Big Tech Compliance

Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs secured $70 million in a Series C funding round, propelling the company to a $1 billion valuation, according to a Wednesday (Feb. 4) press release. The ...

Software as a service once promised a steady rhythm of recurring subscriptions, predictable upgrades and incremental productivity gains. That rhythm has been thrown off kilter as artificial intelligence begins to alter ...

Smith Corona was once the king of written communications. For most of the twentieth century, the sound of work and study in America was the clickety‑clack of typewriter keys in offices, ...

From virtual doctor visits to scheduling apps and health trackers, consumers are steadily integrating technology into how they manage healthcare. However, adoption is unfolding unevenly across age groups, creating what the ...

SoFi’s platform strategy was a centerpiece of fourth-quarter earnings on Friday (Jan. 30): Bring in members, persuade them to adopt multiple products, and let lending, payments and technology revenue compound. The ...

Walmart-backed FinTech OnePay has debuted a feature letting customers file their taxes through its app. The new service, announced Wednesday (Jan. 28), is being offered in partnership with embedded tax technology platform april, and ...

Brazilian FinTech PicPay has raised $434 million in its U.S. initial public offering. The company announced Wednesday (Jan. 28) evening that it had sold 22.8 million shares at $19 each, the ...

As the first major technology companies prepare to report earnings later today (Jan. 28), attention is shifting from how much Big Tech is spending on artificial intelligence (AI) to whether ...

This week’s tech news shows artificial intelligence (AI) moving deeper into climate forecasting, search, and the public sector. Nvidia Opens Weather AI Nvidia this week announced Earth-2, a groundbreaking suite of open, ...

Today’s digital-first shoppers are happy to let artificial intelligence lend an electronic hand as they shop online for everything from clothing to groceries. However, most are nowhere close to handing over ...

Microsoft on Monday (Jan. 26) introduced Maia 200, its second-generation custom artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator, as cloud providers increasingly focus on inference, the phase of AI where trained models generate ...

British FinTech Revolut has officially launched its banking operations in Mexico. Revolut Bank S.A Institución de Banca Múltiple is the first bank the company has established and launched outside continental Europe, Revolut said ...

Tech conglomerate Honeywell is seeing artificial intelligence play a larger role in the physical world, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday (Jan. 27). Anant Maheshwari, president and CEO of global regions at Honeywell, ...

A growing demand for digital solutions, data and flexible platforms marked 2025, Boost Payment Solutions founder and CEO Dean M. Leavitt writes in a new PYMNTS eBook, “2025’s Over/Under: The ...

The 21st century has seen a shift in how nonbanks enter the financial system. During 2025, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) received 14 de novo charter applications, ...

Bank of Scotland, a subsidiary of Lloyds Banking Group, has been fined £160,000 (about $219,000) by a British regulator for breaching a sanctions law targeting Russia. The penalty was reduced by ...

Blockchain infrastructure firm Zerohash is in discussions to raise $250 million, CoinDesk reported Monday (Jan. 26). The new funding would value the company at $1.5 billion, the report said, citing an ...

Canada-based business finance platform Float Financial raised nearly 100 million Canadian dollars (about $73 million) in new funding, according to a Monday (Jan. 26) press release. The financing came in the ...

HealthTech startup Tandem Technology achieved a valuation of $1 billion, Bloomberg News reported Monday (Jan. 26). The company, which aims to use artificial intelligence to ease the process of writing and ...

Your phone has been hogging the spotlight for years. Now your jacket wants a speaking role, preferably mic’d up and artificial intelligence-assisted. Wearables have become a serious product category because they ...

Hackers only need to get it right once to wreak havoc. This week, a congressional committee hearing, “Oversight of the Department of Homeland Security: CISA, TSA, S&T,” underscored that openings are ...

Tesla will be selling humanoid robots to the public by the end of 2027, CEO Elon Musk said Thursday (Jan. 22). “That’s when we are confident that it’s very high reliability, ...

