LONDON, United Kingdom — September 30, 2025 — Leads & Copy — Umony, an AI-powered Financial Services Communications Compliance platform, announced the formation of an advisory board comprising influential figures in regulation, AI, and enterprise technology, coinciding with the close of a $15 million Series A funding round led by Notion Capital. This funding aims to support Umony’s mission of helping financial institutions detect risk and meet regulatory demands using AI.
The new advisory board includes Tracey McDermott, former Chief Executive of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Chief Compliance Officer at Standard Chartered Bank; Dr. Thomas Wolf, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face; Sally Dewar, former Director of Risk at the UK FSA and CEO AO Shearman Consulting; Dr. Hemma Lomax, former U.S. SEC Prosecutor and Head of Compliance at Fortune 500 companies; Stephen Sanders, former Chief Compliance Officer at JP Morgan; and Paul Ford, founder and former CEO of Acin. Together, these advisors will guide Umony’s strategy across regulatory insight, AI innovation, and enterprise scaling.
Umony’s platform captures, archives, and analyzes communications across mobile, chat, email, voice, and video to detect potential misconduct and meet evolving record-keeping requirements. Founded in 2017, the company is trusted by over 100 international banks and many of the world’s largest mobile carriers. The Series A funding will accelerate Umony’s expansion across major financial hubs and be used to grow the engineering and AI research teams, deepen regulatory product features, and scale customer acquisition globally.
According to Dean Elwood, founder and CEO of Umony, the company’s mission is to “make compliance smarter, faster and future-proof.”
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Source: Umony
