Chase Launches All-in-One Insurance Bundle for UK Customers
Chase has introduced Chase Protect, its first insurance offering, bundling worldwide travel, mobile phone, and AA breakdown cover for a fixed £12.50 monthly fee. The product is embedded in the Chase mobile app, allowing customers to purchase, manage policies, and file claims digitally. It is positioned as an optional add‑on to the Chase current account and is being rolled out in stages across the UK. This launch marks Chase’s expansion from pure digital banking into the broader financial services ecosystem.
Top Five Insurance Industry Predictions for 2026
UK insurers face a softening rate environment in 2026, prompting a shift toward data‑driven decision making. nCino predicts that embedding real‑time intelligence into underwriting and broker workflows will become a key competitive edge. Firms are urged to differentiate on service...
Cytora and Altitude Intelligence Partner to Enhance Commercial Underwriting
Cytora and Altitude Intelligence have formed a strategic partnership to embed Altitude’s high‑fidelity geospatial and multi‑source intelligence directly into Cytora’s AI‑driven underwriting platform. The integration enables commercial insurers to enrich submissions with real‑time climate and location insights at the point...
Aurora Introduces Algorithmic Underwriting for Insurers
Aurora, a leading algorithmic insurance platform, announced its new Lead Algorithmic Underwriting as a Service. The managed offering lets insurers apply live, governed underwriting algorithms to complex commercial and specialty risks without altering broker trading practices. By automating risk assessment,...
What Is an Adverse Media Check and Why It Matters for AML
Adverse media checks have become a core component of modern anti‑money‑laundering (AML) frameworks, supplementing transaction monitoring and sanctions screening. They involve scanning publicly available sources—news, legal filings, watchlists—to flag allegations, investigations or high‑risk associations before formal convictions occur. These checks...
SME Bank Selects Flagright to Enhance Transaction Monitoring and Screening
SME Bank, a digital‑first lender for SMEs in the Baltics, Finland and the Netherlands, has selected Flagright’s AI‑native, no‑code platform to modernise its transaction monitoring, watchlist screening and investigations. The implementation will provide real‑time, risk‑based controls and a unified workspace,...
Know Your Customer Celebrates 10 Years Redefining Corporate Onboarding for Global Banks
Know Your Customer (KYC) marks its 10th anniversary as one of the few RegTech firms from the post‑2008 era still thriving. Founded in 2015, the company built a platform that pulls real‑time, registry‑sourced corporate data from 146 jurisdictions, delivering authoritative...
UK Asset Management Rules in Focus: What to Expect in 2026
The UK asset‑management regulatory landscape continued evolving in 2025, moving from policy design to concrete implementation. Zeidler Group published a guide outlining the latest FCA supervisory priorities, ESG disclosures, consumer‑duty rules, and governance expectations. It also highlights infrastructure reforms such...
Enterprise AI Strategy: Why Buy Often Beats Build
At the 2025 Central Park AI Forum, leaders debated whether enterprises should buy or build AI solutions, especially for legal and regulatory functions. Speakers highlighted that building tools often fails to deliver long‑term ownership, as maintenance and continuous updates are...
How AML Reform Is Reshaping Financial Crime Strategy
Australia’s AML and counter‑terrorism financing reforms will take effect on 31 March 2026 for existing entities and July 2026 for a new tranche of roughly 80,000 businesses, including real‑estate agents and lawyers. The amendment Act shifts supervision from checklist compliance to outcomes‑based, demanding...
Enclaive Secures €4.1m to Scale Confidential Computing Across Multi-Cloud
Berlin‑based enclaive closed a €4.1 million seed round led by Join Capital and the Amadeus APEX Technology Fund to accelerate its Multi‑Cloud Platform (eMCP). The funding will boost sales, marketing, product functionality and international expansion. eMCP lets organisations run workloads in...
4CRisk.ai’s Playbook for AI Governance and Compliance
4CRisk.ai released a guide outlining how firms can build a robust AI governance program in 2026. The playbook stresses moving beyond high‑level policies to concrete technical monitoring, risk tiering, and evidence‑based compliance for both in‑house and third‑party models. It recommends...
