Finance to gain a clearer financial picture of what its ESG exclusion policy was ac...
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Pleo launches AI agents for autonomous spend management
Pleo, Europe's spend management platform built for financial strategists, has unveiled a suite of AI agents designed to handle routine financial tasks autonomously, allowing finance leaders to conc...
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Trustap secures $10m for agentic shopping platform
Trustap, a Dublin-headquartered payments and transaction protection platform serving online marketplaces and ecommerce operators globally, has closed a $10m funding round to launch Trustap Index, a...
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EIP launches AI tool to automate insurance claims
InsurTech EIP, an embedded insurance provider, has unveiled Virtual TPAi, an AI-powered tool designed to deliver end-to-end automation of insurance claims processing and decision-making.
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Abbove deploys wealth platform at ING Belgium
Belgian WealthTech Abbove, a European wealth planning platform operating on a white-label B2B2C model, has announced the deployment of its technology at ING Belgium, enabling the bank to launch a n...
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Agentic AI puts UK fraud defences under pressure
BioCatch, a fraud and financial crime prevention company that identifies patterns in human behaviour, has published research warning that AI is fundamentally reshaping the threat landscape for UK b...
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Sumsub deal gives Reap compliance edge in new markets
Reap, a global FinTech building stablecoin-native cards, payments and financial infrastructure for businesses, has partnered with identity verification provider Sumsub to streamline compliant onboa...
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Aryon Security raises $29m Series A for cloud enforcement
Aryon Security, a cloud security enforcement platform, has closed a $29m Series A funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $38m just over a year after emerging from stealth.
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WealthReach raises $1m seed round to scale AI growth platform
WealthReach, an AI-powered organic growth platform for registered investment advisors (RIAs) and wealth management firms, has raised $1m in seed funding and announced the formation of a strategic a...
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How broken interactions are costing insurers growth
A decade of investment in digital transformation has left insurers with faster engines and emptier waiting rooms. Across the sector, carriers have poured capital into modernising pricing models, ov...
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K2 Integrity targets financial crime with AI deal
K2 Integrity, a global risk management, investigations and assurance firm, has acquired RiskFront AI, a developer of agentic AI systems designed to automate financial crime compliance and risk oper...
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Patra expands C-suite to scale agentic AI platform
Patra, an InsurTech firm operating one of the insurance industry's largest production-grade agentic AI platforms, has announced a series of senior leadership appointments aimed at accelerating its ...
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10 RegTech solutions helping firms keep pace with regulatory change
With an estimated 200+ regulatory updates each day, it is easy to understand why compliance teams often feel the pressure of keeping pace with change. To stop compliance teams becoming overwhelmed ...
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Lemonade brings renters insurance to North Dakota
Lemonade, a tech-first insurance provider serving more than three million active customers, has launched its renters insurance product in North Dakota, extending its footprint across the United Sta...
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Cascade named top employer in Luxembourg 2026
Cascade, a Luxembourg-based company, has been certified by Great Place To Work for 2026, securing an overall score of 98% and placing 13 points above the Best Workplaces Luxembourg Small Companies ...
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Titan raises $3m to bring native AI to banking
Titan, a banking-native AI platform purpose-built for financial services, has raised $3m in new funding led by Entropy Ventures.
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Hummingbird targets compliance fragmentation with AI
Hummingbird, a RegTech firm offering an orchestration platform for financial crime compliance, has unveiled two new AI agents designed to reduce the manual burden on compliance teams while keeping ...
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Backbase and Mastercard partner on cross-border payments
Backbase, a provider of AI-native banking software, has announced a strategic collaboration with payments giant Mastercard to embed Mastercard Move, Mastercard's suite of global money movement capa...
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Vestd secures Foresight backing for growth push
Vestd, the UK sharetech platform on a mission to make equity inclusion a reality for every private company, has secured a growth investment from Foresight Group, a UK-based investment manager, in i...
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FCA CP26/16: what UK fund managers must do now
The FCA's latest consultation paper is not explicitly about anti-money laundering, but for UK fund managers, it may as well be.
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Sumsub's MRC move signals digital trust ambitions
Sumsub, a global identity verification and fraud prevention platform, has become a member of the Merchant Risk Council (MRC), a leading international non-profit association serving payments, fraud ...
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How TransferMate and Vivox AI are transforming AML compliance
Global payments firm TransferMate has partnered with artificial intelligence compliance specialist Vivox AI to dramatically overhaul its anti-money laundering (AML) and sanctions screening operatio...
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How KYC automation is transforming FinTech compliance
For compliance teams still processing identity checks by hand, the costs are mounting faster than most organisations realise. A 2025 study published in the Journal of Economics, Finance and Managem...
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Eventus expands executive team amid AI push
Eventus, a provider of trade surveillance and financial risk solutions, has appointed Eric Litz as chief technology officer and Sarah-Jane McColl as chief customer officer, expanding its senior lea...
