More than a year on from the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) coming into force, compliance professionals in payments and financial services are no longer asking whether they need to comply — they are asking how to do it better. According to Vixio, for many teams, the answer lies in purpose-built compliance software that can replace fragmented spreadsheets, disjointed...

Nivo, a lending workflow technology provider, has launched a new AI-powered proposition designed to help lenders and brokers gather information, validate documents and package loan cases correctly the first time. The solution introduces AI agents that operate continuously via email, collecting documents, verifying submissions, chasing missing information and helping teams prepare fully packaged cases more efficiently. Nivo said the launch reflects...

Cross-border payment service providers are facing heightened regulatory scrutiny following new anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) guidance issued jointly by Finansinspektionen and the Swedish Police Authority. Napier AI, a specialist in financial crime compliance technology, recently delved into the new guidance and what it means.  The guidance, which carries implications for regulators, law enforcement agencies and financial institutions globally, underscores...

Payment fraud is undergoing a fundamental transformation, and the pace of change is accelerating. According to Tieto Banktech, five key trends are reshaping the financial crime landscape. Fraud gets personal Perhaps the most striking development is how deeply personal fraud has become. Between 2024 and 2025, cases involving social manipulation rose by 33%, signalling not just growth in volume but a...

Artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed the way organisations handle documents, yet for many businesses, the promise of intelligent automation continues to fall short of expectations. Pilots stall, outputs prove unreliable, and compliance concerns resurface just when confidence appeared to be building. According to M-Files, the reason is straightforward: most approaches to AI document processing focus on content rather than context. That...

SolvaPay, a Stockholm-based AI payments platform, has closed a €2.4m ($2.8m) pre-seed funding round to develop what it describes as the world's first payment infrastructure purpose-built for the agentic economy. The round was led by European FinTech venture capital firm Redstone and Silicon Valley-based MS&AD Ventures, with additional participation from Antler and Greens Ventures, both of which are existing backers...

CTBC Bank USA, a US-based retail and commercial bank, has chosen digital banking platform provider Narmi to underpin its upcoming digital banking modernisation programme. The bank intends to roll out several components of Narmi's platform as part of a wider phased modernisation effort, with initial work covering account opening, consumer digital banking, and business digital banking capabilities. Narmi will provide CTBC...

Slate, a customisable front-end and trading platform provider, has been selected by UniCredit NV/SA as its WealthTech partner to launch a combined brokerage and robo-advisory investment platform for clients in Poland. The platform, which is already live in the country, brings together self-directed trading and robo-advisory capabilities in a single, integrated environment accessible via web and mobile. Built on Slate's trading-as-a-service...

GBST, a wealth administration software provider, has integrated agentic artificial intelligence into its Composer Software as a Service platform, enabling the automation of complex, high-volume wealth administration processes in a way that meets regulatory requirements and reduces the need for manual intervention. Unlike conventional AI tools, which are generally used to analyse data or assist with individual decisions, agentic AI...

eToro, the global trading and investing platform, has expanded its stock offering by adding all equities listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) to its platform, alongside the launch of a new thematic investment portfolio called JapanEconomy. The first tranche of stocks made available includes all constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, which are now live for trading. Users will also...