Identification/Background checks

Canada

Canada’s FCA bill puts FinTech compliance on notice

Canada's fragmented approach to tackling financial crime has drawn sustained criticism for years. Responsibility for investigating money laundering, fraud, and sanctions offences has historically...
Prove

Identity firm Prove bolsters platform with new hire

Prove has named Frances Zelazny as general manager of new market innovations, with a mandate to build out privacy-preserving biometric and KYC compliance capabilities. Zelazny,...

LSEG launches Identity Gateway for digital ID access

LSEG Risk Intelligence, the risk and identity verification arm of the London Stock Exchange Group, has unveiled Identity Gateway, a new infrastructure layer built...
Trade surveillance is entering a new phase. With financial institutions operating across increasingly complex, high-volume and multi-venue trading environments, firms are under growing pressure to improve detection capability, reduce false positives and demonstrate that surveillance frameworks are operating effectively in practice. The Global State of RegTech 2026 report – authored by RegTech Analyst and Parker & Lawrence Research – explored how the sector is evolving, and where the biggest structural challenges are emerging across financial services.

The surveillance gap firms are still struggling to close

Trade surveillance is entering a new phase. With financial institutions operating across increasingly complex, high-volume and multi-venue trading environments, firms are under growing pressure...
Sumsub

Why Sumsub is closing the gap between login and KYC

Sumsub, a verification and compliance technology provider, has launched an integration with Auth0 that lets businesses build identity verification directly into how they authenticate...
ID-Pal

ID-Pal upgrades defences against deepfake injection fraud

ID-Pal, an identity verification and fraud prevention platform, has announced upgrades to its Injection Attack Detection (IAD) capabilities within its Liveness Testing function, aimed...
Didit

Didit targets programmable identity with $7.5m raise

Didit, an AI-native identity and fraud infrastructure platform founded in 2023, has closed a seed round totalling $7.5m after securing an additional $6m in...
Hopae

IDENTT taps Hopae to unlock cross-border eID access

Hopae, a global digital identity infrastructure platform, has formed a strategic partnership with IDENTT, a prominent player in Poland's identity verification market, to bring...
Experian

Experian adds Akamai to AI agent trust ecosystem

Experian has announced that cybersecurity and edge computing firm Akamai Technologies has joined its Agent Trust partner ecosystem. The partnership centres on Experian's Agent Trust...
Calendar-based Know Your Customer (KYC) reviews are increasingly exposing banks to financial crime, compliance failings and operational inefficiencies, as regulators intensify scrutiny on outdated client monitoring processes, according to nCino.

Banks face rising risk as perpetual KYC becomes standard

Calendar-based Know Your Customer (KYC) reviews are increasingly exposing banks to financial crime, compliance failings and operational inefficiencies, as regulators intensify scrutiny on outdated...

News Stories

How MyComplianceOffice is rethinking KYC

How MyComplianceOffice is rethinking KYC

Daragh Tracey on KYC’s growing importance for financial crime compliance. Financial crime prevention rarely collapses because one control fails. Problems tend to develop in the...

Over $5bn raised by RegTech companies in 2025

A total of $5bn was raised by RegTech companies in 2025, according to a new report assessing the current market state. RegTech Analyst and Parker...
Digital asset compliance gaps firms can't ignore

Digital asset compliance gaps firms can’t ignore

After years of enforcement-led regulation with no formal rulebook, US financial regulators have finally drawn the map. On 17 March 2026, the Securities and...
Napier AI: detection, not efficiency, is AML's real test

Napier AI: detection, not efficiency, is AML’s real test

Napier AI has weighed in on one of the thorniest debates in financial crime compliance: the gap between what artificial intelligence can theoretically do...
Who's managing your AI agents in tax due diligence?

Who’s managing your AI agents in tax due diligence?

Artificial intelligence is taking on a growing role in tax due diligence, but according to a recent report from TAINA Technology, the next challenge...

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