Jiko, the only platform built 100% on U.S. T-bills to power the world’s liquidity, today announced strategic backing by Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) and Blockstream Capital Partners. Alongside this investment, Jiko is entering new strategic partnerships with leading industry players, including Crypto.com, Blockstream Capital Partners, Bitso, and Coinbase. These strategic partners will join a growing number of institutions adopting Jiko as a banking partner to utilize its U.S. T-bill-based model for storage, settlements, and payments.

Trustly, the global leader in Pay by Bank, today announced a partnership with Acres Manufacturing Company (“Acres”). This partnership includes implementing Trustly Scan & Pay, an envisioned holistic cashless gaming execution powered by Trustly’s Open Banking Payments, with Acres’ Universal Payment Adapter, enabling instant funding to any slot machine or table game. Through this collaboration, players can fund slots and tables through their bank account by scanning a QR code, bringing the speed, security, and convenience of Pay by Bank to the casino floor.

Quoreka, a leading provider of energy and commodity trading risk management (E/CTRM) solutions, today announced the launch of the Quoreka Sentiment Index (QIndex), an AI-driven commodity sentiment index designed to give market participants a real-time pulse on global sentiment. Powered by Barchart’s comprehensive news and data feeds, QIndex leverages the latest in AI and large language models (LLMs) to measure, analyze and quantify sentiment in daily news coverage and generate confidence-based sentiment scores for key commodities.

To meet India’s growing demand for seamless cross-border transacƟons, Banking Circle will enable EbixCash World Money ('EbixCash'), a leading AD-II licensed foreign exchange and remiƩance provider in India, to offer faster and more transparent internaƟonal money transfers.

Moneyhub, a financial data, categorisation and personalisation platform, today announced its strategic repositioning to concentrate exclusively on delivering enterprise-grade solutions for financial institutions (FIs). The move, unveiled alongside a vibrant new brand identity under the banner “Build for Real Life”, signals Moneyhub’s commitment to helping FIs truly understand and serve their customers.

Fasset, a leading global financial superapp, has secured approval from Malaysia to provide banking services. The license completes Fasset’s ability to provide full-service digital banking to its existing global user base of 500,000 within a regulated sandbox for Islamic fintech innovations, establishing Fasset as the world’s first stablecoin-powered Islamic digital bank.

Kalepa, the leader in AI underwriting software for commercial and specialty insurance, is proud to announce a new partnership with SECURA Insurance, a respected mutual insurer with a 125-year legacy of making insurance genuine and putting people and communities first.

Agio Ratings, the premier source of risk insights in digital assets, has closed a $6 million funding round led by AlbionVC, bringing the total raised to over $11M. The round, which also saw participation from Portage Ventures and MS&AD, will enable Agio Ratings to expand its research and engineering teams, broadening the scope of its risk ratings and supporting major banks as they enter the digital asset market.

BGC Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: BGC), a leading global brokerage and financial technology company, today announced the acquisition of Macro Hive Limited (“Macro Hive”), a leading provider of global macro market analytics and strategy.

Leading insurtech company Zego has renewed its partnership with Clearspeed, the global leader in voice-based risk assessment. The renewal underscores how two of the most innovative names in insurtech are working together to advance Zego’s award-winning claims management, with expanded applications across the motor insurance landscape.

The U.S. Faster Payments Council (FPC), a membership organization devoted to advancing safe, easy-to-use faster payments in the United States, and the Accredited Standards Committee X9 Inc. (X9), the organization accredited by ANSI to develop financial industry standards for the United States, today announced a strategic alliance designed to accelerate the development and adoption of standards for faster payments in the United States.

Jonathan Crystal, a longtime insurance operator turned solo GP, today announced the close of Crystal Venture Partners $33 million Fund I. The firm brings deep domain expertise and high-conviction capital to back founders building the technology that powers insurance, risk, and resilience.

Nexi, the European PayTech, and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) – Te Pūtea Matua, have successfully upgraded New Zealand’s Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, known as ESAS, ensuring alignment with the latest Swift regulatory and messaging protocols.

Milo, the leading crypto lender behind the world’s first crypto mortgage, announced today that its clients have increased their wealth by over $100 million through its crypto mortgage offering. Using Bitcoin and Ethereum as collateral, Milo’s clients have acquired more than $80 million in property without liquidating their holdings. This approach enables them to purchase homes while continuing to benefit from the long-term growth of their digital assets.

vobapay, the technology partner for modern payment solutions with cooperative roots, and Mastercard are entering into a strategic partnership. As part of this collaboration, vobapay will integrate Mastercard’s Open Banking technology into its platform. This will enable companies working with vobapay to offer their customers secure and fast account-to-account (A2A) payments directly at checkout.