Middle East retail investing: the WealthTech opportunity

April 10, 2026

Retail investment and preparing for retirement is gaining traction in the Middle East. For Fredrik Davéus, CEO and co-founder of Kidbrooke, this isn’t just...

“The compliance problem isn’t missing data. It’s missing signals you can act on.”

April 9, 2026

As the volume and velocity of global information continue to accelerate, organisations operating in risk, compliance, and investment environments face a growing challenge: how...

Why regulatory intelligence is becoming critical infrastructure

April 8, 2026

Regulation used to sit at the edges of the financial system — a necessary constraint, interpreted periodically, managed reactively, and often treated as a...

How WealthTech can shape the next generation of investors

April 7, 2026

Digital WealthTech platforms have helped make it easy for everyone to get access to their finances. Whether it is a banking app that allows...

What are firms getting wrong with perpetual KYC?

April 2, 2026

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.

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 a similar role. Actuaries are the professionals insurers turn to when risk becomes too complex for instinct alone.

The evolving role of actuaries in the age of AI

April 1, 2026

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...

Governing AI without slowing down

March 27, 2026

If the first two parts of The Accountability Gap exposed the problem and questioned where decisions should sit, the next challenge is execution: how...

How machine intelligence is transforming financial crime detection

March 26, 2026

Financial crime detection is being quietly rebuilt from the ground up. What was once a rules-driven discipline - defined by static thresholds, retrospective reviews,...

Artificial intelligence may dominate the current conversation around insurance technology, but the story of InsurTech itself has followed a different trajectory. A decade ago, the sector was defined by the promise of disruption. Venture capital flowed into startups promising to rebuild insurance from the ground up. This swell of momentum saw surged to record levels, peaking at more than $15bn globally in 2021, according to CB Insights.

The next phase of InsurTech: From disruption to durability

March 24, 2026

Artificial intelligence may dominate the current conversation around insurance technology, but the story of InsurTech itself has followed a different trajectory. A decade ago,...

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

March 23, 2026

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