Financial crime rarely follows a predictable script. Instead, it moves through networks of accounts, counterparties, jurisdictions and transactions, exploiting the moments where compliance systems struggle to connect information quickly enough. As payment systems accelerate and digital channels multiply, those weaknesses have become harder for financial institutions to manage. Many compliance frameworks were originally designed around separate functions. Customer onboarding, screening,...

For enterprise financial institutions evaluating RegTech partners, the decision is far more than a procurement exercise. It is a long-term infrastructure commitment with direct consequences for regulatory standing, operational continuity, and strategic agility. According to ComplyAdvantage Choosing the wrong partner does not just result in compliance gaps; it can halt business operations entirely. Meeting the expectations of both boards...

As artificial intelligence reshapes financial services at pace, the question of what responsible adoption actually looks like in practice has become one of the industry's most pressing concerns. According to Theta Lake, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has been direct on this point, noting that open stakeholder engagement is essential to defining what safe and responsible AI looks like across...

Andera, an AI-native platform built to automate the internal audit function, has secured $37m in a Series A funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The investment marks Lightspeed's conviction that the audit sector has reached a pivotal moment for AI-driven transformation. The venture firm spent several months building its thesis before committing capital, consulting with finance and audit leaders...

SumUp, a global FinTech company serving over four million merchants worldwide, has officially entered Canada, marking its 38th operational market and its most recent expansion across the Americas. The company is launching with two products tailored to the needs of small business operators: the SumUp Go card reader, a compact device for in-person transactions, and Payment Links, which enables merchants...

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 States and Southeast Asia. The round was led by Bajaj Finserv, one of India's largest and most diversified financial services groups, with continued backing from existing investor Info Edge Ventures. The...

For compliance teams at asset management firms, allocation review has quietly become one of the most thankless tasks in the working day. Hours are consumed wading through exception reports, only to find that the overwhelming majority of alerts carry no genuine risk. According to ACA Group, the signal-to-noise ratio is broken, and the behaviours that regulators most want to see...

Warren, a Ghent-based WealthTech platform operating its own regulated pension fund and offering AI-powered financial coaching to employees, has closed a €10m seed round to accelerate its Belgian growth and lay the groundwork for a wider European push. The round was led by the venture arm of transatlantic investment fund Motive Partners, with F Capital joining as a new backer...

Feathery, an AI operating system built for insurance and wealth management enterprises, has launched AI Portfolio Submission Analytics, a tool designed to convert historical submission data into actionable portfolio intelligence for insurance carriers. The new offering analyses the full body of information contained within thousands of past submissions, automatically discovering and structuring common data points and correlating submission characteristics with...

Cisco, a global networking and cybersecurity technology company, has announced its intention to acquire WideField Security, a move that will embed identity and session intelligence directly into Splunk's agentic security operations centre (SOC) capabilities. WideField's technology will be integrated into Splunk to enable the normalisation and correlation of identity, session, and activity telemetry drawn from multiple sources. The result will...