Innovate Finance is proud to announce the 10th annual edition of the Women in FinTech Powerlist 2025

As compliance teams across financial services struggle to keep pace with exploding volumes of digital communications and intensifying regulatory scrutiny, Smarsh today announced the launch of its Noise Reduction Agent, an autonomous AI capability designed to dramatically reduce compliance alert volume up to 60% and eliminate thousands of hours of non-actionable review work each month.

Raisin, the global savings and investment platform, is expanding its retail footprint with the launch of its B2C offering in Italy.

Money20/20 announces the return of The Money Awards for its second year, following strong industry engagement and the momentum of its inaugural program

N26 today announced the opening of its new European Centre of Excellence in Madrid, strengthening its pan-European operations

FactSet and ComplyAdvantage announced a strategic partnership to deliver an end-to-end workflow explicitly designed for RMs in the corporate banking sector

UK venture funding surged into AI in 2025, with investment increasingly concentrated in the UK’s largest and most proven scaleups

Revolut announced that it has applied to the U.S. OCC and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for a U.S. national bank charter

10x Banking announced the release of version 10.0 of the 10x Banking Platform, marking its 100th platform release

The 6th Africa Fintech Forum officially announces a high-impact event featuring senior regulators, top banking executives, decision makers, fintech innovators and global technology partners, underscoring the Forum’s scale and strategic significance within the financial services ecosystem.

The International Center for Strategic Alliances (ICSA) proudly announces the 26th Edition of the Connected Banking Summit – Innovation & Excellence Awards 2026 (East Africa Edition), scheduled to take place on 11 March 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya.

GradBridge, the fintech company focused exclusively on second-look private student lending, today announced the launch of its student lending program backed by Acorn Investment Partners, a portfolio company of funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management L.P. (“Oaktree”) and a sponsor-bank partnership with Hatch Bank. The fintech is now accepting applications for its private student loans program, offered through Hatch Bank, designed to help more students overcome financial barriers and continue their higher education. The launch follows the previously announced closing of a $20 million Series A funding round led by Acorn Investment Partners.

Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN), the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform, today launched Expense Chat, a new AI agent designed to eliminate manual out-of-pocket expense submissions. The agent brings the ‘swipe and done’ simplicity of Navan’s corporate card transactions to the messiest part of the expense process: situations that require business travelers to manually submit transactions.

Addepar, a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence, today announced the launch of Addison, its new native AI experience embedded within the platform. The release marks a pivotal step in Addepar’s strategy to deploy native AI, intelligent agents, and intuitive workflows across the investment lifecycle, enabling clients to achieve new levels of operating leverage and deliver more consistent, trusted outcomes at scale.

iDenfy, a global RegTech company that specializes in identity verification and fraud prevention services, announced the AI Company Reviewer, its smart Know Your Business (KYB) automation tool that acts as a virtual Data Verification Officer by cross-referencing company documents, government registry reports, and fraud signals against custom, easily configurable rules, helpingto approve, deny, or flag companies more easily. This built-in feature helps reduce what once took compliance teams hours to check to a matter of seconds, making KYB compliance a less complex task in various regulated industries.