Financial crime has become a defining threat for the UK’s financial ecosystem, creating an environment where banks, FinTech firms, government bodies and everyday consumers face a rising tide of fraud. Despite the UK’s reputation as a tightly regulated financial centre, criminals have found ample opportunities to exploit weak links within increasingly digital processes, claims RelyComply. The result is a landscape where...

Flagright and Vilja Solutions have announced a strategic partnership aimed at bringing modern core infrastructure and next-generation compliance capabilities closer together. The companies said the partnership is designed to help banks and financial institutions in Europe and APAC tackle a shared problem: legacy core banking systems can slow product development, while older fraud and AML tooling can struggle to keep...

Apollo, a Skyward Group company specialising in specialty insurance, and ZenHedge, a US-based InsurTech start-up, have partnered to launch a parametric solution protecting shippers from rising freight costs caused by trucking carrier tender rejections. The offering, known as Freight Expense Insurance™, aims to safeguards shippers against unexpected cost increases, helping mitigate disruptions and uncertainty in supply chains. ZenHedge’s platform analyses Transport...

Ozow and RelyComply have partnered to make merchant onboarding faster and more secure across South Africa’s digital payments ecosystem. The partnership is designed to help Ozow streamline how it brings new merchants onto its platform, while strengthening checks that can reduce fraud risk and improve trust across its payment network as more businesses move online. By integrating RelyComply’s AI verification tools...

Techficient, an InsurTech provider focused on AI-driven insurance solutions, has announced the launch of Forthright, a new fraud detection platform designed to help insurance carriers and distributors proactively identify and mitigate fraudulent activity. The launch addresses the ongoing challenge of fraud across the insurance industry, which continues to impact trust, profitability and operational efficiency. Forthright has been developed to monitor the...

2025 has been an important year for global compliance, with regulators increasing expectations across a range of fronts and has forced firms to rethink what “good” looks like in governance, surveillance and technology. In its report, The next chapter of compliance, Star Compliance's Quarterly Executive Brief takes a look at the most consequential regulatory developments of 2025 and outlines what...

Marsh Risk, a global insurance broker, has expanded capacity for Nimbus, its dedicated large-scale data centre construction insurance facility, increasing available limits to $2.7bn for major developments across multiple international markets. The expansion significantly raises the level of insurance protection available to data centre developers undertaking complex construction projects. Nimbus now supports large-scale developments across Europe, North America, and Australia, reflecting...

Insurity, a leading provider of cloud-based software for the property and casualty insurance sector, has announced the launch of its new Partner Program, an expanded initiative designed to strengthen collaboration across its growing global ecosystem. The company, which supports insurers with modern core systems and data-driven capabilities, works with more than 200 partners spanning system integrators, technology providers, and insurance...

It has been a transformative year for know your customer (KYC) processes, as companies embrace new technology to transform compliance workflows. Remonda Kirketerp-Møller, CEO of Muinmos, explored some of the biggest trends facing the KYC sector. The rise of Straight-Through Processing One of the biggest trends in KYC is the rising popularity of Straight-Through Processing (STP) via the use of Agentic...

Superstate, which connects financial assets with digital assets capital markets, has announced the successful close of an $82.5m Series B financing round, led by Bain Capital Crypto and Distributed Global. The latest round brought in participation from a cohort of strategic investors including Haun Ventures, Brevan Howard Digital, Galaxy Digital, Sentinel Global, Bullish, Hypersphere Capital, Flowdesk and Intersection. Existing backers...