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Why fragmented AML defences are losing to networked crime
The future of financial crime detection will hinge less on how well individual firms manage risk in isolation, and more on how effectively the industry collaborates to spot it, according to Napier ...
Hawk bolsters leadership with new president and CRO
Hawk, an AI-powered anti-financial crime technology provider, has appointed Eli Chamoun as its new President & Chief Revenue Officer. The hire is intended to speed up the firm's push to put AI in t...
Monzo and Nest centre target self-employed pension gap
The Centre for Inclusive Money at Nest, formerly known as Nest Insight, has joined forces with Monzo, a UK digital bank serving over 15 million customers, in a bid to close the retirement savings g...
Ebury named official transfer partner of Real Betis
Ebury, the global financial solutions firm, has agreed a strategic sponsorship with Spanish football club Real Betis Balompié, becoming the club's Official Transfer Partner for the next two seasons...
Why generic AI won't save the UK's agile MGAs
The UK's managing general agent (MGA) sector has emerged as one of the standout performers in insurance, frequently beating the wider market across commercial, personal and specialty lines. Its edg...
Cytora and InformData move to cut fraud in commercial risk
Cytora, the digital risk processing platform for commercial insurance, has formed a partnership with InformData, a network specialising in verifiable people data, in a move designed to give insurer...
ESMA warns supervision must keep pace with cross-border risk
Cross-border investment supervision across the EU has strengthened, but regulators in outbound-heavy markets are being urged to keep pace, according to the European Securities and Markets Authority...
calQrisk to develop AI oversight tools in FCA sandbox
calQrisk has secured a place on the UK Financial Conduct Authority's Supercharged Sandbox, an innovation initiative aimed at fostering the next wave of AI tools for the financial services industry....
Shacom Bank taps Planto to end SME multi-bank blind spots
Shanghai Commercial Bank has joined forces with FinTech firm Planto to roll out an advanced Inter-bank Financial Insights solution in early 2026, giving its SME customers a unified picture of their...
FinScan validated for LSEG World-Check On Demand access
FinScan has cemented a first-mover advantage after becoming one of the earliest screening technology firms to complete LSEG Risk Intelligence's full technical validation for World-Check On Demand. ...
Why Greenwich Dealing turned to eflow and xyt for oversight
Greenwich Dealing, the Geneva-headquartered provider of outsourced dealing services to the buy-side, has chosen regulatory technology from eflow and xyt to sharpen its monitoring of trading activit...
How complacency blinds firms to financial crime threats
Most financial crime failures are not born of dramatic collapse or blatant negligence. Instead, they build slowly through hundreds of minor decisions, ignored warning signs and assumptions that go ...
Empirical Security lands $25m to fight AI-driven exploits
Empirical Security has closed a $25m Series A round as it looks to arm security teams against the accelerating wave of AI-driven exploits. Brightmind Partners led the investment, which builds on pr...
Neo lands $100m as agentic AI outpaces security teams
Neo has emerged from stealth with $100m in funding to help enterprises govern the rapid spread of AI agents across their software estates. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Vent...
Sumsub deal shields Bitso from rising corporate fraud
Bitso Business has partnered with Sumsub, a global full-cycle verification provider, in a move designed to speed up business onboarding and reinforce its compliance framework. Under the agreement, ...
Bank of Maldives backs Finastra for core overhaul
Bank of Maldives (BML), the country's largest bank by assets and branch network, has selected Finastra's Essence platform as part of a programme to modernise its core banking infrastructure. The de...
Augustus lands $180m Series B to dollarise the world
Augustus, the company building what it calls the Global Dollar Bank, has secured $180m in a Series B round that values the business at $1bn. Tiger Global led the investment, which also drew partici...
Regulators punish firms for ignoring their own controls in Q2
Global regulators handed out more than $931m in penalties above the $1m mark during the second quarter of 2026, the largest quarterly total in a year, with a pair of first-of-a-kind sanctions hinti...
UnionPay deal boosts Azerbaijan's global payment reach
Bir, the Caucasus' first fully integrated banking, payments and e-commerce ecosystem, has partnered with UnionPay International to expand acceptance of the global payments network across Azerbaijan...
Scienaptic AI bets on smarter lending at Communication FCU
Communication Federal Credit Union, an Oklahoma City-based lender with $2.3bn in assets, has deployed Scienaptic AI's credit decisioning platform as it looks to expand lending capacity, automate wo...
What are the biggest barriers to third-party RegTech adoption?
Despite the booming growth of the RegTech sector in recent years, barriers still remain, particularly in the area of third-party adoption.
CSI acquires Qolo to expand embedded finance offering
CSI has acquired payments infrastructure provider Qolo as the financial technology company looks to strengthen its commercial banking capabilities and expand its position in the fast-growing embedd...
