Launching a digital bank has traditionally been a slow and expensive process, often taking years and millions in development and licensing. Nordic fintech Narvi believes it should be faster. The company has launched a no-code platform that allows partners to roll out fully branded digital banking experiences in just weeks, powered by Narvi’s licensed infrastructure, prebuilt interfaces, and proprietary core banking technology.

ClarityPay, a provider of tailored point-of-sale credit solutions, today announced the appointment of Mrutyunjaya "MJ" Panda as Chief Operating Officer. Panda, a veteran of Goldman Sachs and American Express, brings deep expertise in risk management, analytics, and product innovation. His appointment follows ClarityPay's July milestone of reaching profitability and underscores its momentum in delivering next-generation commerce solutions.

In the last 18 months the VCT has reported four exits, including selling breast cancer scanner Endomag to US listed Hologic, fraud detection business Ravelin to Worldpay and retail investment platform Freetrade to IG Group. While the portfolio still contains a handful of legacy holdings, the vast majority of the VCT’s money is now in the high growth tech companies typical of Molten Ventures.

CoinShares International Limited (“CoinShares'' or “the Group”) (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS; US OTCQX: CNSRF), a leading global asset manager specialising in digital assets with over $10 billion in AUM, today announced the launch of the CoinShares Altcoins ETF (ticker: DIME), an innovative U.S. ETF designed to capture the altcoin opportunity through investors' existing brokerage accounts.

Jiko, the only platform built 100% on U.S. T-bills to power the world’s liquidity, today announced strategic backing by Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) and Blockstream Capital Partners. Alongside this investment, Jiko is entering new strategic partnerships with leading industry players, including Crypto.com, Blockstream Capital Partners, Bitso, and Coinbase. These strategic partners will join a growing number of institutions adopting Jiko as a banking partner to utilize its U.S. T-bill-based model for storage, settlements, and payments.

Trustly, the global leader in Pay by Bank, today announced a partnership with Acres Manufacturing Company (“Acres”). This partnership includes implementing Trustly Scan & Pay, an envisioned holistic cashless gaming execution powered by Trustly’s Open Banking Payments, with Acres’ Universal Payment Adapter, enabling instant funding to any slot machine or table game. Through this collaboration, players can fund slots and tables through their bank account by scanning a QR code, bringing the speed, security, and convenience of Pay by Bank to the casino floor.

Leading asset finance insurance provider, Acquis, is strengthening its European presence with the appointment of Alexander Nielsen as Country Manager for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments company, today announced a series of innovations across its product suite, designed to keep merchants ahead in a rapidly evolving digital economy.

Quoreka, a leading provider of energy and commodity trading risk management (E/CTRM) solutions, today announced the launch of the Quoreka Sentiment Index (QIndex), an AI-driven commodity sentiment index designed to give market participants a real-time pulse on global sentiment. Powered by Barchart’s comprehensive news and data feeds, QIndex leverages the latest in AI and large language models (LLMs) to measure, analyze and quantify sentiment in daily news coverage and generate confidence-based sentiment scores for key commodities.

To meet India’s growing demand for seamless cross-border transacƟons, Banking Circle will enable EbixCash World Money ('EbixCash'), a leading AD-II licensed foreign exchange and remiƩance provider in India, to offer faster and more transparent internaƟonal money transfers.

With capabilities of AI advancing every year, its potential to address challenges once thought unsolvable is rapidly expanding, from the possibility of curing genetic diseases to transforming urban mobility or enabling green data centres. With the global AI market set to reach $4.8 trillion by 2033 (UNCTAD), the race to deploy AI for critical sectors has never been more urgent. Against this backdrop, GITEX GLOBAL 2025 convenes as the world’s largest tech and AI event, with this year’s edition highlighting significant developments in biotech, physical AI, quantum computing, semiconductors, and data centres.

Solvrays, a leader in AI-powered workflow orchestration for insurance operations, today announced a strategic partnership with Penn River, a cloud-native life and annuities policy administration platform. Together, the two companies will help carriers eliminate back-office friction and accelerate key functions such as correspondence generation through intelligent automation.

New research commissioned by Affirm, the payment network that empowers consumers and merchants with flexible and transparent payment options, reveals that payment flexibility is now one of the most important factors influencing travellers when booking flights and holidays.

Big Issue has partnered with open banking payment provider fumopay to offer its vendors an innovative new way to take cashless payments.

Together with Scan to Pay’s 650,000 merchants and Luno Pay’s existing network of over 30,000 merchants, this expansion unlocks access to major household retailers, including Checkers, Makro, Vodacom, and Shoprite, bringing crypto payments into the mainstream and marking a major step for cryptocurrency adoption.