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crime

Closing detection latency gaps in financial crime

When regulators ask "when did you first become aware of this?", the answer exposes far more than the competence of individual analysts — it...
compliance

Three compliance priorities every financial firm needs in 2026

The opening months of 2026 have sent a clear message to financial services firms: regulatory momentum is not letting up. As artificial intelligence becomes...
How Prometeia is transforming wealth management in Luxembourg

How Prometeia is transforming wealth management in Luxembourg

Prometeia is expanding its international presence through its dedicated Luxembourg branch. The Italy-headquartered advisory and analytics group brings more than 50 years of experience across...
BNM

BNM fines Bank Rakyat RM1m for IT security failures

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) has imposed an Administrative Monetary Penalty (AMP) of RM1,000,000 on Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Malaysia Berhad (BKRM) following a series of...
Fourthline

Bybit EU and Fourthline strengthen KYC partnership

Bybit EU, the digital asset exchange operating across EEA countries, has selected Fourthline, a European provider of AI-powered identity verification and compliance solutions, as...
Revolut

Revolut faces €11.5m penalty over fee claims

Revolut has been fined €11.5m (£10m) by Italy's competition authority after the watchdog found the London-based FinTech giant had misled customers over the fees...
risk

Why IT teams shouldn’t build financial crime risk platforms

Across every sector, there is a recurring moment that quietly costs organisations millions. A spreadsheet-based process becomes unwieldy, someone in the room suggests that...
regulatory

Closing the gap in regulatory change management

Somewhere in a financial services firm right now, a compliance team is staring at a pile of regulatory updates — fresh guidance from one...
depthfirst

AI security lab depthfirst raises $80m Series B round

DepthFirst, an applied AI lab focused on securing software infrastructure, has raised $80m in a Series B funding round. The round was led by Meritech...
Variance

Variance bags $21.5m to power AI compliance agents

Variance, which builds agentic AI tools for risk and compliance workflows, has raised $21.5m in a Series A funding round to expand its platform...

News Stories

Middle East retail investing: the WealthTech opportunity

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...
Why good-weather pension numbers are misleading participants

Why good-weather pension numbers are misleading participants

As the Netherlands' pension sector navigates its Wet toekomst pensioenen (Wtp) transition, a growing body of regulatory guidance and independent research suggests that the...
Nordic banks turn to CaaS to fight rising fraud

Nordic banks turn to CaaS to fight rising fraud

The Nordic region is among the most cashless in the world, with cash accounting for fewer than 5% of all transactions in Norway and...
Global FinTech funding continued its strong surge over the past two weeks, with approximately $2.17bn raised across 23 deals, as cybersecurity firms saw major deals come to fruition.

Global FinTech funding tops $2bn as RegTech deals run rampant

Global FinTech funding continued its strong surge over the past two weeks, with approximately $2.17bn raised across 23 deals, as cybersecurity firms saw a...
How metadata supercharges AI document processing

How metadata supercharges AI document processing

Artificial intelligence is rapidly embedding itself into document-heavy organisations, promising to transform everything from contract analysis to compliance monitoring. Yet despite this momentum, many...

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