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Why unexplained bond prices are becoming a liability

Why unexplained bond prices are becoming a liability

Fixed income valuation has reached a turning point. According to LSEG Data & Analytics, it is no longer enough for firms to show that...
Duna helps SeQura scale KYB without adding headcount

Duna cuts SeQura’s KYB reviews from four hours to 15 mins

For many FinTech firms, compliance capacity quietly caps expansion. Every new market or vertical means more analysts, more tools and more time. According to Duna,...
Cyber insurers can no longer rely on AI self-disclosure

Cyber insurers can no longer rely on AI self-disclosure

KYND has introduced an AI detection capability that lets cyber insurers see which AI technologies sit within an organisation's online estate before they commit...
Single checks are failing firms against identity fraud

Single checks are failing firms against identity fraud

Remote onboarding has made it faster and easier for customers to open accounts with banks and FinTechs. It has also given fraudsters new ways...
ThetaRay hires ex-Instinet CFO as AI compliance rules bite

ThetaRay hires ex-Instinet CFO as AI compliance rules bite

ThetaRay, an AI-native provider of FCC infrastructure, has named Laure Richmond as its new chief financial officer as tightening regulation on both sides of...
MCO recruits RegEd co-founder to lead global compliance push

MCO recruits RegEd co-founder to lead global compliance push

MCO (MyComplianceOffice), a compliance management software specialist serving financial institutions, has named John Schobel as president. The hire gives the company a seasoned RegTech...
Channel sprawl exposes banks' surveillance identity problem

Channel sprawl exposes banks’ surveillance identity problem

When a regulator comes knocking, it does not ask for a single channel's records. It asks about a person: a name, a time window...
The MLRO alone cannot protect firms from financial crime

The MLRO alone cannot protect firms from financial crime

Financial crime risk assessments are frequently treated as technical exercises built on structured frameworks, scoring models, control inventories, residual risk calculations and data analysis. According...
StarCompliance and Moomoo target insider trading risk

StarCompliance and Moomoo target insider trading risk

RegTech firm StarCompliance has signed Moomoo Financial Singapore as a third-party data vendor. The deal gives compliance teams a sharper tool for overseeing how...
Prometeia: Energy shock tests Italy's economic resilience

Prometeia: Energy shock tests Italy’s economic resilience

Italy's economy continues to beat expectations, but according to Prometeia's latest Quarterly Economic Outlook for September 2026, that strength rests largely on temporary factors....

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Smaller deals dominated this week's FinTech deal scene, with $541m raised across 15 deals

Smaller deals dominated this week’s FinTech deal scene, with $541m raised across 15 deals

It was a week for smaller funding rounds in the FinTech sector, with a total of $541m raised across 15 deals.  It marked a significant...
Personalization has become table stakes, so what's next?

Personalisation has become table stakes, so what’s next?

Personalisation has been a major trend in wealth management for many years to the point it is now seen an expectation, rather than as...
Duna: deterministic rules are the key to bank-grade AI

Duna: deterministic rules are the key to bank-grade AI

Financial institutions racing to embed AI into their compliance operations face a stubborn problem: the technology does not always give the same answer twice....
Prometeia platform gives AfDB central grip on model risk

Prometeia platform gives AfDB central grip on model risk

Prometeia, the Italian risk management and advisory specialist, has completed the implementation of its Prometeia Model Journey (PMJ) platform at the African Development Bank...
Exante warns inflation risks put bond investors on edge

Exante: hawkish Fed sends US yields soaring as bonds suffer

September proved another punishing month for fixed income investors, according to the latest Fixed Income Briefing from Exante, as a hawkish Federal Reserve, resilient...

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