Can MoneySuperMarket turn savers into investors?
MoneySuperMarket has entered the WealthTech market with the launch of an investment platform powered by Seccl, as the UK financial services brand looks to convert millions of non-investors into fir...
spektr adds ISO 27701 to close its governance loop
spektr has secured ISO/IEC 27701:2019 certification for data privacy, completing what is known as the ISO Trifecta and placing it among fewer than 100 companies worldwide to hold all three manageme...
Unit21 and TRM Labs unite digital asset and fiat crime detection
Unit21, the AI Risk Infrastructure platform for fraud prevention and AML monitoring, has formed a partnership with blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs to bring on-chain risk data directly into it...
Singaporean FinTech funding soared 3.4x QoQ as investors loosened purse strings in Q2
Key Singaporean FinTech investment stats in Q2 2026:
Why producer onboarding and compliance are critical for insurers
The insurance sector has been battling a prolonged hard market for several years, but the market is shifting and growth is back on the agenda.
The KYC blind spot that's costing banks billions
Know Your Customer (KYC) has long been treated as a box-ticking exercise at account opening, but for financial institutions the real challenge lies in what happens afterwards.
One Inc and CalcFocus target friction in life insurance pay
One Inc, a digital payments network for the insurance industry, has entered a strategic partnership with policy administration provider CalcFocus to help life insurers modernise premium collections...
AI hedge fund Aethon raises $50m using retail-driven market signals
Aethon Fund, a newly launched AI-driven hedge fund, has secured $50m in capital as it looks to challenge traditional quantitative investing models by using proprietary market signals developed thro...
How KYC360 is redefining compliance as a commercial lever
KYC360 (a part of Experian) has established itself as a specialist RegTech provider focused on helping regulated businesses transform compliance from a regulatory obligation into a competitive adva...
Why venue rulebook blind spots threaten trading growth
Electronification is gathering pace across capital markets, and with it the proliferation of trading venues, from DLT-based platforms to crypto exchanges. But this progress carries a hidden cost: b...
CFPB rethink leaves open banking compliance in limbo
Open banking has firmly arrived in the US, yet the regulatory framework underpinning it remains anything but settled, leaving banks facing a strategic dilemma: prepare now or risk compliance failur...
The hidden risk of all-in-one compliance platforms
Financial services firms are becoming larger, more complex and increasingly interconnected, but that does not necessarily mean their compliance technology should follow the same path.
Hopae brings Google Wallet IDs into a single API
Hopae, a digital identity connectivity provider, has joined forces with Google to act as an Aggregator for Google Wallet credentials, adding one of the largest mobile wallet ecosystems in the world...
Allianz Partners teams up with Joybuy on device cover
Allianz Partners, a global heavyweight in B2B2C insurance and assistance services, has unveiled a strategic European alliance with Joybuy, JD.com's newly launched online shopping platform, to embed...
Foxen teams with Healthy Paws on renter pet insurance
Foxen, a PropTech firm offering risk-reduction and financial wellness tools for multifamily owners, operators and renters, has joined forces with pet insurer Healthy Paws to embed discounted pet co...
Lloyds backs PremFina with £400m as loan book soars
PremFina, a UK insurance premium finance provider, has secured a new £400m senior debt facility from Lloyds as it expands its funding capacity and continues growing its loan book.
LSEG brings licensed financial data to Model ML
LSEG, the global financial markets infrastructure and data provider, has announced that its licensed data and analytics are now available within Model ML through the firm's Model Context Protocol (...
Why manual regulatory change management fails at scale
Compliance teams are drowning under an unprecedented tide of regulatory change, and the firms still relying on manual processes are carrying risk that compounds with every new market they enter.
Media intelligence is only as good as its data layer
Media monitoring and media intelligence are frequently conflated, yet the distinction carries real consequences for anyone building or buying in the space.
MSCI and UBS join forces to crack private markets opacity
MSCI, the index and analytics provider listed on the NYSE, has formed a strategic partnership with global banking group UBS to tackle the lack of transparency that has long hampered private markets...
Why sycophantic AI is a tax due diligence risk
AI agents are increasingly becoming part of tax due diligence workflows, helping professionals analyse transaction data, identify potential exposures and summarise complex regulatory information. B...
Why asking AI agents beats telling them what to do
Professional services firms adopting AI agents may be approaching the technology with the wrong mindset, according to TAINA Technology's Rich Kent, who argues that organisations risk limiting resul...
SEC turns up heat on AI and retail push in private funds
The SEC's evolving regulatory agenda is forcing private fund managers to confront hard questions on AI governance, cybersecurity and the rapid retailization of private markets, according to insight...
The strategic case for RegTech over in-house builds
Money laundering reporting officers seldom need convincing of the merits of a specialised financial crime risk assessment platform. A short demonstration is usually enough to expose the shortcoming...
