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EU instant payment rules: banks risk being left behind
With European regulators tightening deadlines around instant payment security, financial infrastructure firm Tietoevry Banking is warning that bank hesitation on Verification of Payee (VoP) complia...
How the FCA is rewriting the rules on RegTech innovation
For years, the prevailing assumption in technology circles has been that regulation and innovation are fundamentally at odds.
Grasshopper launches treasury management with Waldo
Grasshopper Bank, a full-service digital bank with approximately $1.6bn in total assets, has launched a new treasury management product in collaboration with Waldo, a US-regulated investment advise...
AXA XL and Deloitte team up on cyber risk prevention
AXA XL, a global commercial insurance and risk management provider, has announced a strategic partnership with professional services firm Deloitte to deliver expanded cybersecurity and operational ...
Guidewire report reveals UK pet insurance pain points
A new report from Guidewire, a software company serving the property and casualty insurance industry, has revealed that UK pet insurance customers are among the least satisfied in Europe, while als...
Linedata launches intelligent fund services platform
Linedata, a global provider of credit and asset management technology, has launched Linedata Optima, an open AI-enabled operations platform aimed at transforming how investment operations are manag...
New FSB framework targets AI risks in financial sector
The Financial Stability Board (FSB), the international body that monitors and makes recommendations about the global financial system, has published a consultation report outlining sound practices ...
Why investment teams act too late on public information
Investment and risk teams are drowning in information, yet still making decisions without it. The problem is not access to news. It is the structural lag between when a story breaks and when it rea...
Concentrix and Napier AI take on AML compliance in ANZ
Global technology and services company Concentrix Corporation has announced a collaboration with RegTech firm Napier AI to roll out an AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML) compliance solution tar...
Why AI is reshaping regulatory oversight for good
Financial regulation has always required comparison, but the tools to do it well have never kept pace with the complexity of modern markets. As supervisory teams face mounting volumes of data, frag...
How AI is slashing sanctions screening costs for banks
New research has put a striking figure on the cost of inefficient compliance operations: Tier 1 banks could save up to $177.9m per year by adopting AI-driven know-your-customer (KYC) and sanctions ...
10 RegTech solutions helping firms keep pace with regulatory change
With an estimated 200+ regulatory updates each day, it is easy to understand why compliance teams often feel the pressure of keeping pace with change. To stop compliance teams becoming overwhelmed ...
How AI slashed a wholesaler's quote processing by 67%
A top-three insurance wholesaler has dramatically overhauled its back-office operations after deploying AI automation tools from IntellectAI, cutting quote processing effort by 67% and document com...
Aiviq launches AI-powered app on Snowflake Marketplace
Aiviq, a global client data platform for the investment management industry, has launched an AI-powered native app on the Snowflake Marketplace, giving joint customers direct access to investment a...
Capsa AI raises $18m Series A for private capital AI
Capsa AI, a London and New York-based startup developing an AI operating system for private capital, has closed an $18m Series A funding round, bringing its total raised to $20m.
Reset raises $6m seed round led by credit union customers
Reset, an embedded earned wage access (EWA) platform designed for credit unions and community banks, has closed a $6m seed funding round, bringing its total capital raised to more than $8m.
Revolut launches 5% savings rate for new UK customers
Revolut, the licensed UK bank, has unveiled a market-leading 5% AER (variable) savings rate for new customers in the UK, available until 4th December 2026.
EDGE Markets secures $29.2m Series A from CoinFund
EDGE Markets, a financial services firm building infrastructure products for gaming, digital asset and prediction markets, has closed a $29.2m Series A funding round.
A Security's $37m bet on stopping weaponised AI threats
A Security, an autonomous offensive security platform designed to identify and close real-world attack paths before adversaries can exploit them, has emerged from stealth mode after raising $37m in...
TCS wins AI transformation deal with Canada Life
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global IT services and consulting firm, has entered into a multiyear transformation and managed services agreement with Canada Life, a leading global life and pen...
Al Ahly Capital leads MNT-Halan investment round
MNT-Halan, Egypt and MENA's first FinTech unicorn, has completed the first closing of a new investment round led by Al Ahly Capital, the investment arm of the National Bank of Egypt (NBE).
Ramp hits $44bn valuation with landmark Series F
Ramp, a financial operations platform focused on helping businesses save time and money, has closed a $750m Series F primary financing round that values the company at $44bn.
