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Latest product rollouts and company milestones across the technical landscape.
Figure acquires Kiavi in $717m blockchain deal
Figure Technology Solutions, a blockchain-native capital marketplace, has struck a definitive agreement to acquire Kiavi, an AI-driven lending platform serving residential real estate investors, in...
Bluwhale launches AI-native financial operating system
Bluwhale, an AI and blockchain-based personal finance platform, has unveiled an AI-native financial operating system that automates users' financial lives while keeping data ownership and account c...
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...