Cloudsmith, a cloud-native universal artifact management platform serving some of the world's largest enterprises, has closed a $72m Series C funding round co-led by TCV and Insight Partners, alongside contributions from other existing investors. The raise, which comes just one year after Cloudsmith's Series B, will be directed towards accelerating product development and expanding the company's go-to-market capabilities. TCV led...

Behavox has announced that Mizuho Securities — the securities arm of Japan's Mizuho Financial Group — has gone live with its Quantum AI platform for communications surveillance. The deployment sees Mizuho Securities adopt Behavox Quantum AI across chat and email channels in Japanese, English and additional languages via a SaaS-based solution. Rather than acting as a standalone monitoring product, Quantum...

EIS, an AI-native insurance core platform provider, has announced that Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance (TMNF) has deployed its ClaimPulse™ technology as part of a new overseas travel insurance offering. The platform enables customers to submit claims digitally while helping insurers automate key parts of the claims process through a self-service, omnichannel experience, according to InsurTech Insights.  Through the deployment,...

Funds have become a cornerstone of modern investing — but they are quietly creating a growing blind spot in employee trading controls, one that compliance teams across the globe are struggling to address. According to StarCompliance, traditional employee trading controls were built around direct investments in securities. Funds, however, introduce a layer of abstraction that can obscure genuine exposure. StarCompliance recently...

Alipay, the payments platform operated by Ant Group, has launched a new service that enables OpenClaw-type AI agents — autonomous tools that execute tasks on a user's behalf, nicknamed "lobsters" in China — to carry out purchases and complete payments based on user instructions, without requiring any coding or complex setup. The new offering builds on Alipay AI Pay, an...

SoundHound AI, a conversational AI technology firm, has agreed to acquire enterprise messaging platform LivePerson in a deal designed to create an end-to-end omnichannel conversational AI platform for global enterprises. The transaction will combine SoundHound’s voice and agentic AI capabilities with LivePerson’s digital engagement platform, which currently supports around one billion customer messages per month across enterprise applications. The combined business...

Global regulatory compliance is the continuous process of ensuring a business meets the legal, regulatory, and operational requirements of every market in which it operates. According to Vixio, for firms licensed in a single jurisdiction, the process is often manageable. But once operations span multiple markets, complexity compounds quickly — and the approach that worked in the early stages rarely...

Key US WealthTech investment stats in Q1 2026: US WealthTech deal activity surged by 95% YoY in Q1 California and New York dominated the US WealthTech landscape as companies based in those two states secured the highest number with 19 deals each Uptiq, an AI platform purpose-built for financial services spanning wealth management, banking and embedded finance, raised $25m...

Stablecore, a platform allowing community and regional banks to provide stablecoin and digital asset services, has announced a strategic partnership with the Maine Bankers Association. Under the arrangement, Stablecore will act as a preferred technology provider for the association's member institutions, supporting them in rolling out stablecoin and digital asset products to both existing and prospective customers. Through the partnership, Maine-based...

Savvy Wealth, an AI-native registered investment advisor (RIA) designed for independent financial advisors, has launched Savvy Intelligence, a new agentic AI product integrated into its vertically integrated platform. The product gives advisors a continuously refreshed, household-level view of each client's financial life, encompassing investments, tax information and financial plans, within a single, unified environment. Unlike traditional RIA firms that operate across...