Despite a tumultuous 2020, one investment stood head and shoulders above all others: bitcoin. The largest cryptocurrency in the world by market cap has more than quadrupled in value over the trailing-12-month period through Jan. 17. It’s up a cool 9,310% over the trailing five years. Bitcoin blows pretty much […]
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Venminder Raises $33 Million in Growth Funding Led by Silversmith Capital Partners
Series C Round Includes Participation from Existing Investors, Bain Capital Ventures and MissionOG For immediate release – November 10, 2020, 8:00am ET. Elizabethtown, KY – Venminder, a leading innovator in third-party risk management solutions, today announced that it has raised a $33 million Series C funding round led […]
Jonathan Jacobi Joins smartKYC as Business Development Director
Experienced Sales Leader will Focus on Corporate Banks’ and Large Corporates’ Third-party Risk Requirements London 4 November 2020: smartKYC, providers of award-winning AI-enabled KYC and third-party risk intelligence technology, today announced the appointment of Jonathan Jacobi as Business Development Director. Reporting to CEO Dermot Corrigan, Jonathan will help […]
Graydon, Cifas & TruNarrative launch solution for SMEs to tackle commercial fraud
London, 25th August 2020 – Graydon, Europe’s leading provider of business data and insight, has announced the launch of Graydon Business Risk, a new risk management solution developed in partnership with TruNarrative, the financial crime RegTech experts and Cifas, the UK’s leading fraud prevention service. Joint research undertaken by the partners […]
Know Your Customer strengthens position in South-East Asia with the appointment of new Head of Corporate Solutions
Singapore, 30 July 2020 – Award-winning RegTech provider Know Your Customer has announced the appointment of Aradhna Sharma as Head of Corporate Solutions for South-East Asia. Established in 2015, Know Your Customer provides next generation digital onboarding solutions to financial institutions and FinTech organisations around the world. The KYC suite of digital products […]
CubeLogic bolsters global team with two executive hires
London, Bangalore, Houston, Berlin. Tuesday 28th July 2020 CubeLogic, the market leading provider of enterprise risk management solutions for the energy, commodities, and financial services industries has hired David Baker as Group Chief Technology Officer and John Harris as Chief Operations Officer for the Americas region. These are both new […]
Revolut Launches in USA
Revolut launched its Financial App and debit card in the United States. Since hinting at the launch last year, Revolut claims it already attracted tens of thousands of U.S. customers. Revolut launched in 2015 with a vision to build a Financial Super App – a single app where consumers can […]
Open Source and Cloud: A Power Couple in Financial Services
Open-source technologies are increasingly attractive to financial services firms. They are in broader usage across the sector as they are more widely available and are easy to adopt, lowering the barriers for usage in new projects. As well as helping clients reduce software and infrastructure costs, the increasing adoption of […]
More than four out of five anti-money laundering and customer onboarding professionals simply use Google
While the growing number of money laundering scandals have confirmed the need to protect businesses against fraud, many analysts simply rely on Google. Having surveyed 156 anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) professionals, RegTech company Arachnys has revealed that 85% used Google for their due diligence or risk […]
Thoughts on the market rout, compliance and working from home
Having worked in the financial industry for 20 years, I always found it interesting how stock markets have been the proxy for gauging public fear. My first job was working as a trader at a Wall Street firm. The first taste I got about the connection between the markets […]