Global Loan Agency Services (GLAS), the premier independent provider of institutional debt administration services, has completed their acquisition of Loan Agency Services (LAS), Italy’s leading debt administration provider.

YouLend, the global embedded financing platform, published its financial results for 2025 this month, marking another year of sustainable growth. YouLend has now funded more than 370,000 businesses worldwide.

Sphinx, the company building browser-native compliance agents for financial institutions, today announced it has raised a $7.1 million seed round led by Cherry Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Deel Ventures, and Singularity Capital. The funding will be used to scale Sphinx’s agentic compliance workforce as banks and fintechs increasingly rely on it for core AML, KYC, and KYB operations.

Heirs Energies Limited (https://HeirsEnergies.com/), Nigeria’s leading indigenous integrated energy company, has executed a USD 750 million financing with the African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank).

ING, acting as Bookrunner and Mandated Lead Arranger, has underwritten a £170 million green loan to support the transformation of 40 Holborn Viaduct into one of London’s most sustainable office buildings.

Creditspring, the subscription-based credit provider on a mission to improve financial stability across the UK, has closed 2025 with its strongest year to date, having provided over 1.7 million loans to members across the UK since the company’s inception in 2016, totalling more than £715 million.

Unlimit, a leading global fintech company providing the world’s largest portfolio of financial technology services, today announced that it has received final authorisation from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate with a Payment Aggregator - Cross Border licence (PA-CB). As a fully authorised payment partner in India, this licence allows Unlimit to facilitate cross-border transactions, enabling Indian merchants to receive international payments and global merchants to accept payments from Indian customers via UPI, cards, and local payment methods.

Viamericas, a leading provider of remittance and international money transfer services,has announced its 20th annual fundraising campaign in support of its charitable organization, Viamistad. The campaign is a joint effort with partner Grupo Financiero G&T Continental (Banco G&T Continental), the third largest financial organization in Guatemala.

Equifax UK is offering a comprehensive suite of motor finance redress solutions that will provide motor finance lenders with the key data and tools to efficiently manage the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) proposed motor finance redress scheme.

Ezeebit, the FSCA-regulated stablecoin and cryptocurrency payment infrastructure company, has announced the close of a $2.05 million seed funding round. The capital will be used to accelerate product development and merchant adoption in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria and expand strategic partnerships with banks, PSPs, and telcos.

Morgan Lewis continues its strategic expansion in the Middle East with the addition of investment management partners Victoria Ferres and Sami Ben Dechiche, who join the firm’s Dubai office from A&O Shearman and Simmons & Simmons, respectively. Their arrival further strengthens Morgan Lewis’s regional footprint across three offices—Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Riyadh—and deepens its full-service capabilities for clients investing in the Middle East.

The 2025 Jem HR Deskless Worker Pulse report paints a stark picture of the "two economies" operating within South African businesses. Based on deep research into the lives of the country's frontline workforce, it reveals a demographic defined by resilience and ambition, yet crippled by spatial apartheid, dangerous commutes, and financial fragility.

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved financing of €25 million to help Cameroon’s Crédit Communautaire d'Afrique-Bank (CCA-Bank) expand its trade finance offerings to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and other businesses.

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (www.AfricaFC.org), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has closed a landmark US$524 million equivalent dual-currency Samurai term loan facility.

Stockholm-based investment firm, Incore Invest, has raised €15 million in a second closing of its Incore Invest II, bringing total committed capital to €40 million. The additional capital will further fuel the firm’s mission to support the growth of high-potential SaaS and fintech companies across Europe.