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HelmGuard

HelmGuard’s $7.3m seed bets against static compliance checks

HelmGuard, a London-headquartered agentic governance, risk and compliance platform, has closed a $7.3m seed round to accelerate its push into automated risk assurance. The raise...
Celliegence

Mortgage Treasury backs Celligence’s AngelAi with $100m

Celligence has landed a $100m investment from Mortgage Treasury, a real estate finance company, to accelerate the rollout of its automated mortgage and transaction...
Mistral

Mistral raises €3bn to make sovereign AI the frontier

Mistral, the Paris-based artificial intelligence company known for its open-weight large language models, has closed a €3bn Series D funding round that values the...
ZeroRisk

ZeroRisk’s $10m bet on next-gen merchant cyber risk

ZeroRisk, the Dublin-headquartered cybersecurity firm that helps banks and payment providers manage cyber risk across their merchant portfolios, has closed a $10m Series A...
Cylake

Cylake raises $245m to challenge cloud-first cybersecurity

Cylake has raised $245m through a convertible note ahead of the beta launch of its next-generation product. The round saw participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners,...
Upwind

Upwind becomes first unicorn in modern cloud security

Upwind has raised $250m in a Series B funding round, propelling the company to unicorn status just two years after it emerged from stealth. The...

Over $1.3bn raised across 12 deals in powerful week for FinTech

There was a total of $1.36bn raised in 12 FinTech deals this week, representing a strong first week of September following the end of...
Guardio

Guardio raises $40m as scammers turn to AI at scale

Guardio, a consumer-focused cybersecurity company that shields individuals from scams, phishing attempts and AI-generated fraud, has raised $40m and reached a valuation of $1.1bn. The...
TabaPay raises $155m as it moves into banking

TabaPay raises $155m as it moves into banking

TabaPay has secured $155m in strategic growth financing from FTV Capital as it prepares to move into banking through the planned acquisition of Transact...
FNZ

Investors back FNZ’s $450m WealthTech transformation

FNZ has secured $450m in new equity funding from a group of existing long-term institutional shareholders. The capital was provided by some of the firm's...

News Stories

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,...
Why the RegTech and SupTech divide is about to disappear

Why the RegTech and SupTech divide is about to disappear

The long-standing wall between the technology firms use to comply and the technology regulators use to supervise is coming down, according to CUBE, the...
DACH banks must rethink platforms as AI and rules collide

DACH banks must rethink platforms as AI and rules collide

Banks across Germany, Austria and Switzerland that are replacing their wealth management platforms face a difficult balancing act. According to fincite, the DACH region...
Ema secures $77m Series B to scale AI Employees

Ema secures $77m Series B to scale AI Employees

Ema, an enterprise platform that provides agentic AI Employees, has closed a $77m Series B round as it looks to take its autonomous workforce...
Compliance teams trust data but struggle with audit trails

Compliance teams trust data but struggle with audit trails

LSEG Risk Intelligence, the risk-focused arm of LSEG, has published global research showing that although nearly all compliance leaders trust their screening data, fewer...

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