Tag: financial institutions
Fraud as a service outpaces banks stuck in silos
Fraud has never been cheaper or easier to commit. Fraud-as-a-service and phishing-as-a-service now sell ready-made attacks off the shelf, letting an ordinary criminal rent...
Legacy risk models can’t keep up with modern crime
Financial crime has evolved faster in the last five years than in the previous two decades, yet many institutions are still assessing risk with...
Ripple and SettleMint join forces to streamline digital asset management
Ripple, a blockchain-based enterprise technology provider, and SettleMint, a digital asset lifecycle management platform, have partnered to give regulated financial institutions a unified infrastructure...
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...










