BaFin Fines Deutsche Bank €8 Million Over Postbank IT Migration 
Sumsub Partners With Jelou AI on WhatsApp Onboarding Identity Checks 
BioCatch Launches AiRE for Agentic AI Fraud Detection 
Signicat Consolidates Five eIDAS Audit Bodies Under TÜV Austria 
FCA Launches Quantum Group to Study Money Laundering Detection 
Hummingbird Acquires Quantimon to Add Machine Learning to AML
Hummingbird, a financial crime compliance platform, acquired Quantimon on October 28, 2026, adding a machine learning platform for AML risk...
Brickwood Asset Management Appoints FinScan for Sanctions Screening
Brickwood Asset Management, a UK value equities boutique, has appointed FinScan, the anti-money laundering (AML) screening business of Innovative Systems,...
FCA Publishes AI Good and Poor Practice Observations for Firms
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published AI good practice and poor practice examples on October 19, 2026, and said firms...
StarCompliance Adds Natural-Language AI Agent to Analytics Offering
StarCompliance, a vendor of employee and firm compliance software used by more than 500 clients, has added an AI compliance...
MoneyGram Selects AiPrise for Global Verification Workflows
MoneyGram, the cross-border payments network that serves more than 200 countries and territories, selected AiPrise on October 28, 2026 to...
RegSensus Launches After SteelEye-FundApps Merger
SteelEye and FundApps, two London regulatory technology vendors, have formalized their merger and now operate as RegSensus, a company that...
Zafin Buys Naehas to Expand AI Banking and Compliance Platform
Zafin, the Toronto-based AI platform company for regulated institutions, signed a definitive agreement on October 26, 2026 to acquire Naehas,...
Cygrid Raises €2.66 Million to Control AI Agent Data Access
Cygrid, a Berlin cybersecurity startup founded in January 2026, left stealth on October 23 with a €2.66 million pre-Seed round...
BoE and FCA Survey Shows Generative AI Surge in UK Finance
The Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority said on October 26 that generative AI now makes up 56%...
FCA Bans Jeffrey Dawkins, Fines Him Nearly £270,000 Over Mini-Bonds
The FCA banned Jeffrey Dawkins, former chief executive of Vector Wealth Ltd, and fined him nearly £270,000 on October 21...
What Boards Must Decide Now on Rule 14a-8 Shareholder Proposals
SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said on July 9 that the staff's decision not to answer most exclusion requests this season...