Quavo, Inc. (“Quavo”), the leading disputes technology partner and trusted advisor for financial institutions, will unveil enhanced AI capabilities for its flagship dispute management platform, QFD®, live at FinovateFall in New York City. Building on over six years of delivering AI-driven fraud investigations, these advancements continue to refine and elevate the way financial institutions resolve disputes.

The fintech sector’s outrage at plans to ditch open banking rules is “totally hypocritical,” says Adam Turmakhan, CEO of TurmaFinTech, who argues providers have been holding US community banks “to ransom” over their customer data for years.

HSLC, $227 million community bank serving Ohio and Kentucky, will reduce commercial loan processing time from days to hours after implementing Vine’s AI-powered lending platform. The 130-year-old institution expects to eliminate manual document processing while improving accuracy across its commercial real estate, equipment financing, and agricultural lending portfolio.

Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), Qatar’s leading digital bank, is pleased to announce that the bank has awarded over 600 winners in the ongoing 8th edition of the Misk Account. With this Misk edition, QIB continues to promote beneficial financial practices and encourage consistent savings habits among its customers.

Airwallex, a leading global financial platform for modern businesses, today announced it has received its Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) licence from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) and will soon launch Airwallex Yield to enable European businesses to generate returns on idle funds.

Perfios.ai, India’s leading B2B SaaS TechFin, has unveiled CAM AI, an AI-powered credit underwriting platform that is transforming lending operations across banks and NBFCs globally. Tailored for complex credit assessment, CAM AI reduces underwriting turnaround time by up to 85%, compressing multi-day credit assessment processes into just hours, enabling banks and NBFCs to process up to 2X more loan applications with existing teams.

A new report titled “The Rise of OTC and Stablecoins: Africa’s Quiet FX Revolution” sheds light on a transformative shift in how cross-border transactions are conducted across Sub-Saharan Africa. The findings reveal a surge in the adoption of stablecoins and over-the-counter (OTC) cryptocurrency trading, signaling a major evolution in the region’s financial landscape.

Hex Trust, a leading digital asset financial institution specializing in custody, staking, and markets services, has announced support for Etherlink, a high-performance, EVM-compatible Layer 2 network built on Tezos. As part of the integration, Hex Trust now offers custody support for xU3O8, a tokenized uranium asset issued on Etherlink, reinforcing its commitment to the real-world asset (RWA) ecosystem.

Signicat, a leading provider of digital identity solutions in Europe, has expanded its eID Hub with the integration of the Czech Bank iD. This move positions Signicat as one of the few international providers to offer Bank iD within its portfolio, now comprising over 36 digital identity methods.

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, today announces its first channel partnership with leading ethical FinTech, Algbra, to provide its trusted technology and services as part of Algbra Labs’ Fintech-As-A-Service offering. Through the partnership, Algbra will be able to offer ClearBank’s agency banking, faster payments and virtual account services to customers on its platform, helping them to expand their reach without having to reinvent backend infrastructure. The new solution will be built into Algbra’s existing offer, providing end-to-end service capabilities to customers that will differentiate it from competitors.

Avalanche, the world’s leading smart contract platform announced today that it has partnered with Quboid, a leading blockchain-based loyalty and customer engagement platform. The partnership leverages Avalanche's renowned high performance and latest technological advancements to offer enhanced scalability, security, and decentralization for enterprise loyalty programs. The move marks a major milestone in Avalanche's mission to make the loyalty economy more decentralized and practical for businesses and consumers alike.

Aquanow, a leading global digital asset infrastructure provider, has entered into a strategic partnership with SGB, a fully licensed digital bank regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB), to make fiat banking services more accessible to institutional and enterprise participants in the digital asset space.

Fiinu Plc (AIM: BANK), the London-listed fintech behind the Plugin Overdraft® platform, has announced a proposed reverse takeover of Everfex, a profitable foreign exchange brokerage.

Clearpool, an onchain credit marketplace, has announced a strategic partnership with Cicada Partners, an onchain credit risk advisory and management company. As part of the collaboration, Cicada will structure and underwrite PayFi lending opportunities for select borrowers, manage their Credit Pools through Clearpool’s Port Vaults, and serve as the administrative and monitoring agent on behalf of lenders.

eToro Group Ltd. (“eToro”, or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: ETOR), the trading and investing platform, announced today how the company is harnessing artificial intelligence to redefine social investing.