KYC

KYB

Why KYB is getting harder to ignore in 2026

Know Your Business (KYB) is the process of confirming that a company is legally registered, genuinely exists, and is controlled by people who are...
RegTech

Where is RegTech heading in the second half of 2026?

The RegTech market has spent the first half of 2026 dealing with rapid changes in technology, regulation and financial crime. The question now is...
Has AML and KYC become too fragmented to fight modern financial crime?

Has AML and KYC become too fragmented?

Financial crime is becoming faster, more connected and increasingly difficult to detect through isolated compliance checks. As financial institutions add more AML, KYC, fraud...
Kyndryl

Incore Bank trials Gemini-powered KYC with Kyndryl

Kyndryl has completed a cloud-enabled agentic AI proof of concept with Incore Bank, a Swiss private bank, using Google Cloud's Gemini models to help...
Neobanks

Neobanks race to cut KYC friction without inviting fraud

Neobanks have built their reputation on speed. Customers expect to open an account from a phone in minutes, without a branch visit, a stack...
The future of tax operations: How AI is transforming documentation, withholding and reporting

How AI is transforming tax documentation, withholding and reporting

AI is beginning to reshape tax operations, automating repetitive compliance processes while allowing professionals to focus on complex cases, oversight and strategic decision-making. Tax operations...
AI KYC

AI cuts KYC drudgery, but who keeps the final call?

KYC and AML compliance work absorbs enormous analyst time, yet most of that time isn't spent on genuine judgment calls. It's spent wrangling documents,...
KYC

Continuous KYC isn’t enough as risk moves in real time

For decades, financial institutions built their compliance programmes on one core assumption: risk could be assessed on a schedule. According to Saifr, customer due diligence...
280m identities could reshape Southeast Asia KYC

280m identities could reshape Southeast Asia KYC

Hopae Connect is expanding its identity verification network across Southeast Asia, adding the Philippines National ID and Indonesia’s NIK to its platform and giving...
compliance

The compliance blind spot costing FinTechs millions

Financial crime is growing more sophisticated, and compliance teams that still rely on disconnected fraud and AML systems risk falling behind both fraudsters and...

News Stories

HSBC selects Nasdaq Calypso to unify derivatives clearing

HSBC selects Nasdaq Calypso to unify derivatives clearing

HSBC has selected Nasdaq Calypso to run its exchange-traded derivatives (ETD) clearing operations, expanding its use of the capital markets technology platform as financial...
Socure

Socure brings AI identity checks to Circle’s Arc blockchain

Socure, a provider of AI-native trust infrastructure for identity and risk intelligence worldwide, has deployed its RiskOS platform to handle identity verification and fraud...
UK and Cambodia pact targets Southeast Asia scam centres

UK and Cambodia pact targets Southeast Asia scam centres

The UK government has struck a new agreement with Cambodia that brings the fight against industrial-scale online fraud directly to one of the world's...

Pair of $400m rounds drive this week’s FinTech funding

More than $1.2bn was raised across FinTech funding rounds this week, compared with $858m across 21 deals last week, as companies continued to attract...
Deal room compliance why MNPI controls can't wait

Deal room compliance: why MNPI controls can’t wait

Every M&A transaction, capital markets deal, or restructuring mandate creates a trail of sensitive information that regulators now expect firms to track with precision. According...

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