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Bank of America targets instant cross-border payments
Bank of America, one of the world's largest financial institutions serving roughly 70 million consumer and small-business clients in the United States alone, is preparing to roll out a cross-border...
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From fragmented to connected compliance: Connecting the dots for crypto compliance in tomorrow's RegTech
What's the future of compliance inside banks? Smarter, faster, more joined-up systems informed by intelligent analytical agents. To help make it happen, the recent Global RegTech Summit in London w...
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Zinnia launches headless annuity order entry platform
Zinnia, an Eldridge Industries business and life and annuity insurance technology platform backed by KKR and Vista Credit Partners, has launched headless annuity order entry capabilities, allowing ...
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The emerging fault lines in RegTech investment priorities
AI may dominate discussions around the future of compliance, but the latest findings from the Global State of RegTech 2026 report suggest that not everyone is investing in that future in the same w...
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Honeycomb secures $40m to expand real estate insurance
Honeycomb Insurance, a Chicago-headquartered digital insurer specialising in apartment buildings and condo associations, has closed a $40m funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $95m.
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Insurance pricing success now depends on team alignment
Building a strong pricing model remains a core responsibility for actuarial teams, but creating an accurate model is only the beginning. Before pricing changes can generate measurable business valu...
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Auto lenders face pricing rethink as affordability strains grow
Auto lenders are being forced to rethink long-standing pricing strategies as affordability concerns, rising portfolio risks and intensifying competition reshape the lending landscape, according to ...
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Admiral completes acquisition of connected fleet InsurTech Flock
Admiral Group has completed its acquisition of connected fleet insurance provider Flock, bringing the InsurTech's AI-powered telematics platform into the insurer's commercial motor business.
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WTW unveils AI tool to identify workforce productivity gains
Professional services firm WTW has launched a new workforce transformation offering designed to help organisations identify where artificial intelligence can deliver the greatest productivity gains...
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Is AMLA the beginning of a single European financial crime regime?
Europe's fight against financial crime has long been complicated by one simple fact: while the rules may be set at EU level, supervision and enforcement have remained largely national responsibilit...
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US firms capture lion's share of FinTech funding in $1.9bn week
US firms dominated FinTech funding this week, accounting for nearly half of all deals and attracting more than four-fifths of the capital raised, as global investment reached approximately $1.9bn a...
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Why trusted data is Luxembourg's next financial edge
Luxembourg's financial centre, long built on regulatory credibility and cross-border expertise, is now eyeing a new frontier: becoming Europe's leading hub for trusted, high-quality financial data.
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Paymentology launches Lume cloud-native issuer platform
Paymentology, a global issuer processor serving over 400 banks, FinTechs and financial institutions across nearly 70 countries, has launched Lume, a cloud-native issuer processing platform designed...
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Moneyhub and Brick Rewards turn rent into rewards
Moneyhub, a data and intelligence platform serving financial institutions, has partnered with Rently Solutions, trading as Brick Rewards, to embed open banking technology into the rewards app, enab...
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Why fragmented FinCrime tools are failing smaller banks
Financial crime compliance is undergoing a period of significant transformation. As financial institutions contend with evolving regulatory expectations, increasingly sophisticated criminal activit...
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AlphaSense raises $350m at $7.5bn valuation
AlphaSense, an AI-powered market intelligence platform serving the business and financial sectors, has closed a $350m funding round that values the company at $7.5bn, nearly double its previous $4b...
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INSTANDA launches Clear underwriting platform
INSTANDA has launched an artificial intelligence-supported underwriting and operations platform aimed at helping insurers manage complex cases that require human judgement rather than full automati...
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CRS 2.0 exposes the cracks in tax reporting compliance
For many financial institutions, another FATCA and CRS reporting season has either concluded or is in its closing stages. The deadlines may vary by jurisdiction, but the pattern remains remarkably ...
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Decerto enhances AI claims automation for insurers
Claims technology provider Decerto has expanded the capabilities of its Claims AI platform as US property and casualty insurers increasingly shift from AI experimentation towards large-scale operat...
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Paypercut's €5m bet on fixing cross-border CEE payments
Paypercut, a European FinTech payments platform that enables online merchants to accept payments across Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) via a single integration, has closed a €5m seed round.
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Trustfull targets fraud signal overload with new tool
Trustfull, a fraud prevention company, has unveiled Investigator, a conversational AI product built to help fraud teams assess risk signals and examine suspicious activity more quickly.
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Phosphorus deal gives Dragos a $50bn market opportunity
Dragos, the global leader in cybersecurity for operational technology (OT) environments, has acquired Phosphorus, a connected device security specialist, in a move designed to extend its protection...
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Why non-financial misconduct is now a RegTech control
From 1 September 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Code of Conduct will extend its reach to cover bullying, harassment and violence across every FCA-authorised organisation in the UK.
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Why AI won't replace compliance teams - but will reshape them
Generative AI has rapidly embedded itself across financial services, appearing in everything from client-facing tools to internal workflows. For compliance and RegTech professionals, the promise is...
