Checker, a global network that enables financial institutions to plug into stablecoins and digital asset liquidity, cross-border payments, treasury, and credit via a single API, announced today that it has raised $8M in funding from Galaxy Ventures, Al Mada Ventures, and Framework Ventures. Additional participants include strategic financial institutions, such as Bitso and Airtm in Latin America, DFS Lab in Africa, and Onigiri Capital, SNZ Capital and Velocity in Asia. Additional investors include fintech operators from Stripe, Tala, Flutterwave, Mesh, ComplyAdvantage, Superstate, and more.

SBS, the global financial technology company that more than 1,500 financial institutions rely on to digitally transform the way they operate, has launched Digital Branch, a cloud-native, tablet-based branch servicing platform that replaces legacy teller systems for UK building societies and banks. Now, institutions can keep branches economically viable and regulatorily compliant at a time when more than 6,000 UK bank branches have closed since 2015.

Federato, the AI-native platform that changes the way insurance work gets done, today announced the appointment of Yogesh Sapre as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

Zip (ASX: ZIP), the digital financial services company offering innovative, people-centered products for everyday Americans, and InComm Payments, a global payments technology company, today announced a partnership that brings installment buying to the gift card category. Through the integration, eligible shoppers can purchase popular gift card brands directly in the Zip app.

The Huntington National Bank has joined the CHIPS® network, the largest private-sector U.S. dollar clearing and settlement system in the world, to clear and settle high-value domestic payments.

Wego, the number one travel app and the largest online travel marketplace in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), has partnered with Triple-A, a global payment institution, to introduce stablecoin payments for travel bookings, further expanding the range of payment options available to travelers booking flights and other travel services.

The FIX Trading Community, the industry association that manages the world’s trading language, the FIX Protocol, has released a comprehensive manual on digital assets and blockchain technology for finance professionals – Blockchain Basics.

iplicit, the leading cloud accounting platform purpose-built for the UK and Ireland mid-market, has today launched iplicit Insights, its AI-enabled analytics and reporting suite giving finance leaders visibility into their organisation's financial position.

Regnology, a leading provider at the intersection of regulatory, risk, and supervisory technology, today announced that KfW Bankengruppe (KfW) is advancing its long‑term partnership with the company by electing to migrate to the next-generation Regnology Reporting Hub (RRH). The solution will be delivered as a cloud-native service on Rcloud, Regnology’s high-performance cloud architecture layer.

Cashless payments innovators Marker Trax and Koin today announced the alignment of their organizations under a single, unified leadership structure, marking a significant new phase in the companies’ continued evolution. This combined leadership structure is designed to accelerate growth while enhancing operational focus and support the long-term opportunity ahead for both brands.

Model risk management is entering a period of rapid transformation as institutions integrate increasingly complex AI, ML, and GenAI models into their inventories. Traditional validation approaches are no longer applicable and there is need for stronger documentation and explainability.

Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show and the place where money does business, today announced a stellar line-up of speakers for Money20/20 Europe happening on June 2-4 at the RAI in Amsterdam.

Historically, community banks have relied on relationship-driven in-branch visits to open complex accounts. However, this high-touch model naturally limits scaling velocity. By integrating MANTL’s omnichannel software directly into its core banking ledger, FVSBank can slash retail account opening times to under five minutes online and under ten minutes in-branch. This strategy removes geographic restrictions entirely, allowing the Wisconsin lender to cross-sell specialized and specialty deposit accounts across digital boundaries without expanding its physical branch footprint or scaling up operational headcount.

Bitget Wallet, the everyday finance app, has integrated xStocks, the leading standard for tokenized equities and ETFs, adding more than 130 new tokenized equities products and expanding its total RWA offering to over 300 assets for its more than 90 million users. Users can access tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, precious metals, and index-linked assets through a self-custodial trading experience alongside more than a million cryptocurrencies, with zero trading fees and gasless execution.

Paymentology, the leading global issuer-processor, today announced the appointment of Fiona Tee as Chief Financial Officer, as the company continues to build on its recent momentum following a strategic investment, brand evolution and the next phase of global growth.