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True Potential has rolled out NatWest’s payments and data solution Payit™, further enhancing True Potential’s impulseSave® offering

Nuvei today announced it has integrated Visa Direct for Account into its global payments platform, giving merchants the ability to send funds directly to consumers’ and workers’ bank accounts

Current announced the launch of its newest features: Current Max, a subscription allowing members to maximize their paychecks

Ventures Platform, Africa’s leading seed-stage fund, has announced the $64 million first close of its second fund, VP Pan-African fund II, aimed at deepening seed investments, catalysing Series A rounds, and driving its pan-African expansion to power the continent’s next tech wave. The fund is targeting a final close of $75 million.

Bitso, Latin America’s leading digital financial services company, announced the integration of Tether (USDT) on the Solana blockchain, expanding its stablecoin offering to deliver faster, cheaper, and more efficient transactions while unlocking seamless access to Solana’s thriving decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.

DisrupTech Ventures, a leading early-stage fintech venture capital fund, announces its investment in Chari, a Y Combinator–backed startup that is transforming Morocco’s retail sector into a nationwide fintech network. This marks DisrupTech’s first investment in Morocco and its second in Africa outside of Egypt, underscoring the fund’s growing commitment to supporting fintech innovation across the continent.

Celent has named BPC, a global leader in payment solutions, a Luminary, Celent’s highest designation, in a new research report, “Retail Digital Banking Platforms: Latin America Edition, 2025” recognizing BPC’s SmartVista Digital Banking platform for excelling in both technology and functional breadth across the region.

ECI Partners, the leading mid-market private equity firm, announces two new hires as it scales its investment team.

WisdomTree, one of Europe’s leading providers of ETPs, has partnered with personalised wealth management platform Stratiphy to offer investors access to new asset classes, including commodity ETPs and thematic ETFs.

Verso, the UK-based wealth management group, has extended its strategic partnership with Nucleus, transferring the custodial operations of its investment management arm to Third Financial under an initial five-year deal.

PensionBee, the leading online pension provider on a mission to build pension confidence, is partnering with financial promotions (FinProm) platform Adclear to empower teams to leverage the power of AI across UK and US marketing compliance. Having gone live with Adclear this autumn, PensionBee’s marketing team has already leveraged the platform to analyse over 1,000 pieces of content.

eToro, the trading and investing platform, today unveiled a new benefit for users in the UK and Europe, offering 1% in stock rewards when depositing cryptoassets to their GBP or EUR accounts via the eToro Crypto Wallet. At the same time, eToro is expanding its crypto deposit service, enabling users to transfer and exchange a broader range of coins.

Arta today announced the expansion of Arta AI, a SaaS platform purpose-built to empower individuals and financial institutions with AI agents for wealth management. Now available to all investors, wealth managers and advisors globally at arta.ai, the AI Sidekick is now being deployed across a growing network of banks and wealth management firms – with Bank of Singapore, Hong Leong Bank, and Ethivo Asset Management (HK) Ltd, formerly known as UCAP HK AM Ltd joining existing clients Wio Invest operated by Wio Securities LLC and Income Advisory Financial Advisers, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Income Insurance Limited — reflecting strong demand from both traditional and next-generation financial institutions.

CredibleX and Mastercard have initiated a collaboration to issue cards to micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the UAE. With Mastercard’s deep expertise and CredibleX’s seamless SME financing journeys, MSMEs will gain easy access to working capital to grow their businesses to their full potential.