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Identity firm Prove bolsters platform with new hire
Prove has named Frances Zelazny as general manager of new market innovations, with a mandate to build out privacy-preserving biometric and KYC compliance capabilities.
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New partnership targets DORA compliance across Europe
AROBS and Thot IT Solutions have joined forces to bring a combined DORA-as-a-Service solution to financial institutions across Europe.
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How ACTICO is building AI-ready compliance for a regulated world
ACTICO has been building AI-ready compliance infrastructure for Europe's most regulated institutions for many years. Here is how the company is turning that proven foundation into a decisive advant...
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Germany's 2027 pension shake-up: who wins and who loses?
Germany's life insurance sector is facing its most significant competitive disruption in a generation, according to financial analytics firm Kidbrooke. With landmark pension reform legislation now ...
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OpenAI expands GPT-5.5 Cyber rollout to major UK banks
OpenAI has granted nine major UK banks access to GPT-5.5 Cyber, its cybersecurity-focused AI model, as debate continues over how advanced AI security tools should be deployed across critical financ...
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Mal secured one of the top global FinTech deals as funding drops 8% YoY in Q1 2026
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Why AI compliance needs risk management from day one
The financial crime compliance sector is facing a pivotal moment. Criminal networks are estimated to have increased their use of artificial intelligence tools by as much as 800% over the past two y...
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Sumsub partners iMind amid South Korea AML push
Sumsub, a global identity verification and compliance platform, has joined forces with iMind to bolster fraud prevention and regulatory compliance across South Korea's payments sector.
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Interactive Brokers links Claude to live trading and portfolio management
US broker Interactive Brokers has integrated its trading infrastructure directly into Claude through a certified connector, enabling users to manage portfolios and execute trading-related actions u...
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Insurwave sells AI submission ingestion capability to Portage AI
InsurTech firm Insurwave has agreed to sell off its AI submission ingestion capability to AI processing company Portage AI, as part of a strategic transaction.
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Aviva expands ChatGPT app to life insurance quotes
Global insurer Aviva has expanded its ChatGPT app to include life insurance, allowing customers to obtain an initial quote through the conversational AI platform before completing their application...
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Bayshore raises $8m to automate compliance with AI agents
Munich-based RegTech Bayshore has raised $8m in seed funding led by Earlybird Venture Capital to help organisations transform legal and compliance requirements into AI-powered operational workflows...
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Saris raises $28.8m to automate bank back offices
Saris, an agentic workflow platform built for banks and credit unions, has closed a $28.8m Series A funding round.
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BIS and GLEIF prototype could reshape SME cross-border finance
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and the BIS have unveiled a prototype demonstrating how the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) can cut compliance costs and streamline onboarding fo...
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Comparing the benefits of GLM and GBM for insurance pricing
The debate between Generalised Linear Models (GLMs) and Gradient Boosting Machines (GBMs) has been a long-running fixture in actuarial pricing discussions. While it is often framed as a competition...
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Co-operative Bank faces High Court over AML failures
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ), the country's central bank and prudential regulator, has launched civil proceedings in the Wellington High Court against The Co-operative Bank over three sep...
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Why pharmacies must evolve into continuous digital health platforms
The modern pharmacy has undergone a significant transformation in recent years, evolving from a simple dispensary into one of the most accessible frontline healthcare providers. Today, pharmacies i...
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Pace lands $46m funding round to automate insurance workflows
Pace, an AI operations company focused on insurance workflows, has raised $46m in Series B funding as it accelerates the rollout of its agentic automation platform across global insurance markets.
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European FinTech investments fell in Q1 2026 as deals over $100m halved YoY
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Newrez expands Matic partnership for real-time insurance comparison
Newrez, a US homeownership company, has expanded its partnership with digital insurance marketplace Matic to embed real-time homeowners insurance comparison and quoting directly into its HomeHub cu...
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Balderton leads $30m round in AI agent security firm
Geordie AI, a purpose-built security and governance platform for AI agents, has closed a $30m Series A funding round as enterprises race to adopt agentic AI at scale.
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Weecover unveils API-first insurance payments tool
Weecover, an InsurTech platform specialising in technology solutions for insurance management and distribution, has officially launched its Insurance Payment Orchestration Module, a purpose-built t...
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IBM and Quant AI transform contact centres with Ava
Quant AI, an agentic AI systems developer, has unveiled AI agent Ava at the IBM Think Conference.
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Burns & Wilcox Global Solutions goes live on Novidea platform
Burns & Wilcox Global Solutions, the London-based specialist wholesale broking arm of H.W. Kaufman Group, has gone live on the insurance management platform developed by Novidea, a cloud-native Ins...
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ID-Pal upgrades defences against deepfake injection fraud
ID-Pal, an identity verification and fraud prevention platform, has announced upgrades to its Injection Attack Detection (IAD) capabilities within its Liveness Testing function, aimed at addressing...
