It was a week for smaller funding rounds in the FinTech sector, with a total of $541m raised across 15 deals.  It marked a significant drop from the previous week where a pair of $400m rounds helped ...

Personalisation has been a major trend in wealth management for many years to the point it is now seen an expectation, rather than as option. As personalisation has become table stakes, what is the ...

Financial institutions racing to embed AI into their compliance operations face a stubborn problem: the technology does not ...

Prometeia, the Italian risk management and advisory specialist, has completed the implementation of its Prometeia Model Journey (PMJ) platform at the African Development Bank (AfDB), marking a ...

The financial advice market is no longer a simple choice between doing it yourself and paying for a full-service adviser. According to Ortec Finance, the sector is moving towards an “advice continuum” ...

Gulf Capital Investment Company KSCC (InvestGB), the investment division of Gulf Bank, has finished a front-to-back overhaul of its operations by moving onto technology from Avaloq, a provider of ...

WealthAi, an AI-powered operating system built for wealth managers and advisers, has introduced a set of AI agents that manage client onboarding and KYC from start to finish, cutting the time the ...

Akur8, the global actuarial AI platform provider, has rolled out Akur8 Agents, a new offering that embeds expert guidance and no-code automation into the day-to-day workflows of actuaries. The initial ...

The rapid rise of prediction markets is creating a fresh set of compliance challenges for investment advisers. When firms or their staff trade event contracts using confidential, client-related or ...

Settle, a platform that helps product businesses manage cash flow and working capital, has obtained a $240m credit facility to expand the financing it can offer and to reach larger customers. The ...

Portuguese InsurTech FRANK, the developer of an AI-powered platform built for insurance brokers, has secured €2.9m in a round co-led by Armilar and Start Ventures, capital that will fund further ...

A series of incidents spanning Spain and Australia is providing some of the clearest real-world evidence yet that AI agents ...