Just released data from 36 Latin American financial institutions serving a combined more than 300 million customers shows social engineering scams continue to plague the region

CD Valet is a digital marketplace that connects consumers with the best verified, high-yield CD rates nationwide, helping community financial institutions effectively attract new deposits. The company today revealed its April CD Ratewatcher analysis, finding that while rate changes continue to skew downward, the gap between decreases and increases has meaningfully narrowed. Over the last month, approximately 60% of CD rate changes were decreases, a marked shift from previous months when closer to 70% of rate changes were cuts.

Confluence Technologies, Inc. (“Confluence”), a leading global technology solutions provider delivering innovative investment data management automation, and ACA Group (“ACA”), the leading governance, risk, and compliance advisor in financial services, today announced a partnership to deliver automated standard feeds from Confluence’s Revolution Composites platform built specifically to ACA’s verification requirements.

SOL Strategies Inc. (CSE: HODL) (NASDAQ: STKE) ("SOL Strategies" or the "Company"), one of the first publicly traded companies dedicated to growing and building the Solana Economy, today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Darklake Labs Pte. Ltd. ("Darklake"), a Solana-native zero-knowledge technology company, for USD $1.2 million, payable primarily in common shares of the Company (the "Acquisition").

Plasma, the company behind the first stablecoin-native neobank and the infrastructure powering it, today announced the appointment of Zaheer Ebtikar as Chief Strategy Officer. The appointment reinforces Plasma's commitment to making stablecoins practical for everyday use worldwide, beginning with the launch of its stablecoin-native neobank, Plasma One.

Lamina, a purpose-built multi-lender platform for managing loan syndications and participations, today announced that BLC has selected Lamina to streamline its private credit origination process and enhance collaboration with participating lenders.

Quandri today announced new integrations with Vertafore AMS360 and HawkSoft, expanding access to its AI-powered renewal intelligence platform across two of the most widely used agency management systems in North America. Together with its existing integration with Applied Epic, these additions extend Quandri’s renewal automation to thousands of additional independent agencies, directly within the systems at the core of their business.

Paymentology is supporting Snappi as the Greek digital bank moves beyond launch into a new phase

Experian has today announced the expansion of its verification capabilities in the UK with the addition of Konfir

OakNorth, the digital bank for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs, has provided a £28.5m loan to D2 PropCo, a specialist provider of short-term supportive housing across England and Wales.

Bitget, the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), announced a strategic product partnership with MuleRun, an industry-leading self-evolving AI Agent, to launch a personal AI-powered trading assistant that brings institutional-grade market signals to everyday investors through natural language.

Apex Group Ltd (“Apex Group”), a global financial services provider with over $3.5 trillion in assets serviced, today announced the appointment of Loïc Choquet as CEO of Apex Fund Services S.A., subject to CSSF approval.

nCino highlighted new customer results from nCino Analyst Digital Partner, a role-based AI agent which works alongside human credit professionals

Lloyds Banking Group has completed the first-known experiment into how quantum computing could help to identify money mules

Finexer is an FCA-authorised Open Banking infrastructure provider giving UK mid-market platforms a single API covering the three layers