Ravical raises $17m as AI reshapes accounting firm growth
Ravical, an AI platform that accounting and tax firms use to run their operations, has closed a $17m seed round aimed at helping practices...
SEC 2027 exam priorities put compliance controls on trial
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published its examination priorities for Fiscal Year 2027, and according to StarCompliance, a compliance technology provider,...
PhotonPay lands $40m to fuse stablecoins and fiat rails
PhotonPay, a payments infrastructure firm building a stablecoin-centric Financial Operating System for businesses, has closed a $40m Series C round as it pushes to...
Singapore caps board seats as governance overhaul looms
The Corporate Governance Advisory Committee (CGAC), working alongside SGX RegCo has unveiled proposals that would reshape how boards of listed companies operate, including a...
FCA warns private markets over conflicts of interest gaps
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has told firms operating in private markets that their handling of conflicts of interest must evolve alongside the sector’s...
Weak IT general controls put every audit at risk
As regulators tighten expectations on operational resilience, IT general controls (ITGC) are moving from back-office hygiene to board-level concern. These controls underpin the security,...
Cyera secured one of the top US FinTech deals as funding in the country...
Key US FinTech investment stats in Q3 2026: US FinTech funding grew 69% YoY in Q3
Californian companies secured three of the top 10...
Bloomberg: AI skills open doors to quant investing
Bloomberg, the financial data, media and technology firm, has published new research suggesting that competence with AI and coding tools is overtaking conventional academic...
Phase lands $45m founder backing for AI agent blockchain
Phase, a company developing the operational backbone for an economy driven by AI agents, has switched on its Layer 1 blockchain mainnet with $45m...
Bdeo deploys Vonage API to speed up AI claims
Madrid-based InsurTech Bdeo has taken Vonage’s Quality on Demand (QoD) Network API into full commercial production, marking one of the technology’s earliest enterprise deployments...













