eIDAS 2.0: Should identity teams build or partner?
The hardest part of deciding whether to build or partner for eIDAS 2.0 compliance is not the technical complexity — it is recognising that...
Is identity becoming the new perimeter of financial regulation?
Financial regulation has always been shaped by the boundaries it seeks to defend. Once, those boundaries were physical—bank branches, vaults, national borders. Then they...
MCO explores trading oversight gaps after SFC enforcement action
Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has fined a responsible officer at a licensed securities firm HK$1m and handed down a four-and-a-half-year industry...
£3.78m fine for Bank of Ireland UK’s CoP failure
The UK's Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has fined Bank of Ireland UK £3,779,300 after the lender failed to implement Confirmation of Payee (CoP) by...
AI governance gap puts UK finance at risk
A report from Zango AI, a compliance technology firm, has found that senior leaders across UK and European financial services are warning of a...
Palana S.A. unites three firms in compliance platform play
Palana S.A., a Luxembourg and London-based regulatory, compliance and technology group serving European financial services firms, has completed the merger of Avanterra and Palana...
Sardine and Modulr unite on real-time fraud detection
Sardine has announced a partnership with Modulr, a payments automation platform, to bring AI-enabled fraud and anti-money laundering capabilities to automated payment flows.
Under the...
Zurich Malaysia fined for sanctions screening failures
Zurich General Insurance Malaysia Berhad (ZGIMB) and Zurich General Takaful Malaysia Berhad (ZGTMB), two Malaysian insurance entities operating under the Zurich brand, have been...
GENIUS and CLARITY Acts: what firms must know now
Two sweeping pieces of US legislation are forcing financial firms to fundamentally rethink how they approach digital asset compliance, according to analysis from MCO...
Swiss ethical hacking firm raises CHF 12m for expansion
Bug Bounty Switzerland, a Swiss pioneer in ethical hacking and intelligent security testing, has closed a CHF 12m Series A funding round co-led by...
