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Why PPIs must own pension communication under Wtp

Why PPIs must own pension communication under Wtp

Imagine a 45-year-old employee in Amsterdam who has just received a letter from HR explaining that her pension scheme is changing under the Dutch...
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...
How AI is reshaping compliance by design in 2026

How AI is reshaping compliance by design in 2026

Regulatory compliance is no longer a box-ticking exercise. That is the central message from 4CRisk.ai, which argues that 2026 represents a watershed moment for...
CurrentClient

CurrentClient bags $1.25m seed round for advisor comms

CurrentClient, a communications platform built specifically for financial advisors, has raised $1.25m in a seed funding round. CurrentClient offers a compliant, integrated phone and messaging...
AI

Digital communications governance: AI in action

Artificial intelligence has moved well beyond buzzword status in financial services. It is now embedded in the day-to-day processes firms use to manage, monitor...
fraud

Synthetic identity fraud: the growing threat in 2026

Synthetic identity fraud is fast becoming one of the most complex threats facing financial institutions and regulated businesses today. According to SmartSearch, unlike conventional fraud,...

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Canada FinTech funding Q4 2025

Canadian FinTech funding rose by 52% YoY in Q4 2025 as investor confidence grew

Key Canadian FinTech investment stats in Q4 2025: Canadian FinTech funding rose by 52% YoY Average deal value increased to $89.1m as investors demonstrated...
CMB Monaco accelerates digital transformation with Avaloq

CMB Monaco accelerates digital transformation with Avaloq

CMB Monaco, a Monaco-based private bank specialising in bespoke private banking services, has completed its migration to the integrated technology platform combining Avaloq and...
Webull Securities (UK) scraps commission on US and HK shares

Webull UK scraps commission on US and HK shares

Webull UK, an online investment platform and subsidiary of Webull Corporation, has announced the removal of commission on all US and Hong Kong shares...
TaxTec, Proxymity and Label launch end-to-end MiKaDiv fix

TaxTec, Proxymity and Label launch end-to-end MiKaDiv fix

TaxTec, Proxymity and Label have announced a strategic collaboration to deliver what the firms are calling the industry's first fully connected, end-to-end solution for...
What are firms getting wrong with perpetual KYC?

What are firms getting wrong with perpetual KYC?

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.

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