Lloyds Banking Group has launched the AI Academy, a programme designed to provide practical AI skills for all colleagues

Stitch says reliance on legacy systems are preventing financial institutions across the GCC from capitalizing on growth prospects

Mal, announces it’s launch as the UAE’s first AI-native Islamic digital bank headquartered in Abu Dhabi

Stream, the leading workplace finance provider, today announced the close of its $90 million Series D funding round

Trulioo today announced the appointment of Craig McDonald as chief revenue officer (CRO)

Three industry-leading firms with a legacy of serving community financial institutions for nearly four decades have combined to form OptimaFI, currently serving more than 2,500 clients. OptimaFI leverages a dynamic combination of data sets to bring clients affordable, quick to market solutions supported by expert advice across marketing, credit risk, and liquidity management functions. The combination brings together Infusion Marketing Group with two companies it acquired in 2025, QwickRate and IntelliCredit, under a unified brand with a mission to help community banks and credit unions make more informed decisions about growth, risk, and profitability.

Finance leaders are returning to work with renewed pressure to deliver efficiency, resilience and cost control, yet many remain constrained by what global S&P500 corporate payments company, Corpay, describes as an ‘automation deficit’. The term refers to the gap between the ambition CFOs have for automation and the fragmented reality of their current finance systems. Findings published in Corpay’s whitepaper, The Automation Deficit, reveal that despite strong intent to automate, manual work and disconnected tools still dominate core finance operations. The findings referenced in this release are drawn from Corpay’s independent research with UK finance leaders and are explored in detail in its Automation Deficit whitepaper.

InvestiFi, a leading provider of digital investment solutions for financial institutions, has secured a contract with Truity Credit Union to integrate its suite of digital investing and wealth management tools into Truity’s online and mobile banking platform. The InvestiFi solution will enable the credit union’s members to invest directly from their checking accounts through a secure, user-friendly experience.

Love Finance, the UK’s fastest-growing SME lender and broker, has officially renamed itself as Lovey. The new name reflects the company’s modern, approachable and forward-looking perspective, while keeping the same mission, team and customer-first approach that has defined its success to date.

Zepz, the global payments group behind WorldRemit and Sendwave, today announced it has acquired a key credit based product called Pomelo International, Inc, a platform that integrates consumer credit and global remittances with a credit card designed for money transfer.

Leading regulated digital prime broker GCEX (GCEX Group) serving institutional and professional clients across the UK, EU and UAE, has added Gold Futures CFDs to its product range.

TreviPay announces the launch of its Pay by Invoice solution for Visa-issuing banks, enabling issuers to capture a greater share of the $58 trillion North American B2B payments market. Through this collaboration with Visa, a world leader in digital payments, TreviPay’s order-to-cash automation technology combines with Visa’s commercial payment capabilities to help issuers move fragmented B2B spend into strategic, issuer-financed, invoice-based transactions.

IXOPAY, the enterprise-grade global payment infrastructure platform built for the era of agentic commerce, today announced the launch of three new TokenEx tokenization packages designed to help merchants secure payment data, reduce complexity, and maintain independence across processors, markets, and payment methods.

Finova, one of the UK’s leading providers of cloud-based mortgage, savings and lending software, has today announced a new partnership with Covecta, a UK-based AI company that builds configurable agents and workflows to automate activities for financial institutions.

Zango, the UK-based start-up developing AI agents for financial services compliance, today announced that Dean Nash, Global Chief Operating Officer (Legal) at Santander, has joined its Advisory Board.