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Why FinCEN's new rule puts manual KYB on notice
On 7 April 2026, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would substantially overhaul anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-financing of terr...
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Mitek joins FICO Marketplace as fraud threats escalate
Mitek Systems, a global leader in digital identity verification and fraud prevention, has placed its Verified Identity Platform (MiVIP) on FICO Marketplace, billed as the industry's first marketpla...
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ComplyAdvantage brings payment screening to Mesh
ComplyAdvantage, an AI-driven financial crime detection and risk data company, has launched Payment Screening on Mesh, bringing its existing screening capability into its AI-native platform for the...
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Tieto Banktech uses AI to fight financial crime
Tieto Banktech, a banking software developer, has outlined how a combination of AI-driven detection, real-time risk assessment and human oversight is being deployed to intercept fraud before losses...
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Capchase raises $200m+ to scale vendor financing
Capchase, a vendor financing platform and lender for enterprise technology companies, has announced more than $200m in incremental funding to expand its embedded financing infrastructure and roll o...
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Payslip secures funding to expand AI payroll platform
Payslip, a global payroll control platform that helps multinational companies standardise and automate payroll operations, has secured new financing from London-based Salica Investments to fund int...
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Daloopa raises $47m to fix AI's financial data problem
Daloopa, a financial data infrastructure provider powering AI and agentic workflows for investment firms, has secured $47m in a Series C funding round.
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From fragmented tools to unified compliance oversight
Across the financial services industry, a quiet but consequential shift is under way. Firms are moving away from the patchwork of disconnected compliance tools that have long defined their risk and...
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NatWest turns to Cleareye.ai as fraud risk mounts
NatWest, the UK's largest business bank, has announced a strategic tie-up with Cleareye.ai, an AI specialist focused on trade finance, to modernise how it handles trade operations and manages finan...
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How financial simulation engines close the advice gap
The retirement planning tools used by most financial institutions share a fundamental flaw: they assume the future moves in a straight line.
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Why AI-ready architecture is AML's missing piece
AI has rapidly become one of the most overused terms in anti-money laundering (AML) technology.
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Why Muinmos believes compliance is becoming infrastructure
Founded in 2012, Muinmos has grown alongside the evolution of modern RegTech, evolving with the new and ongoing needs of the sector. As AI and regulatory complexity reshape financial services, CEO ...
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Previsico appoints new CEO to drive US expansion
Previsico, the live flood forecasting InsurTech spun out of Loughborough University, has named Mark Trumper as its new chief executive officer to steer the company through its next phase of interna...
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Thrive and Sequoia back Pace in $46m Series B round
Pace, an AI operations partner for insurers, has raised $46m in a Series B funding round co-led by Thrive Capital and Sequoia Capital, with Emergence Capital and Pruven Capital also participating.
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Lloyd's syndicate OAK Global creates AI risk platform
OAK Global, a global risk partner underwriting through two Lloyd's syndicates, has unveiled ROOT Intelligence, a newly formed technology company designed to accelerate its AI and data capabilities ...
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Building expertise at the foundations of crypto markets
The complex ecosystem for digital, tokenised assets is evolving at pace. While the price of Bitcoin might grab the headlines and the public imagination, there is continuous evolution - in multiple ...
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OakNorth acquires Monite to boost business banking
OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, has finalised a strategic transaction with Monite, a financial management platform for businesses.
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Offa partners with Knowledge Bank to boost broker reach
Offa, an award-winning British Islamic property finance FinTech firm, has announced a partnership with Knowledge Bank, a multi-award-winning property finance criteria search system built for interm...
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Pivot raises $40m Series B to transform procurement AI
Pivot, an AI operating system for enterprise procurement, has closed a $40m Series B funding round to accelerate the development of its agentic AI capabilities and deepen its ERP integrations.
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Why fragmented ERM is costing firms more than they think
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Why vertical AI is winning the compliance race
In June 2023, New York attorney Steven Schwartz submitted a legal brief to a federal court in Manhattan citing six cases that simply did not exist. He had used ChatGPT to conduct his research and, ...
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SFC warns brokers over mainland investor due diligence
Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), the city's financial markets regulator, has issued a formal circular to licensed securities brokers after a review uncovered widespread failures...
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ADGM FSRA tightens AML framework after industry review
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), the UAE's international financial centre, has concluded a review and update of its anti-money laundering, count...
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futureClaims™ targets complex insurance claims modernisation
Future Processing, a software development and technology consulting firm, has announced plans to expand its futureClaims™ claims modernisation platform, targeting specialty and complex commercial c...
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One in three UK customers open to AI in insurance
Guidewire, a provider of cloud software for the insurance industry, has published its 2026 European Insurance Consumer Survey, finding that around a third of UK customers are broadly comfortable wi...
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Zinnia launches digital in-force annuity servicing tool
Zinnia, a life and annuity technology company, has unveiled a fully digitised in-force annuity servicing capability designed to eliminate paper-based processes from post-issue transaction managemen...
