South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), the country's financial regulatory authority, has launched a dedicated task force to redesign public fund prospectuses and make investment risk disclosures more accessible to everyday consumers. According to Seoul Economic Daily, the newly formed Public Fund Filing Improvement Task Force brings together the FSS, the Korea Financial Investment Association, and representatives from the asset...

Legit Security, the agentic application security platform, and Sweet Security, a cloud runtime security specialist, have joined forces to offer organisations continuous protection across the entire AI-driven software development lifecycle — from the moment code is written through to live cloud deployment. The partnership brings together Legit's VibeGuard solution — designed to secure AI-generated code, agents, and workflows at the...

Corlytics, a regulatory intelligence and risk analytics firm, has published its Q1 2026 enforcement report, revealing that global regulators issued approximately $542m in fines during the first three months of the year, with data privacy breaches, systems and controls failures, and consumer harm driving the majority of actions. The report, which examined penalties exceeding $1m from the world's leading regulators,...

New research from AscentAI's 2026 RegTech Benchmark Survey has put regulatory monitoring firmly in the spotlight — and the findings make uncomfortable reading for risk and compliance leaders. According to AscentAI, when asked to identify the five most difficult elements of their regulatory change management processes, professionals across regional banks, investment banks and broker-dealer firms placed monitoring regulatory updates...

Regulators no longer accept a firm's word that its financial crime risk governance is sound. Today's supervisors expect to see the architecture behind every decision — formal workflows, versioned methodologies, consistent scoring frameworks, and complete audit trails that document not just what was decided, but who made the call and why. According to Arctic Intelligence, narrative explanations and undocumented assumptions...

Insurance pricing modernisation is often framed as a technology problem, but in reality, it is increasingly a leadership and operating model challenge. The organisations that succeed are not necessarily those that invest the most in systems, but those that are able to rethink how pricing is structured, prioritised and embedded across the business. According to Akur8, insurers that treat pricing...

Exaforce, a CyberTech firm pioneering agentic security operations, has secured $125m in a Series B funding round — one of the largest raises in the emerging AI security operations centre (SOC) market to date. The round drew participation from HarbourVest, Peak XV, Mayfield, Khosla Ventures, Seligman Ventures, and AICONIC. The fresh capital arrives just 12 months after the company's $75m...

White Circle, an enterprise AI control platform that tests, protects, monitors and improves AI systems in real time, has secured $11m in seed funding from a roster of prominent figures across the AI industry. The round drew backing from Romain Huet of OpenAI; Dirk Kingma, formerly of OpenAI and now at Anthropic; Guillaume Lample of Mistral; Thomas Wolf of Hugging...

Aon, the global professional services and insurance brokerage firm, has expanded its Claims Copilot platform across North America, Asia Pacific and several countries in the EMEA region as part of a wider push to strengthen data-led claims management capabilities. The rollout follows an initial pilot launched in November 2025 and marks the next phase in the company’s broader investment in...

Stitch, a cloud-native operating system built to replace fragmented legacy infrastructure at financial institutions, has secured $25m in a Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, marking the Silicon Valley firm's first investment in the GCC and bringing Stitch's total funding to $35m. The round also drew continued backing from existing investors Arbor Ventures, COTU Ventures, Raed Ventures, and...