Flex lands $70m as private banking goes borderless
Flex, the AI-native private banking platform for high-net-worth business owners in the middle market, has secured a $70m Series B1 round to power the launch of Flex Global, its new cross-border ban...
Over 80% of MGAs modernising pricing, Optalitix finds
Optalitix, an underwriting and pricing InsurTech, has released independent research showing that MGAs need to overhaul their pricing and underwriting operations to stay profitable as market pricing...
Shoreline CU bets on digital as 99% of transactions go online
Shoreline Hometown Credit Union, a member-owned financial cooperative headquartered in Wisconsin's Manitowoc County, has gone live with Mahalo Banking's Thoughtful Banking platform as it looks to m...
Saible raises £2.9m to protect UK construction payments
Saible, a Birmingham-based construction FinTech developing software to prevent project funds being delayed, withheld or trapped before reaching suppliers, has secured £2.9m in funding.
Kayna and Willis target subcontractor insurance gaps
Willis, the WTW-owned broking business, has partnered with embedded insurance infrastructure firm Kayna and construction workforce platform Kwant to launch KwantSure, a digital insurance programme ...
Gauntlet raises $125m to set the rules for DeFi capital
Gauntlet, a digital asset risk and optimisation firm, has secured $125m in a Series C round as it looks to expand its footprint across the markets and institutions building the onchain economy.
WoodStar launches with $220m capital for Accelerant exchange
Accelerant, a data-driven risk exchange platform for the specialty insurance market, has partnered with newly formed WoodStar Reciprocal Exchange, an insurer backed by more than $220m in surplus no...
NOBA Bank taps Tieto Banktech to bolster payment security
NOBA Bank Group, one of Europe's leading specialist banks, has teamed up with Tieto Banktech to reinforce payment security across its operations, with the vendor set to deploy Verification of Payee...
PolicyStreet Series C swells to $26m with BlueOrchard
PolicyStreet, a Malaysian InsurTech group offering digital insurance solutions across Asia and Australia, has reportedly added a further $5m to its Series C round, taking the total raised to $26m.
Sumsub targets KYB gaps as 81% of firms lose clients
Sumsub, the verification and compliance platform, has unveiled automated Company-Level Risk Scoring alongside new research showing that 81% of European businesses have lost prospective clients beca...
Why iDenfy is betting on Austria's Handy-Signatur for KYC
iDenfy, a global RegTech firm focused on identity verification and fraud prevention, has integrated Handy-Signatur, Austria's long-running mobile identity and e-signature credential, into its eID p...
Sage and GoCardless bring Pay by Bank to small businesses
GoCardless, a bank payment company, has deepened its multi-year strategic alliance with Sage, a global provider of accounting, financial, HR and payroll software for small and mid-sized firms, by e...
Why selectivity will decide winners in H2 2026 markets
The first half of 2026 has delivered geopolitical tension, an energy shock and stubborn inflation worries, yet markets have barely flinched, according to the mid-year outlook from LSEG Data & Analy...
IntellectAI targets the broken last mile of wholesale broking
Despite billions poured into commercial insurance digital transformation over the past decade, a new perspective from IntellectAI argues the wholesale distribution pipeline harbours a glaring parad...
Jack Henry expands Google Cloud AI security partnership
Jack Henry, a provider of technology solutions for banks and credit unions, has expanded its partnership with Google Cloud to develop an AI-driven security platform designed to strengthen cyber res...
ASIC fines Deutsche Bank $2m for systemic data breaches
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft has handed over a $2m penalty after misreporting in excess of 260,000 over-the-counter (OTC) derivative trades, a failure that compromised the quality of data relie...
UK regulators tighten grip on cloud giants powering finance
The UK Government has designated four of the world's largest cloud and technology providers, Microsoft, Google Cloud, AWS and Oracle, as Critical Third Parties (CTPs), placing them under joint supe...
Indian FinTech funding surged 2.3x QoQ in Q2 driven by growth in deals over $100m
Key Indian FinTech investment stats in Q2 2026:
How AI is turning revenue performance management from reactive to proactive
Financial services have prioritised digitalisation strategies over recent years in order to stay relevant in the market, but one important area is not getting the attention it needs - revenue perfo...
Sensible Weather and TCP Insurance protect film shoots
Sensible Weather, a provider of weather protection for the travel and hospitality sectors, has formed a strategic relationship with TCP Insurance Agency to bring parametric weather cover to the ent...
Circle wins OCC approval for national trust bank
Circle, the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, has received final approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank, bringing parts of its digital ...
Regnology launches governed AI risk hub on Ascend platform
Regnology, a global technology firm operating at the crossroads of regulatory, risk, finance and supervisory solutions, has rolled out Regnology Risk Hub (RRiH) Ascend, a unified platform enabling ...
