Commercial banks pushed towards perpetual KYC models
Calendar-based Know Your Customer (KYC) reviews are increasingly exposing banks to financial crime, compliance failings and operational inefficiencies, as regulators intensify scrutiny on outdated...
Hawk names Daniel Marshall as chief customer officer
Hawk, a global provider of AI-powered anti-money laundering (AML) and fraud prevention technology, has appointed Daniel Marshall as its new chief customer officer (CCO).
Marshall...
DDD Invoices nets €1.31m to tackle e-invoicing compliance
E-invoicing compliance infrastructure company DDD Invoices, headquartered in Slovenia, has completed a €1.31m seed round led by Fil Rouge Capital and 500 Global, according...
AUSTRAC warns financial crime risks are growing in complexity
Australia's financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC has published three updated national risk assessments warning that the country's money laundering, terrorism financing and proliferation financing threats...
Korean regulator moves to simplify fund disclosures
South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS), the country's top financial regulator, has launched a dedicated task force to overhaul the way public fund prospectuses...
Legit and Sweet close the code-to-cloud security gap
Legit Security, a specialist in agentic application security, and Sweet Security, a cloud security provider, have announced a strategic partnership aimed at bridging the...
Global fines hit $542m in Q1 2026 amid data crackdown
Corlytics, a regulatory intelligence and risk analytics firm, has published its Q1 2026 enforcement report, revealing that global regulators issued approximately $542m in fines...
How automated horizon scanning closes the compliance gap
Regulatory monitoring has emerged as the single greatest pain point in compliance operations, according to Ascent RegTech's 2026 RegTech Benchmark Survey.
According to AscentAI, when...
Why spreadsheets are failing financial crime governance
Regulators are no longer willing to take organisations at their word. In financial crime risk management, supervisors now expect to see the architecture behind...
Exaforce raises $125m Series B for AI security
Exaforce, an AI-native security operations platform and pioneer in agentic security, has closed a $125m Series B funding round — one of the largest...