Regulation stories
Most finance teams want clearer returns and tighter controls before committing more budget, despite broad plans to raise AI investment.
European firms face mounting AI compliance pressure as ISACA plans a Munich conference to address governance, cyber resilience and digital trust.
Finance teams could cut manual reconciliation prep time as BlackLine rolls out an AI tool built for audit trails and human oversight.
Enterprise and upper mid-market buyers across EMEA will gain wider access to Orca Security's cloud and AI platform through QBS' partner network.
Enterprises can now deploy quantum-safe signing in production as Cloud KMS adds post-quantum algorithms for sensitive records and transactions.
Despite near-universal uptake, most ANZ SMEs still distrust AI to make cyber security decisions as incidents continue to disrupt work.
European firms facing tighter rules and AI-driven attacks will get a locally hosted security service that keeps data in Germany.
Demand for data management and AI services is rising in Australia and New Zealand, and Iron Mountain has hired Dominic Del Giudice to capitalise.
The appointment aims to bolster Databricks' regional ecosystem as customers in Asia Pacific and Japan spend more on AI and data projects.
Expansion in Australia and New Zealand is expected to deepen Qualys' managed risk services push as it adds four local hires.
The change comes as business schools face mounting pressure from rapid technological shifts and tougher global competition for students and staff.
A surge in small-business borrowing has prompted Iwoca to expand lending capacity, after UK SME lending rose 60% in 2025.
Drivers could gain stronger privacy rights as AEVA urges laws to keep connected car data onshore and off by default.
Banks could cut onboarding and compliance workloads as Fenergo's Fen-AI ties every AI action to a full audit trail for regulators.
Almost half of Australian organisations now have AI chiefs, with the role set to become a permanent fixture as governance concerns grow.
Severe arrears are deepening among vulnerable borrowers, even as post-Easter spending fell and repayments ticked higher in May.
Banks are moving AI into live, regulated systems, putting pressure on software vendors to prove every instruction is authorised and auditable.
The tie-up aims to cut data silos and manual reconciliation for logistics firms under pressure to link warehouse, finance and workforce systems.
Banks are adopting stablecoins, tokenisation and digital custody as crypto's ideas quietly reshape payments, settlement and asset transfer.
Many firms have scaled back research, hiring and projects after HMRC tightened the UK's R&D tax relief rules, a survey finds.
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