Institutional crypto custody has become the gate that banks and asset managers must pass through before they move money on-chain, and ADI Chain has just closed it. The ADI Foundation, the Abu Dhabi body behind the institutional blockchain, has signed a strategic partnership with The Vault, a digital-asset custody provider, to bring multi-party computation custody to the network and to research quantum-resistant security together. Announced on 11 November 2026, the agreement t

As of this week, SEALSQ's Swiss subsidiary just claimed Paris's top RegTech prize, Hong Kong's banks met a purpose-built AI governance platform, and a fresh forecast pegged RegTech at $112 billion by 2033. Compliance just got interesting. For two decades, the running joke in financial services was that compliance teams were where ambitious careers went to retire. RegTech, the layer of technology meant to automate all that Know-Your-Customer, Anti-Money-Laundering and regulato

FrankieOne has connected Trulioo into its compliance orchestration platform, giving the Australian regtech's bank and fintech customers beneficial ownership verification across more than 100 markets through the single integration they already run. Announced from Singapore, the technology partnership routes Trulioo's business and ultimate beneficial owner (UBO) data into FrankieOne's existing financial-crime workflows, so a firm can establish who owns and controls a counterpar

Euroclear FundsPlace has added Macquarie Asset Management to its growing roster of private-markets managers, giving wealth advisers across Europe, Asia and the Middle East a route into private infrastructure, an asset class that until recently sat almost entirely with institutions. The collaboration, announced in Brussels on 10 November 2026, connects Macquarie's infrastructure funds to Euroclear's distribution, execution and custody systems, so that advisers can place client

Fiserv has built AI product discovery and an AI website builder into Clover, its point-of-sale platform for small businesses, pushing a franchise of about 900,000 merchants into online retail at the moment consumers are starting to shop through AI assistants rather than a search box. The capabilities, announced on 10 November 2026 and live first for Clover merchants in the United States, let a shop build an online store, connect it to the stock, orders and payments it already

Poesis, an AI-native asset manager based in Menlo Park, California, plans to open its flagship agentic equity strategy to external investors in early 2027, offering institutions a route into a fund where AI agents, rather than human analysts, carry out the daily research and build the trades. The strategy, named AI Clarity, has traded the firm's own capital since August 2026 and targets US-listed large-cap shares. The firm was co-founded by Alex Popa, a former partner at Capi