Bridging the Engagement Gap in Online Trading
Retail brokers struggle with high acquisition costs and early trader churn. Devexperts proposes AI solutions—Devexa and Acomotrade—to turn fragmented user and trading data into real‑time engagement actions. Devexa acts as an always‑on chat assistant across popular messengers, while Acomotrade analyzes...
Fincite Announces CEO Handover as Ralf Heim Steps Back
fincite, a German WealthTech firm, announced a leadership transition effective 15 February 2026. Co‑CEO Friedhelm Schmitt will become the sole CEO, taking over from co‑founder Ralf Heim, who will step back from day‑to‑day operations. Heim will stay on as a senior advisor...
Focal Brings Research-Backed Behavioural Coaching to Wealth Advisors
Focal, an AI‑driven productivity platform for wealth advisors, has partnered with behavioural‑science firm Shaping Wealth to embed research‑backed coaching into its meeting workflow. The integration delivers real‑time, personalized insights during client conversations, helping advisors ask better questions, improve prospecting and...
Wealth.com Unveils Integrated Tax Planning Platform for Advisors
Wealth.com has launched Wealth.com Tax Planning, an integrated solution that combines tax, estate, and execution workflows within its existing advisor platform. The tool offers multi‑state tax scenario modeling, natural‑language data capture, and client‑ready reporting, and it will be available on...
PlannerPal Launches Pre-Meeting AI Tool for Financial Advisers
PlannerPal, an AI‑driven workflow platform for financial advisers, has introduced a Pre‑Meeting Prep Pack that automates the assembly of client‑specific data before consultations. The tool aggregates portfolio valuations, tax summaries, goal progress, and recent communications from multiple sources, cutting typical...
TeamSystem Expands in Spain with AIG Classic Acquisition
Italian tech and AI leader TeamSystem announced the acquisition of Spain‑based AIG Classic, a specialist in management and accounting software for SMEs. AIG Classic reported over €5.5 million in revenue for 2025 and serves more than 34,000 customers across the Iberian...
ESMA-RBI Deal Boosts EU Access to India Clearing
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to deepen supervisory cooperation and facilitate information exchange for recognizing Indian central counterparty clearing houses (CCPs). The MoU satisfies the EMIR...
Inside UK Fraud and Money Laundering Investigations Today
A former City of London Police detective discusses modern UK fraud and money‑laundering investigations in RelyComply’s “Laundered” Episode 3. The conversation reveals how financial‑crime tactics have evolved, making investigations more complex, urgent, and resource‑intensive. It highlights operational constraints that shape case...
GenStar Partners with ZestyAI to Sharpen Hail Risk Underwriting
GenStar has teamed with InsurTech ZestyAI to integrate its Z‑STORM AI model into the underwriting of hail, wind and severe convective storm risk for its commercial property portfolio. The partnership delivers property‑level risk analytics for complex multi‑unit assets, allowing more...
InsurTech Firm Sixfold Secures $30m to Advance AI Underwriting
Sixfold, a New York‑based InsurTech, closed a $30 million Series B round led by Brewer Lane with strategic participation from Guidewire. The funding will fuel development of its “AI Underwriter,” an autonomous system designed to handle end‑to‑end property and casualty underwriting. Sixfold’s...
Cardamon Partners Microsoft to Scale Secure AI in Compliance
Cardamon, a RegTech firm specializing in secure AI for compliance, has entered Microsoft’s AI Partnership Program to deliver enterprise‑grade, auditable AI solutions to highly regulated organizations. The collaboration combines Cardamon’s rapid delivery platform, which claims to automate up to 95%...
Why Manual Regulatory Lifecycle Management Is Failing
Financial institutions are spending up to 70% of compliance resources on manually tracking regulatory updates, with some changes taking eight weeks to move through the lifecycle. The lag creates gaps between regulator expectations and the firm’s documented controls, increasing audit...
Aon Teams up with DataRobot to Streamline Onboarding with Agentic AI
Aon and DataRobot have launched a partnership to embed agentic AI into insurance onboarding and servicing workflows. The collaboration will use DataRobot's Agent Workforce Platform to automate document consolidation, certificate generation, and invoice processing while keeping human experts in charge...