Patra secures US patent for AI value extraction
Patra, an outcome-focused operating partner for the insurance sector that runs one of the industry's largest production-grade agentic AI platforms, has been granted a US patent covering the technol...
Infinia bags $13.5m to link banks with digital assets
Infinia, a digital finance infrastructure company that connects conventional banking systems with digital asset rails, has secured $13.5m in a Series A funding round.
Slow week for FinTech, with just $350m raised across 10 deals
It was a slow week for FinTech deals, with just $350m raised across 10 deals.
How Majesco made the transition to becoming an AI-first company
While hype around AI has intensified recently, it has been around for decades, albeit confined to more niche and specific technology branches that lacked wide scalability. It wasn't until the advan...
Allianz UK simplifies digital trading for SME brokers
Allianz UK, the insurance giant, has refreshed its Complete Business proposition for digital trading, aiming to make it quicker and more straightforward for brokers to write SME risks online.
WBS extends Quai Digital deal with fractional dealing
WBS, a UK-based provider of dealing, custody and technology solutions for the investment sector, has agreed a five-year extension to its partnership with Quai Digital, with fractional dealing at th...
Can IPC's Luware deal solve fragmented compliance capture?
IPC Systems has entered a strategic partnership with Luware to widen access to Luware Recording, a cloud-hosted compliance recording platform aimed at financial institutions.
Regnology targets US RegTech dominance with Fed Reporter deal
Regnology, a provider of regulatory, risk and supervisory technology, has agreed to acquire Fed Reporter, a US firm specialising in regulatory reporting software for banks, credit unions and bank h...
Bessemer backs QIZ's $17m bid to tame quantum cyber risk
QIZ Security, the cryptographic posture and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) management platform, has closed a $17m seed round as businesses race to shield their encryption from the looming quantum ...
UK firms shift to measurable cyber resilience as AI threats grow
UK enterprises are moving beyond compliance-led cybersecurity towards measurable cyber resilience as AI-powered attacks, supply chain risks and regulatory scrutiny reshape security priorities, acco...
Nepal's MBL taps ZIGRAM to combat financial crime
Machhapuchchhre Bank Limited (MBL), one of Nepal's foremost commercial lenders, has picked ZIGRAM's Complete AML System in a move to bolster its defences against money laundering and wider financia...
Aria raises €7m and secures €240m facility for invoices
Aria, the Paris-based embedded invoice financing platform, has secured a €7m Series A extension alongside a new €240m debt facility as it looks to expand its financing capacity and combat the late ...
nCino wins Cornerstone First Mortgage as POS customer
Cornerstone First Mortgage, a San Diego-headquartered full-service mortgage bank, has moved to nCino's Mortgage Point of Sale as it looks to improve the experience it offers borrowers and continue ...
DUAL expands ZestyAI deal for California wildfire cover
DUAL North America, a specialty programme administrator, has widened its relationship with InsurTech firm ZestyAI, the Risk and Decision Intelligence Platform for the insurance industry, to underpi...
Cross-border fund rules shift in UK, Liechtenstein and Italy
Regulators across Europe are reshaping how funds are distributed across borders, tightening disclosure standards while trimming administrative friction, according to Zeidler's June regulatory round...
Why AML platforms aren't ready for the AI they promise
There is no shortage of talk about AI in financial crime compliance. Boards demand it, vendors promise it and regulators are paying closer attention. But according to RegTech firm Napier AI, a hard...
86% of underwriters more excited about AI future: Sixfold
Sixfold, a AI underwriting company working with global insurers, has published new research revealing that AI is fuelling optimism rather than scepticism among underwriting professionals.
Hawk expands partner program as AI reshapes financial crime
Hawk, a provider of AI-powered financial crime and compliance technology, has expanded its global partner programme as financial institutions look to accelerate the adoption of artificial intellige...
Targa Telematics targets fleet financiers with agentic AI
Targa Telematics, an AIoT and connected mobility technology provider, has launched an agentic AI-powered maintenance platform designed to automate fleet operations and improve vehicle availability....
ESMA targets simpler Taxonomy KPIs in new consultation
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the regulator and supervisor of financial markets across the EU, has opened a consultation aimed at streamlining how firms report under the Tax...
AutoRek ups the ante in AI reconciliation race
AutoRek, the regulatory-grade financial controls and reconciliation software provider, has unveiled a significant upgrade to AutoRek ARIA, its intelligence engine, as appetite for AI-driven financi...
TRAction integration tackles MiFIR compliance pressure
TRAction, a specialist in trade reporting solutions, has linked its regulatory reporting technology with the multi-asset trading platform of TraderEvolution, giving firms a smoother route to comply...
