Certa Earns Top Tech, Customer Value Honors in Risk Management

Certa, an AI-powered platform for third-party risk, compliance, and monitoring, announced today it has been named a badge winner in The Hackett Group® Spring 2026 SolutionMap in the category of Risk Management. The company received recognition in both “Top Tech – Risk Management” and “Customer Value – Risk Management” in addition to being recognized as a validated provider in the rigorous industry data-driven benchmark for procurement technology. SolutionMap is conducted by The Hackett Group’s Solution Intelligence analysts (formerly the Spend...

Rival Systems Launches Rival One AI Skills

Rival Systems (“Rival”), a leading provider of multi-asset trading and risk management technology, today announced the release of Rival One AI Skills, enabling users to integrate Rival’s API knowledge directly into leading AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude, and Codex. By embedding domain specific knowledge into AI agents, both technical and non-technical users can easily build, extend, and interact with trading applications powered by the Rival One WebSocket API. Rival One AI Skills are...

Sardine Teams With Modulr to Bring AI Fraud Detection to Payments

Sardine, the leading agentic risk platform to fight financial crime, today announced a partnership with Modulr, the payments automation platform built to scale. Through the partnership, Sardine will support Modulr with a suite of integrated fraud and anti-money laundering (AML) solutions. The integration, as part of Modulr’s broader investment in financial crime and risk management capabilities, enables Modulr to leverage Sardine’s platform to detect and stop financial crime across card and real-time payment rails, while strengthening...

THOR Financial Technologies Launches Managed Risk Dynamic ETF

THOR Financial Technologies the launch of the THOR Managed Risk Dynamic ETF (Ticker: THMR), an actively managed exchange-traded fund designed to adapt to changing market conditions while prioritizing risk management. THMR is built on a risk-first investment philosophy, emphasizing the management of downside risk as the foundation for long-term capital appreciation rather than attempting to forecast market returns. THMR’s approach seeks to limit the severity and duration of drawdowns, with the objective of improving long-term...

Apax Digital Funds invest $60 mn in MillTech to fuel North American expansion

Investment to accelerate expansion in North America and enhance product offering Values MillTech at $325m MillTech reports c.$500bn annual trading volume, $35bn in client programmes and 70%+ revenue growth MillTech, a leading risk management platform which provides next-gen FX hedging and cash investments for fund managers and corporates, today announced a $60 million minority investment from the Apax Digital Funds, the growth equity arm of Apax Partners LLP (“Apax”), valuing MillTech at $325 million. MillTech’s...

First Bank Appoints Will Aiken to Lead Specialty Businesses

First Bank, has appointed Will Aiken as Managing Director, Specialty Businesses, reinforcing its commitment to expanding and strengthening key areas of the Bank’s business. In this role, Aiken will oversee a portfolio of First Bank’s specialty businesses, including CarBucks, SBA, Bankcard, Syndications, and Asset Based Lending—key drivers of shareholder value and long‑term growth. With more than 20 years of banking experience and extensive expertise in credit, risk management, and specialty lending, Aiken will be based...

Matrixport Rebrands as BIT in Strategic Repositioning

Matrixport announced that it has rebranded as BIT, reflecting the firm’s continued development in digital asset financial infrastructure and services. Going forward, the firm will operate under the BIT brand. The rebrand marks the next phase of the firm’s development as digital asset markets continue to mature and participation expands across institutions and individual investors globally. Institutional participation in particular has increased demand for stronger governance, operational controls and financial infrastructure across the digital asset...

Empyrean Named Leader in All Six Chartis ALM 2025 Categories

Empyrean Solutions, a leading provider of integrated balance sheet and risk management platforms for financial institutions, today announced that it has been recognized as a Category Leader by Chartis Research in all six categories of the ALM Solutions, 2025 RiskTech Quadrant report. Empyrean achieved leadership status in every evaluated Asset and Liability Management domain evaluated by Chartis Research, including: ALM Solutions FTP (Funds Transfer Pricing) Solutions Liquidity Risk Management (LRM) Solutions Balance Sheet Optimization Solutions Financial Planning & Analysis...

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