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Latest product rollouts and company milestones across the technical landscape.
Twenty7tec opens ADAPT to all RESEARCH users for free
Twenty7tec, a FinTech for advisers, has opened up complimentary access to ADAPT, its proactive market surveillance solution, for every RESEARCH user over a two-month period, as advisers grapple wit...
Financial crime's trillion-dollar toll drives RegTech push
Financial crime is growing in scale, sophistication and cost, and for regulated organisations, understanding the threat landscape has become a survival requirement rather than a box-ticking exercis...
Can AI fix endpoint security? Glow bets $180m it can
Glow, an AI-powered endpoint security company built around a prevention-first model, has come out of stealth with $180m in funding and a valuation of $1.2bn. Sequoia, Cyberstarts, Greenoaks and Red...
Palo Alto Networks targets user blindspots with Embrace deal
Palo Alto Networks has revealed plans to acquire Embrace, a specialist in user-centric observability, in a move designed to close the gap between backend monitoring and what customers actually expe...
Hopae targets Brazil's 65m digital IDs with CNH launch
Hopae has unveiled a real-time verification service for Brazil's digital driver's licence on its Hopae Connect platform, pairing encrypted QR code decoding with facial biometric matching checked ag...
FCA's NFM rules put 38,000 firms' evidence to the test
From 1 September 2026, the FCA Code of Conduct will extend to cover bullying, harassment and violence at every FCA-authorised organisation, dragging almost 38,000 UK firms into the expanded Non-Fin...
PEP screening pitfalls that expose FinTech compliance teams
A politically exposed persons check (PEP check) sits among the most consequential controls in any AML compliance programme. Done well, it surfaces elevated risk before it becomes an institution's p...
Why fragmented AI is undermining P&C underwriting
Artificial intelligence is becoming central to the future of property and casualty (P&C) insurance, with carriers investing heavily in tools designed to improve underwriting, portfolio oversight an...
Natural raises $30m to power payments for AI agents
Natural, a US startup building a payments stack designed specifically for AI agents, has secured $30m in Series A funding as it races to position itself as the infrastructure layer for a world wher...
Zilch teams up with Rezolve Ai to boost retailer growth
Zilch, the intelligent payments platform, has joined forces with Rezolve Ai, a global leader in AI-driven commerce and engagement, in a move that will let its customers pay flexibly and without fee...
FinregE guide warns firms of costly compliance crunch
FinregE has released an expert guide claiming that delaying action until rules become legally binding has evolved from prudent caution into a systemic threat to firms.
FIS taps Anthropic's Mythos 5 to harden payment systems
FIS, a global FinTech giant listed on the NYSE, has extended its partnership with Anthropic, adopting the AI firm's Mythos 5 model to bolster the security of its own systems through Project Glasswi...
Corgi launches Golden to insure $600bn sports industry
Corgi Insurance, the AI-native insurance company, has unveiled Golden by Corgi, a new vertical dedicated to sports and entertainment, aimed at serving leagues, federations, clubs, events and venues...
Why CISOs are backing Beacon's $13m bet on agentic defence
Beacon Security, a platform focused on agentic cybersecurity, has raised $13m in seed funding to develop a trusted data layer designed to help security teams and AI agents defend enterprises agains...
The billion dollar water risk problem insurers can no longer ignore
Water damage remains one of the most underestimated risks facing modern buildings, creating significant challenges for insurers, property owners and facilities managers as hidden leaks drive struct...
Investors turn up the heat with $1.9bn raised in FinTech this week
Across the 19 deals reported on by VCNews.co this week, there was a grand total of $1.95bn raised by FinTech firms, reflecting a healthy demand in the sector.
Can Oak's $60m seed fix the identity security crisis?
Oak, a security company building what it calls an Identity Operating System, has stepped out of stealth with $60m in seed capital to take on the fragmented identity governance market.
Cyclops raises $20m to fix stablecoin gap in payments
Cyclops, a stablecoin infrastructure company built solely for the payments industry, has secured $20m in Series A funding to help payments firms launch stablecoin products at speed.
Risk Ledger raises £24m to boost supply chain security
Risk Ledger, a supply chain cyber security platform, has secured £24m in Series B funding to push companies beyond conventional third-party risk management towards what it calls Active Supply Chain...
Hadrius secures $27m to scale agentic compliance
Hadrius, an agentic compliance infrastructure provider serving financial services firms, has closed $27m across its seed and Series A rounds as it looks to unify compliance into a single AI-driven ...
UK AI Champions unveil plan to fast-track FinTech adoption
The UK government's independent AI Champions for financial services, Harriet Rees of Starling Bank and Dr Rohit Dhawan of Lloyds Banking Group, have drawn up a new adoption plan aimed at speeding u...
