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

Smaller deals dominated this week's FinTech deal scene, with $541m raised across 15 deals

Smaller deals dominated this week’s FinTech deal scene, with $541m raised across 15 deals

It was a week for smaller funding rounds in the FinTech sector, with a total of $541m raised across 15 deals.  It marked a significant...
Personalization has become table stakes, so what's next?

Personalisation has become table stakes, so what’s next?

Personalisation has been a major trend in wealth management for many years to the point it is now seen an expectation, rather than as...
Duna: deterministic rules are the key to bank-grade AI

Duna: deterministic rules are the key to bank-grade AI

Financial institutions racing to embed AI into their compliance operations face a stubborn problem: the technology does not always give the same answer twice....
Prometeia platform gives AfDB central grip on model risk

Prometeia platform gives AfDB central grip on model risk

Prometeia, the Italian risk management and advisory specialist, has completed the implementation of its Prometeia Model Journey (PMJ) platform at the African Development Bank...
Exante warns inflation risks put bond investors on edge

Exante: hawkish Fed sends US yields soaring as bonds suffer

September proved another punishing month for fixed income investors, according to the latest Fixed Income Briefing from Exante, as a hawkish Federal Reserve, resilient...

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