Nearly 30 years since its creation, the Investment Decision Process (IDP) model remains a cornerstone tool for asset owners seeking to understand how individual investment decisions contribute to total fund performance. Ortec Finance, the firm behind the model, has revisited its origins and outlined where it is heading next. The model emerged at a time when performance attribution was still...

The RegTech sector is awash with artificial intelligence tools promising to revolutionise legal and compliance work. But beneath the marketing noise, a fundamental flaw is emerging — one that no amount of new features or upgraded language models can fix on its own. Zeidler Group, a firm specialising in investment management regulation, is sounding the alarm over what it sees...

Plaid, a FinTech best known for enabling consumers to connect and share their financial data with banks and apps, has reportedly completed a fresh funding round that values the company at about $8bn. According to PYMNTS, the company raised the money in a privately-held round, Bloomberg News reported on 26 February 2026, citing people familiar with the matter, but said...

DriveWealth and Kalshi have announced plans to work together to widen access to regulated prediction markets through a single, unified investing experience. The companies say the partnership is designed to integrate Kalshi’s event contracts into DriveWealth’s API-first brokerage platform, allowing DriveWealth’s partners to offer event-driven markets alongside equities, ETFs, and other traditional asset classes. DriveWealth is positioned as an infrastructure provider...

Dots, a global payouts platform for marketplaces and service-based businesses, has raised fresh capital of $8.9m.  The company secured $8.9m in a Series A round led by DCM, with participation from Y Combinator. Dots positions itself as infrastructure for sending money rather than taking it, providing businesses with tools to deliver payouts across multiple rails and geographies. The platform brings together...

Tieto, a Nordic technology company, has signed a framework agreement with Orange Business, a global managed services and cloud provider, making Orange Business a significant capacity and managed services partner for Tieto. Under the agreement, Orange Business will provide services across all four of Tieto's business units as well as corporate-level IT services. Tieto Banktech has already confirmed it will...

Hawk, an AI-powered fraud detection platform, has partnered with Mitek to deliver a solution helping financial institutions identify and block altered, forged, or counterfeit checks in real time. The partnership combines Mitek's patented image forensics and consortium intelligence with Hawk's AI-powered precision and self-serve rule management. In a conversation published by Hawk, Hrishi Talwar, its vice president of product, fraud,...

Key global FinTech investment stats in Q4 2025: Global FinTech deal activity grew by 11% YoY US companies secured 44% of all the global FinTech deals to dominate the marketplace in Q4 Zelo, an Abu Dhabi-based supply chain finance platform providing rapid invoice-to-cash solutions for SMEs and mid-tier suppliers, secured one of the biggest FinTech deals of the quarter...

A growing volume of regulations and updates, rapid advances in technology and an uncertain geopolitical climate are making regulatory compliance more complex each year—and 2026 looks set to continue that trend. Companies face a difficult landscape of needing to embrace innovation to keep pace with market demands, while ensuring they remain within the boundaries of evolving regulations. It is a...

Southern Oak Insurance Company and Lilypad-Centauri Insurance, two insurers operating in catastrophe-prone coastal markets, have expanded their use of ZestyAI, an AI-powered risk and decision intelligence platform for the insurance industry. Southern Oak has announced the expansion of its partnership with ZestyAI following nine months of demonstrated impact across its Florida homeowners portfolio, while Lilypad-Centauri has newly adopted ZestyAI's Roof...