Vikar embeds Plaid to speed up account funding
Vikar Technologies, a provider of unified account opening, lending, KYC/KYB, treasury and wealth management solutions for community banks and credit unions, has formed a partnership with Plaid.
FinTechs chase bank charters as regulatory storm brews
FinTechs are pursuing bank charters at record rates, but the path to independence is leading them straight into an increasingly turbulent and fragmented regulatory landscape.
Why slow onboarding is costing private banks clients
Onboarding is the first impression a new client forms of their private bank, yet according to fincite, it is often the weakest link in the entire relationship.
Feathery lands $30m to rewire financial services workflows
Feathery, an AI operating and decisioning platform for financial services firms, has secured $30m in funding as it expands its technology across the insurance and wealth management sectors.
How French banks can strengthen conflicts of interest controls
French investment banks face growing pressure to strengthen conflicts of interest frameworks as the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) raises the bar on compliance expectations, according to Reg...
XOVR pours $30m into prediction market firm Kalshi
ERShares, adviser to the Nasdaq-listed ERShares Private-Public Crossover ETF (XOVR), has committed $30m to Kalshi, a federally regulated prediction market business, as part of the Fund's most recen...
Indonesian lender JULO secures $5m in funding
Indonesian digital lending platform JULO has reportedly raised fresh capital from its current shareholders, according to a report from DealStreetAsia.
Payouts.com launches Digital Employee AI agents
Payouts.com, a Financial OS for global payouts and finance execution, has unveiled Digital Employee, a collection of role-based AI agents designed to shoulder the everyday workload of a finance dep...
FlexTrade integrates Portx risk analytics into buy-side platform
FlexTrade Systems, a provider of multi-asset execution and order management technology, has partnered with portfolio construction and analytics firm Portx to integrate real-time optimisation and ri...
Red Oak launches connector to close compliance content gap
Red Oak, a compliance technology provider for financial services firms, has launched its Ad Review to 4U Connector, an integration designed to remove the manual handoff between content approval and...
StarCompliance reshapes leadership amid AI compliance push
StarCompliance, a leading provider of compliance technology for employees and firms, has overhauled its executive bench with two external hires and two internal promotions as it looks to capitalise...
Optalitix bets on agentic AI to reshape insurer pricing
Optalitix, a London-based InsurTech specialising in pricing and underwriting software, has upgraded its Optalitix Quote platform with agentic AI capabilities designed to help insurers, reinsurers a...
SS&C to enable digital cash settlement for tokenized funds
SS&C Technologies, a provider of investment and financial software services listed on Nasdaq, has unveiled plans to bring digital cash settlement to tokenized investment transactions.
GIM raises $20m to scale agentic AI investing
Grace Investment Machine (GIM), an AI-native investment technology company developing agentic systems for capital markets, has raised $20m in Series A funding as it moves its autonomous investing t...
Banyan Software acquires German eHealth platform HMM
Banyan Software, a Toronto-headquartered acquirer and long-term operator of software businesses, has acquired HMM Germany, a Moers-based eHealth technology provider connecting health insurers, medi...
Cardless strengthens executive team for next growth phase
Cardless, an AI-powered financial services platform that enables brands to launch and manage co-branded card programmes, has appointed Mark Troianovski as chief business officer and Karolina Noronh...
The 4 tests every NextGen AML platform must pass
Financial institutions can no longer debate whether to replace ageing financial crime compliance systems, only when and how, according to a new buyer's guide from Napier AI.
Label lands exclusive PwC Middle East compliance deal
Label has entered a collaboration with PwC Middle East to deliver a combined tax-transparency compliance offering across the region.
Why legacy fraud tools are failing UK FinTechs
The fraud landscape confronting UK FinTechs has transformed dramatically, with synthetic identity fraud, account takeover attacks, mule accounts and AI-generated documentation now commonplace.
Kord raises £6.4m to fight AI fraud in regulated sectors
Kord, a UK-headquartered FinTech offering a single platform for client onboarding, identity checks and payments, has closed a £6.4m Series A round to tackle AI-enabled fraud and streamline transact...
Applied and Travelers explore submissionless insurance quoting
Applied Systems, an insurance software provider, has launched a submissionless commercial insurance quoting capability with The Travelers Companies as its first carrier partner, using agentic AI to...
Can AI close the FinCrime investigation gap? Tangos bets $20m
Tangos AI, an autonomous AI platform for financial crime investigations, has secured $20m in seed funding as it looks to tackle one of compliance's most stubborn bottlenecks. Red Dot Capital Partne...