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Sony Life selects SimCorp One for investment overhaul
Sony Life, a Tokyo-headquartered life insurer and wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Financial Group, has selected SimCorp's flagship platform to modernise its investment management infrastructure.
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How market turmoil is reshaping bank loan analytics
Rising volatility in leveraged loan and broadly syndicated loan (BSL) markets is forcing institutional investors to rethink how they manage and value their exposures.
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AI financial advice boom exposes a dangerous advice gap
Nearly four in ten Britons have turned to artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini for personal financial guidance, according to 2025 research from comparison platform Finder...
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Norm Ai launches compliance agent for Microsoft 365
Norm Ai, a legal and compliance artificial intelligence firm, has launched a compliance agent integrated directly into Microsoft 365 Copilot, aimed at helping regulated enterprises embed compliance...
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Columbia Lloyds adopts ZestyAI for property risk analysis
Columbia Lloyds Insurance Company has selected ZestyAI's Risk and Decision Intelligence platform as the regional insurer looks to strengthen underwriting accuracy and property risk visibility acros...
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Adyen and Starling bring tap to pay to UK SMEs
Adyen, a global FinTech payments platform, has partnered with Starling Bank, the UK digital bank, to launch a tap to pay feature that allows small and medium-sized businesses to accept contactless ...
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Can compliance become a real-time control layer?
Compliance was built for a slower world of periodic reviews, manual checks and retrospective oversight. But finance no longer operates at that pace. Transactions move instantly, risks evolve contin...
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Yotta Technologies fined $1m over false FDIC claims
Yotta Technologies, a San Francisco-based savings and sweepstakes platform, has been ordered to pay a $1m penalty by California's Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) after regu...
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Ocean raises $28m to fight AI-driven email threats
Ocean, an agentic email security platform that uses autonomous AI to investigate every incoming message, has emerged from stealth with $28m in total funding to take on a new generation of AI-driven...
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Hawk names Daniel Marshall as chief customer officer
Hawk, a global provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML) and fraud prevention technology, has appointed Daniel Marshall as its new chief customer officer (CCO).
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Mercury raises $200m Series D as AI fuels startup surge
FinTech firm Mercury has secured $200m in a Series D funding round, valuing the company at $5.2bn.
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How NICE Actimize is driving the shift to predictive suitability
Founded in 1999, NICE Actimize represents a dedicated, vertical line of business within the broader NiCE organization. Its competitive advantage? It doesn't operate in a vacuum, and leverages its w...
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Farther raises $150m Series D led by General Atlantic
Farther, a WealthTech firm offering an AI-native intelligent wealth management platform, has closed a $150m Series D funding round led by General Atlantic, with further participation from existing ...
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$8m Series A backs Quantum Bridge's network defence play
Quantum Bridge Technologies, a quantum-safe cybersecurity infrastructure company, has closed an $8m Series A funding round to accelerate the global rollout of its cryptographic protection systems.
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Armalytix unifies ID, AML and fraud checks for buyers
Armalytix, a financial verification platform for the property sector, has unveiled its Complete Compliance Bundles, a product designed to consolidate the fragmented checks that slow down residentia...
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New eflow and Iress deal reshapes compliance workflows
eflow has announced a strategic partnership with Iress, combining the two companies' platforms to help financial market participants meet growing trade surveillance and compliance demands.
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Sardine lands $25m as National Bank of Canada deepens bet
Sardine, an agentic risk platform focused on combating financial crime, has secured a $25m Series C extension led by National Bank of Canada, bringing its total funding raised to $170m.
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Pictet AM selects SimCorp to unify its trading platform
Pictet Asset Management, the $326bn assets under management investment firm and long-standing SimCorp client, has expanded its relationship with the financial technology provider to overhaul its tr...
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New certifications and patents strengthen Theta Lake
Theta Lake has announced a raft of updates to its AI-native platform, including a new certification, a fresh patent, new risk detection capabilities, and the launch of an educational series aimed a...
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Ripple Prime and EDX bridge institutional digital asset gap
Ripple, a provider of blockchain-based enterprise solutions for traditional and digital finance, has announced that its global multi-asset prime brokerage platform, Ripple Prime, has completed an i...
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Arcesium launches AI platform for institutional investment
Arcesium, a global FinTech provider serving the investment industry, has launched Arcesium Intelligence, an AI platform built specifically for institutional investment firms.
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Pro Global expands into Australia with advisory acquisition
Pro Global has acquired Australian audit and advisory firm GSI Professional Services as the specialist insurance services group looks to expand its presence across the Asia Pacific market.
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Regnology lands KfW migration to RRH platform
KfW Bankengruppe has chosen to deepen its existing relationship with RegTech firm Regnology by migrating to the company's next-generation Regnology Reporting Hub (RRH), which will be delivered as a...
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Moment raises $78m as wealth giants adopt its AI OS
Moment, an AI operating system purpose-built for investment management, has closed a $78m Series C funding round as major wealth firms move to standardise on its platform.
