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The headlines arrive faster than anyone can process them. Missile strikes. Warnings of retaliation. Oil markets jolt as tensions rise around the Strait of Hormuz. Governments scramble to evacuate citizens. Across television studios and diplomatic corridors, the same uneasy question returns: when will this conflict stop?

What the US-Iran conflict reveals about global insurance risk

The headlines arrive faster than anyone can process them. Missile strikes. Warnings of retaliation. Oil markets jolt as tensions rise around the Strait of...

How purpose-built AI is transforming compliance from detective controls into preventive controls

As AI rewrites the playbook for financial crime and conduct risk, Behavox founder and CEO Erkin Adylov explains how purpose-built models are shifting compliance...
compliance

Who is the owner of decisions in the age of automated compliance?

Automation was intended to make compliance cleaner, delivering faster decisions, more consistent outcomes, and fewer human errors, but it has made ownership much less...
In the first half of 2025, natural disasters caused around $131bn in potential insurance losses globally. Only about $80bn of that was insured. What remains is an uninsured black hole larger than the GDP of Bahrain.

How extreme weather is widening insurance protection gaps

In the first half of 2025, natural disasters caused around $131bn in potential insurance losses globally. Only about $80bn of that was insured. What...
For years, artificial intelligence has quietly tiptoed in the background of insurance claims, surfacing information, flagging risks and helping humans make decisions, but rarely taking action itself. That is beginning to change. Those stealthy steps are now becoming bashful plods, as AI's impact on the decision-making process surges.

Insurance claims rewired: The rise of agentic AI

For years, artificial intelligence has quietly tiptoed in the background of insurance claims, surfacing information, flagging risks and helping humans make decisions, but rarely...
The state of regulatory change management

The state of regulatory change management

Compliance change management is a major challenge for financial institutions as they attempt to analyse hundreds of new regulations and updates every year. Alison...
compliance

Who is the owner of compliance decisions in automated systems?

Automation is steadily moving from the margins of financial services into its operational core. Surveillance systems flag misconduct, onboarding platforms assess risk, and AI...
eIDAS

How can financial institutions leverage eIDAS 2.0 for strong growth?

For decades, financial institutions have wrestled with a fundamental paradox: the more rigorous the identity verification process, the greater the friction imposed on the...
governance

The state of digitial communications governance: Bridging the gap between AI innovation and regulatory...

AI is rapidly transforming how financial institutions communicate — with clients, internally, and increasingly with machines themselves. Generative AI can draft client communications in...
RegTech

Is RegTech consolidation creating new platform risks?

RegTech was built to solve fragmentation in compliance. But as the sector consolidates and platforms expand across surveillance, reporting, identity and risk, a new...

News Stories

LSEG launches redesigned ESG scores for investors

LSEG launches redesigned ESG scores for investors

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), a global financial markets infrastructure and data provider, has unveiled a comprehensive redesign of its ESG Scores, responding to...
AI and risk-based AML: how Australia is operationalising compliance

AI and risk-based AML: how Australia is operationalising compliance

Australia's financial services industry is entering a new phase of AML and CTF compliance — one defined not by whether to adopt AI and...
Energy crisis and conflict drag down global growth in 2026

Energy crisis and conflict drag down global growth in 2026

What began as a promising start to 2026 has quickly unravelled. According to Prometeia's latest quarterly economic outlook, military action against Iran and mounting...
How the Middle East crisis is reshaping inflation outlook

How the Middle East crisis is reshaping inflation outlook

Global inflation dynamics are undergoing a significant shift, with fresh CPI data, central bank decisions, and energy market turbulence collectively redrawing the economic outlook...
How digital WealthTech journeys convert clients to advisors

How digital WealthTech journeys convert clients to advisors

Morgan Stanley recently disclosed that more than $100bn migrated from digital and workplace channels into advisor-led relationships in a single year. For Kidbrooke, this...

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