Comply Exchange bags SOC 2 as vendor risk scrutiny bites
Comply Exchange, a RegTech firm specialising in tax compliance, withholding and IRS form management, has secured SOC 2 compliance, a move that signals to enterprise buyers that its security control...
etoro unveils AI-first app with proactive agent Tori
etoro, a trading and investing platform, has revealed a completely rebuilt mobile app at its 'Intelligence in Motion' event in London, alongside a suite of new products spanning agentic trading, di...
Super.com hits $1.2bn valuation after $65m Series D
Super.com, the savings super app designed for everyday Americans, has closed a $65m Series D round that values the business at $1.2bn. The round was led by TPG, and the fresh capital will be used t...
Estonia's blueprint for beating the EU's 2027 AMLR deadline
Most professionals in financial crime compliance come from law enforcement, audit or legal backgrounds. Siiri Graabi took a different route, arriving via the European Council, where she spent more ...
Theta Lake, IPC unite voice and digital surveillance
Theta Lake has joined forces with IPC to help financial institutions move trade floor communications to the cloud without sacrificing regulatory oversight.
Float brings card-linked installments to UK credit cards
Float, a card-linked installment platform, has launched in the UK, allowing merchants to offer customers interest and fee-free installment options using existing Visa and Mastercard credit cards wi...
Keyfactor secures $1bn+ to lead post-quantum security race
Keyfactor, the trust infrastructure specialist for the AI and quantum era, has received a strategic growth investment exceeding $1bn as enterprises race to secure machine identities ahead of the po...
Stoa lands $2.4m to reward savers with upfront perks
Stoa, a UK-based FinTech that helps consumers and SMEs draw everyday value from dormant deposits, has secured $2.4m in pre-seed funding to scale its cash management platform. Bespokeist Partners an...
Cedar and Noah partner to unlock African cross-border payments
Cedar Money, a regulated cross-border payments and FX infrastructure firm focused on emerging markets, has formed a strategic partnership with API-first stablecoin payments platform Noah to enable ...
Pay.UK unlocks Faster Payments access for non-banks
Pay.UK, the recognised operator and standards body for the UK's interbank retail payment systems, has launched a flexible liquidity framework for Faster Payments Net Sender Caps (NSC), opening the ...
bunch takes stake in Luxembourg Fund Services in landmark deal
bunch, the AI-native fund operations platform serving private markets, has agreed a strategic partnership that will see it become a shareholder in Luxembourg Fund Services S.A. (LFS), alongside the...
Why agentic AI is the next frontier in AML
Financial crime compliance has passed through three distinct eras. First came human-led investigation, then rules-based automation, and now a third wave is beginning to take shape: agentic AI. Unli...
Zurich and Honey reshape Australia's insurance race
Zurich Financial Services Australia, the local arm of the global insurer and Australia's only major composite insurer, is set to enter the country's personal home insurance market after deepening i...
DNB bets on nCino to overhaul corporate lending
DNB, the Oslo-headquartered bank serving more than 2 million retail customers and over 200,000 corporate clients, has gone live on the nCino Platform to power its corporate lending operations, with...
FCA unveils full digital assets regime, starting the clock now
The Financial Conduct Authority has published its complete cryptoasset regime, bringing to a close three years of policy development across five separate statements.
Taxwire lands $25m to automate global sales tax
Taxwire, a sales tax platform and managed service that takes full ownership of a business's indirect tax obligations, has secured $25m in funding to expand its compliance infrastructure.
Addi secures $85m Series D led by Citius and BTG Pactual
Addi, a Colombian commerce and financial services platform, has closed an $85m Series D equity round in a deal that represents BTG Pactual's first Growth investment beyond Brazil.
Why Scalabl AI believes workflow matters more than the model
Founded in 2025, Scalabl AI is sector-agnostic, supporting financial services, insurance, certification companies, ESG and sustainability, research, supply chain assessments, healthcare, logistics ...
Welcoming the 'new wealthy'
The financial world is changing at breathtaking speed. Crypto wealth - and the people who create and hold it - are no longer seen as a niche category outside the traditional banking system. Increas...
Nebex raises $30m seed investment for the space economy
Nebex, a market infrastructure platform for the global space economy, has raised $30m in seed funding led by Google Ventures (GV), as well as establishing a banking relationship with J.P. Morgan to...
Why KYC360's CLM solution is redefining customer risk management
The static approach to customer risk management is no longer effective and KYC360 was built to show firms effective, ongoing compliance doesn't need to be costly.
Qashier raises $6.125m after turning profitable
Qashier, a Singapore-based unified merchant operating system for Southeast Asia, has closed a $6.125m Series A+ funding round combining equity and debt.
