Tech news: ISACA updates IT audit framework

Top 25 firm Armanino has selected Inflo as a strategic technology partner as part of its broader vision to build a next-generation, AI-enabled audit platform, and has integrated Inflo into Armanino’s Audit Ally and Armanino Access ecosystem. Armanino clients will have real-time visibility into the status of their audit and advisory engagements, including testing progress and information requests, along with access to deeper business performance insights such as financial ratios and trend analysis benchmarked against peer companies. Clients may also securely connect their ERP systems directly to Armanino’s audit platform, as Inflo’s digital audit methodology is embedded directly into the platform. … Intapp, a professional services solutions provider, announced it will accelerate the adoption of specialized agentic AI across the accounting, consulting, investment banking, legal and private capital sectors with Claude, Anthropic’s family of AI models. Intapp will build industry-specific agents that are interoperable with and powered by Claude, enabling professional firms to bring their Intapp and Claude ecosystems together. These agents will complement Claude with industry-specific workflows, best practice playbooks and information governance to meet the needs and regulatory requirements of professional services firms. … Sovos, a tax compliance solutions provider, announced that Label, a specialized provider of automated FATCA, CRS and CARF compliance solutions, has joined the Sovos Partner Network. Label CARF + Sovos 1099-DA will deliver a global solution for digital asset platforms to meet the OECD’s Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework requirements, which mandate comprehensive reporting of crypto transactions beginning in 2027 for the 2026 tax year in participating jurisdictions. This partnership enables crypto exchanges, brokers and custodians to meet the OECD’s global tax transparency requirements without the complexity of building in-house CARF capabilities. … – Crowe, a Top 25 Firm, announced a strategic alliance with LogicGate, an AI-based governance, risk and compliance platform for the enterprise, to deliver a set of Crowe-developed risk and compliance accelerators built for banks and credit unions. This collaboration fuses Crowe’s financial services expertise with LogicGate’s GRC platform to reduce reliance on traditional, resource-heavy implementations with ready-to-deploy solutions. … Rainforest, an embedded payment provider for software platforms, has partnered with PayPal to launch a new embedded payment integration to help software platforms shift more processing volume away from offline payment methods like cash and checks. With the new integration, Rainforest platform clients can enable their merchants to get paid via PayPal, Venmo and PayPal Pay Later, along with cards, Apple Pay and pay by bank, through a single checkout experience.