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Eisen raises $18.5m to fix financial compliance gap
Eisen, an AI-enabled compliance operations infrastructure provider for financial services, has secured a total of $18.5m in funding to address a growing dormant-account crisis affecting banks, FinT...
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MoneySuperMarket adds energy comparison to ChatGPT app
MoneySuperMarket has added energy comparison services to its app on ChatGPT, allowing users to search for and compare tariffs directly through the AI platform.
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Insurers losing $72.8m every day to filing delays
Delays in US property and casualty insurance rate filings are costing insurers an estimated $72.8m per day, with most objections linked to preventable operational errors rather than disputes over p...
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bunch secures $35m to modernise private markets
bunch, an AI-native fund operations platform targeting private markets, has closed a $35m Series B as legacy infrastructure struggles to keep up with surging industry complexity.
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NORD/LB bets on Finastra tech to speed up lending
NORD/LB, the German state-owned commercial bank specialising in corporate and syndicated lending, has broadened its technology agreement with Finastra, a global provider of financial software solut...
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Tillo and Core Rewards modernise enterprise incentives
Tillo, a global gift card and rewards platform, has announced a partnership with Core Rewards, an enterprise incentive and recognition programme provider, to broaden corporate rewards offerings wit...
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Adyen and Starling launch tap to pay for UK SMEs
Adyen, the global FinTech payments platform, has partnered with Starling Bank, the UK digital bank, to introduce a new set of payment tools for small and medium-sized businesses within the Starling...
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Lloyds and BankiFi launch free MTD tool for small businesses
Lloyds, part of Lloyds Banking Group, has teamed up with BankiFi, a banking technology platform, to offer small businesses a free Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax solution embedded directly ...
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NEXT Investors backs Transient.AI in Series A round
NEXT Investors, a New York-based private equity firm specialising in capital markets infrastructure, has announced a Series A investment in Transient.AI, an AI-native platform designed for institut...
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ManageMy expands carrier analytics with Snowflake
ManageMy, an InsurTech platform focused on customer and agent engagement for insurers, has launched a new integration with Snowflake aimed at giving carriers direct access to operational data acros...
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Snowflake integration opens AI risk tools to smaller banks
Valid Systems has launched a data integration on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, enabling financial institutions to run AI and machine learning models natively within Snowflake to detect and mitigate ...
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Experian adds Akamai to AI agent trust ecosystem
Experian has announced that cybersecurity and edge computing firm Akamai Technologies has joined its Agent Trust partner ecosystem.
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iDenfy partnership helps RATO Bank meet KYC demands
RATO Bank has selected RegTech firm iDenfy to power identity verification and anti-money laundering screening within its newly launched mobile banking application.
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Singaporean FinTech funding spiked by 78% YoY in Q1 as investors prioritised larger deals
Key Singaporean FinTech investment stats in Q1 2026:
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Modest week in FinTech with $677m raised in 14 deals
It was a modest week for FinTech deals and funding, with a total of $677m raised across 14 deals.
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9 risk management solutions that should be on your RegTech radar in 2026
Risk management is one of the core foundations of a firm's compliance workflow. When implemented effectively, risk management helps ensure compliance processes are not just a tick-box exercise by i...
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AI financial advice gap: why consumers need more help
Four in ten Britons have turned to AI tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini for personal financial guidance, according to 2025 research from comparison site Finder. One in six have sought investing advi...
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FATCA pressures mount for online trading platforms
Online trading platforms are facing mounting operational pressure as FATCA and CRS obligations become increasingly difficult to manage across large, international customer bases. As digital brokers...
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Fasset closes $51m Series B to scale stablecoin banking
Fasset, a Los Angeles-headquartered global banking and investment platform, has closed a $51m Series B funding round.
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Predictive leak detection could reduce costly infrastructure disruption
As commercial buildings and critical infrastructure environments become increasingly connected, the pressure on facilities teams to distinguish genuine threats from operational noise is intensifyin...
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Sixfold brings underwriting AI to Microsoft Marketplace
Sixfold, an InsurTech company focused on AI underwriting technology, has made its platform available through Microsoft Marketplace as it looks to accelerate adoption among global insurers.
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Aon expands Claims Copilot across global markets
Aon, the global professional services and insurance brokerage firm, has expanded its Claims Copilot platform across North America, Asia Pacific and several countries in the EMEA region as part of a...
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Stitch lands $25m as banks' infrastructure debt reaches tipping point
Stitch, a cloud-native operating system built to replace fragmented legacy infrastructure at financial institutions, has secured $25m in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, marking...
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InsurTech firm insured.io launches AI claims agent
insured.io, an InsurTech company specialising in omnichannel customer experience technology for insurers, has launched a new AI-powered virtual claims agent designed to automate the First Notice of...
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Outmarket AI bags $17m to expand insurance platform
Outmarket AI, an InsurTech company developing AI software for insurance brokers and agencies, has raised $17m in a Series A funding round led by Permanent Capital Ventures.
