As of this week, the European Union's new anti-money laundering machinery is quietly picking its first supervisory targets, agentic AI is eating the KYC stack, and investors are writing bigger cheques than at any point since 2022. RegTech's grown-up era is here. The RegTech sector has spent the better part of a decade oscillating between "we automated a workflow" and "we redefined compliance." In September 2026, both claims finally feel earned. Three things are happening in p

Ritholtz Wealth Management, the New York registered investment adviser that has grown to a company-stated $9.4 billion in assets, has hired compliance startup Hadrius to monitor and archive every employee interaction with Anthropic's Claude, clearing the regulatory path to put an enterprise chatbot in front of its entire workforce. The arrangement gives Ritholtz's compliance team a logged, searchable record of AI usage that can be produced for an examiner, and it makes the RI

As of this week, the tokenisation of wholesale markets stops being a slide in a conference deck and starts settling in central bank money. The next six days will tell us whether the plumbing holds. Europe's financial market infrastructures are having a very loud fortnight. In the space of two weeks, the European Central Bank has flipped a live switch on distributed ledger settlement, the Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England have published feedback that sets the

Chinese corporate globalisation has entered a phase in which the product being shipped abroad is increasingly the operating model itself, not the goods, according to a report published on 15 September 2026 by Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business and IE University's China Observatory. The study, led by CKGSB economics professor and associate dean Li Wei, calls this stage capability export, and argues that the era in which Chinese firms could win overseas on price, scale and

FinanceX Magazine is proud to announce its partnership with the Risk & Compliance Forum CEE, taking place on 7 October 2026 at the AC Hotel by Marriott Vilnius in Vilnius, Lithuania. Positioned as "not just a conference, but a senior compliance club," the Forum brings together leaders in compliance, AML, KYC, risk, internal audit and governance. Organised by ProMoney, the event places a strong emphasis on practical insight, cross-border perspective and first-hand regulatory i

iPayLinks, one of China's larger cross-border payment providers, is pushing into card issuing for the first time, selecting AI-first issuer processor Thredd to run a new Mastercard virtual commercial debit card programme due to launch by the end of the third quarter. The move takes the Shanghai-headquartered firm beyond its established collection and settlement business and into an area where commercial card spending is expanding faster than most other corners of B2B payments