Hong Kong welcomes new rules deepening mainland ties
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government, the territory's ruling authority overseeing financial and economic policy, has welcomed a fresh package of measures...
Sumsub, Sumvin link KYC to AI agent commerce
Sumsub, a global identity verification provider, and Sumvin, a market-leading agentic commerce platform, have announced a partnership designed to let AI agents make purchases...
Why Obsidian just raised $85m to rein in AI agents
Obsidian Security, the platform securing non-human identities and AI agents inside third-party business applications, has closed an $85m Series D funding round led by...
Runtime security firm OLIGO secures $60m war chest
Oligo Security, the runtime security specialist, has closed a $60m funding round, taking its total capital raised to $140m as it races to keep...
Why cloud voice compliance cannot be an afterthought
The financial services industry is in the middle of an infrastructure revolution. Trading floors that once ran on fixed turrets and on-premise recorders are...
US cemented its place as the main global RegTech hub attracting seven of the...
Key Global RegTech investment stats in Q2 2026:
Global RegTech funding dropped 38% YoY in Q2
US companies secured seven of the top 10...
Why compliance teams no longer have to choose between speed and scale
For years, procuring compliance technology meant settling for a compromise. Legacy vendors offered global reach but could take weeks to refresh critical data, while...
RegTech’s orchestration gap puts compliance at risk
Many organisations continue to manage regulatory change through a patchwork of spreadsheets, ageing legacy systems and bolted-on third-party integrations. That fragmentation, rather than the...
How MLROs can win the board over on RegTech spend
For many money laundering reporting officers, the hardest part of modernising the financial crime risk assessment process is not identifying the solution, it is...
Horizon3 triples valuation to $2bn with $250m Series E
Horizon3 has secured a $250m Series E round at a valuation exceeding $2bn, tripling its worth from the $650m it commanded at Series D...
