Vivid, the European financial platform, has received its Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) license from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) via its Dutch entity Vivid Money BV, enabling it to offer regulated crypto services across all EU member states. The license makes Vivid one of the few platforms in Europe authorised under the new EU-wide crypto regulation, empowering it to expand its services for both retail and business customers.

The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and Nasdaq (Nasdaq: NDAQ) today announced an expanded strategic technology partnership aimed at modernizing Thailand’s capital markets. The collaboration focuses on strengthening market resilience and integrity while aligning with global standards and leveraging Nasdaq’s AI capabilities.

Storfund has announced a new partnership that will enable businesses to use the fintech’s cash flow solution on the 400+ marketplaces powered by Mirakl, the leading provider of ecommerce software solutions.

Albany Beck, a leading financial services consultancy, has partnered with global identity verification leader ID-Pal to deliver a more powerful, streamlined approach to AML and KYC compliance.

TreasurySpring, the global cash investment platform has announced its collaboration with Atlar, the modern treasury management system.

Today, Shield introduces agentic AI within its AmplifAI toolkit—a groundbreaking advancement that helps organizations future-proof compliance, reasoning, planning and executing on key compliance tasks. This new class of agents brings intelligent, multi-step execution to compliance workflows, enabling organizations to act faster with greater clarity, and full confidence in a world of growing risk and regulatory pressure. Agentic AI represents a step-change in how compliance challenges are tackled. As complexity grows and data volumes soar, the ability to reason, plan, and act across workflows is becoming essential.

VIVID have secured the first loan to be backed by the National Wealth Fund’s £1.3bn social housing retrofit guarantees. The £50m loan is the largest that can be issued under the guarantee scheme and is being provided by Barclays, with a 70% guarantee from the NWF. VIVID will use the funds to enable the retrofitting of over 2,000 homes, supporting more than 4,000 people living in social housing.

BUX announces that CEO and co-founder Yorick Naeff will take on the role of Head of Innovation at ABN AMRO

Stash announced today that it has secured $146 million in an oversubscribed new Series H funding

Wise has appointed Ricardo Amaral as its new Head of Banking for Latin America and Country Manager for Brazi

Habito has partnered with Mastercard’s Business Bonus Scheme to make mortgage support faster and simpler,

ila Bank, powered by Bank ABC, has partnered with Mastercard to enhance the bank’s proposition across consumer products

Apiture today unveiled new research in partnership with Cornerstone Advisors about financial institutions’ ability to manage data effectively

BitGo has announced that Germany's BaFin has granted BitGo Europe GmBH a Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) license

G+D is introducing a solution for fraud prevention with its new Convego® SecureCode payment card