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RegTech

RegTech’s AI shift puts analyst expertise at a premium

Compliance analysts are meant to be investigating risk and stopping fraud, yet much of their day is consumed by chasing documents and verifying paperwork....
Why insurance's old playbook is failing emerging risks

Why insurance’s old playbook is failing emerging risks

Insurance has long relied on historical data to understand and price future risk. But a new analysis from Earnix, an insurance technology provider, argues...
Producer compliance platforms face a new test on cost

Producer compliance platforms face a new test on cost

Producer licensing and compliance have become increasingly technology-led, but the platforms serving carriers and MGAs are built around markedly different infrastructure models. AgentSync, Sircon...
Confluence

Confluence unveils AI layer to speed regulatory checks

Confluence Technologies has launched Confluence POINT, a new layer of AI-enabled automation built to work across its existing solutions. POINT is designed to sit within...
Xpander

Xpander raises $7.5m to fix enterprises’ AI adoption gap

Xpander, a vendor-neutral enterprise AI enablement platform, has secured $7.5m in a Seed funding round led by Pico Venture Partners, with participation from Emerge...
regulatory

Regulatory chaos costs firms millions, so what’s the fix?

Payments and gambling firms are haemorrhaging money on regulatory monitoring, with some compliance teams spending up to 40% of their time simply checking whether...
reporting

Why siloed reporting could break under tighter rules

Financial institutions risk being overwhelmed by regulatory demands unless they dismantle the walls between their risk, finance, and reporting functions, according to a new...
FCA

UK slashes transaction reporting scope in FCA reset

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed the biggest shake-up of the UK MiFIR transaction reporting regime since Brexit, publishing Policy Statement 26/15 to...
digital markets

Old insider trading rules meet new digital markets

Compliance professionals keep asking the same question: will digital assets, tokenisation and prediction markets force regulators to rewrite insider trading law? Increasingly, the answer...
Seltzer expands Pennsylvania insurance footprint with Trego deal

Seltzer expands Pennsylvania insurance footprint with Trego deal

Seltzer Group Partners, a Pennsylvania insurance provider, has acquired Trego Insurance Agency, expanding its presence and capabilities in Berks County. The deal brings Trego's commercial...

News Stories

Beyond AI pilots: How ForwardLane is helping financial firms scale agentic AI

Beyond AI pilots: How ForwardLane is helping financial firms scale agentic AI

An MIT report found that 95% of generative AI pilots never make it into production. ForwardLane, with eight years of production deployment at some...

Why CPF lifecycle models risk getting age 55 wrong

Kidbrooke has warned that lifecycle investment models built for Singapore's Central Provident Fund (CPF) scheme could be producing dangerously misleading attainment figures, unless they...
Exante overhauls trading app as investor demands grow

Exante’s app redesign puts control back in investors’ hands

WealthTech company Exante is rolling out a redesigned version of its mobile app to all users over the coming weeks. The update retains the platform's...

Bolt debuts industry-first AI insurance platform

Bolt, a leading InsurTech focused on distribution, has rolled out what it calls the insurance sector's first AI-powered distribution platform to give partners access...
AdvisorFinder launches AI visibility tool for advisors

AdvisorFinder launches AI visibility tool for advisors

AdvisorFinder, a Virginia Beach-based organic growth platform for financial advisors, has launched AdvisorFinder Intelligence, a platform built to show advisors how they appear online...

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