Investec Bank plc, a leading international financial services provider, today announces the appointment of Vinesh Chhaya as Electronic Equities Sales Trader as it continues to scale its electronic trading capabilities and develop ZebrA-X, the firm’s electronic execution platform launched last year. The hire supports growing client demand for advanced electronic and hybrid execution solutions and reflects the strong momentum behind Investec’s electronic trading franchise.

SettleMint, the global digital asset lifecycle and tokenization leader, has announced its continued support of Saudi Arabia’s property tokenization and real estate transformation journey working with key stakeholders including four participating PropTechs, Sahl, Madek, Ghanem and Jozo who have integrated their solutions with Yakeen and Sadad in KSA.

Crowdcube has launched its first transaction as part of its private securities market partnership with London Stock Exchange Group, using a TPEIC structure developed by TPE

MSEMPIRE Inc. has announced the strategic integration of Wise as a new international payment solution on its cross-border e-commerce platform, K-GoodsShop

Operational resilience and third-party risk is an ongoing priority for financial institutions as a result of the changing macro environment which provides increased challenges for all financial institutions.

The placement of these policies in the Ecuadorian insurance market is a major milestone for the Tripartite Agreement Programme – a public-private partnership between the Insurance Development Forum (IDF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) through the InsuResilience Solutions Fund (ISF) – to build developing countries’ resilience to climate risk.

Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced its collaboration with PTSB, one of Ireland’s leading retail banks, to implement a cloud-native modernisation programme. With Red Hat OpenShift, the initiative increased change agility, accelerated time to market for customer value and improved operating costs and efficiencies. PTSB has already launched new functionality on the platform including Digital Card Services and SEPA Instant Payments.

Sage, the leader in accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has launched Sage Intacct in Kenya. The launch marks a significant step forward in how mid-sized businesses can operate, by bringing intelligent, AI-powered financial management that delivers real-time visibility and data-driven insights.

Kindo, a UK-based childcare rewards fintech , has partnered with award-winning gift card provider Tillo to power rewards through the Tillo Network. The partnership helps families turn verified nursery spend into meaningful rewards, with points that can be redeemed for digital vouchers with everyday brands.

FIS has launched its Insurance Risk Suite AI Assistant, a generative AI tool that instantly answers complex questions about building and maintaining risk models

LSEG launched Model-as-a-Service, a new capability that enables financial institutions to host, distribute and analyse models through a secure and governed marketplace

The ECB has imposed two administrative penalties totalling €12.18 million on J.P. Morgan SE after the bank reported wrongly calculated risk-weighted assets

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting shows that landlords are significantly more prepared than sole traders for Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax

Flagright announced the continued global expansion of its flagship Transaction Monitoring solution — now serving regulated fintechs and banks across more than 30 countries

Bluefin, the global leader in payment and data security infrastructure and PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE), today announced a strategic partnership with Basis Theory, a modern, API-driven tokenization and vaulting platform. Together, the companies enable enterprises to implement a unified token strategy across in-store, call center, online, and backend payment environments without expanding PCI scope or introducing new integration complexity.