Risk Management

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...
RegTech

What are the biggest barriers to third-party RegTech adoption?

RegTech has moved from an emerging technology category to an increasingly important part of the compliance stack. Yet while vendors continue to invest heavily...
FINRA

FINRA loosens grip as deregulation push accelerates

Back in early 2025, the LeGaye Law Firm wrote, “The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), while not a federal agency, operates under the supervision...
AI governance

AI governance gap puts financial firms at examination risk

Financial regulators across the US, UK and UAE are converging on a single message: firms do not need to wait for AI-specific rules before...
Cytix raises $7m to tackle AI-driven code risk

Cytix raises $7m to tackle AI-driven code risk

Cytix, a Manchester-based software change risk platform, has completed a $7m Series A funding round as it looks to accelerate its response to the...
Why AI recordkeeping is becoming a compliance risk

Why AI recordkeeping is becoming a compliance risk

Financial firms are making decisions about artificial intelligence before regulators have established an AI-specific rulebook. But according to Red Oak Analysis, the absence of...
SEC AI checks put firms’ governance under scrutiny

SEC AI checks put firms’ governance under scrutiny

The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Examinations has begun requesting information from financial firms about their use of artificial intelligence, according to...
FinTech

Why FinTech’s best controls fail quietly, not loudly

Corlytics' latest Global Enforcement Report has surfaced an uncomfortable pattern: the organisations most often hit with regulatory enforcement rarely lacked controls altogether. According to Corlytics,...
spreadsheet

Why spreadsheets are the MLRO’s biggest hidden risk

There comes a point in every MLRO's tenure when it becomes impossible to ignore that the organisation has outgrown its manual, Excel-based financial crime...

News Stories

WealthReach partners VastAdvisor on advisor marketing

WealthReach partners VastAdvisor on advisor marketing

WealthReach, an AI-powered organic growth platform built for registered investment advisors (RIAs) and wealth management firms, has partnered with VastAdvisor, a governed AI organic...

N26 data: Gen Z leads Europe’s investing shift

Digital bank N26, the Berlin-headquartered mobile banking platform, has published new data showing a significant rise in investment activity among its youngest customers. According to...
Clear Street launches EMEA and APAC execution

Clear Street launches EMEA and APAC execution

Clear Street, a cloud-native financial infrastructure technology firm that aims to give sophisticated investors access to every asset in every market, has launched electronic...
Explainability becomes AML's new AI currency

Explainability becomes AML’s new AI currency

Artificial intelligence has sharpened detection, cut false positives and surfaced patterns that rules-based anti-money laundering (AML) systems simply cannot see. Yet according to new analysis...
Why metadata, not more data, drives market insight

Why metadata, not more data, drives market insight

Financial professionals today are not short of information. Breaking news, earnings releases, regulatory filings, research reports and alternative data all compete for attention. According to...

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