Lunar customers are presented with a visual Wallet Story of their life with money over the past year

Capi Money UK Ltd has been authorised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI)

FinTech Scotland reports that the nation’s fintech cluster has more than doubled in size in the past five years

Optalitix, has announced a strategic partnership with Intermont, a Dutch MGA and part of the Acrisure group, to accelerate its digital transformation

ClearBank has selected Taurus-PROTECT to serve as its wallet infrastructure provider, supporting digital asset services

Klarna has launched instant peer-to-peer payments in 13 European countries, marking the next step in its evolution as a digital bank

BVNK and Visa have today announced a strategic partnership that will see BVNK powering stablecoin payments for Visa Direct

Mintology, the utility NFT platform powered by Mintable, today announces the launch of its walletless digital loyalty card platform, a major evolution designed to help small and medium-sized businesses run smarter, more secure loyalty and rewards programmes without requiring crypto knowledge, wallets, or technical expertise.

Emburse, the company defining Expense Intelligence through AI-powered travel and spend orchestration, today announced the launch of Invoice Tax Validation, a new capability that helps finance teams more easily comply with emerging e-invoice and Continuous Transaction Control requirements. The new capability underlines Emburse’s position as strategic, AI-powered infrastructure for CFOs seeking to proactively control and optimize spend across the enterprise.

Gresham today announced it has completed the acquisition of S&P Global’s Enterprise Data Management (EDM) business. Gresham is backed by STG who focuses on building and scaling market-leading software, data, and analytics companies.

Allianz Trade introduces Specialty Credit Social2Social, a new solution supporting projects that are addressing a specific social issue and achieving positive social outcomes. Through this product, Allianz Trade enables corporates, financial institutions, multilaterals and public actors to engage in projects that foster a positive social impact through the issuance of a specialty credit policy, protecting them against non-payment and political risks. Eligible projects include affordable basic infrastructure and essential services, affordable housing, and socioeconomic advancement and empowerment for underdeveloped areas or disadvantaged communities. The company also commits to hold all premium received from Social2Social policies as investment in certified social bonds.

NPCI BHIM Services Limited (NBSL), has partnered with Canara Bank to enable UPI-based digital payments on the bank’s payment application, Canara ai1Pe, strengthening secure and scalable payment access for Canara Bank customers and non-customers. The partnership uses BHIM’s bank plugin capabilities to support UPI services on Canara Bank’s app, enabling faster adoption of new UPI features while ensuring compliance, reliability, and system scalability.

BridgeWise, the global leader in AI for investments, has today announced an international partnership with Ultumus, a specialist provider of index and ETF data and technology infrastructure to expand ETF intelligence coverage. Ultumus’ modern, cloud native data provides a backbone to support BridgeWise’s ETF and index operations for its FundWise solution. The partnership allows FundWise to leverage more than 800 additional funds in Europe alone and over 3,000 globally, adding to the 12,000+ funds already covered by BridgeWise.

HGS (listed on BSE & NSE), a leading provider of digital experience, business process management (BPM), and digital media services, today announced the launch of AMLens, a next-generation, AI-powered solution designed to transform and accelerate anti-money laundering (AML) operations for financial institutions to deliver realised AI. AMLens integrates machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to reduce case analysis time and false positives, enabling banks to meet stringent regulatory standards while boosting investigator productivity.

Jason Keogh has joined Sage Capital Management as a Sales Director, with responsibility for driving global growth from hedge funds, asset managers, trading firms, and brokerages.