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Culture, not code, is sinking financial crime compliance

Culture, not code, is sinking financial crime compliance

Financial institutions keep spending heavily on compliance technology, yet the most damaging control failures continue to trace back to something no software can fix. According...
CDD

South Africa’s CDD bar rises after FATF greylist exit

Customer due diligence (CDD) has grown from a simple know your customer (KYC) exercise into one of the most demanding parts of the anti-money...
RegTech

AI fatigue is reshaping how banks choose RegTech providers

Financial institutions have poured significant sums into technology meant to simplify complex operations. Sometimes it delivers. Often, however, the real difficulties only surface once...
compliance

A7 scandal exposes gaps in periodic compliance checks

Kremlin-backed FinTech A7 has funnelled more than $6.9bn through the international banking system despite sanctions on Russia, according to a Financial Times investigation. UK...
Outerlimit

Outerlimit raises $16m as agentic AI outpaces security

Outerlimit, a newly launched decentralised security and authorisation company built for agentic AI, has come out of stealth with $16m in pre-seed backing. AlbionVC, Evolution...
Equifax

Equifax targets bot-driven fraud with real-time trust scores

Equifax has introduced two new intelligence tools, Signal Score for Email and Signal Score for Device, as automated fraud networks increasingly outpace the conventional...
compliance

On-chain trading leaves compliance teams in the dark

An alleged insider trading case involving two former Robinhood engineers has put a spotlight on a problem many compliance teams have yet to solve:...
Numeral

Numeral’s $100m Series C bets on sales tax complexity

Numeral, the AI-driven sales tax compliance platform, has closed a $100m Series C round as businesses face a widening set of tax obligations across...
EBA

EBA narrows third-party risk rules to critical functions

The European Banking Authority (EBA), the EU agency responsible for banking regulation and supervision, has released its final Guidelines on third-party risk management. The framework...
AI can spot scams early, but humans must still decide

AI can spot scams early, but humans must still decide

A payment can pass every check and still be the product of manipulation. The account name matches, the customer insists they know the recipient,...

News Stories

Undeclared AI is insurance's biggest blind spot

Undeclared AI is insurance’s biggest blind spot

Does artificial intelligence need its own class of insurance, or is it quietly reshaping risks the market already underwrites? That question was at the...
Elysian takes aim at insurers' claims audit blind spots

Citrea bets on private digital assets with Crest deal

Citrea, an application layer for digital assets backed by Founders Fund and Galaxy Ventures, has acquired Crest, a self-custodial privacy wallet, as it looks...
Slash moves into card acceptance to close finance blind spot

Slash moves into card acceptance to close finance blind spot

Slash Financial, a San Francisco-based banking platform for businesses, has expanded into payment processing, allowing approved merchants to accept debit and credit card payments...
Elysian takes AI claims auditing beyond spot checks

Elysian takes AI claims auditing beyond spot checks

Elysian, an AI-native third-party administrator (TPA) and claims quality platform, has launched two tools designed to give insurers broader oversight of claims handling across...
MGT enters California as insurers pull back

MGT enters California as insurers pull back

MGT, an AI-native neo-insurer focused on commercial property and casualty cover for small businesses, has expanded into California as traditional insurers reduce their presence...

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