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AI accountability drives insurance trends in Q1 2026
The broad predictions made for insurance in 2026 have largely held up. But according to analysis from Tietoevry, the story emerging from the first quarter is not simply one of trends playing out, i...
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Legacy WealthTech platforms are costing you clients
Private banking chief information officers are sitting on an uncomfortable truth: if your core platform was built five to seven years ago, you are almost certainly running legacy infrastructure. No...
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Hawk hires CCO to scale AI crime-fighting tools
Hawk, a global provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML) and fraud prevention technology, has appointed Daniel Marshall as its chief customer officer (CCO).
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DDD Invoices raises €1.31m seed for e-invoicing API
DDD Invoices, a Slovenia-based provider of API-driven e-invoicing compliance infrastructure, has closed a €1.31m seed funding round.
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Why regulatory monitoring is breaking compliance teams
New research from AscentAI's 2026 RegTech Benchmark Survey has put regulatory monitoring firmly in the spotlight - and the findings make uncomfortable reading for risk and compliance leaders.
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Audit trails, approvals and the end of Excel-era risk
Regulators no longer accept a firm's word that its financial crime risk governance is sound. Today's supervisors expect to see the architecture behind every decision - formal workflows, versioned m...
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Why insurers are rethinking pricing as a strategic capability
Insurance pricing modernisation is often framed as a technology problem, but in reality, it is increasingly a leadership and operating model challenge. The organisations that succeed are not necess...
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Exaforce's $125m Series B bets on real-time security reasoning
Exaforce, a CyberTech firm pioneering agentic security operations, has secured $125m in a Series B funding round - one of the largest raises in the emerging AI security operations centre (SOC) mark...
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Incept teams with Fortegra for UK property insurance
Incept, an algorithm-driven InsurTech, has entered into an underwriting agreement with Fortegra to support the launch of its digital title insurance solution in the UK.
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How criminal fronts are exploiting the verification gap
Organised crime has moved off the radar and onto the high street. A new report from Trading Standards reveals a troubling picture: in some areas, as many as half of convenience stores and vape reta...
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Crypto compliance: The new banking capability
Any conversation with Cense co-founder and CEO Dennis Wohlfarth will be an enlightening one. Today, the Swiss-born tech entrepreneur has a mission on his mind: to help Europe's banks love digital a...
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Single-tie insurance models erode consumer trust
Single-tie life insurance distribution models are eroding consumer trust and reducing demand for protection products, according to London-based insurer LifeSearch.
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Ualett launches rewards programme for gig workers
Ualett, a financial technology platform offering cash advance solutions to gig economy workers, has launched Ualett Rewards, a new loyalty programme designed to recognise clients for their financia...
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Greenboard raises $20m to launch AI compliance tool
Greenboard, an AI-native securities compliance platform serving more than 500 financial institutions, has announced $20m in total funding, including a previously undisclosed $15.5m Series A led by ...
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Elliptic raises $120m Series D at $670m valuation
Elliptic, a digital asset compliance and on-chain analytics provider, has closed a $120m Series D funding round, valuing the company at $670m.
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WealthReach launches self-updating advisor websites
WealthReach, an organic growth platform for registered investment advisors (RIAs) and wealth management firms, has unveiled Living Sites, a new category of advisor website designed to continuously ...
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Exante: Iran ceasefire hopes ease markets but risks stay
In analysis originally published by EXANTE, cautious optimism is emerging across financial markets following reports that the US and Iran may be nearing a diplomatic resolution, yet the broader mac...
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Hawk and AML Intelligence launch AFC AI governance eBook
Hawk, an AI-powered financial crime detection company, has partnered with AML Intelligence to release a new eBook examining how leading financial institutions are approaching the governance of AI m...
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Zeidler Group promotes Serena Goldberg to CCO and partner
Zeidler Group, a technology-driven law firm and regulatory compliance services provider for the asset management industry, has named Serena Goldberg as its new chief commercial officer (CCO) and as...
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Insurers urged to act as SMB cyber protections lag behind
More than half of small and medium-sized businesses in North America are operating without basic email security protections, according to new research from cyber risk intelligence provider KYND.
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Lyrie.ai closes $2m pre-seed to tackle AI agent security
Lyrie.ai, the autonomous cybersecurity platform developed by Dubai-based OTT Cybersecurity LLC, has completed a $2m pre-seed funding round and stepped out of stealth, with proceeds earmarked for re...
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Embat raises €30m Series B to drive European growth
Embat, an AI-powered FinTech specialising in treasury management, has closed a €30m Series B funding round to support its expansion across Europe.
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Adfin raises $18m Series A to automate business finance
Adfin, a payments and finance automation platform focused on helping businesses get paid on time, has closed an $18m Series A funding round, bringing its total capital raised to over $30m in under ...
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Why customer engagement is failing in FinTech and InsurTech today
In an era where FinTech, InsurTech, and digital banking platforms can deliver perfectly timed messages across every channel, many organisations are still struggling to get customers to engage. Desp...