Businesses and balance sheets have long been built on the finance function’s ability to close. Close the month. Close the quarter. Close the year. The faster the books are closed, the ...

Artificial intelligence startups OpenAI and Anthropic will be competing for enterprise clients this year, CNBC reported Wednesday (Jan. 21). Both companies are looking to increase their market share in this segment, ...

Artificial intelligence is not a bubble; it’s an opportunity that everyone should get involved in, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday (Jan. 21). Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, ...

Big Tech companies in China like Alibaba and ByteDance are adding agentic commerce to their arsenal, CNBC reported Wednesday (Jan. 21). Alibaba updated its consumer-facing Qwen AI chatbot last week with ...

Amazon has begun rolling out the latest generation of its smart shopping cart. The newest Dash Cart was introduced in Whole Foods Market stores in three cities last year and will ...

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, global banking chiefs, FinTech leaders and regulators converged on a shared reality: AI is reshaping finance faster than institutions can adapt alone. The path ...

For millions of people paid in digital dollar stablecoins, the hardest part isn’t getting the money. It’s using it. When a freelance designer in Buenos Aires invoices a U.S. client in ...

Argentinian FinTech Pomelo raised $55 million in new funding. The company’s Series C round brings its total funding to $160 million and will allow Pomelo to grow its presence in Latin ...

Brazilian digital bank PicPay is targeting a $2.46 billion valuation when it goes public in the United States. The company aims to raise up to $434.3 million in its initial public ...

Automakers and their suppliers are reportedly facing shortages of memory chips due to competition from companies building artificial intelligence data centers. Because the data center market is more profitable for chipmakers, ...

At first guess, one might think the agentic AI boom would splinter into a thousand use cases. Retailers automating inventory. Banks unleashing robo-analysts. Manufacturers fine-tuning factories. But findings in the January ...

Revolut has added Peru as the next stop in its ongoing Latin American expansion effort. The U.K. FinTech announced Monday (Jan. 19) that it has applied for a full banking license ...

Brazil-based digital bank Inter has gotten regulatory approval to do business in the U.S. Inter has received permission from the Federal Reserve and Florida Office of Financial Regulation to establish a ...

Talk of an artificial intelligence (AI) bubble may be missing the more contrarian reality: AI capability is advancing so fast that the economic payoff is less a mirage than a ...

The expansion of generative artificial intelligence is exerting pressure beyond data centers and cloud providers. It is beginning to alter the economics of consumer electronics in visible and lasting ways. Memory components ...

The volatility wrought by tariffs is no longer a background risk but a daily operational reality, forcing companies to make strategic decisions with incomplete data and shifting economic signals. As ...

Shadow AI is rapidly becoming the generative AI risk that compliance leaders do not discover until something breaks. Even as enterprises deploy “approved” copilots and internal model platforms, employees are ...

While investment banking and wealth management traditionally take the financial services spotlight, the infrastructure layer of global finance is becoming increasingly central to banks’ growth strategies. While Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser ...

Watch more: TechReg Talks: Davis Wright Tremaine’s Steve Gannon The pursuit of bank charters by FinTechs and cryptocurrency-focused firms is accelerating, driven less by novelty and more by pragmatism. As these ...

Card programs have become tools in modern payments, enabling banks, FinTechs and non-financial brands to extend financial services, deepen customer relationships and unlock new revenue streams. However, as their reach expands, ...

Innovation in U.S. healthcare is often narrated as a story of disruption. Think: bold startups, cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and innovative technology. But that narrative, while appealing, obscures a more accurate ...

By any reasonable definition, stablecoins work. But “working” is not the same as working compliantly. Built to move value at internet speed, stablecoins promise and provide a cleaner, faster alternative to ...

JPMorgan Chase’s fourth-quarter 2025 earnings results, released before the market opened Tuesday (Jan. 13), reflect a bank preparing to spend more through 2026, with technology, artificial intelligence and payments infrastructure ...