Earnings, funding, consolidation and hiring across fintech and legal services.
The Federal Reserve completed the Fedwire ISO 20022 cutover in March 2025, and the structured data now flowing through US payment rails is a compliance instrument most programs have not finished reading.
NIST SP 800-207 abolished the trusted internal network in 2020; the access decisions that replaced it are legal artifacts with privacy consequences.
The Bank for International Settlements' March 26 paper puts data itself at the center of the AI-in-finance question — where compliance teams already live.
One is an attestation an auditor signs each year; the other is a certification a standards body stands behind — and financial diligence teams read the difference closely.
The federal attestation regime normalized the SBOM, and financial institutions inherited it through procurement — the document is now table stakes for anyone selling into the stack.
The year's first industry forecasts put legal-technology budgets in expansion mode, and the divergence is between shops with an AI strategy and shops without one.