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eflow

Why Greenwich Dealing turned to eflow and xyt for oversight

Greenwich Dealing, the Geneva-headquartered provider of outsourced dealing services to the buy-side, has chosen regulatory technology from eflow and xyt to sharpen its monitoring...
financial crime

How complacency blinds firms to financial crime threats

Most financial crime failures are not born of dramatic collapse or blatant negligence. Instead, they build slowly through hundreds of minor decisions, ignored warning...
Hopae

Hopae targets Brazil’s 65m digital IDs with CNH launch

Hopae has unveiled a real-time verification service for Brazil's digital driver's licence on its Hopae Connect platform, pairing encrypted QR code decoding with facial...
FCA

FCA’s NFM rules put 38,000 firms’ evidence to the test

From 1 September 2026, the FCA Code of Conduct will extend to cover bullying, harassment and violence at every FCA-authorised organisation, dragging almost 38,000...
Q2

Regulators punish firms for ignoring their own controls in Q2

Global regulators handed out more than $931m in penalties above the $1m mark during the second quarter of 2026, the largest quarterly total in...
Natural

Natural raises $30m to power payments for AI agents

Natural, a US startup building a payments stack designed specifically for AI agents, has secured $30m in Series A funding as it races to...
Ant

Ant International lands $1.2bn to power cross-border payments

Ant International, a global digital payment, digitisation and FinTech provider, has closed a Series A equity financing round worth approximately $1.2bn to strengthen its...
Empirical Security

Empirical Security lands $25m to fight AI-driven exploits

Empirical Security has closed a $25m Series A round as it looks to arm security teams against the accelerating wave of AI-driven exploits. Brightmind Partners...
Neo

Neo lands $100m as agentic AI outpaces security teams

Neo has emerged from stealth with $100m in funding to help enterprises govern the rapid spread of AI agents across their software estates. The round...
PEP

PEP screening pitfalls that expose FinTech compliance teams

A politically exposed persons check (PEP check) sits among the most consequential controls in any AML compliance programme. Done well, it surfaces elevated risk...

News Stories

Fast Shift wins Malta EMI licence to open EEA gateway

Fast Shift wins Malta EMI licence to open EEA gateway

Fast Shift Limited, an Electronic Money Institution and part of the Badalyan Brothers Group, has been granted EMI authorisation by the Malta Financial Services...
Mastercard

Mastercard bets on new leaders to win Asia Pacific commerce

Mastercard, the global payments technology giant, has appointed Joyce Bo as executive vice president, Core Payments, Asia Pacific, completing a run of senior hires...
machine-readable

Is regulation ready to become machine-readable?

Compliance has always involved translation. Firms take broad regulatory expectations and convert them into policies, controls and workflows that fit their business. It is...
Ripple backs ZILO and Licuido to scale tokenised funds

Ripple backs ZILO and Licuido to scale tokenised funds

Ripple, a provider of blockchain-based enterprise solutions for traditional and digital finance, has made strategic investments in ZILO and Licuido to strengthen its tokenised...
TOPPAN launches dual-interface smart card for post-quantum security

TOPPAN launches dual-interface smart card for post-quantum security

TOPPAN, the Tokyo-headquartered technology company, has developed a dual-interface IC card featuring post-quantum cryptography (PQC), designed to protect digital identity systems against future quantum...

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