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Europe Puts Hidden Technology Suppliers on CFOs’ Risk Radar

October 02, 2026
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Tink Founders Debut Agentic Compliance Platform Freda
Artificial Intelligence // September 23, 2026

The founders of open banking platform Tink have launched a new compliance platform. Freda, which came out of stealth Wednesday (Sept. 23), has its roots in what its founders saw at their former company, CEO Daniel Kjellén said in a LinkedIn post announcing the launch. “At Tink, we’d watched compliance become...

MRH Trowe Lets Employees Build Their Own Agent Factory
Artificial Intelligence // September 21, 2026

Employees at insurance broker MRH Trowe wanted artificial intelligence to help with their daily work. Teams started trying AI tools on their own. That created a risk for the company. Sensitive client and insurance data could end up in software nobody at the firm controlled....

The Best Enterprise AI System Is One CFOs Are Allowed to Use
Artificial Intelligence // September 21, 2026

The most important benchmark for the next phase of enterprise artificial intelligence isn’t arising around the model’s intelligence. Instead, the most important benchmark is around a model’s data retention policies. That is, if the news last week that companies as varied as Nvidia, Palantir, Booz...

Iran War Puts New Pressure on Banks to Police Transactions
Bank Regulation // September 06, 2026

American banks are reportedly facing increased pressure to halt financial activity tied to Iran. But as The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Saturday (Sept. 5), uncovering those transactions can be tricky, as Tehran uses a network of front companies and other methods to hide them....

Interviews & Exclusives
AI Forces Compliance Teams to Rethink Alert Strategy

June 25, 2026
Financial crime compliance programs are a game of alerts. Or at least they used to be in the pre-AI era, when compliance teams operated on a linear equation in which more transactions generated more alerts, and more alerts required more analysts. But financial services is firmly in its post-AI era now. The emergence of agentic […]

AI Moves Compliance From Detection to Investigation

June 15, 2026
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Flagright’s Baran Ozkan Financial institutions have traditionally treated compliance as a detection problem. And, for years, they’ve put their money where their mouth is....

House Hearing Puts Bank-FinTech Oversight in the Spotlight

May 20, 2026
Financial infrastructure rarely becomes visible until it breaks. At Wednesday’s (May 20) House Financial Services Committee hearing on bank-FinTech partnerships, lawmakers, banking and FinTech executives explored a question that has...

Regulators Put Bank and FinTech AML Infrastructure on Notice

April 08, 2026
Regulators’ proposed anti-money laundering (AML) rulemaking, introduced this week, offers a clear path for how compliance will be expected to operate as financial services continue to digitize and expand across...

Quick Reads
Tink Founders Debut Agentic Compliance Platform Freda

September 23, 2026
The founders of open banking platform Tink have launched a new compliance platform. Freda, which came out of stealth Wednesday (Sept. 23), has its roots in what its founders saw at their former company, CEO Daniel Kjellén said in a LinkedIn post announcing the launch. “At Tink, we’d watched compliance become the speed-limiter on growth, innovation, and ambition,” Kjellén wrote. “Every […]

Iran War Puts New Pressure on Banks to Police Transactions

September 06, 2026
American banks are reportedly facing increased pressure to halt financial activity tied to Iran. But as The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Saturday (Sept. 5), uncovering those transactions can be...

OCC Releases Compliance Guide for New Community Bank Leverage Ratio Framework

July 30, 2026
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has issued a revised compliance guide for the community bank leverage ratio (CBLR) framework. The updated guide is designed to help community banks understand...

Banks Face Compliance-Related Headaches From Iran Deal

June 28, 2026
The White House is attempting to undo decades of sanctions to halt the Iran war. And this has created a problem for banks as they try to figure out the...