Straiker raises $64m to lock down the AI agent era
Straiker, an agentic security firm purpose-built to protect AI agents operating inside enterprise environments, has closed a $64m Series A funding round, lifting its total capital raised to $85m.
Finnovate raises $2m in pre-Series A round
Finnovate Financial Services, an India-based advisory-led wealth management platform, has secured approximately $2m in a pre-Series A funding round backed by a group of angel investors, including R...
Post-quantum auth firm Wultra raises €6.8m
Wultra, a post-quantum authentication and digital identity provider serving banks and FinTechs, has closed a €6.8m Series A funding round to accelerate international expansion and scale its platfor...
How Smarsh is making enterprise AI compliance-ready
Smarsh, a global leader in digital communications compliance and intelligence, has announced significant results from its multi-year strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS)...
CentSight launches with $1.5m pre-seed backing
CentSight, an AI-native financial intelligence platform designed for small and mid-sized businesses, has officially launched publicly, offering business owners access to CFO-grade financial insight...
Runlayer raises $30m to make every employee AI-native
Runlayer, an AI enablement and control platform for enterprises, has closed a $30m Series A led by Felicis, with Khosla Ventures also participating, bringing total funding to $42m.
Jump launches AI account opening for advisors
Jump, a leading AI platform for financial advisors and wealth management professionals, has unveiled a suite of new product features aimed at reducing administrative burden, improving client engage...
Guidewire Intel expands access with federated learning
Guidewire, a cloud software platform provider for the property and casualty (P&C) insurance industry, has welcomed engineers, data scientists and federated machine learning technology from integrat...
Sardine integration arms Modern Treasury against fraud
Modern Treasury, a payments operations platform, has announced a partnership with fraud prevention specialist Sardine to bolster transaction monitoring and fraud detection for businesses processing...
Float Financial raises CAD $85m Series C
Float Financial, a Canadian business finance platform offering corporate cards, bill pay, and working capital credit, has closed a CAD $85m all-equity Series C round, lifting its valuation by 70%.
Why non-banks are turning to KYCP compliance tools
Compliance technology has long been treated as the exclusive preserve of large financial institutions, but that assumption is rapidly becoming outdated.
How AMLA is reshaping AML across Europe
Europe's Anti-Money Laundering Authority is moving away from process-heavy compliance and towards a results-driven model, according to Napier AI's analysis of AMLA's inaugural public conference in ...
EJF Ventures backs Lama AI's $20m lending push
Lama AI, an AI-native loan origination platform purpose-built for community and regional banks, has closed a Series A funding round that brings its total capital raised to over $20m, as the company...
9 KYB solutions that are helping firms streamline their compliance
Know Your Business (KYB) has become a critical pillar of modern compliance workflows, enabling regulated firms to verify the legitimacy, ownership, and risk profile of the companies they engage wit...
Delta Insurance launches cyber products on Ebix with Entsia
Delta Insurance, an commercial insurer, has launched its Cyber and Management Liability products on the Ebix Sunrise Exchange platform, with implementation support from Entsia, a full lifecycle ins...
Portage Mutual picks Akur8 for AI pricing overhaul
Portage Mutual, a leading property and casualty mutual insurer serving Canada's Prairie Provinces, has chosen AI-driven actuarial platform Akur8 to modernise its pricing model development across it...
Bir and Paysend bring real-time transfers to Azerbaijan
Bir, the Caucasus' first fully integrated e-commerce, banking and payments ecosystem, has teamed up with UK-based global payments platform Paysend to introduce international money transfers for con...
LUMIQ secures funding to automate financial decisions at scale
LUMIQ, an AI-native FinTech company with offices in New Jersey, Singapore and Delhi NCR, has secured a strategic funding round to expand its automated decision-making platform across the United Sta...
Producerflow modernises carrier distribution management
Producerflow, a modern insurance distribution management platform for carriers and managing general agents (MGAs), has launched Partner Portal, a new self-service workspace aimed at transforming ho...
How Ortec Finance is reshaping whole-fund decisions
Institutional investors are under growing pressure to manage complex, whole-fund trade-offs with precision and speed, and Ortec Finance has developed a framework designed to meet that challenge hea...
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
NinjaOne hits $12.3bn valuation with $400m Series C extension
NinjaOne, a unified IT operations platform serving nearly 40,000 organisations across more than 140 countries, has reached a $12.3bn valuation following the close of over $400m in Series C extensio...
SyntheticFi raises $13m and hits $2bn in assets
SyntheticFi, a WealthTech platform enabling registered investment advisors (RIAs) to offer portfolio-backed financing solutions, has surpassed $2bn in regulatory assets under management (RAUM) and ...
