CyberTech

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...
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...
Account takeover fraud exposes gaps beyond authentication

Why account takeover fraud is harder to detect

Account takeover fraud is becoming harder for financial institutions to detect as criminals increasingly operate through legitimate customer credentials. A valid login, established account...
MIND

MIND raises $72m as AI turns data security urgent

MIND, the AI-native data loss prevention platform, has raised $72m in Series B funding, marking its second raise in just over a year as...
Comp AI

Comp AI raises $34m to push security beyond the audit

Comp AI, the AI-native compliance and security platform founded in January 2025, backed by Roo Capital and Grand Ventures, has closed a $34m Series...
Hackuity

Hackuity lands $19m as AI fuels a vulnerability tsunami

Hackuity, the AI-powered vulnerability operations centre specialist, has closed a $19m funding round as enterprises struggle to keep pace with a mounting backlog of...
Cymphony

Cymphony lands $30m as AI agents test data access limits

Cymphony, an AI security startup built to close the access gaps that artificial intelligence tools are exposing across corporate systems, has come out of...
surveillance

Banks’ AI surveillance ambitions stall on legacy systems

Shield, a global communications risk management company purpose-built for financial institutions, has published new research showing that banks are ramping up spending on AI-driven...
QNu Labs, an Indian deep-tech cybersecurity company building quantum-safe solutions, has closed a ₹200 crore ($21m) Series A1 funding round.

QNu Labs raises ₹200cr to scale quantum-safe cybersecurity

QNu Labs, an Indian deep-tech cybersecurity company building quantum-safe solutions, has closed a ₹200 crore ($21m) Series A1 funding round. The round was led by...
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...

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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