FinScan has announced that its payments platform now covers stablecoin transactions and digital wallet screening for global compliance purposes. The update to FinScan Payments extends its existing capabilities to include stablecoin transactions and digital wallet addresses, screening them against major global sanctions lists. These include lists maintained by OFAC, Israel's NBCTF, Japan's Ministry of Finance, the UK Sanctions List, and...

Regnology, a provider of regulatory, risk, finance and supervisory technology, has launched its Certified Implementation Partner Programme, establishing a new global standard for service delivery across its suite of solutions. The initiative introduces a structured framework aimed at ensuring consistent project implementation and smoother client onboarding across Regnology's regulatory reporting, risk, tax and finance offerings. Central to the programme is a...

Financial crime compliance has been fundamentally reshaped by converging pressures: mounting regulatory complexity, intensifying enforcement, and increasingly sophisticated criminal activity. Legacy approaches are buckling under these demands, particularly as transaction volumes accelerate and institutions are expected to detect and act on risk in near real time. According to IMTF, in this climate, compliance has evolved well beyond box-ticking. It now sits...

Global InsurTech investment cooled further in April, with eight deals raising approximately $119m, marking another step down from March’s already subdued $237m. That represents a roughly 50% month-on-month decline in funding, reinforcing the sharp pullback seen since February’s $1bn-plus peak and underlining a clear contraction in both capital deployment and deal volume. Unlike earlier in the year, April was defined entirely...

Financial crime compliance (FCC) is undergoing a generational transformation — one arguably more profound than the regulatory overhaul that followed the September 2001 terrorist attacks. According to Workfusion, this time, however, the catalyst is not a legislative mandate. It is a fundamental mismatch between decades-old, labour-intensive operating models and the high-velocity, real-time financial system those models are expected to safeguard. Workfusion...

Governments around the world deploy sanctions as a critical tool for limiting the access of financial criminals to global financial systems. Yet, as these protections continue to expand, so too do the methods used to circumvent them. According to SmartSearch, increasingly sophisticated evasion techniques — from intermediary networks and opaque corporate structures to complex cross-border transactions — are placing mounting...

InsureMO, an API, data and AI-driven insurance platform, has added Upsure, a provider of core insurance software, to its partner ecosystem to deliver a unified core insurance suite and accelerate digital transformation for insurers across emerging markets. The partnership aims to simplify technology adoption for insurers in Asia, the Middle East and Africa by reducing reliance on fragmented vendor stacks,...

Insly, an enterprise-grade insurance software provider, has launched a new AI-enabled claims portal designed to help insurers and managing general agents (MGAs) deliver a self-service, digital-first claims experience for policyholders. The portal aims to reduce friction in the claims process by giving customers control from first notification of loss (FNOL) through to resolution, according to FF News. By minimising reliance on...

The global insurance industry is moving quickly into an AI-driven future. Pricing, underwriting, and customer engagement are being reshaped at pace, with many insurers shifting from experimentation to real-world deployment. But beneath this global momentum, the UK market tells a more measured story. It is not a market that is falling behind. It is one choosing a different path. Insights from...

SMEs remain a cornerstone of economic growth, yet their access to finance is still hindered by slow and fragmented processes. At the same time, lenders are grappling with expanding SME portfolios, increasing regulatory scrutiny, and mounting pressure to accelerate funding decisions. To explore solutions, a panel of industry experts—including Adam Archibald, regional director UKI at Mambu, Gareth Plummer, head of...