Large Deals Rose by 3.9x QoQ in Q4 2025 Pushing European FinTech Funding to Reach Its Peak
European FinTech funding surged to $5.5 bn in Q4 2025, an 87% increase QoQ and the highest‑funded quarter on record. The number of deals stayed flat at 176, but large transactions exploded, with deals over $100 m rising 3.9 times QoQ to $4 bn. Zilch...
FINNY Partners with Osaic to Expand AI Prospecting for Advisors
FINNY, an AI‑powered prospecting platform for financial advisors, has partnered with Osaic to roll its technology out across Osaic’s network of more than 270 institutions and roughly 11,000 advisors. The integration gives users access to FINNY’s predictive F‑Score engine, real‑time...
Zeidler Group: SEC Marketing Update Is Narrow, Not Seismic
Zeidler Group says the SEC’s latest Marketing Rule FAQs are a targeted clarification, not a market‑moving shift, and cautions asset managers against over‑reacting. The update focuses on model‑fee disclosures where performance may not reflect higher fees and on compensated testimonials...
WealthTech Buying: Three Red Flags to Avoid
Kidbrooke warns wealth managers that choosing analytics platforms based solely on features and price can lead to costly structural problems. It identifies three red flags: narrow‑scope analytics that hinder future expansion, opaque or expensive customisation that stalls innovation, and vendors...
Why Context Is the Missing Link for Trusted AI at Work
M‑Files CEO Jay Bhatt warns that today’s work spans multiple systems, teams and partners, leaving information fragmented and hard to trust. This operational friction slows decision‑making, inflates risk, and diminishes the value of automation and AI investments. Bhatt argues that...
HeyData Raises $16.5m to Unify Security and Compliance
heyData, a European compliance platform, closed a $16.5 million Series A round led by Riverside Acceleration Capital. The capital will accelerate the integration of security and compliance tools on a modular platform and fund expansion beyond the DACH region. The company aims...
IAAH Goes Live on EIS OneSuite to Modernise Core Systems
Industrial Alliance Auto and Home (iAAH) has gone live on EIS OneSuite, the SaaS core insurance platform, marking a key milestone in its long‑term modernization programme. The cloud‑native solution supports underwriting, pricing and servicing for auto and home lines through...
EUDI Wallet Use Cases: From KYC to Payments and Lending
The European Union Digital Identity (EUDI) Wallet, enabled by eIDAS 2.0, promises to replace fragmented, document‑heavy KYC flows with a unified, government‑backed credential system. Financial firms currently see 40‑60% onboarding abandonment and verification costs of €5 per check, translating to...
Broker Insights Updates VISION Platform to Reshape Commercial Cover
Broker Insights has launched an upgraded VISION platform that leverages artificial intelligence to pinpoint commercial insurance gaps, especially in cyber and management liability, and to accelerate quoting and binding. The solution connects brokers with carriers such as AXA and Hiscox...
Diginex Names Lubomila Jordanova CEO After Plan A Deal
Diginex, a Nasdaq‑listed sustainability and RegTech provider, has appointed Lubomila Jordanova as its new chief executive following the recent acquisition of her carbon‑accounting platform Plan A. Jordanova, a recognized climate‑tech entrepreneur, will steer the firm through a phase of accelerated European...
One in Two Respondents Said Integrating Wealth Management with FinTech Firms Would Boost Sales
PwC’s Asset and Wealth Management Revolution 2025 report surveyed 300 global leaders and found that 50% view wealth‑management integration with FinTech as the top driver of revenue growth through 2030. Tokenisation and digital assets were identified by 38% of respondents...
HeyMax Raises $11m Series A to Scale Travel Loyalty Across APAC
HeyMax, a Singapore‑based travel rewards platform, closed an $11 million Series A round led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from Betatron Venture Group and notable angels such as Agoda’s co‑founder. The capital will fund AI‑enhanced product features and accelerate expansion from its...
