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The new head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in the United States has warned his staff that he will not tolerate any resistance to President Donald Trump’s agenda for the organisation. Friday was the first full day of David Richardson’s leadership at FEMA, after the agency saw a shake-up at its helm earlier this week. But he began his tenure as head with a stark warning for the agency. “I — and I alone in FEMA — speak for FEMA. I’m here to carry out the president’s intent for FEMA,” he reportedly told staff in an agency-wide call.…

Sage has announced key progress in its strategic collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), focused on enhancing AI-powered accounting and compliance tools for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs).As an AWS SMB Software Competency partner, Sage is leveraging services such as Amazon Bedrock and AWS’s AI chips to accelerate the development of reliable, purpose-built AI models.The collaboration has helped Sage integrate Large and Small Language Models into its suite of financial tools, enhancing its AI assistant, Sage Copilot. Currently available in the UK, US, France, Spain, and Germany, Sage Copilot is embedded across core platforms including Sage Accounting and Sage Intacct,…

CUBE, a global RegTech company specialising in regulatory intelligence and compliance automation, has launched its new global headquarters at Tower 42 in the City of London.The site also houses its new AI Centre of Excellence, the RegBrain AI Lab, marking a multi-million pound investment into artificial intelligence for regulatory and risk innovation.The move follows a year of rapid growth for the company, which has more than doubled its revenue, workforce, and international presence. CUBE now supports 1,000 customers across 20 countries, with a team of 700 employees. The company also completed two US-based acquisitions and strengthened its global expansion through…

payabl., a European FinTech specialising in modular payment solutions, has teamed up with Sift, a global leader in AI-driven fraud prevention, to enhance real-time fraud protection for merchants.The partnership addresses a sharp rise in payment fraud across the EEA, where fraud losses reached €4.3bn in 2022 and another €2.0bn in the first half of 2023, according to data from the EBA. By embedding Sift’s technology into its payments platform, payabl. offers merchants automated fraud checks, fewer false positives, and improved approval rates—all without compromising the user experience.payabl. enables businesses to accept payments securely and flexibly across borders, while Sift uses…

As resentment of the rich and powerful surges, billionaires and CEOs are using everything from secret trackers to full security squads to protect themselves and their families. Billionaires are more concerned than ever about the safety of themselves and their families. Tensions spiked after the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December. Then came the January kidnapping of French cryptocurrency founder David Balland, who was held for ransom for two days while the assailants mutilated his hand, followed by an April arson attack on the home of billionaire Steve Sarowitz by a suspect who also made ransom and…

SecurityWeek’s cybersecurity news roundup provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. We provide a valuable summary of stories that may not warrant an entire article, but are nonetheless important for a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape. Each week, we curate and present a collection of noteworthy developments, ranging from the latest vulnerability discoveries and emerging attack techniques to significant policy changes and industry reports.  Here are this week’s stories: Radware cloud WAF vulnerabilities CERT/CC reports that Radware’s Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF) could have been bypassed using specially crafted HTTP requests. An…

WealthTech has transformed the modern world of investing. No longer is wealth management locked off to the wealthy. Tools are now available that can support investors at whatever life stage they are in and build portfolios that can support their financial situation and plan for the future.However, while investing has become more readily available, there are still many that are not actively engaging with investing. Almost half of Americans (48%) do not hold any investment assets, according to a recent report from global active asset manager Janus Henderson. Staying in North America, a survey from CIBC found that only 48%…

A threat actor published three malicious versions of the popular NPM package ‘rand-user-agent’ to deploy and activate a remote access trojan (RAT) on users’ systems. A Node.js package that has been deprecated, rand-user-agent generates randomized user-agent strings based on occurrence. It was originally built as a functionality tool for Romanian software development firm WebScrapingAPI, but can be integrated into any node.js project for web scraping. The package still has over 40,000 weekly downloads, but hasn’t been updated for over seven months, and a threat actor took advantage of this to push versions injected with malicious code. While the project’s GitHub…

Juice, a UK-based FinTech platform focused on alternative lending for digital entrepreneurs, has secured £25m in new funding to accelerate its mission of unlocking capital for underserved SMEs.The round includes investments from family offices Aern Capital and Falco Capital, along with a committed credit facility provided by Paragon Bank. The fresh capital will help Juice expand its reach across the UK’s vast small business sector, which continues to face steep financing barriers.Launched in 2019, Juice offers a data-driven approach to SME lending. Its platform combines real-time financial insights, predictive analytics, and adaptable credit lines to deliver timely, non-dilutive funding without…

Glide, an embedded FinTech platform focused on transforming the digital capabilities of traditional financial institutions, has raised $15m in a Series A funding round.The round was led by Acrew Capital and joined by Pear VC, Pathlight Capital, and several prominent angel investors. Notable participants included Claire Hughes Johnson, former COO of Stripe; Paul Williamson, former CRO of Plaid; and Arash Ferdowsi, co-founder of Dropbox.Glide provides a unified digital experience platform for community banks and credit unions, replacing the fragmented legacy systems many still rely on. By offering a modern infrastructure layer, Glide enables these institutions to deliver banking experiences on…