Leading digital trade finance provider LiquidX has filed a patent application with the European Patent Office to extend protection of its innovative DeepOCR machine learning technology. The application, filed on 9th October 2025, seeks to expand the scope of jurisdiction of LiquidX's existing US Patent No. 11804057 for its Digitisation machine learning document intelligence platform.

FALKIN, a digital safety company that helps people stop scams before payments happen, has today announced it has secured $2 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by TriplePoint Ventures, with participation from Notion Capital, BackFuture Ventures, Aviva/Founders Factory, Haatch, Found Capital, and Founders Capital. The round also included leading fintech and cyber investors such as Pierre Decote, Group Chief Risk Officer at Revolut and Ben Enckevort, CTO and Co-Founder of Metomic. The investment comes amid rising regulatory and consumer pressure for proactive scam-prevention measures as AI-powered fraud grows globally.

Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group, has revealed the results of its Future Finance 2025 global institutional investor report. The late-Q3 survey analyses the core interests, market sentiment and behaviour of 1000+ institutional and professional investors active in the crypto market across 43 countries. The 38-page report has six major themes; asset allocation, investment strategies, products and services, investment barriers, market outlook, plus a new spotlight on High Net Worth Individuals (HNWIs). Below is a summary of the report’s key numbers and insights drawn from the survey.

BMLL, one of the world’s leading independent providers of historical data and analytics, has been selected to support EuroCTP as part of the EU’s Consolidated Tape initiative.

As part of its European growth strategy, UK-based payments company myPOS is introducing Tap to Pay on iPhone for businesses in Spain. The move comes after the fintech successfully launched the feature in nine other European markets, including the UK, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. Available within the myPOS Glass app, the feature allows merchants to accept all forms of contactless payments directly on their iPhone — including contactless credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and other digital wallets — with no additional hardware required.

European venture capital firm 3VC has completed the migration of its flagship Luxembourg-domiciled fund, 3VC II SCSp (the “Fund”), to the digital-native fund operations platform provided by fundcraft, who will now act as the central administrator and the external AIFM of the Fund.

Standard Chartered today announced a partnership with DCS (DCS Card Centre) as the principal banking partner for DeCard, a next-generation credit card enabling seamless stablecoin spending in the real world.

Eltropy, the leading AI-powered conversations platform for community financial institutions (CFIs), today introduced its "Safe AI Strategy for Community Financial Institutions" eBook. This strategic guide offers credit unions and community banks practical guidance for navigating AI implementation through a framework built on trust, fairness, and security.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), global Fintech leader, today announced record activity on its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform, which processed an average of $385 billion in daily repo transactions during October. The results mark a ~13% increase over September’s $339 billion daily average and a 492% increase year‑over‑year ($65 billion in 2024 vs. $385 billion in 2025), indicative of continued adoption of tokenized settlement.

ServiceNow, the AI platform for business transformation, has signed a multi-year agreement with ejada Systems and Al Rajhi Bank, one of the largest banks in the world. The Bank will leverage the ServiceNow AI Platform to transform its operations, automate workflows, and radically enhance customer and employee experiences across its diverse portfolio, including HR, IT, and Financial Services. As a Consulting & Implementation partner of ServiceNow, ejada Systems will work closely with ServiceNow to deploy and manage the ServiceNow AI Platform across the entire set of Al Rajhi Bank’s operations.

Avelacom, a global provider of low latency network and infrastructure solutions, and A-Field Tech, a low-latency computing and cloud networking deployment provider, have announced a strategic partnership to deliver fully integrated network and computing solutions for proprietary trading firms in the Asia-Pacific region.

Deus X Pay, a licensed provider of stablecoin transaction solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Titan Aviation, a full-service aircraft management company, providing global aviation services headquartered in Dubai. This collaboration, which began earlier this year, enables Titan Aviation to accept cryptocurrencies for its services, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Tether (USDT), and USD Coin (USDC).

Paymentology, the global issuer processor, has won the Best Payments Service Award at the APAC Payments Excellence Awards 2025, recognising excellence in its issuer-processing platform and service model across Asia Pacific.

SIDBI (Small Industries Development Bank of India) has partnered with MonetaGo to deploy its globally proven digital public infrastructure solution to de-risk trade, marking a major step in India’s efforts to safeguard MSME access to credit through secure, standards-based infrastructure. This is the first time a Development Financial Institution has directly implemented MonetaGo’s solution, setting a precedent for secure MSME financing across the Indian financial ecosystem.

Chetwood Bank has successfully completed its second residential mortgage-backed securitisation, Chetwood Funding 2025-1 plc, marking the bank’s first transaction achieving full derecognition of assets from its balance sheet.