EXANTE Appoints Alex Kishchuk as Trade Desk Lead
EXANTE, a global prime broker, has appointed Alex Kishchuk as lead of its trade desk to bolster worldwide trade execution and operations. Kishchuk will oversee speed, transparency and control of the firm’s trading infrastructure, reporting to COO Zane Kotane. He...
Gulf States Enhances Policyholder Experience with insured.io
Gulf States Insurance Group has partnered with insured.io to deploy a cloud‑based, omnichannel customer engagement platform. The solution includes an Insured Portal, IVR services, outbound notifications, and a First Notice of Loss claims tool, all integrated with Gulf States' policy...
Starr Adopts Five Sigma AI to Transform Claims Operations
Starr, a global investment and insurance firm, has selected Five Sigma’s AI Claims Management Platform and its multi‑agent AI expert, Clive, to overhaul specialty claims operations. The AI‑native solution will embed intelligence across the entire claims lifecycle, from first notice...
MGAA Sets Strategic Priorities for 2026
The Managing General Agents’ Association (MGAA) unveiled its 2026 strategic plan, emphasizing expanded member value, enhanced technical training, deeper market engagement, and a stronger voice for delegated underwriting. The agenda includes new market research, a relaunch of the POLI learning...
Pace Raises $10m to Automate Insurance Operations
Agentic AI startup Pace announced a $10 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital to accelerate automation of insurance operations. The funding will be used to replace traditional business process outsourcing with AI systems that handle submissions, claims processing and other...
B-Next and Behavox Join Forces to Advance Capital Markets Compliance
b-next, a capital‑markets surveillance specialist, has partnered with AI‑focused Behavox to embed advanced analytics into its compliance suite. The deal grants b-next a license to Behavox’s artificial‑intelligence engine, enhancing trade surveillance, best‑execution monitoring, conflicts‑of‑interest controls, and personal‑account dealing solutions. Behavox...
Almost 9 in 10 Firms Remain Vulnerable to Cyber Risks
KYND’s analysis of over 2,000 firms—including FTSE 350 and S&P 500 companies—found that 88 % of organizations with identified cyber‑risk exposures remain vulnerable for six months or longer. While 11 % of the sample faced actively exploited vulnerabilities, remote code execution (RCE)...
Kin Launches Auto Insurance for Florida and Texas Homeowners
Kin, a direct‑to‑consumer insurtech, has introduced auto insurance for its existing home‑insurance customers in Florida and Texas, allowing policyholders to bundle coverage. The bundled offering promises up to a 20% discount on auto premiums and simplifies management through a single...
AIFMD II and Distributors: Independence vs Control
Under AIFMD II, Article 20(6a) creates a carve‑out that excludes marketing carried out by MiFID II or IDD‑regulated distributors from the delegation regime. Zeidler Group highlights that this marketing is not treated as delegation regardless of any distribution agreement. The regulator will now...
ACA Group and Anduin Launch Integrated AML/KYC Onboarding
ACA Group and Anduin have formed a strategic partnership to deliver a fully integrated AML/KYC and investor onboarding solution for private‑markets firms. The offering combines Anduin’s fund‑subscription platform with ACA’s ComplianceAlpha® AML/KYC managed services, creating a single‑point workflow that automates...
Club Employés Selects Mangopay to Scale Employee Benefits Across Europe
Club Employés, a French employee‑benefits platform, has chosen Mangopay to overhaul its payment infrastructure as it prepares to expand across Europe. The partnership introduces a wallet‑first, multi‑party payment model that streamlines funding, distribution and redemption of benefits. Mangopay’s solution offers...
1Kosmos Partners Hopae to Scale Portable Digital Identity
1Kosmos and Hopae have announced a global partnership to integrate Hopae Connect into the 1Kosmos platform, extending support to more than 60 government‑issued digital identity schemes. The joint solution enables organizations to verify eIDs securely without centralized databases, aiming to...
Revolut Business Launches Subscriptions to Unify Revenue Operations
Revolut Business has launched Subscriptions in the UK, an in‑app solution that lets merchants create, automate and manage recurring payment plans without additional billing software fees. The feature consolidates billing, payments and customer data, offering instant reconciliation, API access, free‑trial...