NatWest Group today announced a new financial education offering designed to demystify investing, as part of its free Financial Foundations programme

Proximus Global, the leading international communications enabler, has partnered with Vilja, the cloud‑native core banking platform, to deliver embedded WhatsApp capabilities to emerging banks across Southeast Asia. The collaboration aims to help rural and cooperative banks expand access to digital financial services across Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

Nivo has launched a new market proposition featuring AI agents for lenders and brokers that work 24/7 over email to gather information and documents, check what comes back, chase missing items, and help teams get to a packaged case right first time.

Guidewire announced the launch of Guidewire ProNavigator, an AI assistant embedded in its core applications, InsuranceSuite and InsuranceNow

Kin, the direct-to-consumer digital home insurance provider, announced its expansion into Oklahoma

Slash Financial, Inc. is now valued at $1.4 billion following a $100m Series C funding round elevating Slash to unicorn status

Klear.ai announced a new partnership with the City of San Diego to modernize its claims administration, risk management, and safety platform

BingX announced it will renew its partnership with Chelsea FC, reinforcing its long-term position as a global leader in sports partnerships

Alkami announced the introduction of Alkami Code Studio, a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered development capability

American Express announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Hypercard (Hyper), an agentic expense management company,

IPC Systems announced the launch of IPC One, a unified, AI-enabled platform designed to bring together communication, workflow, and intelligence across the full trading lifecycle

MoneyGram, a leading global payments network for consumers, businesses and communities, and NALA, a global stablecoin payments company, today announced a strategic partnership to power next-generation cross-border payouts into emerging markets using stablecoin-based settlement infrastructure.

SBS has introduced SBS Lending Suite, a modular, cloud-based software platform designed to help financial institutions modernize their lending operations

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), a leading Islamic financial institution, has become the first bank in the UAE to be licensed as a Third‑Party Provider (TPP) or Open Finance Provider under the UAE Central Bank Open Finance AlTareq initiative. This milestone marks a significant step in ADIB’s transformation journey and 2035 vision to build the bank of the future.

BingX, a leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3-AI company, recently announced a zero-fee trading campaign for BingX TradFi Futures running from April 13 to July 31. It allows users to trade futures on traditional financial assets with no fees, while ensuring that partners and affiliates continue to receive full commissions through platform-funded subsidies.