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 ...
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.
Why wealth managers are rethinking how they analyse public and private assets
The structure of wealth portfolios has changed dramatically over the past decade. Private equity, private credit, infrastructure and other alternative assets are no longer niche allocations reserve...
Kayna secures spot in Guidewire's InsurTech Vanguards programme
Kayna, an award-winning embedded insurance distribution platform headquartered in Cork, Ireland, has been accepted into the Guidewire InsurTech Vanguards programme, an initiative run by property an...
Euro area banks face unified reporting overhaul
The European Central Bank (ECB), the central bank of the eurozone and key institution of the European System of Central Banks, has published a series of key milestones for its Integrated Reporting ...
AI, digital assets and the end of legacy compliance
Compliance has moved from the back office to the boardroom. For global banks, it is no longer a function that quietly operates in the background, it is actively shaping how institutions manage grow...
Opal Security closes $23m round amid AI identity push
Opal Security, an AI-native access governance platform, has secured $23m in new funding and appointed five senior leaders as it moves to bring human, non-human, and agentic AI identities under a si...
India cements status as main Asian FinTech hub securing over a third of all deals in Q1
Key Asian FinTech investment stats in Q1 2026:
Monzo and Fair4All Finance tackle UK credit exclusion
Monzo and Fair4All Finance, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to improving financial inclusion, have announced a joint initiative to extend access to affordable credit for the more than 16 mi...
Blnk raises $37m to close Egypt's consumer credit gap
Blnk, an Egyptian FinTech company providing point-of-sale consumer financing, has raised $37m in combined equity and debt funding to scale its operations and deepen financial access for underserved...
Honeycomb Insurance raises $40m in Zeev Ventures-led round
Digital insurer Honeycomb Insurance has raised an additional $40m in funding as it looks to expand its geographical footprint, enhance its underwriting technology and broaden its product offering.
8 GRC solutions that should be on your RegTech radar in 2026
A total of $5.4bn was issued in fines globally during 2025, showing the significant financial damages firms can face for missing or mismanaging their compliance requirements. Governance, risk and c...
Fasanara Capital launches Ferrari-backed lending platform
Fasanara Capital, a London-based investment manager focused on credit, has unveiled the Fasanara Ferrari Lending Platform, a new initiative offering secured loans backed by Ferrari automobiles, alo...
Hong Kong regulator warns on AI-powered cyber risk
Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), the city's financial markets regulator, has issued a formal circular warning licensed firms of a sharp increase in AI-enabled cyber threats and ...
Marathon Asset Management unifies on SimCorp One
Marathon Asset Management, a London-based specialist equity manager overseeing more than $40bn in assets, has consolidated its entire front-to-back investment infrastructure onto a single platform,...
Patronus Partners selects WealthAi for full deployment
Patronus Partners, a UK-based full-service private wealth and family office firm, has selected WealthAi, an AI operating system designed for wealth managers, for a full front-to-back deployment acr...
Cytora and Geoskop boost climate risk underwriting
Cytora, a digital risk processing platform for commercial insurers, has partnered with Geoskop to integrate climate intelligence capabilities into its underwriting platform.
Forage targets one million families with $40m funding round
Forage, a US-based financial infrastructure platform focused on government benefits payments, has closed a $40m Series B funding round to scale its consumer app and expand its payments technology.
The quiet overhaul reshaping insurance pricing models
Insurance pricing modernisation is often spoken about as though it were a grand technological leap, a sweeping reinvention of how insurers think, decide and operate. In reality, as outlined in Akur...
Why insurers struggle to turn AI investment into better CX
Insurance leaders have spent the past decade investing heavily in modernising pricing engines, underwriting models and digital distribution channels. Yet despite this sustained transformation effor...
KYCP managed service makes compliance affordable
For regulated businesses that lack the resources to run enterprise-grade compliance infrastructure, accessing institutional-quality technology has long meant choosing between ambition and affordabi...
Pleo research reveals finance systems failing scalers
Pleo, a spend management platform built for European businesses, has published new research revealing that the majority of European mid-market companies are being held back by finance operations th...
Gradient Labs raises $26m to build AI agents for banks
Gradient Labs, a vertical AI company building specialist autonomous agents for financial services, has expanded its Series A funding round to $26m.
Zazume raises €2.5m to consolidate Spanish rental market
Zazume, the Barcelona-based proptech that digitises the full residential rental lifecycle, has closed a €2.5m funding round aimed at expanding its footprint across Spain through the acquisition of ...
Why traditional KYC no longer works
For decades, KYC has been a cornerstone of financial crime compliance. Verify a customer's identity, assess their risk and review them periodically. It is a model built around a simple assumption: ...
