Today, Fruitful, the financial membership helping Americans understand, organize, and optimize their finances, launched Money Map, the first financial product that doesn’t just give advice, it executes it.

Saudi Arabia–based fintech company UmrahCash today confirmed its entry into Indonesia. The announcement follows the Umrah and Hajj Technology and Finance Forum on 25 September, where the company unveiled partnerships with KNEKS, Muhammadiyah, and ASPHIRASI. The move marks a major step in strengthening the sharia fintech ecosystem for hajj and umrah pilgrims.

Trusted by banks and capital markets worldwide, multi-award-winning sustainability analytics platform, GaiaLens, has today announced its expansion into delivering tailored, safe, secure, and cost-efficient AI solutions for financial institutions. Building on its proven track record of accurate AI solutions providing ESG analysis, reporting and monitoring, GaiaLens is bringing the same trusted approach to the wider financial services sector, to enhance data integration, risk management and regulatory compliance through transparent and explainable decision-making.

Members of Horizon Utah Federal Credit Union will soon enjoy seamless, in-app access to stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrency, and guided investing through cutting-edge digital platforms.

Finance leaders know they should be spending more time guiding business decisions, yet their teams spend most of their time shuffling data between systems and fixing spreadsheets. Maximor wants to change that. The company today announced a $9 million seed round to expand its finance automation platform — AI agents that plug into ERPs, payroll, billing, and bank systems to take on the repetitive accounting work and produce audit-ready outputs by default.

CGI (TSX: GIB.A) (NYSE: GIB), one of the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world, today announced its partnership with Barclays to integrate CGI Trade360, CGI’s global trade finance solution, with Konsole from Komgo, the largest multi-bank trade finance platform. The integrated solution will provide Barclays with more transparency, increased transaction speed, reduced manual entry and reduced operating risk. This collaboration demonstrates how ecosystem partnerships create value for global trade banks like Barclays by connecting corporate customers and delivering seamless trade finance solutions.

B2BROKER, a global fintech solutions provider for financial institutions, today announced its partnership with Finery Markets, a leading provider of non-custodial ECN and SaaS trading solutions and the first crypto ECN to receive SOC 2 Type 1 & 2 certifications. The collaboration will enhance the institutional crypto OTC offering of B2TRADER, B2BROKER’s multi-asset trading platform, by integrating Finery Markets’ advanced liquidity and infrastructure technology.

Sendby has selected Flagright’s AI-native transaction monitoring and AML compliance solutions to bolster its compliance framework

Subscriptions dominate daily spending, from music to media, news or makeup. They’re also at the center of a growing chargeback storm. According to Chargebacks911, a global leader in dispute resolution and chargeback prevention, its 2025 Cardholder Dispute Index shows consumers spend an average of $2,600 a year on subscriptions, and nearly half admit they’re paying for services they forgot they even had.

Unbiased Pro, the UK’s leading AUM growth platform for financial advice businesses, today announces the launch of SmartAccept, a first-of-its-kind AI-powered feature designed to help advisers secure more of the right prospects and grow their businesses.

Stripe, the programmable financial services company, has been selected by Mercari, Inc., Japan’s largest consumer-to-consumer marketplace, to power its new “Mercari Global App.”

CloudPay, the global leader in payroll and payments solutions, has formally announced the appointment of two new senior leaders to redouble its commitment to an accelerated growth strategy, following a significant capital investment of £120m in August 2024.

Sumsub, a global leader in identity verification and compliance, today announced that Hifi, the programmable payments and stablecoin infrastructure built for the next chapter of the money movement, has adopted its solutions.

i-payout and Ripple, the leading provider of digital asset infrastructure for financial institutions, announced a partnership to transform cross-border payouts. Through this partnership, customers using Ripple's cross-border payments solution, Ripple Payments, can send enterprise payments to U.S. and Canadian beneficiaries quickly, transparently and at scale, strengthening Ripple's North America payout capabilities.

On September 16, it was announced that China's Cross-border Interconnection Gateway (CPG) had officially begun trial operation in late July. UnionPay International contributed to developing the CPG's core elements over a six-month period.