Cyera expands Snowflake tie-up to govern AI agents
Cyera, an AI security platform designed for the age of agents, has announced expanded integrations with cloud data platform Snowflake at the company's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 26, a...
Platform One powers Trading 212's pension launch
Platform One, a wealth platform for IFAs, wealth manages and trading platforms, has partnered with Trading 212, the commission-free investment platform, to deliver the infrastructure underpinning T...
AI adoption surges among investment managers in 2026
Seven in ten investment managers are now actively deploying artificial intelligence in their front offices, according to new research from SimCorp, a global financial technology leader.
Identity security rethought as Offroad exits stealth with $7m
Offroad, an agentic identity security startup, has emerged from stealth with $7m in seed funding to help enterprises move beyond manual investigation of access risks across human, machine, and AI i...
Zeidler Group launches Autofill 2.0 for DDQ platform
Zeidler Group, an AI-native law firm and technology-driven compliance services provider serving the global asset management industry, has announced the upcoming launch of Autofill 2.0, a new enhanc...
Cense raises €6.5m seed round for digital asset compliance
Cense, a provider of a digital asset compliance and evidence platform for financial institutions, has raised €6.5m in a seed funding round co-led by G+D Ventures and Rabo Investments, with signific...
Why $300bn in compliance spending still isn't working
Every year, financial institutions collectively spend over $300bn on compliance. That figure, drawn from research spanning global banking, insurance, and asset management, has grown faster than rev...
Lloyds and Nationwide-backed Aveni raises £12m
AI FinTech Aveni has raised £12m in a funding round led by PXN Ventures, with participation from existing investors Puma Growth Partners, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide and Scottish Enterprise.
Global WealthTech deal activity projected to increase 14% in 2026 as large deals grow in Q1
Key Global WealthTech investment stats in Q1 2026:
Fenris launches new data tools to speed insurance quotes
US InsurTech Fenris has launched a series of new vehicle and property intelligence capabilities aimed at helping insurers make faster decisions across quoting, underwriting and distribution process...
How to fix broken KYC records before regulators do
Regulated financial institutions are operating under sustained and intensifying scrutiny to keep customer records accurate, current and audit-ready.
Liberty Mutual launches AI car insurance quoting via ChatGPT
Liberty Mutual Insurance has launched a conversational AI tool allowing customers to obtain car insurance quotes through ChatGPT, marking what it says is a first-of-its-kind initiative by a major c...
Global fund rules tighten: what managers must know now
Investment managers operating across borders are facing a wave of regulatory change, with new disclosure obligations, revised marketing rules and updated registration frameworks now live or recentl...
Concentrix and Napier AI target ANZ financial crime
Concentrix Corporation has announced a collaboration with RegTech firm Napier AI to deliver AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML) solutions across Australia and New Zealand (ANZ).
Why transparency is reshaping insurance pricing strategy
Transparency and governance in insurance pricing are becoming defining factors in how insurers design, deploy and defend pricing models. As pricing systems become more sophisticated and increasingl...
Banking leaders face an AI execution gap, nCino warns
Banking executives are rapidly rolling out AI initiatives, but a growing gap between strategy and execution is now emerging as the real challenge, according to nCino CEO Sean Desmond.
How to stress-test a compliance archive before regulators do
Communications archiving has transformed from a back-office checkbox into one of the most fiercely contested battlegrounds in regulated technology this year. Twelve months ago, the archive was litt...
Trump Accounts app brings child savings scheme to mobile
The US Department of the Treasury has launched the official Trump Accounts app, a mobile platform designed to give American children access to tax-advantaged investment accounts backed by a federal...
Epiris completes acquisition of trading platform WBS
WBS, a UK-based provider of dealing, custody and technology solutions to the investment industry, has been acquired by Epiris Fund III, advised by private equity firm Epiris LLP, from financial ser...
Finastra launches mortgage analytics tool for lenders
Finastra, a financial software company, has launched Data Insights 2.0, an analytics solution aimed at helping mortgage lenders convert a greater share of applications into funded loans.
ClearBank Europe launches Digital Asset Rails
ClearBank Europe has launched its Digital Asset Rails, a new capability enabling programmable liquidity for cross-border settlement with round-the-clock fiat payouts in euros via SEPA Instant.