Zinnia and USAA deepen ties as annuity demand soars
Zinnia, a life and annuity technology firm, is supporting insurance carriers in seizing on record appetite for annuities by helping them bring new products to market at greater speed and develop ad...
Episode Six teams with Decisionly on dispute automation
Episode Six, a global provider of enterprise-grade card issuing technology, has formed a strategic partnership with Decisionly, an AI-driven dispute automation platform, to offer issuers a combined...
Vixio bets compliance teams can move from enforcer to informer
Regulatory change has become a constant challenge for financial institutions, with firms facing an ever-growing volume of new rules, updates and supervisory expectations across multiple jurisdictio...
The rise of continuous KYC
Know Your Customer has operated as a series of fixed moments for a long time. Starting with verifying a customer at onboarding, reviewing them periodically, and intervening when something appears t...
The counterintuitive fix for underperforming AI agents
Artificial intelligence is rapidly embedding itself in professional services, with tax due diligence firms deploying AI agents to automate research, analyse vast datasets, draft reports and streaml...
Bamboo Insurance unveils Essential homeowners cover
Bamboo Insurance, a technology-enabled managing general underwriter specialising in homeowners' coverage, has rolled out its new Essential homeowners programme, an HO2 product aimed at buyers seeki...
Axiiem debuts to digitise specialty insurance trading
The Ardonagh Group, one of the world's largest independent insurance distribution platforms and a top 15 global broker, has unveiled Axiiem, a new InsurTech venture aimed at linking data, distribut...
Iress and PlannerPal deepen AI advice workflow tie-up
PlannerPal, an AI-powered workflow platform for financial advisers and wealth managers, has strengthened its collaboration with financial technology firm Iress, giving advisers a smoother route bet...
Why insurance innovation keeps failing - and how mea Platform is changing this
Despite years of digital transformation and rising AI adoption, insurance operations remain largely unchanged, but mea Platform believes it is changing the game. Across the global insurance value c...
Producerflow takes aim at licensing chaos with Partner Portal
Producerflow has launched Partner Portal, a self-service workspace intended to overhaul how carriers work with their distribution partners. The Producerflow product is built and operated on behalf ...
Tokenised stocks expose a looming tax compliance gap
The migration of traditional equities onto blockchain infrastructure is shifting from experimentation into institutional reality, and according to RegTech firm TAINA Technology, the industry is ove...
Insurance agility crisis: why insurers can't keep pace with risk
The insurance industry has spent years preparing for what comes next. The trouble, according to InsurTech decisioning specialist Earnix, is that what comes next keeps arriving faster than insurers ...
FATCA and CRS: why filing is not the finish line
For most firms, reporting season ends the moment the file lands with the tax authority. The submission is made, the pressure lifts, and attention shifts elsewhere.
UK takes FATF helm with global fraud crackdown pledge
The United Kingdom, the new head of the global illicit finance watchdog, has assumed the Presidency of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) for 2026 to 2028, pledging to rally international colla...
LexisNexis and Promon strengthen mobile fraud defence
LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a provider of risk intelligence and fraud prevention technology, has partnered with mobile application security company Promon to help organisations better protect mobile...
Here are the 17 deals recorded by FinTechs this week - read them all here
There was a total of 17 deals in the FinTech sector recorded by VCNews.co this week, with $914m raised across all of them.
The hidden cost of broken business onboarding flows
Most B2B businesses measure their onboarding processes against one benchmark: regulatory compliance. Far fewer ask the harder commercial question of how many customers actually complete it.
Dawnguard raises $3.3m for AI cybersecurity
Dawnguard, an AI-native RegTech and cybersecurity platform built around secure-by-design cloud architecture, has secured $3.3m in fresh pre-seed capital as its automation platform reaches general a...
AI ads face new disclosure rules as New York law bites
New York's synthetic performer law may be narrow in scope, but it carries a broad operational warning for marketers: AI-generated people in advertising have become a compliance workflow problem, no...
Why liveness detection is key to stopping synthetic ID fraud
Synthetic identity fraud is emerging as one of the more difficult threats for digital onboarding teams to detect, precisely because it does not resemble traditional identity theft. Rather than stea...
US firms topped World Cup WealthTech activity, sweeping over half of all deals since 2023
Key World Cup WealthTech stats since 2023:
Allianz debuts digital-first car insurer Slick Cover
Allianz UK has unveiled Slick Cover, a digital-first motor insurance brand aimed at giving British drivers greater choice.
ANNA Money brings Admiral Business insurance in-app
ANNA Money, the business account and tax admin platform for small firms, has joined forces with Admiral Business to embed insurance directly into its app.
InSoil lands €120m Pollen Street facility for agri lending
InSoil, a European climate finance firm that channels institutional money into regenerative agriculture, has landed a €120m senior secured credit facility from Pollen Street Capital.
