As prediction markets continue to move from niche experimentation into mainstream financial discourse, they are creating a new set of challenges for regulators and compliance teams alike. At the heart of the issue is jurisdiction. According to StarCompliance, these markets, which allow participants to trade contracts linked to future outcomes, increasingly blur the boundaries between securities, commodities, and gambling regulation. As...

SCOR, a global reinsurer, has expanded its partnership with Baobab Insurance, a German digital risks managing general agent (MGA) specialising in cyber insurance, by extending underwriting capacity to significantly larger companies in Germany and Austria. The move comes as cyber risk exposure continues to rise sharply among industrial businesses, driven by increasing digitisation, interconnected supply chains and the growing financial...

Mobile communications have become one of the most difficult areas of modern communications compliance. As regulatory enforcement around off-channel messaging continues to intensify, firms are facing mounting pressure to ensure mobile conversations are captured, supervised, and retained appropriately. According to Theta Lake, despite repeated fines and public enforcement actions, many organisations are still struggling to balance regulatory compliance with employee...

Howden Group, a global insurance and reinsurance intermediary, has raised approximately $703m in gross proceeds through a debt issuance designed to strengthen its funding capacity and support future growth initiatives. The capital was secured through an add-on issuance to the group’s existing senior notes, with the transaction attracting strong backing from institutional investors, according to InsurTech Insights. Howden operates as an...

As Nordic banks step into 2026, they face a challenging backdrop. Analysts from institutions such as UBS have warned that lenders in the region are likely to underperform their European peers over the coming years, squeezed by cost pressures, maturing digital strategies and slowing gains from traditional automation. Yet this environment is not without opportunity. nCino argues that artificial...

A fragmented world shaped by geopolitical rivalry, diverging regulatory regimes, supply-chain realignment and weakening international cooperation is fundamentally altering the global financial crime risk landscape. According to Quantifind, for compliance teams, this shift is not theoretical. Fragmentation is already creating new blind spots, amplifying enforcement complexity and stretching traditional risk frameworks beyond their limits. One of the most immediate consequences of...

Airrived, a cybersecurity and IT automation start-up focused on agentic AI, has emerged from stealth mode with $6.1m in seed funding.  The company announced it has raised $6.1m in seed funding, with the round led by Cannage Capital. Participation came from Plug and Play Ventures, Rebellion Ventures and Inner Loop Capital, alongside strategic investments from cybersecurity veterans Manoj Apte, Mahendra...

Arctic Intelligence was founded to address a persistent weakness in financial crime compliance: the reliance on fragmented, manual processes to deliver business-wide risk assessments. According to Anthony Quinn, CEO of the firm, spreadsheets and document-based workflows not only slow assessments down, but also undermine consistency, auditability and enterprise-wide visibility. To overcome this, Arctic Intelligence embeds advanced analytics and automation directly...

South Korea’s financial authorities are preparing a significant expansion of anti-money laundering controls, giving regulators new powers to suspend suspicious bank accounts and widening oversight of digital asset transactions, including stablecoins. The measures form part of the country’s 2026 AML and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) key work plan, unveiled by the Financial Intelligence Unit under the Financial...

Key Canadian FinTech investment stats in 2025: Canadian FinTech funding stabilised in 2025 with a 15% YoY increase Deals over $100m rose by 32% as investors prioritised large deals Wealthsimple, a Toronto-headquartered WealthTech offering integrated investing, trading, digital assets, tax, payments, savings and advisory services, completed one of the biggest Canadian FinTech deals of the year with a $393m...