Dispatch launches advisor transitions software for wealth firms
Dispatch, a data orchestration platform for wealth management firms, has unveiled Advisor Transitions, a new software solution aimed at streamlining the movement of advisors, client accounts and as...
From rubber stamp to real challenge: the board's risk duty
Across every major jurisdiction, a clear regulatory message has taken hold: boards are no longer passive recipients of financial crime risk assessments. They are accountable participants in shaping...
Why Sumsub is closing the gap between login and KYC
Sumsub, a verification and compliance technology provider, has launched an integration with Auth0 that lets businesses build identity verification directly into how they authenticate users and mana...
InsureVision's VisionScore™ goes live on 150k cameras
InsureVision, an AI-powered fleet risk intelligence company, has signed Waylens, a provider of AI video telematics technology, as the first licensee of its VisionScore™ product, deploying the tool ...
Exante: Nvidia boom meets bond market storm
In its latest weekly briefing, EXANTE flags that Nvidia has once again delivered a quarter that left little room for doubt.
Fragmented compliance data is costing banks more than they think
For many financial institutions, a close look at their regulatory obligations register reveals an uncomfortable picture: duplicate entries, outdated language, obligations assigned to teams that no ...
Why manual KYC is now a strategic liability
Compliance teams at regulated firms are caught in a losing battle. Half their working day is absorbed by repetitive, manual tasks - yet the fraud they're meant to catch is growing faster and smarte...
Yealand Fund Services taps ZILO for transfer agency tech
Yealand Fund Services, an independent authorised corporate director (ACD), has entered into a long-term strategic agreement with ZILO, a UK-based WealthTech firm focused on asset and wealth managem...
AI underwriter FutureProof enters E&S lines market
FutureProof Technologies, a venture-backed InsurTech using AI to automate property insurance underwriting, has launched a new personal lines programme targeting condo and renters insurance in catas...
Didit targets programmable identity with $7.5m raise
Didit, an AI-native identity and fraud infrastructure platform founded in 2023, has closed a seed round totalling $7.5m after securing an additional $6m in fresh investment to fuel its global expan...
IDENTT taps Hopae to unlock cross-border eID access
Hopae, a global digital identity infrastructure platform, has formed a strategic partnership with IDENTT, a prominent player in Poland's identity verification market, to bring government-backed eID...
How Behavioural Finance is bringing automation to UK wealth management
Behavioural Finance was grown from the roots of Tweed Wealth Management - a multi-adviser financial advice firm - to build AI-powered automation tools for adviser firms across the UK wealth managem...
Harmoney eyes European growth with €10m investment
Harmoney, a Belgian modular compliance and risk orchestration software provider, has received a €10m strategic minority investment from Smile Sail, a private equity fund specialising in European so...
KYCP targets compliance bottlenecks with data retention overhaul
RegTech platform KYCP has unveiled a dedicated Data Retention Module, replacing what was previously a cumbersome, script-heavy compliance process with a streamlined, no-code interface designed to g...
Tax reporting 2026: the cost of doing nothing is rising
The 2026 Tax Reporting & Withholding Conference, held in Washington, D.C., delivered a stark message to compliance professionals: the era of incremental adjustment is over.
Prometeia warns Italy clings to growth in riskier world
The ongoing crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is emerging as one of the most consequential macroeconomic flashpoints of 2026, according to the latest monthly brief from Prometeia.
3 FinTech deals account for lion share of funding this week - See this week's 14 deals here
The FinTech sector enjoyed another modest week in funding, with a total of $757m raised across 14 deals.
Broadridge bolsters fund data team with new VP hire
Broadridge Financial Solutions, a global financial technology company, has named Richard Terblanche as vice president of global distribution data solutions within its Data-Driven Fund Solutions div...
Visa and Trip.com Group partner to enhance Asia Pacific travel
Visa, a world leader in digital payments operating across more than 200 countries and territories, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Trip.com Group to strengthen travel experience...
Prometeia: Italian industrial output beats March forecasts
Italian industrial production climbed 0.7% month-on-month in March, beating Prometeia's own forecast of 0.2% growth and building on the modest 0.2% gain recorded in February, according to its resea...
KYCP's recycle bin update closes a compliance gap
KYCP has rolled out a significant update to how records are deleted within its system, introducing a recycle bin function that gives compliance teams greater control over sensitive data.
