How governance, data and control failures are driving 2025 penalties
Global enforcements dropped a whopping 72% between 2024 and 2025, with fines dropping to $$5.488bn in total across all four quarters last year. According...
US prediction markets: Risks and regulation ahead
If 2025 marked the breakout year for prediction markets, 2026 is shaping up to be the year of regulatory reckoning. What began as a...
CUBE acquires 4CRisk to boost AI compliance
CUBE, a global provider of Automated Regulatory Intelligence (ARI) and RCM solutions, has acquired 4CRisk.ai, a RegTech specialising in agentic AI-powered compliance and risk...
FINRA warns on AI risks and off-channel use
FINRA’s 2026 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report has set a clear tone for the year ahead, placing generative AI (GenAI) governance and off-channel communications squarely...
Nucleus Security secures $20m Series C funding
Nucleus Security, a cybersecurity company specialising in unified vulnerability and exposure management, has secured fresh backing of $20m.
The company positions itself as a system...
What is the CIO playbook for safe generative AI adoption?
CIOs are facing mounting pressure to roll out generative AI across the digital workplace, even as accountability for risk remains firmly on their shoulders....
Inside the fraud economy: 7 insights from account farmers
Account farming and identity marketplaces have matured into organised, service-driven ecosystems – and the language fraud enablers use offers rare insight into how these...
APP scams, instant payments and the future of SAR reporting
Rethinking SAR thresholds in 2026 has become unavoidable as APP scams surge alongside the rapid expansion of instant payments across Europe.
According to Flagright, as...
Why technology now underpins financial crime risk assessments
Technology has become the backbone of modern financial crime risk assessments. Where these assessments were once built on spreadsheets, word documents and email-driven workflows,...
Eight compliance risks emerging from a fractured world
A fragmented world shaped by geopolitical rivalry, diverging regulatory regimes, supply-chain realignment and weakening international cooperation is fundamentally altering the global financial crime risk...













