Lightspeed backs Ocean’s $28m war on AI phishing
Ocean, an agentic email security platform, has emerged from stealth with $28m in total funding as enterprises face a growing wave of sophisticated, AI-generated...
National Bank of Canada backs Sardine in fraud tech push
National Bank of Canada has entered a multi-year partnership with Sardine, an agentic risk platform focused on combating financial crime, alongside leading a $25m...
UK bank loyalty at risk as AML failures drive switching
ThetaRay has published its UK Banking & FinTech Trust Report 2026, revealing that the vast majority of UK consumers are prepared to leave their...
Valid Systems brings AI fraud detection to Snowflake cloud
Valid Systems has launched a data integration on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, enabling financial institutions to deploy machine learning models within the Snowflake...
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...
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...
How organised crime is infiltrating Britain’s high streets
Organised crime has quietly colonised Britain's retail landscape, and a new report from Trading Standards lays bare the alarming scale of the problem.
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The conformity trap: How AML rules let crime hide
Anti-money laundering regulation is in the midst of a fundamental transformation. Across jurisdictions, regulators are shifting away from simply assessing whether institutions have the...
Is RegTech becoming infrastructure, or is it being absorbed into it?
There’s a quiet shift happening beneath the surface of financial service. It’s a move that is proving to be less about new tools arriving...
Socure names new CPO and chief AI officer amid fraud surge
Socure, a provider of identity and risk intelligence infrastructure, has named Chung-Man Tam as its CPO and Pablo Abreu as its inaugural chief AI...