Tag: financial institutions

How trafficking profits hide in everyday payments

Human trafficking generates an estimated $236bn in illegal profits each year, with much of that money moving through financial activity that can appear entirely...

Why 400 trading venues are breaking traders’ brains

Financial institutions have spent years and vast budgets on market connectivity, wiring up new venues, expanding execution infrastructure and racing to ensure traders can...

Why banks need to break regulatory data silos

Risk, finance and regulatory reporting have traditionally operated as separate functions across financial institutions. While this structure has allowed teams to develop specialised processes,...

Continuous KYC isn’t enough as risk moves in real time

For decades, financial institutions built their compliance programmes on one core assumption: risk could be assessed on a schedule. According to Saifr, customer due diligence...

FinTechs report 86% productivity gains in tech and product, revealing an...

Key views on AI productivity impact by function across FIs and FinTechs: The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance surveyed 203 FinTechs and 149 traditional...

Static AML models are failing, adaptive scoring is the fix

Financial institutions have long treated fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) as separate disciplines, run on separate timelines by separate teams. Fraud detection demands split-second...

California retained its top position in the US FinTech market with...

Key US FinTech investment stats in H1 2026: US FinTech deal activity grew 25% YoY Californian companies retained their top spot in the US...

Why siloed reporting could break under tighter rules

Financial institutions risk being overwhelmed by regulatory demands unless they dismantle the walls between their risk, finance, and reporting functions, according to a new...

AI agents move from pilot to workforce in bank compliance

Banks could unlock productivity gains of up to 20 times by deploying a workforce of AI agents, according to McKinsey.   The consultancy's estimate rests...

US strengthened its WealthTech dominance further, securing over half of all...

Key global WealthTech investment stats in H1 2026: Global WealthTech deal activity grew 21% YoY US companies secured over half of all deals in...

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