Google Cloud has moved its agentic AI push directly onto the trading floor and the corporate banking desk. On 25 August 2026 the company opened a preview of Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services, a packaged agentic solution built around a managed Financial Research agent, roughly 50 role-specific skills and 13 data connectors, with Deutsche Bank and CME Group named as early users. It arrives days before the EU AI Act's high-risk provisions take fuller effect, and that timi

Financial regulators across three continents have shifted post-quantum cryptography from a research topic to a supervisory expectation within a matter of months, and the compliance clock is now visible even where hard mandates are not. A cross-jurisdiction pilot convened by the Responsible Fintech Institute with Safeheron, launched on 23 August 2026, is the latest signal that banks and their supervisors are testing quantum-safe infrastructure together rather than waiting for

An interview with Dr Janet Bastiman by Sean Murphy An environmental scientist trying to measure pollution in a river almost never stands at the pipe where the contaminant goes in. They stand somewhere downstream, draw a sample, and read the chemistry of the water as it passes: a rise here, a dissipation there, traces that thin out and then concentrate again as the current carries them along. It was while reading exactly this kind of research that Janet Bastiman, chief data sc

This week AMLA turned up the pressure on payment firms and property markets, while agentic AI kept devouring the compliance stack. Regulators want effectiveness, investors want automation, and RegTech is quietly having its biggest year yet. If you spent last summer wondering whether RegTech was a real category or a pitch deck flourish, this week has answered the question. Between fresh moves from the European Union's brand new AML watchdog, a rush of nine-figure funding round