RegTech

CleverChain brings AI due diligence to MENA markets

CleverChain brings AI due diligence to MENA markets

CleverChain, the RegTech firm behind AI agents for due diligence and anti-money laundering, has partnered with Cedar Rose, a Coface company, to automate due...
sandboxes

Lords committee probes value of regulatory sandboxes

The House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee, chaired by Baroness Noakes DBE, has opened an inquiry into the use and effectiveness of regulatory...
Reap

Reap launches Sentry to close card fraud gap

Reap, a global FinTech company that provides stablecoin-enabled financial infrastructure for businesses worldwide, has introduced Sentry, a fully managed fraud and risk service built...
Curvestone named OpenAI Select Partner

Curvestone named OpenAI Select Partner

Curvestone, an AI compliance platform for regulated financial services, has been named an OpenAI Select Partner, strengthening its work to automate regulatory checks for...
Footprint

Footprint bags $25m to arm banks against AI-driven crime

Footprint, the AI operating system for risk and compliance, has closed a $25m Series B funding round to accelerate the rollout of its agentic...
surveillance

Banks want AI surveillance but lack the data to run it

Banks are racing to adopt AI-driven surveillance, but new research shows almost none of them have the underlying data to make it work. According to...
EU AI

Manual AI disclaimers won’t survive EU AI Act scrutiny

The EU AI Act is no longer a distant regulatory milestone, it is an active compliance obligation. Prohibitions took effect from February 2025, transparency...
GDELT

Why GDELT falls short for compliance teams

GDELT has become the default reference point for anyone exploring global news data. Free, vast, and widely cited by researchers and AI developers, the...
KYC

Why your KYC checks are failing against AI-generated fraud

Generative AI has rewritten the rules of digital identity fraud, and KYC teams are scrambling to keep pace. Attackers are no longer relying solely...
compliance

Compliance teams lose $750,000 a year to manual research

Senior compliance professionals are hired for judgment, not search skills, yet a growing share of their working day is spent doing the latter. Financial...

News Stories

Vanishing messages, lasting liability for FinTech

Vanishing messages, lasting liability for FinTech

The rise of disappearing messages is creating a compliance headache that financial services firms can no longer afford to ignore, according to new research...
Why CFOs must trade hindsight for market foresight

Why CFOs must trade hindsight for market foresight

Resilience in the modern finance function is no longer about how fast an organisation reacts once volatility hits. According to LSEG Data & Analytics, it...
financial services

Who owns trust in financial services?

Trust sits at the centre of financial services, underpinning the relationship between customers and firms while giving regulators confidence that institutions can manage risk...
FintechOS raises $28m to fund US expansion

FintechOS raises $28m to fund US expansion

FintechOS, the agentic platform for Unified Product Operations, serving banks, insurers and other financial services firms across the United States and Europe, has closed...
How film finance can expose hidden money laundering risks

Money laundering risks grow across film financing

Film financing is coming under greater scrutiny as complex corporate structures, international investment and fragmented production chains create potential gaps in financial crime controls. According...

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