Key European FinTech investment stats in 2025: European FinTech investments dropped by 11% YoY in 2025 Deals under $100m fell by 26% as investors grew cautious due to market uncertainties FNZ, a global end-to-end technology platform powering wealth and asset management businesses, secured one of the biggest European FinTech deals of the year with a $500m equity injection from...

Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) sit at the heart of AML frameworks worldwide. Without them, efforts to identify laundering, trafficking and terrorist financing would be significantly weakened. Yet despite their central role in triggering targeted investigations, SARs remain widely misunderstood by the very institutions required to file them, said RelyComply. As regulatory pressure intensifies and reporting volumes increase, many firms focus...

AI is moving from experimentation to operational reality across banking, financial services, and insurance. After a year in which real-world AI deployments accelerated, 2026 is shaping up to be a defining moment for AML and KYC functions. According to Saifr, momentum around agentic AI – systems capable of autonomous task execution – is building alongside more established generative AI models....

For years, spreadsheets have quietly underpinned financial crime risk assessments across global institutions. They are familiar, flexible and easy to deploy. According to Arctic Intelligence, for many compliance teams, they represent the default operating model for assessing money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing risks. Yet this reliance has become an uncomfortable truth within the industry. While spreadsheets remain ubiquitous,...

FinTech funding slowed down a little this week, with just $482m raised across 19 deals. This is compared to last week, which saw $1.02bn raised through 29 funding rounds, and a flurry of weeks raising in excess of $1bn.  No deals exceeded $100m this week. The largest deals were raised by pet-focused InsurTech platform Lassie and AI compliance company Bretton...

Financial crime has always been a moving target. What has changed is the speed at which it now learns, adapts and scales. Money laundering is no longer the blunt, high-volume activity that many control frameworks were built to catch. It is coordinated, technical and increasingly designed to slip between systems that were never meant to talk to each other. Banks...

Broadridge Financial Solutions, a global FinTech leader, has announced that Nissay Asset Management Corporation (NAM) has implemented its Mortgage-Backed Securities Trade Assignment Portal (TAP), becoming the first asset management company in Japan to adopt the solution. The deployment of Broadridge’s Trade Assignment Portal enables Nissay Asset Management to automate and digitise its Assignment of Trade (AOT) processes for TBA (To-Be-Announced)...

Bracket, an AI-powered FX, treasury and cash management platform for mid-market businesses, has raised $7m in Seed funding to accelerate international expansion following a year of rapid revenue growth. The round was led by Macquarie Group’s Commodities and Global Markets business and Blackfinch Ventures, with participation from existing investor Failup Ventures. The capital will support further product development, expansion into...

Timeline, the UK’s low-cost, fastest-growing, evidence-based discretionary model portfolio service (MPS) with £13bn AUM, has formed a new partnership with Mabel Insights to expand adviser access to its portfolios and accelerate further growth. Under the agreement, advisers using Mabel Insights will gain access to Timeline’s investment portfolios alongside Mabel’s established suite of research, due diligence and financial planning tools. The...

eToro, a global trading and investing platform, has reported that retail investors are demonstrating greater discipline, diversification and macroeconomic awareness, marking a significant shift in behaviour compared to previous years. According to its latest quarterly Retail Investor Beat, based on a survey of 11,000 retail investors across 13 countries, 70% of respondents actively review their investments, while 79% invest regularly...