ERGO NEXT brings business insurance to TikTok Shop
ERGO NEXT Insurance has partnered with TikTok Shop to offer embedded business insurance products to eligible sellers using the e-commerce platform.
Open source security gap drives Socket's $60m raise
Socket, a software supply chain security platform founded in 2020, has closed a $60m Series C funding round at a $1bn valuation, as enterprises race to secure the surge of open source code now ente...
Luminor bets on cloud to future-proof Baltic payments
Baltic bank Luminor has completed a significant step in its cloud transformation strategy, migrating its core payment services onto Tieto Banktech's Payments as a Service platform, a cloud-native e...
Chase enters Germany with fee-free savings account
JPMorganChase, the American multinational banking and financial services giant, has officially brought its digital banking brand, Chase, to Germany.
Prudential launches AI underwriting tool for advisors
Multinational insurer Prudential has launched an AI-powered assistant designed to help financial professionals access underwriting information, product details and business forms more quickly acros...
Aviva appoints Alex McMurrough as commercial underwriting chief
Global insurer Aviva has appointed Alex McMurrough as chief underwriting officer for its commercial lines business, expanding her responsibilities across underwriting strategy, pricing and technica...
88% of UK consumers would ditch banks over crime lapses
ThetaRay has published its UK Banking & FinTech Trust Report 2026, revealing that the overwhelming majority of British consumers are prepared to leave their primary bank if it fails to prevent mone...
Ascend and Honor Capital create integrated insurance finance platform
Ascend, a leading InsurTech, has agreed to merge with premium finance provider Honor Capital in a deal aimed at creating what the companies describe as the insurance industry's first fully vertical...
PRA consults on shared services to ease compliance burden
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the UK's banking regulator, is planning to consult on changes to shared operational services rules for ring-fenced banks, a move aimed at reducing complia...
How Vivox.ai is putting AI agents to work in compliance
The global regulatory landscape is continuing to grow in complexity every year and financial institutions are trying to find the best way to cope. Vivox.ai founder and CEO Tim Khamzin, believes the...
MACM selects OneShield for core system overhaul
The Medical Assurance Company of Mississippi (MACM) has selected OneShield as its new full-suite core insurance platform as the medical malpractice insurer moves away from legacy on-premises system...
Aon launches digital platform for London Market trading
Global professional services firm Aon is launching a new digital trading platform designed to modernise how brokers place Follow Line business in the London Market.
UK regulators warn firms on AI-driven cyber risks
The Bank of England, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and HM Treasury have issued a joint statement warning that frontier AI models pose a growing and material threat to the cyber resilience o...
FATCA and CRS: the compliance gap that's quietly growing
Online trading platforms built for speed are running headlong into one of global finance's most demanding regulatory frameworks - and the cracks are starting to show.
Private markets are entering the mainstream - but is the infrastructure ready?
Private markets and tax‑efficient investments are moving steadily into the mainstream of UK wealth management. Advisers are increasingly using them in everyday portfolio construction as clients loo...
Derivative Path launches ALM Strategy Builder for banks
Derivative Path, a derivatives and risk management platform for financial institutions, has unveiled ALM Strategy Builder, a new product designed to allow banks and credit unions to construct, stre...
Novella secures $21m to expand AI brokerage
Novella, an AI-powered wholesale insurance broker, has raised $21m to expand its brokerage operations across the US, hire additional producers and continue developing its proprietary AI platform.
California cements status as main US FinTech hub securing 29% of all deals in Q1 2026
Key US FinTech investment stats in Q1 2026:
Alpha FMC acquires Elgin White to boost platform capability
Alpha Financial Markets Consulting (Alpha FMC), a global financial services consultancy, has agreed to acquire Elgin White Limited, a specialist investment technology and platform delivery consulta...
SAP Taulia launches AI working capital tools
SAP Taulia, a provider of working capital solutions, has unveiled a suite of AI-driven tools designed to help finance teams streamline liquidity management and sharpen operational decision-making.
How Legit and Sweet are uniting AppSec and cloud runtime
Legit Security, the agentic application security platform, and Sweet Security, a cloud runtime security specialist, have joined forces to offer organisations continuous protection across the entire...
Q1 2026 fines: data privacy and controls failures surge
Corlytics, a regulatory intelligence and risk analytics firm, has published its Q1 2026 enforcement report, revealing that global regulators issued approximately $542m in fines during the first thr...