Hopae adds DigiLocker and PAN to single API
Hopae has made India's two principal digital identity systems accessible through its Hopae Connect API, bringing the country's 1.45 billion-strong enrolled population within reach of its customers ...
Why AI pilots are failing insurers and what comes next
Insurance executives are under mounting pressure. Premium growth is stalling, claims costs are rising on the back of erratic weather patterns, and customers are walking away or demanding steep disc...
Why AI can't fix AML without fixing legacy tech first
Financial institutions are pouring resources into AI for anti-money laundering, but according to Napier AI, the technology is only as good as the systems it sits on. Most AML platforms were never b...
nCino: banks are running three AIs, not one
The vast majority of banks have adopted artificial intelligence, but new research from nCino reveals the industry may be measuring the wrong thing entirely.
Why banks face a 24-hour reckoning under new SRB liquidity rules
The Single Resolution Board's (SRB) consultation on its updated Operational Guidance on Liquidity and Funding in Resolution goes well beyond a tidying-up exercise. It represents a targeted tighteni...
StarCompliance unveils checklist for bank compliance teams
Bank compliance teams are being tested by a regulatory environment that is shifting faster than many can keep pace with. Artificial intelligence governance, operational resilience, digital assets, ...
Paysafe joins Primer, expanding payment options for online merchants
Paysafe, a global payments platform, has partnered with payment infrastructure provider Primer to supply online merchants with access to its card payment processing services through Primer's paymen...
Eventus surveillance backs Novig's CFTC debut
Novig, a US-based sports prediction market, has deployed the Eventus Validus platform as its trade surveillance solution, working with Eventus, a provider of trade surveillance and financial risk t...
MDOTM secures $27m to scale AI investing platform
MDOTM Ltd., the London-founded provider of AI-driven investment technology for asset and wealth managers, banks and insurers, has closed a $27m growth equity round led by Expedition Growth Capital.
Corgi launches AI-native platform accelerating insurance claims
Corgi Insurance has launched Corgi Claims, an AI-native third-party administrator (TPA) helping insurers accelerate claims handling through artificial intelligence and a nationwide network of licen...
Eye Security raises €60m Series C led by Sofina
Eye Security, a Hague-based cybersecurity platform serving European businesses, has secured €60m in Series C funding to accelerate its expansion across Europe.
Nomerra raises $2m to make private markets AI-native
Nomerra, a private markets operations platform, founded by former bunch executives Johannes Gebendorfer and Jakob Zacherl, building AI agents for asset servicers and managers, has raised $2m in fun...
Agentic AI is changing how credit analysts spend their day
For commercial banking analysts, the job description has long masked a fundamental tension.
Corgi expands leveraged ETF range with 31 new funds
Corgi, an AI financial infrastructure company founded in 2025, has launched 31 single-stock 2x Daily ETFs on Cboe BZX Exchange across two waves, with many marking the first or lowest-cost leveraged...
Simplicity acquires BPI, welcomes Bob Muzikowski
Simplicity Group, a provider of wealth accumulation and financial protection products, has acquired Benefit Planning (BPI), a Chicago-based insurance agency specialising in high-net-worth and ultra...
QI Tech and Bettr launch embedded credit partnership in Brazil
QI Tech, a Brazilian financial infrastructure provider, and Bettr, Ant International's embedded finance platform, have partnered to expand embedded credit offerings across Brazil's e-commerce marke...
Maalexi closes $2.8m round to build agricultural exchange
The round was led by Tawuniya, a Saudi joint-stock company listed on the Saudi Exchange, alongside Global Ventures, a UAE-based venture capital firm that had previously served as Maalexi's pre-Seri...
The compliance gap EDD software is closing fast
The compliance landscape for regulated financial services firms has shifted considerably in recent years. Regulators are no longer willing to accept that enhanced due diligence was performed.
Why PS26/2 puts third-party risk under the spotlight
Britain's financial firms have built their operations on a foundation of interconnected technology and outsourced services. That architecture has delivered speed and scale, but it has also created ...
Building AI governance for the next compliance era
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming compliance, but as adoption accelerates, so too do questions around governance, accountability and trust. Building effective AI governance is no long...
Nair joins Fenergo executive team to scale global revenue
Fenergo, a provider of AI-powered client lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for financial institutions, has appointed Lekshmi Nair as its new chief revenue officer (CRO).
Airwallex raises $320m Series H at $11bn valuation
Airwallex, a global payments and financial platform, has closed a $320m Series H funding round, pushing its valuation to $11bn from $8bn just six months ago.
MSCI acquires First Street to sharpen climate risk edge
MSCI has acquired First Street, a physics-based climate risk data and analytics specialist, in a move designed to deepen its physical climate risk offering for financial institutions worldwide.
