Leading regional private equity firm, NorthEdge, has announced its investment in employee engagement software platform Oak Engage.

Maven Capital Partners (“Maven”), one of the UK’s most active private equity firms, has successfully exited its investment in Oak Engage Limited (“Oak”), a developer and provider of an employee engagement and intranet SaaS platform. The sale to UK private equity firm NorthEdge has generated a strong return for investors.

Royal London Group is the largest mutual life, pensions and investment company in the UK* with assets under management of £173 billion and 8.7 million policies in force. It has selected Procentia’s pensions administration and management system, IntelliPen, to support BPA service delivery following a buy-in.

Länsförsäkringar Bank (LF Bank), one of Sweden’s largest and most established financial institutions, has entered into an agreement to acquire Incore Invest's portfolio company SAVR, a Stockholm-based savings platform serving over 100,000 digitally native investors.

Cato Networks, the SASE leader, today announced its Series G funding round, raising $359 million led by new investors including Vitruvian Partners and ION Crossover Partners as well as existing investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Acrew Capital, and Adams Street Partners. The investment brings Cato’s valuation to more than $4.8 billion and total funding to more than $1 billion, a significant milestone in the company’s mission to redefine enterprise security for the digital and AI era.

RDC.AI (formerly Rich Data Co), a global leading explainable AI decisioning platform for business and commercial lenders, today announced its collaboration with Bank of New Zealand (BNZ) to launch the Merchant Flexi Loan, an innovative cashflow-based, unsecured lending solution that enables small businesses to receive tailored offers and loan approval in minutes.

Minna Bank announced that the full cloud-based banking system developed and operated by Zerobank Design Factory (ZDF), a subsidiary of Fukuoka Financial Group, operating on Google Cloud, has been selected as the core system for the newly established digital bank by MUFG Bank.

XS.com, the global FinTech and financial services provider, added another prestigious accolade to its growing list of achievements by winning the “Top Client Funds Protection Broker” award at Money Expo Colombia 2025, held on June 25–26 and organized by HuanQiao.

Candescent, a leading independent digital banking technology provider, today announced that Y-12 Credit Union has been recognized by Member Loyalty Group for earning the highest NPS score for digital banking across both its asset size and among all benchmarked credit unions during Q4 2024. Member Loyalty Group helps credit unions strengthen member relationships and drive strategic growth through actionable insights, expert guidance and data-driven analytics, including benchmark data from over five million member surveys each year.

Imprint, the leading provider of modern co-branded credit cards, today announced a partnership with leading credit infrastructure and analytics company Nova Credit to introduce cash flow analytics to its suite of underwriting capabilities, unlocking a more real-time and granular view of consumer financial health, and expanding consumer access to credit. To launch this functionality, Imprint will integrate the Nova Credit Platform capabilities into Imprint’s existing decisioning workflows, powered by leading identity and fraud prevention platform, Alloy.

NMB Bank Plc, in collaboration with Mastercard, has launched the NMB Business Debit Traders card designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and microbusinesses in Tanzania grow their operations and expand their reach across borders. Tailored for the specific needs of traders, the new card simplifies domestic and cross-border transactions while unlocking access to exclusive discounts through Mastercard’s Easy Savings merchant platform.

Innovative and inclusive global payments platform, Ecommpay, has won the Best Consumer Payments System category at the PayTech Awards in London on 26th June 2025 for a game-changing innovation.

Global financial cybersecurity is set to undergo a major shake-up. The Australia-headquartered global market leader in payment fraud prevention Eftsure today announced the acquisition of French fintech Sis ID. With this strategic tie-up, the two companies will become the world’s largest business payment protection platform. Together, they will redefine the payment protection market amid a rapidly evolving fraud landscape.

COSMOTE Payments, a leading force in digital payment innovation in Greece and subsidiary of OTE Group, has joined forces with Snowdrop Solutions, a UK-based provider of transaction data enrichment technology, to bring enhanced clarity and transparency to payment transactions.

One Inc, the leading payments network for the insurance industry, announced today that it is partnering with LIDP, an industry leader in providing innovative digital solutions for policy and contract administration. This collaboration aims to deliver a seamless and efficient payment experience for LIDP’s Life Insurance carrier-customers by implementing One Inc’s best-in-class inbound PremiumPay® solution.