For senior compliance decision-makers, selecting an anti-money laundering (AML) data vendor is no longer simply a matter of satisfying regulatory requirements. According to ComplyAdvantage, the decision has grown considerably more strategic, encompassing operational efficiency, system integration, and the ability to transform how compliance functions day-to-day. As financial crime threats evolve and regulators raise the bar, firms need a data provider...

For many Electronic Money Institutions (EMIs), the following scenario will ring uncomfortably true: a screening tool flags a customer; moments later, the monitoring engine raises a separate alert on the same individual. Two analysts pick up the case from different queues, unaware of the overlap, and before anyone joins the dots, an instant payment is already en route to a...

Tax reporting solutions are undergoing rapid transformation as firms grapple with mounting regulatory complexity. With FATCA, CRS and other cross-border obligations generating ever-greater data volumes, the industry is looking to artificial intelligence to ease the burden — but the conversation around what AI can realistically deliver remains unsettled. According to Label, interest in AI tools is already widespread. Most organisations...

Digital assets are no longer peripheral to the banking space. They are now embedded across client portfolios, payment flows, and wealth structures in ways that are becoming increasingly difficult for institutions to ignore. As exposure grows, so does the need for clarity, control, and confidence in how it is managed. Cense is a regulatory SaaS platform designed to give financial...

Ask a compliance officer how their programme is performing and you are likely to receive a carefully hedged response. Ask them what excellence looks like, and the conversation may go quiet altogether. The reason is straightforward: financial services firms have long lacked a shared framework for describing their position on the compliance maturity journey, what progress looks like, or where...

The most challenging aspect of preparing for eIDAS 2.0 is not the technical complexity itself — it is recognising that the decision is not primarily a technical one at all. For digital identity product teams, the build vs partner question is fundamentally a product strategy call, and one that should be made well before engineering has begun any scoping...

Retailers have spent the last few years racing to embed wellness into their loyalty apps. The logic is sound, with consumers more health-conscious than ever, and digital touchpoints offering a direct route to influence behaviour. Yet despite heavy investment, most of these features are underused, quickly forgotten, or never meaningfully adopted. This is not a demand problem. It is a...

Chubb, a multinational insurer operating across property, casualty and life segments, has partnered with Insify, a financial security platform for freelancers and SMEs, to launch a fully digital disability insurance product for self-employed professionals in the Netherlands. The partnership aims to address a key gap in the disability insurance market by providing faster, more accessible cover for freelancers, entrepreneurs and...

mea Platform, an AI-driven (re)insurance technology provider, has been selected by BMS Group, an independent (re)insurance broker with a strong international presence, to deploy its Broking Operations products and enhance placement efficiency through digital transformation. The partnership is focused on modernising BMS’s core broking workflows as market complexity and data volumes increase. By adopting mea’s AI-powered solutions, BMS aims to accelerate...

Key European FinTech investment stats in 2025: European FinTech funding declined by 31% YoY UK companies secured four of the top 10 deals to cement the country’s position as the leading European FinTech hub 9fin, a data and analytics platform serving the debt capital markets, raised $170m in a Series C round, marking the biggest European FinTech deal of...