Key Canadian FinTech investment stats in Q4 2025: Canadian FinTech funding rose by 52% YoY Average deal value increased to $89.1m as investors demonstrated greater confidence in the market Micruity, a FinTech focused on modernising the data infrastructure underpinning retirement income solutions, raised $20m in Series A financing round, making it one of the biggest Canadian FinTech deals of...

CMB Monaco, a Monaco-based private bank specialising in bespoke private banking services, has completed its migration to the integrated technology platform combining Avaloq and Aladdin Wealth™. The migration streamlines CMB Monaco's entire value chain across the front, middle and back office, enabling seamless workflows across core and digital banking, client management and portfolio management. The joint platform equips relationship and...

Webull UK, an online investment platform and subsidiary of Webull Corporation, has announced the removal of commission on all US and Hong Kong shares alongside the launch of a flexible Stocks and Shares ISA. The dual announcement marks a notable step for UK retail investors, with Webull UK positioning itself among the first platforms in the country to extend zero-commission...

TaxTec, Proxymity and Label have announced a strategic collaboration to deliver what the firms are calling the industry's first fully connected, end-to-end solution for MiKaDiv compliance. The partnership brings together three specialist technology providers to address the regulation's requirements across data origination, validation and regulatory reporting — covering the entire custody chain in a single, integrated ecosystem. MiKaDiv represents a significant...

For several years, perpetual KYC (pKYC) has been pitched as the next evolution of traditional KYC methods, but firms still have misconceptions around what it really means.

The European Union's newly created Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) took a landmark step on 24 March 2026, hosting its first public hearing on draft technical standards under the AML Regulation (AMLR). Though the event may appear routine from the outside, the implications for financial institutions and their compliance teams are anything but. Napier AI, a provider of next generation AML...

LSEG, the London Stock Exchange Group, has launched the Workspace Top 50, a new monthly feature revealing the most searched commodities and equities by financial professionals globally. The Workspace Top 50 is published directly within LSEG's Workspace platform and shared via LinkedIn, offering users a monthly snapshot of the most searched commodities and equities worldwide. The feature surfaces aggregated search...

Document management firm M-Files has unveiled a series of new integrations for Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent Builder, designed to deliver more accurate and trusted AI-driven results for enterprise users. The move builds on an existing strategic partnership between the two companies and reflects their shared ambition to help organisations unlock a performance advantage through artificial intelligence. Rather...

Market sentiment around generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is undergoing a notable reversal, particularly within the services sector, according to new analysis from financial research firm Prometeia. Until recently, investors had been largely bullish on GenAI, pricing in expectations of broad-based productivity gains across the economy. However, that optimism is now giving way to a more cautious — and in some...

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