Risk Management

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...
Prismm warns banks face a $1.5tn deposit risk wave

Prismm warns banks face a $1.5tn deposit risk wave

Prismm, a FinTech company providing inheritance infrastructure for banks and credit unions, has launched its Deposit Mortality Index (DMI), a new measurement tool designed...
regulatory reporting

EBA, ESMA and EIOPA reshape regulatory reporting

European supervisors are quietly dismantling the template-driven reporting model that has defined compliance for decades, and firms that fail to grasp the scale of...
risk

Why residual risk exposes the myth of control comfort

On paper, most financial institutions appear well defended. Policies are documented, procedures mapped, systems described as resilient, staff trained and audits scheduled. The result...
FinTech

Can community banks survive FinTech compliance risk?

Community banks chasing growth through FinTech partnerships are facing a stark warning from regulators. In May 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the...
financial crime

How complacency blinds firms to financial crime threats

Most financial crime failures are not born of dramatic collapse or blatant negligence. Instead, they build slowly through hundreds of minor decisions, ignored warning...
Q2

Regulators punish firms for ignoring their own controls in Q2

Global regulators handed out more than $931m in penalties above the $1m mark during the second quarter of 2026, the largest quarterly total in...
Why AI is testing the limits of financial crime controls

Why AI is testing the limits of financial crime controls

The rapid adoption of generative and agentic AI is forcing financial services firms to reconsider whether traditional information barriers remain effective in a world...
trading growth

Why venue rulebook blind spots threaten trading growth

Electronification is gathering pace across capital markets, and with it the proliferation of trading venues, from DLT-based platforms to crypto exchanges. But this progress...
Why sycophantic AI is a tax due diligence risk

Why sycophantic AI is a tax due diligence risk

AI agents are increasingly becoming part of tax due diligence workflows, helping professionals analyse transaction data, identify potential exposures and summarise complex regulatory information....

News Stories

Guidewire launches platform for agentic insurance

Guidewire launches platform for agentic insurance

Guidewire, a cloud platform provider for property and casualty (P&C) insurers, has introduced a platform-based approach to agentic insurance, designed to help carriers deploy...

FinTech market roars ahead with over $2.6bn raised this week

As we enter the final stretch of the year, FinTech funding was showing no signs of slowing down as a substantial funding package of...
Why AscentAI makes obligations the unit of RegTech change

Why AscentAI makes obligations the unit of RegTech change

Regulators publish documents, but financial institutions have to manage the individual obligations buried inside them. That mismatch is where a large share of the...
Collective secures $100m to power solopreneur finances

Collective secures $100m to power solopreneur finances

Collective, a financial platform built for self-employed business owners, has secured $100m in new funding to develop what it describes as a financial operating...
Can identity verification survive the age of synthetic identities?

Can identity verification survive the age of synthetic identities?

Identity verification has long relied on the assumption that a person can be distinguished from an impostor through evidence of who they are. But...

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