Big banks face tougher rules after OCC debanking probe
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the federal supervisor of US national banks, has concluded that every one of the nine...
Seismic and Theta Lake target AI execution gap in finance
Seismic, the go-to-market performance company, has used its Seismic Shift 2026 event to widen its financial services offering. It launched Seismic Compliance, added new...
COLIBRIX ONE picks Vivox AI to speed merchant onboarding
COLIBRIX ONE, a worldwide financial infrastructure provider serving digital businesses and e-commerce firms, has chosen Vivox AI to automate the know-your-business (KYB) checks it...
CoComply’s £1.9m bet on fixing contractor compliance gaps
CoComply, a UK RegTech scale-up focused on external workforce compliance, has secured £1.9m to speed up product development and expand its footprint across the...
IFR’s ODSE test ends football’s era of light-touch vetting
Football clubs that have not yet mapped their exposure to the Independent Football Regulator’s (IFR) new Owners, Directors and Senior Executives (ODSE) test are...
Weak governance turns financial crime assessments into liabilities
Financial institutions that treat the architecture of their financial crime risk assessment as an administrative afterthought may be exposing themselves to far greater risk...
Sumsub puts a human check on risky AI agent actions
Sumsub, the identity verification platform, has broadened its Know Your Agent (KYA) framework with a KYA Module for MCP, giving businesses granular authority over...
CRA readiness: why a checklist won’t survive until 2032
The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) stopped being a distant 2027 problem on 11 September 2026. From that date, manufacturers must alert a national...
Fraud readiness gap leaves banks exposed to AI-driven scams
Financial institutions are rating their fraud defences far higher than their actual capabilities justify, according to a new index from Feedzai, which surveyed more...
Why IMF and World Bank fear fraud could erode digital trust
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG), two of the world’s leading multilateral financial institutions, have unveiled a new framework...
