AI personas pose as victims to capture the accounts scammers use to cash out, as reimbursement rules shift fraud liability onto banks. Banks can now screen outgoing payments against a live register of the accounts criminals use to collect the proceeds of scams. Cybera, a New York fraud-intelligence startup, has made its money mule intelligence available through Recorded Future, the threat-intelligence company Mastercard acquired for $2.65bn in 2024. The product flags accounts

Embedded finance, green lending and BaaS deals shaped October 2026. See the Shares, FMO, finmid and Sainsbury's moves driving inclusion.

Fairmint is taking its onchain shareholder record to public companies, extending a service it built for private cap tables to the official ownership files of listed firms. Announced on 28 October 2026, the offering lets a public issuer appoint Fairmint TA LLC, the company's SEC-registered transfer agent subsidiary (file no. 084-06901), to move its master securityholder file, the legal record of who owns the company, onto a blockchain and maintain it there as the authoritative

J.P. Morgan Asset Management has selected Kurtosys as its strategic technology partner for client reporting, closing a global evaluation that ran for more than 15 months and setting up a wider overhaul of how the firm produces and delivers investor communications. The manager, which reports $4.8 trillion in assets under management as of 30 September 2026, is consolidating a reporting estate that currently spans multiple platforms and workflows across its regions and business

As of this week, RegTech stopped being a cost centre and started looking like a growth story. Capital is piling into AI-native compliance, DORA fines are landing, and Europe is quietly rewriting MiCA. The compliance stack is being rebuilt in public. For a decade, RegTech was the sector venture capitalists loved to describe and hated to fund. The pitch was always the same: regulation never shrinks, banks never stop hiring compliance staff, and someone will eventually automate

Specialty insurance rates fell faster in the first half of 2026 than in the whole of 2025, and by the 1 July renewals around 65% of the rate gains built up to the 2023 market peak had been eroded, according to WTW's latest Specialty Insurance Marketplace Survey (SIMS). Across the London, Bermuda and US excess and surplus (E&S) markets, insurance and reinsurance rates both fell 4% gross of claims trend and 6% net of trend in the six months to June, with the steepest cuts, in p