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When the world went into lockdown in 2020 in a bid to stop the spread of Covid-19, many companies went into a state of survival. Many were forced to furlough staff and look for loans to ensure they could weather the storm. Building a new startup might have been the last thing some would think to do during this time, but Vall Herard did just that with Saifr.

Travis Schwab - the CEO of Eventus - the global provider of state-of-the-art, at-scale trade surveillance software across all lines of defense – recently spoke...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has captured people’s imagination for decades. Sci-fi movies have often placed technology at their center, depicting both potential utopias and dystopias of human life. In recent years, remarkable strides in AI have brought us closer than ever to a future where it seamlessly integrates into our daily lives. Yet, we are merely scratching the surface of what lies ahead.

As businesses deepen their digital capabilities, an orchestration tool becomes vital. When leveraging various tools, systems and datasets, firms need a single location that brings all this together, rather than forcing users to juggle everything.

For the past five months, it has been difficult to avoid talk of generative AI. The technology has captured the imagination of people and they’re either optimistic about how it will transform business productivity or see them out of a job. The question is, how will it transform compliance?

Talk of artificial intelligence was once an exciting prospect. The idea of bringing a hallmark of sci-fi fantasies into the real world sparked a lot of enthusiasm. While systems might not quite be on the same level as HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, the technology has brought a lot of changes to how businesses operate.

Know your customer (KYC) processes have been the lifeblood for compliance teams fighting fraud. However, are they still enough? Kristoff Zammit Ciantar - founder and CEO of KYC Portal, believes its days could be numbered.

Most companies lack the tools and mitigation plans to handle imminent attacks, Kocho helps them fix this.

The level of uncertainty financial institutions have for third-party cyber risk is worrying. Firms have no idea how a company accesses their network and the back doors left open for criminals. CyberGRX was created to fix this.  

There have never been more regulatory pressures for financial institutions than there are now, and it is only getting harder. Every year, regulators release a new batch of legislation or updates to existing mandates, all of which firms need to keep up with.