The compliance gap that could expose your AI systems
A striking paradox has emerged from ComplyAdvantage's annual compliance survey: whilst 94% of compliance leaders believe existing and upcoming AI regulations will prove effective, and 98% report so...
Iress renews four-year deal with Succession Wealth
Iress, a provider of integrated wealth management and financial planning technology, has secured a four-year contract extension with Succession Wealth, continuing a partnership that has spanned nea...
ClearScore launches ChatGPT app for credit education
ClearScore Group, a data-driven financial services platform with over 26 million users globally, has launched a consumer-facing ChatGPT app aimed at helping people better understand credit before t...
VIPR and WCL digitise delegated underwriting workflow
VIPR Solutions and WCL, a Zywave organisation, have launched an integrated digital workflow for non-bureau delegated underwriting, aiming to eliminate one of the insurance market's most persistent ...
Can financial conditions predict the next market turn?
Research published by LSEG Data & Analytics has cast fresh doubt on some of the most widely cited tools used to anticipate equity market turning points, finding that investor sentiment surveys and ...
Quiet week for FinTechs with just over $450m raised in total deals
There were only 11 deals recorded by VCNews.co this week, with a grand total of $452m raised across all raises.
How iPipeline leverages AI to transform the life insurance market
iPipeline is a leading global provider of comprehensive and integrated digital solutions for the life insurance and financial services industries in North America, and life insurance and pensions i...
Jump secured one of the biggest US WealthTech deals as funding in the country jumped 83% YoY in Q1
Key US WealthTech investment stats in Q1 2026:
What the FCA's focus on ESG ratings means for the sector
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK's financial regulator, recently announced its plans to regulate ESG ratings, with the aim to make them more reliable, transparent and comparable.
Adnovum to bring Sixfold's AI underwriting to DACH insurers
Sixfold, an underwriting AI solution provider serving global insurers, has formed a strategic partnership with Adnovum, a Swiss technology and consulting firm focused on secure digital transformati...
Fingerprint targets the compliance gap no one is talking about
RegTech is entering a new phase. With financial institutions facing growing regulatory pressure, firms are increasingly turning to AI, automation and real-time compliance tools to improve efficienc...
PingPong and Visa launch card-to-account payment solution
PingPong, an embedded financial infrastructure provider for global businesses, has joined forces with Visa to introduce a new card-to-account payment solution designed to close a longstanding gap i...
Duco launches agentic operations platform for finance
Duco, a London-headquartered financial services automation firm serving more than 200 clients across 30 countries, has launched what it describes as the first agentic Operations platform built spec...
How AI is reshaping the compliance professional's role
The debate over whether artificial intelligence will displace compliance professionals is, at this point, a distraction. The more consequential question - and the one that regulated institutions sh...
360factors automates HMDA compliance testing with AI
360factors, a provider of AI-powered compliance solutions for financial institutions, has launched a new Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) Compliance Testing Agent within its Ask Kaia platform, o...
Smarsh brings Claude Enterprise into compliance platform
Smarsh, a global provider of digital communications data and intelligence, has announced a new integration with Anthropic's Claude Compliance API, enabling businesses to capture and govern Claude E...
Benefitbay raises $18m Series A to scale ICHRA platform
Benefitbay, a leading Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement (ICHRA) platform serving brokerages, employers and employees across the US, has reportedly closed an $18m Series A funding...
How to fix KYC records before regulators demand it
Regulated financial institutions face mounting pressure to keep customer records not merely compliant at the point of onboarding, but continuously accurate, auditable and inspection-ready.
BOI reporting in 2026: what compliance teams must know
The rules governing beneficial ownership information reporting have undergone a dramatic transformation since the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) came into force - and compliance teams that have n...
Scapia raises $63m in General Catalyst-led round
Scapia, an Indian travel FinTech platform, has closed a $63m funding round led by General Catalyst, with continued backing from existing investors Peak XV Partners and Z47.
Cycles nets $6.4m to build on-chain clearing layer
Cycles, a startup developing an open, privacy-preserving clearing network for digital asset markets and stablecoin payments, has raised $6.4m in a funding round led by Blockchange Ventures.
Generali China partners Solera on AI claims platform
Generali China Insurance and Solera have partnered to accelerate the rollout of AI-driven claims and electric vehicle solutions across the Chinese insurance market.
Datasite and Legora partner to streamline M&A diligence
Datasite, an AI-powered platform for private market transactions, and Legora, a collaborative AI platform built for legal professionals, have announced a strategic partnership that allows deal team...
