CE-Invests, the strategic investments platform of Crescent Enterprises, today announced its participation in the $50 million Series C funding round for Flipspaces, a leading tech-first interior design and build company for commercial spaces operating across India and the USA.

Datos Insights, the leading research and advisory partner to the banking, insurance, and securities industries, has recently recognized Feedzai and Jack Henry® (Nasdaq: JKHY) as the silver medal winner of the 2025 Impact Award for Best Joint AML and Fraud Transaction Monitoring Innovation.

Sovos, a leading provider of global tax compliance software, today announced a strategic partnership with Epicor, a global leader in industry-specific enterprise software solutions. This collaboration integrates Sovos' AI-powered tax compliance platform with Epicor Kinetic ERP, delivering automated, real-time tax management capabilities to manufacturing and distribution companies worldwide.

Alacriti, a leading provider of cloud-native money movement services for banks and credit unions, today announced a new partnership with Early Warning Services, LLC, the company behind Zelle®. Zelle will be embedded in Alacriti’s Orbipay Payments Hub, an all-in-one payments platform that provides financial institutions with all the tools, services, and technology infrastructure they need to quickly enable Zelle for consumers, small businesses, and commercial clients.

Allo, a leading tokenized stock exchange platform, today announced its integration with Sui, the blockchain built for mass adoption. The integration will focus on enabling seamless, scalable, and user-friendly tokenized stock trading that leverages Sui’s object-centric architecture and Allo’s stock trading infrastructure.

MANTL,an Alkami solution team andleading provider of loan and depositaccount opening technology,today announced an integration withTaktile, anext-generation decision platform that helps teams automate and improve risk management strategies across the customer lifecycle. Together, the companies are enabling community banks and credit unions to fully automate credit underwriting and decision-making, giving institutions the speed, flexibility, and control they need to drive loan growth and operational efficiency.

Codebase Technologies, a global leader in digital banking technology, has entered a strategic partnership with Mojo Payments (MojoPay); to launch a next-generation digital banking platform, Digibanc™ BaaS 2.0, designed to accelerate innovation and financial inclusion across Ghana’s fast-growing financial sector. In Ghana alone, the serviceable addressable market for the Digibanc™ BaaS 2.0 platform includes over 240 financial institutions, with significant growth potential across Africa.

Despite record numbers of active businesses in the UK, hundreds of thousands of startups are being locked out of funding because traditional credit scoring models fail to reflect how modern companies operate, according to Andrea Reynolds, CEO and founder of fintech platform Swoop Funding.

UniCredit has today announced the next step in the evolution of its securities services offering – partnering with BNP Paribas for custody services and with FNZ for its cloud-based post-trade securities platform, as it continues to harmonise its set-up across Italy and Germany.

Heralding a new era for global capital markets, 21X has today announced the launch of its exchange for tokenized cash and securities. As the world's first exchange to enable smart contract-based matching and settlement, 21X has established a new global benchmark for capital markets, under the oversight of BaFin, Bundesbank and ESMA.

FNZ and UniCredit, one of Europe’s leading banks, have entered into a long-term strategic partnership to evolve the bank’s securities services offering.

Visa (www.Visa.com), a global leader in digital payments, today announced the launch of Visa Pay, an innovative mobile solution that provides access to digital payments and account-to-account money movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Visa Pay is an interoperable and secure way for banked and unbanked consumers to pay, get paid, and move money across participating banks and mobile networks.

Amid their growing popularity, 50% of global currencies will feature in the stablecoin market by 2026, according to Fiorenzo Manganiello, co-founder and managing partner of LIAN Group.

Sumsub, Sumsub, a global verification and anti-fraud provider, today announced its partnership with the BNB Attestation Service (BAS) on Binance’s BNB Chain. The launch marks the first use of Sumsub ID to issue on-chain credentials within the BNB ecosystem, enabling users to pre-verify their identity once and securely reuse those credentials across multiple Web3 applications.

For decades, compliance in financial services has meant preventing market abuse, detecting insider trading, and ensuring data integrity. But the FCA's latest consultation paper, CP25/18, signals a clear shift: the focus is now on people, behavior, and culture, said Shield in a statement.