As organizations continue to navigate the ever-changing realities of the financial services industry across the globe, the need for both flexibility and stability grows. According to ViClarity, new technologies continue to emerge at a rapid rate — add in new regulations, operational strategies, and risks and it can be difficult to keep pace. Organizations focused on operational resilience will weather...

Droit has appointed industry veteran Jean-Marie Mamodesen as regional sales director for Continental Europe. Based in London, he will spearhead growth across key EU markets as demand intensifies for regulatory technology solutions. The company develops technology that interprets and applies complex regulatory rulesets to financial institutions’ operational requirements. Its Adept platform supports decision-making, trade and transaction reporting, and compliance automation—enabling firms...

BlueFive Capital, a regional investment firm, has launched BlueFive Insurance, a dedicated platform designed to drive consolidation, digitisation and specialisation across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) insurance market and beyond. The firm aims to redefine the insurance experience for customers and set new standards for performance and innovation in the region, positioning BlueFive Insurance as a prominent name in advancing...

Gatekeeper professions – from law firms and accounting practices to estate agents and trust service providers – face increasingly difficult compliance terrain. As financial crime risks intensify and digital services expand, these professionals must satisfy stringent AML and CTF rules, while also adhering to complex data protection frameworks such as GDPR, claims Arctic Intelligence. The clash between these requirements is...

LifeSearch, a UK-based protection advice specialist, has become the first company to integrate a fully digital trust solution into a self-serve life insurance journey, enabling customers to place policies bought online directly into trust. The move supports LifeSearch’s ambition to place 80% of all life insurance policies into trusts, ensuring customers and their loved ones are properly protected. The market-first solution...

The global art market has long attracted scrutiny over its vulnerability to money laundering, as artwork provides a covert channel for illicit funds to pass through the financial system. With high-value pieces travelling easily across borders and selling privately through intermediaries, criminals can discreetly disguise illegal assets as legitimate transactions, claims SmartSearch. This opacity is fuelled by highly subjective pricing,...

Compliance risk intelligence in the health and life sciences sector is becoming more prominent as the market grows. The industry — spanning biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare services and medical devices — is projected to almost double from $13.7tn in 2025 to $26.7tn by 2035, according to Global Growth Insights, said Corlytics. Factors such as rising global demand, breakthroughs in gene-based therapies,...

SettleIndex, a UK-based automated settlement-prediction platform, has joined Guidewire’s InsurTech Vanguards programme, a scheme designed to spotlight emerging firms reshaping the property and casualty (P&C) insurance sector. The initiative, run the California-based cloud software provider, aims to help insurers understand how new InsurTech offerings can be deployed to improve efficiency, accuracy and customer outcomes across the claims process. SettleIndex, which develops...

FinTech Global recently sat down for an interview with RegTech firm AiPrise to find out more about the company and what is in the company's future. Founded in 2022, AiPrise is an all-in-one platform for fraud prevention, risk mitigation, and compliance, providing access to over 800 business data points across 200+ countries. The firm claims to replace complex and fragmented...

Managing producer departures is an unavoidable reality for every carrier and MGA, whether driven by retirement, voluntary exit, performance issues or terminations for cause. Yet many organisations still rely on manual offboarding methods that introduce unnecessary compliance risk, inflate operating costs and create large administrative burdens. Automating the offboarding lifecycle through modern insurance distribution platforms enables firms to protect...