Parliament receives landmark UK financial services reform bill
The UK government has introduced the Financial Services and Markets Bill to Parliament, a sweeping piece of legislation designed to modernise sector regulation, strengthen consumer protections and ...
Indian WealthTech funding surged by 84% YoY in Q1 amid renewed investor interest
Key Indian WealthTech investment stats in Q1 2026:
FinCEN sounds the alarm on World Cup financial crime
The 2026 FIFA World Cup is on the horizon, and while the spotlight will fall on football pitches across the United States, Canada, and Mexico, regulators are already directing attention elsewhere -...
Liberty Mutual tests ChatGPT auto insurance quotes
Liberty Mutual has been testing a ChatGPT integration that allows users to request personalised auto insurance quote estimates directly within the AI chat interface.
The new standard for digital wealth
Picture an all-too-common scenario. A high-net-worth individual sells part of his crypto holdings. The profits are transferred to his bank account. But what then follows is not a celebration, but a...
Why AI overlays are failing AML compliance
Legacy AML platforms are creaking under the weight of modern financial crime pressures and Napier AI warns that bolting AI onto broken foundations will not save them.
Primer raises $100m Series C to power AI payments
Primer, a unified payments infrastructure platform founded by former Braintree and PayPal executives, has closed a $100m Series C funding round as it looks to establish AI as the operating layer fo...
RemotePass raises $17.4m Series B led by EBRD
RemotePass, a global employment, payroll and spend platform, has secured $17.4m in a Series B funding round led by EBRD Venture Capital, with participation from 500 Global and existing backers Oras...
Tether backs LemFi to boost stablecoin remittances
Tether, a digital asset company and issuer of leading stablecoin USD₮, has made a strategic investment in LemFi, a cross-border payments platform serving diaspora communities across the UK, US, Can...
Equipifi raises $34m Series B to expand bank-native BNPL
Equipifi, a FinTech platform enabling banks and credit unions to embed buy now, pay later (BNPL) natively into their digital banking products, has closed a $34m Series B funding round, bringing its...
Legacy RegTech is losing ground in the AI era
Artificial intelligence has quietly become a baseline expectation inside the compliance functions of the world's leading FinTech firms - and the implications for the RegTech market are significant.
May 2026 regulatory calendar: the compliance dates that matter
With 59 regulatory deadlines falling across the payments landscape this month alone - 33 consultation periods closing and 20 pieces of legislation entering into force - May 2026 represents one of t...
Aryze closes €3m pre-series A to scale stablecoin infrastructure
Aryze, a Copenhagen-founded FinTech providing stablecoin technology infrastructure as a managed service, has completed a €3m pre-Series A funding round to advance its core platform for licensed sta...
Aveni hires CCO to lead agentic AI compliance push
Aveni, a UK-based AI FinTech focused on compliance and regulatory solutions for financial services, has named Kent Mackenzie as its new chief commercial officer.
HDI Global partners with mea on insurance AI rollout
HDI Global has partnered with AI-native InsurTech firm mea Platform to deploy AI across its global underwriting and claims operations, as the insurer looks to improve data processing and operationa...
Is compliance becoming a real-time control system?
For decades, compliance has operated as a rear-view mirror - periodic reviews, retrospective audits and manual checks designed to catch problems after they emerge. But modern finance is moving too ...
Prometeia nowcast: April offers relief but caution lingers
Open-end mutual fund inflows in Italy deteriorated sharply in March 2026, as rising risk aversion and a worsening geopolitical environment pushed investors towards liquid and defensive instruments,...
Experian and ServiceNow partner to scale agentic AI
Experian, the global data and technology company, has announced a new long-term global partnership with ServiceNow, the AI platform provider, to bring autonomous AI agent capabilities to enterprise...
LexisNexis launches AI home insurance risk model
LexisNexis Risk Solutions has launched an AI-driven property risk model aimed at helping US home insurers improve underwriting accuracy as claims costs continue to rise.
Go.Compare launches insurance app on ChatGPT
Go.Compare has launched a new app on ChatGPT that allows users to compare car, van and home insurance policies directly through the AI platform.
US WealthTech investments surged by 95% YoY in Q1 driven by growth in large deals
Key US WealthTech investment stats in Q1 2026:
Is RegTech evolving into infrastructure itself?
For much of the last decade, RegTech has been viewed as a category in its own right: a fast-growing ecosystem of specialist providers helping financial institutions modernise compliance, automate r...
Revolut Trading secures FCA approval for expanded services
Revolut Trading Ltd (RTL), the authorised trading arm of global FinTech company Revolut, has obtained a Variation of Permissions (VoP) from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), broadening the reg...