Arca exits stealth with $64m to reshape wealth management
Arca, an AI-native WealthTech company focused on personalised, advisor-led financial services, has emerged from stealth and announced it has raised a total of $64m across a seed round and a Series ...
Entrust targets AI account takeover with biometrics
Entrust, a global provider of identity-centric security solutions, has launched a new biometric authentication product aimed at combatting the growing wave of AI-powered account takeover fraud.
Realizing value from a modern payments and financial architecture
Founded in 2017, UK-based Finastra is a global leader in financial services software, trusted by 7,000+ customers including 40 of the top 50 banks. In Payments, Finastra is focused on partnering wi...
Why inflation forecasting is broken and what fixes it
Inflation has long sat at the heart of macroeconomic decision-making, shaping monetary policy, fiscal trade-offs and portfolio construction. But according to LSEG Data & Analytics, predicting where...
How dacadoo is redefining digital health engagement
Swiss digital health company dacadoo has built a platform it believes solves one of the most persistent problems in corporate wellness: keeping users coming back.
Andova AI launches AI supply chain ETP in UK and Europe
Andova AI, an AI-native investment platform and sponsor of the Andova AI, Quantum & Frontier Tech ETP, has launched its AI supply chain strategy across the UK and Europe following the product's ini...
How compliance teams are losing the content race
The volume of marketing content flowing through financial services firms has reached a tipping point. Compliance teams, already stretched thin, are now contending with a surge driven by generative ...
Why sanctions screening alone is no longer enough
Sanctions compliance has never been a single, unified discipline, yet much of the technology built to support it has treated it as if it were. In reality, compliance teams face a fragmented patchwo...
Backbase acquires Kasisto to lead agentic banking
Backbase, a provider of an AI-native Banking OS, has acquired Kasisto, a pioneer in agentic AI for the banking and financial services sector, in a move that signals a decisive shift in how banks ar...
Home equity credit card startup Trovy closes $25m raise
Trovy, a US consumer FinTech replacing high-cost consumer debt with home equity-backed financing, has announced it has closed a $15m Series A, bringing its total capital raised to $25m.
Federato opens Sydney office in APAC expansion
Federato, an AI-native InsurTech platform serving the full insurance policy lifecycle, has announced its entry into the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Japan markets, marking a significant step in its inte...
Marshmallow joins Percayso and TransUnion data deal
Marshmallow Insurance, an auto insurance provider focused on people moving to the UK, has signed a multi-year data partnership with Percayso Inform, a behaviour analytics and risk segmentation spec...
Is financial crime entering an AI arms race?
Artificial intelligence is transforming the fight against financial crime. However, it's also giving criminals powerful new tools. As banks, regulators and technology providers race to harness AI f...
Refute AI lands $1.3m to tackle the financial crime compliance bottleneck
Refute AI has secured $1.3m in pre-seed funding to develop enterprise AI agents for financial crime compliance, entering a market where regulated institutions continue to spend significant time...
Meta backs CRED in $900m Series H at $4.5bn value
CRED, the Indian FinTech platform serving creditworthy consumers across payments, lending, and wealth management, has secured INR 8,550 crore (~$900m) in a Series H funding round led by social medi...
FATCA and CRS: why fragmented reporting is costing more
For investment managers operating across multiple jurisdictions, FATCA and CRS reporting is rarely as straightforward as simply delegating the work to a fund administrator. Behind the annual filing...
The hidden cost of building financial crime tools
There is a familiar refrain that echoes through financial institutions when compliance teams request new tooling: 'We can build this internally - it's just a simple scoring tool.' It is, according ...
Why Allium's $40m raise could reshape onchain finance
Allium, a blockchain data platform serving enterprises and financial institutions, has closed a $40m Series B funding round as global finance accelerates its shift onto blockchain infrastructure.
Zillennials shift deposits to FinTech investing platforms
A new report from Cornerstone Advisors, a financial services research and consulting firm, sponsored by InvestiFi, a provider of digital investing solutions for financial institutions, has found th...
Gridline boosts AltComply with Hamilton Lane benchmarking
Gridline, a turnkey private markets platform for wealth management firms, has announced a strategic partnership and technology integration with Hamilton Lane, a global private markets investment ma...
Weecover makes case for modular AI in insurance
Weecover, an InsurTech platform specialising in insurance management and distribution technology, has argued that microservices architecture, not algorithms, is the decisive factor in successfully ...
SumUp launches in Canada as its 38th market
SumUp, a global FinTech company serving more than four million small merchants worldwide, has officially launched in Canada, marking its 38th market and its latest expansion across the Americas.
Libeara raises $14m to scale tokenisation infrastructure
Libeara, a provider of tokenisation infrastructure for regulated digital assets, has closed a $14m strategic funding round led by GSR, a global market maker.