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Gallagher hires Ana Matarranz as CEO for Spain
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co., a global insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has appointed Ana Matarranz as CEO for Spain, as it looks to strengthen its presence in key European insurance mark...
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Paymentology raises $175m to fuel global expansion
Paymentology, a cloud-native global issuer-processor operating across close to 70 countries, has secured $175m in an investment round co-led by private equity firms Apis Partners and Aspirity Partn...
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Beyond compliance: The next frontier of AML detection
Anti-money laundering (AML) regulation is entering a new phase. Across jurisdictions, regulators are shifting away from simply checking whether institutions have controls in place, and towards dema...
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Aviva boosts Regional Specialty with hires and digital upgrade
Aviva, a leading UK insurer, has announced a significant investment in its Regional Specialty team, including 15 new hires across the UK and enhancements to its digital platform.
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Socure bolsters leadership with two C-suite appointments
Socure, a provider of identity verification and risk intelligence infrastructure, has appointed Chung-Man Tam as its chief product officer (CPO) and Pablo Abreu as its first chief AI and innovation...
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City of London calls on tech firms to fight fraud
The City of London Corporation is inviting technology companies to contribute to the development of a digital verification framework designed to combat financial fraud and strengthen consumer prote...
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Morningstar expands AI reach via Perplexity integration
Morningstar and its subsidiary PitchBook have announced a new integration with AI search platform Perplexity, bringing both companies' research and data into Perplexity's AI-powered environment.
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Gallagher rolls out Blueprint for optimised insurance planning
Gallagher, a global insurance brokerage and risk management firm, has launched Gallagher Blueprint, an AI-driven framework designed to help clients improve their risk profiles and build more cost-e...
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Why your AML framework needs continuous monitoring
A question that compliance professionals rarely ask aloud - but probably should - is how many of their high-risk clients are actually high risk.
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K2 Insurance acquires Oculus to boost commercial insurance
K2 Insurance Services, a leading insurance solutions provider, has announced the acquisition of Oculus Underwriters, a specialist in bespoke property insurance solutions for the small to medium-siz...
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How virtual cards give agencies better budget control
Managing advertising spend is a critical operational discipline for modern marketing agencies. Firms often oversee multiple client accounts across platforms such as Google Ads, Meta (Facebook) Ads,...
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Markel appoints new leader for U.S. cyber & tech E&O Portfolio
Markel, the insurance operations of Markel Group Inc., has appointed Raphael Da Costa to lead its U.S. cyber and technology errors & omissions (E&O) portfolio.
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Currenxie launches EEA accounts to power SME global trade
Currenxie, the global financial platform for borderless business, has entered the European market with the launch of a multi-country, multi-currency business account across the European Economic Ar...
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Payward buys Reap to boost global B2B payments stack
Payward, a unified financial infrastructure platform, has agreed to acquire Reap Technologies, a stablecoin-native card issuing and payments infrastructure company, for up to $600m in a deal that v...
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ANNA Money launches business savings account for SMEs
ANNA Money, an AI-powered business account platform focused on automating tax admin for UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has announced a series of product updates headlined by the intr...
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Gresham and FundGuard partner for portfolio data insight
Gresham, a global provider of enterprise data management (EDM) solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with FundGuard, the cloud-native, AI-enabled investment accounting platform, aimed at...
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Fazeshift raises $22m to automate accounts receivable
Fazeshift, an AI-native platform that deploys autonomous agents to carry out end-to-end accounts receivable workflows, has secured $17m in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to $22...
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AI threats prompt ASIC cyber resilience warning
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the country's corporate and financial services regulator, has issued an urgent call to all licensees and market participants to strength...
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AI security firm Boost raises $4m and snaps up rivals
Boost Security, an AI-native software development lifecycle (SDLC) defence platform, has announced the acquisitions of SecureIQx and Korbit.ai, alongside $4m in new funding.
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Cameron Routh takes the helm at Eventus
Eventus, a global trade surveillance and financial risk solutions provider, has appointed Cameron Routh as its new CEO, succeeding founder Travis Schwab.
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Davis raises $5.5m pre-seed for AI real estate design
Davis, an AI-native real estate company that combines proprietary artificial intelligence with human expertise to accelerate early-stage development and architectural design, has raised $5.5m in a ...
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BlackRock Aladdin expands private credit on Preqin
BlackRock Aladdin has unveiled new private credit capabilities on Preqin, a data and analytics provider, in a move aimed at improving transparency and analytical depth across the asset class.
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WealthArc gains ISO 27001:2022 certification for AI data push
WealthArc, a Swiss-born FinTech building AI-ready data infrastructure for the wealth and asset management sector, has announced it has received ISO 27001:2022 certification from BSI following an in...
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Iress partners with Thoughtworks to modernise platforms
Iress, a wealth management software provider, has announced a strategic partnership with Thoughtworks, a global technology consultancy, aimed at accelerating platform modernisation and enabling AI-...