Zopa and ClearScore launch GenAI training coalition
Zopa Bank and ClearScore Group, a digital bank and financial marketplace respectively, have announced the first 22 members of Jobs2030, an industry coalition designed to train 100,000 financial ser...
White Circle's $11m bet on real-time AI control
White Circle, an enterprise AI control platform that tests, protects, monitors and improves AI systems in real time, has secured $11m in seed funding from a roster of prominent figures across the A...
How IntellectAI's Magic Placement fights broker E&O risk
IntellectAI is pulling back the curtain on the technology driving its Magic Placement platform, as the InsurTech firm looks to address the persistent pain points in insurance distribution: broker e...
University Centre Leeds launches FinTech degree
University Centre Leeds, a member of the Luminate Education Group and a further education institution based in West Yorkshire, is opening applications for a new BSc (Hons) Financial Technology degr...
Sixfold unveils AI Narrative for faster underwriting decisions
AI InsurTech Sixfold has launched Narrative, a new capability designed to streamline life and health underwriting by reducing the time spent reviewing complex medical and case documentation.
How Abbove built the context layer for AI-driven wealth advice
In an era where AI-driven wealth advice is more common and widespread than ever, being able to sort the beneficial from the not-so-helpful can sometimes be a challenge. Abbove, a Belgian WealthTech...
Fenergo targets buyside friction with investor portal
Fenergo has unveiled its Digital Subscriptions capability, embedded directly within its Investor Portal, bringing the fund subscription process into a single digital workflow for the first time.
FloQast partners with Forvis Mazars to boost DACH expansion
FloQast, the AI-powered accounting transformation platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Forvis Mazars Germany, a professional services firm, aimed at automating key accounting proces...
Comviva and Unlimit join forces on global payments
Comviva, a digital transformation solutions provider specialising in customer experience management, data monetisation, and digital financial services, has announced a partnership with global growt...
Kreios and ALFI to digitise Luxembourg fund compliance
Kreios, a Luxembourg-based RegTech firm, has announced a cooperation with the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI), the country's leading fund industry body, to advance the digitalisa...
Lemonade launches renters insurance in Delaware
Lemonade, the tech-first insurance company, has launched its renters insurance product in Delaware as part of its continued expansion across the United States.
What is the global state of RegTech in 2026?
RegTech Analyst and Parker & Lawrence Research have collaborated to unveil a major new industry report, The Global State of RegTech 2026, offering one of the most comprehensive assessments of the g...
Admiral Money partners with D | One for smarter credit pricing
Admiral Money, the personal finance arm of the Admiral Group, has joined forces with D | One, the open banking services division of The ClearScore Group, to integrate D | One's proprietary risk-sco...
Rethinking inherent risk in modern financial crime
Inherent risk assessment sits at the heart of every financial crime risk framework. It answers the most fundamental question any organisation must ask: how exposed are we before any controls are ap...
Why DB endgame choices must be scheme-specific
As the range of endgame options available to UK defined benefit (DB) pension schemes continues to grow, trustees are facing an increasingly complex decision-making landscape.
Brazil firms continue to dominate the LatAm FinTech market raking in four of the top 10 deals in Q1 2026
Key LatAm FinTech investment stats in Q1 2026:
10x Banking and Tweezr partner to speed core migration
10x Banking, the cloud-native core banking platform, has announced a partnership with Tweezr, a deterministic AI provider specialising in legacy system understanding, aimed at making core banking m...
Kin Insurance secures $335m bond to expand US storm protection
Kin Insurance, a US InsurTech focused on homeowners coverage in catastrophe-exposed regions, has secured $335m in its largest catastrophe bond transaction to date.
Allianz partners Coalition to reshape global cyber insurance
Allianz Commercial will transfer its standalone cyber insurance portfolio to Coalition as part of a long-term partnership to consolidate the global cyber insurance market.
One Identity names Randy Menon as CPMO
One Identity, a unified identity security provider, has named Randy Menon as its new chief product and marketing officer (CPMO), bringing over 20 years of enterprise software leadership to the role...
How real-time risk visibility is reshaping the insurance lifecycle
Insurance has always depended on timing. Risk is captured at a specific moment, translated into a price, and expected to remain broadly stable until the next review. For much of the industry's hist...
Pleo and iplicit partner to boost expense management
Pleo, a European strategic finance platform, has announced a partnership with iplicit, a cloud accounting platform built for the UK and Ireland's mid-market, to bring automated spend management and...
Addepar unveils ADX to unify investment data at scale
Addepar, a global data and AI platform for investment professionals, has launched Addepar Data Exchange (ADX), a managed data environment designed to help firms unify, govern and activate investmen...