Finastra’s User Connect 2025 conference brought together Finastra team members, industry leaders, and customers to explore the future of retail lending

SOLVE, a leading provider of pre-trade data and predictive pricing for fixed income securities markets, today announced the promotion of Sourav Srimal to Chief Growth Officer (CGO). The newly created role reflects SOLVE’s focus on strengthening its leadership team and advancing its strategic priorities across product innovation, market development, and client value creation.

Apiture, a leading provider of digital banking solutions — now part of CSI — today announced the launch of My Data Exchange™, a new feature enabling financial institutions to offer account holders greater visibility and control over how their data is shared with third parties. With My Data Exchange, consumers and businesses can securely locate and link their financial accounts to budgeting, lending, accounting, and other apps directly within those third-party experiences.

Equifax UK is offering a comprehensive suite of motor finance redress solutions that will provide motor finance lenders with the key data and tools to efficiently manage the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) proposed motor finance redress scheme.

The Canton Network, the privacy-enabled blockchain purpose-built for regulated financial markets, today announced World Liberty Financial's (“WLFI”) intention to deploy its USD1 stablecoin on Canton. This planned integration represents a significant milestone in WLFI’s strategy to expand USD1’s reach across institutional onchain finance and accelerate adoption among regulated global market participants.

Lunar appoints Mette Hindborg Gade as its new Chief Product Officer (CPO), strengthening the company’s product leadership as Lunar enters its next phase of growth across the Nordics.

Urban Money, one of India’s largest tech-driven loan distribution platforms, today announced the launch of Insta Payout, a breakthrough product designed to completely transform how channel partners receive their payouts.

myTU, the AI-native, cloud-first digital banking platform, has introduced SEPA Direct Debit to expand its payment capabilities for businesses across the European Union. The new feature enables companies to collect both recurring and one-off payments directly from customer bank accounts under the SEPA CORE scheme.

Global fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR) today announced significant enhancements to its multi-asset portfolio and trade order management platform, introducing fully integrated general ledger capabilities and a redesigned user interface (UI). These upgrades mark an important step forward in Broadridge’s strategy to deliver a unified, front-to-back investment management solution that increases operational efficiency, elevates fiduciary oversight, and supports faster, more informed decision-making for buyside firms.

InvestYadnya.in, India's leading personal finance and financial planning platform, today announced the appointment of Manik Mahajan as Co-founder & Chief Business Officer (CBO). This strategic leadership addition comes as the company accelerates its mission to democratize wealth creation through transparent, research-backed financial solutions.

Sutherland has announced a strategic partnership with ComplyAdvantage to introduces a comprehensive, AI-driven FinCrime management solution

IRIS Software Group (IRIS), a leading global software provider of accountancy, payroll, HR, and education solutions, today announced its strategic partnership with earned-wage access (EWA) provider ZayZoon, integrating EWA into two of its key payroll solutions, Payroll Relief, a leading payroll software solution for accountants and Swipeclock, a market leader in small and medium-sized business (SMB) workforce management solutions. This partnership will provide earned-wage access and financial wellness tools to more than two million employees across 2,600 organizations using these platforms. This partnership meets the growing expectations of today’s workforce and addresses employees’ growing desire for enhanced financial wellbeing support.

Visa announced the launch of USDC settlement in the United States, marking a major milestone in the company’s stablecoin settlement pilot program

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL) today announced it has submitted applications to the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to establish PayPal Bank, a proposed Utah-chartered industrial loan company.

Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, today announced the launch of its Agentic Product Protocol, a new open standard that makes every product on the internet easily discoverable and understandable by AI agents.