Monthly Archives: February 2026
Astelia bags $35m to boost AI exposure management
Astelia, a cybersecurity platform founded by former leaders of Israel’s National Red Team, has raised fresh capital as enterprises grapple with a surge in...
How Norm AI is embedding legal intelligence into Microsoft 365
The pace of enterprise work is outstripping the capacity of traditional legal and compliance functions to keep up. As AI adoption accelerates across organisations,...
UK FinTech Allica Bank raises $155m Series D
Allica Bank, a UK-based digital bank focused on serving established small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has secured fresh capital of $155m.
The company has raised...
How will evolving customer expectations change InsurTech in 2026?
After years of digital transformation initiatives, 2026 is shaping up to be less about technological experimentation and more about behavioural reality. Across insurance markets...
EU market integration proposal: what asset managers need to know
Zeidler Group has shed light on the European Commission's Market Integration Legislative proposal, published on 4 December 2025, which takes direct aim at the...
Manual verification gap fuels UK scam crisis
New data from SmartSearch has revealed that more than half of identity verification checks are still carried out manually, even as the Financial Ombudsman...
Germany’s retirement savings shake-up: What banks need to know
Germany is overhauling its state-subsidised retirement savings framework, and financial institutions have a firm deadline to prepare for. The federal government approved a pension...
What is post-trade settlement and how does it work?
When a trade is executed on an exchange or trading venue, the work is far from over. Post-trade settlement is the series of processes...
Liberty Mutual and Floodbase target US flood gap
Floodbase, a parametric flood risk insurance platform, and Liberty Mutual have launched an instant quoting application for parametric flood (re)insurance in the US commercial...
How no-code AML cuts cost and boosts agility
Large financial institutions are under mounting pressure to modernise their AML programmes. As financial crime grows more sophisticated and regulators demand stronger oversight, traditional...










