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Why liveness detection is key to stopping synthetic ID fraud
1+ hour, 9+ min ago (366+ words) Synthetic identity fraud is emerging as one of the more difficult threats for digital onboarding teams to detect, precisely because it does not resemble traditional identity theft. Rather than stealing a person's full identity, fraudsters blend genuine data, such as…...
Why AI can't fix AML without fixing legacy tech first
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (204+ words) Financial institutions are pouring resources into AI for anti-money laundering, but according to Napier AI, the technology is only as good as the systems it sits on. Most AML platforms were never built with AI in mind, and that mismatch…...
$66m bet on fixing enterprise identity for the AI era
2+ week, 2+ day ago (483+ words) Fin Tech Global New Core, a security-first identity platform built to govern humans, machines, and AI agents within the enterprise, has emerged from stealth with $66m in funding, marking one of the most significant early-stage bets on identity security for the…...
How the FCA is rewriting the rules on Reg Tech innovation
2+ week, 2+ day ago (182+ words) For years, the prevailing assumption in technology circles has been that regulation and innovation are fundamentally at odds. Napier AI's experience inside the Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) Supercharged Sandbox suggests the opposite may be true" and the implications for financial…...
Intellect AI's Magic Placement cuts quote workloads by 60%
2+ week, 2+ day ago (228+ words) Processing insurance quotes has long been one of the most time-consuming and error-prone tasks facing commercial brokers. Intellect AI is looking to change that with its Magic Placement platform, which uses artificial intelligence to automatically extract, structure, and validate complex…...
Pleo launches AI agents for autonomous spend management
2+ week, 6+ day ago (385+ words) Pleo, Europe's spend management platform built for financial strategists, has unveiled a suite of AI agents designed to handle routine financial tasks autonomously, allowing finance leaders to concentrate on strategic decision-making rather than administrative work. The launch comes as research…...
A Security's $37m bet on stopping weaponised AI threats
3+ week, 2+ day ago (440+ words) A Security, an autonomous offensive security platform designed to identify and close real-world attack paths before adversaries can exploit them, has emerged from stealth mode after raising $37m in funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Cyberstarts, and a group of prominent angel…...
Cosine builds UK's first sovereign frontier AI model
3+ week, 2+ day ago (238+ words) Cosine, a British sovereign AI frontier lab founded in London in 2023 and selected by the UK government as part of its sovereign AI initiative, has unveiled a coalition of major UK institutions to co-design Lumen Sovereign, the country's first sovereign…...
How to monitor and investigate behavior-based risk in AI communications
3+ week, 6+ day ago (302+ words) A well-designed governance layer creates a feedback loop, channeling forensic learnings back into security guardrails so that defences evolve alongside the threats they are designed to counter. Once collected, fragmented data must be normalised into a standardised, navigable timeline that…...
Cyera expands Snowflake tie-up to govern AI agents
3+ week, 6+ day ago (500+ words) Fin Tech Global Cyera, an AI security platform designed for the age of agents, has announced expanded integrations with cloud data platform Snowflake at the company's annual user conference, Snowflake Summit 26, aimed at helping enterprises safely scale their use of…...