TransFi launches BizPay for ASEAN cross-border pay
TransFi, a cross-border payments and stablecoin infrastructure company, has launched BizPay, a conversational payments integration enabling small and medium-sized businesses to conduct cross-border...
Flagstone Cash ISA quadruples with fixed-term accounts
Flagstone, the UK's largest cash savings platform with more than £19bn in assets under management, has significantly expanded its Cash ISA offering, quadrupling available accounts and bringing ten ...
Pro Global strengthens Latin America insurance services
Pro Global, a provider of insurance and reinsurance services, has strengthened its proposition in Latin America to support insurers, reinsurers and brokers facing rising operational and cross-borde...
LMAX Group launches Kiosk for digital asset collateral
LMAX Group, a global cross-asset marketplace for FX and digital assets, has launched Kiosk, a hosted institutional portal designed to allow clients to accept, custody, allocate and deploy digital a...
The hidden cost of compliance explanation - and the fix
The compliance function has changed - and the tools used to support it are struggling to keep pace.
How IRALOGIX is entering its next ten years as a force in retirement wealth
For IRALOGIX, 2025 was a milestone year. Not only did the company celebrate its 10-year anniversary, but it was an inflection point for the company as its services matured.
Revolut launches UK savings challenge with £100k prize
Revolut, a global FinTech serving more than 13 million UK customers, has launched its first savings challenge in the United Kingdom, offering participants the chance to win prizes of up to £100,000...
Vestmark launches AI wealth management tool Pulse
Vestmark, a WealthTech firm and provider of wealth management technology and services, has unveiled Vestmark Pulse, an AI intelligence solution designed to give wealth managers round-the-clock visi...
UK insurers face risk gap as 93% of properties misvalued
A staggering 93% of UK properties are insured for the wrong amount, signalling a major flaw in how insurers assess and price risk, according to new research from Intelligent AI.
Frame Security raises $50m to tackle human cyber risk
Frame Security, a human risk security company using AI to defend organisations against social engineering and deepfake attacks, has made its public debut alongside a $50m funding round.
Mercury and Olympus partner to expand Florida bundled insurance
Mercury Insurance, a leading provider of auto insurance, and Olympus Insurance, a Florida-focused homeowners insurer, have announced a new partnership designed to broaden access to bundled auto and...
Five things every CCO must know in 2026
The compliance landscape is shifting faster than it has in years. At ACA Group's recent spring media roundtable, ACA experts gathered to discuss the regulatory developments, operational pressures, ...
Keel exits stealth as profitable BaaS platform
Keel, the Manchester-based Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that grew out of consumer neobank Frost, has made its public debut after quietly reaching profitability and assembling an internation...
Broadridge deploys agentic AI across capital markets
Broadridge Financial Solutions, a financial technology firm, has announced that its agentic AI capabilities are now live in production across capital markets and wealth management workflows, with n...
Q1 2026 wealth trends: resilience over risk
The first quarter of 2026 largely vindicated earlier predictions for the wealth management sector, with less noise, more execution, and a sharper focus on accountability, according to a report from...
FinTech funding remains strong in healthy week for FinTech deals
A total of $814m was raised across the 17 funding rounds reported on by VCNews.co this week, matching a similar amount recorded last week.
Corgi secures unicorn status after $160m Series B
The round brings Corgi's total funding to more than $268m and marks a significant milestone in its ambition to rebuild core insurance infrastructure using artificial intelligence and automation, ac...
Pit raises $16m to build AI enterprise software
Pit, a Swedish AI startup developing custom enterprise software, has emerged from stealth with $16m in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, as it looks to replace manual business workflows with...
Climate risk and CMAs: What investors need to know
A growing number of institutional investors are grappling with how to fold climate change into their capital market assumptions (CMAs), but consensus on the best approach remains elusive.
InvestiFi brings investing to Summit Choice members
Summit Choice Credit Union, a nonprofit member-owned financial institution based in Indiana, has joined forces with InvestiFi, a digital investment solutions provider for community financial instit...
Making crypto compliance bank-ready with Cense
Banks are no longer able to treat cryptocurrency as a peripheral concern. Even institutions that do not actively offer digital asset services are increasingly exposed to crypto activity through the...
EU AI Act: Three obligations reshaping comms surveillance
For anyone working in surveillance, records or risk at an EU-regulated financial services organisation, the past few months have brought a familiar mix of urgency and uncertainty.