Compliance technology firm KYCP has unveiled a new brand identity as it looks to move beyond its origins as a KYC-focused platform and establish itself as a broader compliance and risk-management solution. The company, formerly known as KYC Portal, made the decision to rebrand after recognising that its previous name was limiting how the market perceived its offering. The brand...

On the surface, FATCA and CRS compliance appears to be working. Deadlines are being met, frameworks are understood, and processes are in place across most private capital and investment management firms. But look more closely at day-to-day operations and a more pressured picture emerges. Compliance teams continue to spend considerable time collecting documentation, validating investor data and reconciling inconsistencies across...

A new breed of AI system is rapidly changing the way financial institutions approach crime prevention, according to SymphonyAI. Unlike the rule-based tools that have dominated compliance workflows for the past decade, agentic AI can observe, reason, and act in real time — moving the industry closer to what SymphonyAI describes as always-on compliance. SymphonyAI, which offers AI solutions for the...

Building with generative AI throws up no shortage of technical hurdles — but according to one senior figure in the regulatory technology space, the greatest challenge has nothing to do with model selection, data quality, or infrastructure. It is the simple act of saying no. That is the view of the head of innovation lab at Zeidler Group, who posed...

Financial analytics firm Prometeia is deepening its footprint in the Spanish market, targeting the country's rapidly growing wealth and asset management sector with a suite of data, automation, and artificial intelligence-driven solutions. Spain's wealth and asset management industry has seen considerable momentum in recent years, with investment advice and discretionary portfolio management revenues on the rise, and investment fund assets...

The best WealthTech software goes unnoticed — until it doesn't. Advisors toggling between multiple systems to find the same client data, status changes vanishing without a trace, and clients confronted with stale portfolio figures are all signs of a platform falling short. Fincite's latest update to its fincite • cios platform directly targets these everyday frustrations with three new...

The most significant reform to the Dutch pension system in recent memory — the Wet toekomst pensioenen (Wtp) — has entered its decisive phase. And according to supervisory guidance, sector publications, and monitoring reports, the real challenge is no longer planning. It is implementation. Kidbrooke, a unified platform for next-generation wealth experiences, recently delved into how Dutch life insurers can...

Australia’s financial institutions are entering a critical period as major anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing reforms approach implementation. The regulatory framework is shifting rapidly, while technology, customer expectations, and financial crime threats continue to evolve. According to SymphonyAI, these changes will force financial crime leaders to rethink how they manage risk, compliance, and collaboration across the sector. The company recently...

Seven in 10 (72%) people say fraud and scam attempts are becoming more convincing, as criminals increasingly use artificial intelligence to enhance their tactics, according to new research from global payments provider emerchantpay. The growing use of AI by fraudsters is making scams harder to detect, with 56% of respondents believing AI is making fraud more difficult to identify. Overall, half...

In Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 cult classic Pulp Fiction, when a situation deteriorates beyond control, everyone knows you call The Wolf. Arriving without the slightest hint of panic, he surveys the damage with practised calm and begins issuing instructions. Within minutes, chaos has been reduced to a sequence of manageable decisions. Insurance has long relied on people capable of performing...