Two and Signicat have partnered to tackle one of the biggest obstacles in B2B e-commerce: verifying in real time that a buyer is authorised to purchase on behalf of their company. According to Finextra, the collaboration is designed to address what the firms describe as a persistent weakness in the British and wider European B2B commerce landscape. While consumer digital identity...

Kairos Risk Solutions, a Singapore-based boutique insurance and risk consultancy, has launched a new Weather Data Platform designed to support more sophisticated climate risk assessment and parametric insurance development. The company introduced the platform in response to growing concern that traditional weather models lose accuracy beyond short-term forecasting windows, constraining insurers’ and brokers’ ability to plan for medium-term climate volatility...

ElevenLabs, an AI audio research and product company, has launched a new AI insurance policy designed specifically to cover the actions of AI voice agents. The move makes ElevenLabs the first company to go live with an AIUC-1-backed insurance policy, marking a significant milestone in how enterprises can manage and mitigate AI-related risk. The launch of the new insurance-backed product is...

Lassie, the prevention-first pet insurer, has raised $75m in Series C funding as it looks to scale across Europe and challenge traditional models of pet insurance with a stronger focus on preventive care and automation. The round is one of the largest European InsurTech fundraises of the past year and included backing from Balderton Capital, Felix Capital, Inventure, Passion Capital...

WTW, a global advisory, broking and solutions company, has announced the launch of Rewards AI, a new Generative AI-enabled software platform aimed at reshaping how HR and compensation professionals work with rewards data. The launch of Rewards AI comes as organisations face accelerating technological change and rapidly growing data volumes, which often prevent HR and rewards teams from moving beyond...

Compliance leaders across financial services are facing a familiar question: how are peer firms coping with today’s regulatory and operational pressures? According to AscentAI, in an environment shaped by expanding rulebooks, stricter data privacy standards and increasingly complex Know Your Customer (KYC) requirements, benchmarking against industry peers has become more than a competitive instinct. It is a strategic necessity. The...

FINRA’s 2026 Annual Regulatory Oversight Report has set a clear tone for the year ahead, placing generative AI (GenAI) governance and off-channel communications squarely at the centre of supervisory and enforcement attention. According to Theta Lake, for broker-dealers and other FINRA-regulated firms, the message is unambiguous: emerging technologies and electronic communications risks are no longer peripheral concerns but core regulatory...

Insurance has long relied on a reactive operating model built around assessing exposure, pricing risk and responding once damage has already occurred. Although underwriting techniques have grown more sophisticated over time, the core process has stayed largely the same: an incident happens first, followed by a claim. Today, that approach is coming under sustained strain as insurers face mounting...

ZAST.AI, an AI-powered code security startup focused on eliminating false positives in vulnerability detection, has completed a $6m Pre-A funding round, positioning itself at the forefront of a shift in cybersecurity standards. The round was led by Hillhouse Capital and brings the company’s total funding to nearly $10m. The latest investment signals growing confidence from the capital markets in a...

GitGuardian, a France-founded cybersecurity company specialising in secrets detection and non-human identity (NHI) security, has raised fresh capital of $50m. The company has secured $50m in a Series C funding round led by Insight Partners, with participation from Quadrille Capital and existing investors Balderton, BPI, Eurazeo, Fly Ventures and Sapphire Ventures. The backing brings together US and European growth capital...