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FCA slaps HSBC with £63.9m fine for AML failings

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has fined HSBC Bank £63,946,800 for failings related to its anti-money laundering processes.

The five pillars of strong corporate KYC compliance

Founded in 2015, Know Your Customer provides digital onboarding solutions to financial institutions and regulated organisations globally. The company builds its KYC platform as an interconnected set of web apps, APIs, databases and pre-trained machine learning models – and is helping to change the game in digital corporate onboarding.

How Trulioo’s GlobalGateway streamlines and optimises digital identity services across the globe

The fight against fraud often feels unwinnable, but Trulioo GlobalGateway is making it a fairer fight.

Neofy forms partnership with RegTech100 company IDmission

Neofy, a digital financial cloud provider, will improve its KYC, AML and identity capabilities through a partnership with IDmission, a biometric security and authentication software solution.

NatWest hit with first criminal charge pursued by FCA

National Westminster Bank (NatWest) has been fined £264m for three accounts of money laundering failures.

How Governance.com is helping companies transition from traditional to technological

Process management - be it for client lifecycle management, risk management and compliance or corporate governance - for regulated companies is high-volume and time-intensive yet getting it right is critical to ensuring a firm remains efficient, regulatory-compliant and competitive.

RegTech100 company Hummingbird closes Series B

Hummingbird RegTech, which was recently named in the new RegTech100 list, has secured $30m in its Series B funding round.

UK’s HMRC reports 17 internal data breaches in 15 months

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) reported 17 serious data breaches to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) between January 2020 and March 2021.

Merchant acquirer PAYSTRAX buffs up AML with Sentinels

European merchant acquirer PAYSTRAX has picked transaction monitoring platform Sentinels to bolster its anti-money laundering processes.

Transaction transparency company Tractiv nets seed round

Tractiv, a software company that helps financial services better understand their data, has received $2.25m in seed funding to support its product development.
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