Sumsub lets AI agents build compliance setups
Sumsub has become the first provider in its space to give AI agents the ability to configure and build out an entire compliance environment through a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration an...
D&B agentic AI cuts compliance times by up to 96%
Dun & Bradstreet, a business data and analytics provider, has launched agentic AI capabilities within its D&B Risk Analytics platform, enabling organisations to reduce compliance and third-party ri...
Fomo raises $75m Series B to scale on-chain trading app
On-chain consumer trading platform fomo, which strips away the technical barriers of decentralised markets, has secured $75m in a Series B funding round led by Index Ventures, with participation fr...
Synthetic identity fraud now a systemic threat in 2026
Mitek Systems has released new research developed in partnership with Datos Insights, a financial services research and advisory firm, warning that synthetic identity fraud is rapidly becoming one ...
Prediction markets expose firms' compliance blind spots
For most financial services firms, the regulatory debate around prediction markets has centred on classification: do these instruments fall under securities law, commodities regulation, or the emer...
Adyen's $335m Orb deal reshapes enterprise billing
Adyen, the Amsterdam-listed global payments platform, has agreed to acquire Orb, an enterprise billing infrastructure provider, for $335m in a deal that aims to bring billing and payments under a s...
Current raises $80m Series E at $1.5bn valuation
Current, a US consumer FinTech platform focused on improving the financial wellbeing of everyday Americans, has closed an $80m Series E equity round at a valuation of $1.5bn, with Springcoast Partn...
ACI and EPI target Europe's payments fragmentation
ACI Worldwide, a global payments technology firm listed on NASDAQ, has become a principal member of the European Payments Initiative (EPI) and will integrate the Wero digital wallet into its Paymen...
The hidden culture problem behind weak MLRO engagement
There is a pattern that most money laundering reporting officers (MLROs) will recognise immediately. A request goes out for inputs to the financial crime risk assessment. The business stalls. When ...
Canada's FCA bill puts FinTech compliance on notice
Canada's fragmented approach to tackling financial crime has drawn sustained criticism for years. Responsibility for investigating money laundering, fraud, and sanctions offences has historically b...
How regulatory reform is exposing MiFIR governance cracks
Transaction reporting has always been the backbone of market abuse surveillance, but the rules of the game are shifting. As regulators deepen their reliance on MiFIR reporting data, the bar for wha...
Ageas UK and Wrisk partner on embedded motor insurance
Ageas UK, a personal lines insurer, has joined the motor insurance panel of Wrisk, an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) InsurTech specialist, in a new strategic partnership aimed at delivering ...
Sedgwick reveals rising claims severity in Europe
Sedgwick, the world's leading risk and claims administration partner, has released its 2026 Claims Administration Intelligence Report, examining claims trends and pressures across the UK and Europe...
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.
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...
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...
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...
$600m raise propels Cyera to AI security leadership
Cyera, an AI-native data security company building what it describes as an enterprise trust layer for the agentic era, has secured $600m in its latest funding round, pushing its valuation to $12bn,...
European WealthTech funding dropped by 18% YoY in Q1 as investors grew cautious
Key European WealthTech investment stats in Q1 2026:
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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...
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 ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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 ...
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...
Mal secured one of the top global FinTech deals as funding drops 8% YoY in Q1 2026
Key Global FinTech investment stats in Q1 2026:
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
European FinTech investments fell in Q1 2026 as deals over $100m halved YoY
Key European FinTech investment stats in Q1 2026:
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
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 ...
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...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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...
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.
Why fragmented ERM is costing firms more than they think
Welcome to The Demo Room - your front-row seat to the future of RegTech, RiskTech, and AI innovation.
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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).
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.
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...
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 ...
$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.
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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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.
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.
Singaporean FinTech funding spiked by 78% YoY in Q1 as investors prioritised larger deals
Key Singaporean FinTech investment stats in Q1 2026:
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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).
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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,...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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...
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-...
Locaxion Solutions Raises $3.5M Seed Round as AI-Native People Ops Infrastructure Draws Investor Attention
Locaxion Solutions has completed a $3.5 million Seed Round announced on March 4, 2026. The round was led by Accel, with participation from Y Combinator and First Round Capital. The company is po...
Adarga AI Uses Seed Funding to Harden the Data Layer Behind Deployable AI
NEW YORK, July 1, 2026 - Adarga AI has raised a US$2.3 million Seed Round with participation from Y Combinator, Savannah Fund, Microtraction, and 54 Collective. The company, founded in 2025 and...
RiskFront Lab Secures $3M Seed Funding for Android and iOS Runtime Protection
RiskFront Lab, a mobile app defense startup led by CEO Tomas Brown, has secured $3 million in seed funding from MANTIS Venture Capital, Sequoia Capital, Original Capital and Next Play Ventures....