Paymentology, a cloud-native global issuer-processor operating across close to 70 countries, has secured $175m in an investment round co-led by private equity firms Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners. The round was co-led by Apis Partners ("Apis"), a private equity firm focused on financial infrastructure and services, and Aspirity Partners ("Aspirity"), a pan-European private equity firm with a focus on financial...

Anti-money laundering (AML) regulation is entering a new phase. Across jurisdictions, regulators are shifting away from simply checking whether institutions have controls in place, and towards demanding proof that those controls actually work. According to Consillient, recent moves by the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) all reflect a growing consensus that formal compliance...

Aviva, a leading UK insurer, has announced a significant investment in its Regional Specialty team, including 15 new hires across the UK and enhancements to its digital platform. The move strengthens the insurer’s Regional Specialty proposition and reinforces its focus on delivering faster access to local expertise and specialist underwriting capabilities. The investment is aimed at improving service delivery for brokers...

RegTech Analyst and Parker & Lawrence Research have collaborated to unveil a major new industry report, The Global State of RegTech 2026, offering one of the most comprehensive assessments of the global RegTech market to date. The report brings together survey responses from 300 senior compliance decision-makers at financial institutions, contributions from 100 RegTech vendors, qualitative interviews with regulators and...

As the range of endgame options available to UK defined benefit (DB) pension schemes continues to grow, trustees are facing an increasingly complex decision-making landscape. Ortec Finance, which offers tools for risk and return management, recently delved into why DB endgame decisions are scheme-specific.   One of the most fundamental considerations is a scheme's funding position. Acting as a snapshot of a...

Nearly half of UK consumers say personalised cashback rewards would make them more likely to remain with their bank, according to new research from Cardlytics, a purchase intelligence and marketing platform. The findings, drawn from a nationally representative survey of 4,000 UK adults published in the Cardlytics Banking Index, show that 47% of consumers would be more inclined to stay...

Boku, a local payments partner for global commerce, has announced it is now live and processing transactions via Pix in Brazil, marking a significant step in the company's expansion into one of the world's major real-time payments markets. The milestone follows the award of a Payment Institution licence by the Central Bank of Brazil in April 2025, with the company...

Keel, the Manchester-based Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform that grew out of consumer neobank Frost, has made its public debut after quietly reaching profitability and assembling an international client base spanning multiple FinTech verticals. The company's emergence from stealth marks the first time it has stepped into the public eye since undergoing a full business reinvention. Over the past two years, Keel...

Broadridge Financial Solutions, a financial technology firm, has announced that its agentic AI capabilities are now live in production across capital markets and wealth management workflows, with new clients able to achieve up to 30% operational cost savings from day one. The company is offering two routes to adoption: a full managed services model, where Broadridge handles operations end-to-end, and...

Admiral Money, the personal finance arm of the Admiral Group, has joined forces with D•One, the open banking services division of The ClearScore Group, to integrate D•One's proprietary risk-scoring technology into its credit assessment process. The partnership will see Admiral Money deploy D•One's AI-powered predictive model, which draws on open banking data to surface both positive and negative risk signals...