Telr, a licensed Payments Acquirer operating under the Central Bank of the UAE's regulations, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Geidea, a key player in the UAE’s fintech ecosystem. This collaboration brings together advanced payment capabilities and a rapidly expanding merchant network, paving the way for more powerful digital payment solutions and a unified, seamless merchant experience across the region.

CMC Markets (“CMC”), a FTSE 250 company and global leader in multi-asset online trading and investing for retail, professional and institutional clients, has expanded its product offering with the launch of its first listed securitised derivatives.

Aquazone, the industry-leading water treatment company specialising in chemical dosing, framework delivery and bespoke solutions, which operates as part of the Ross-Shire Engineering (RSE) Group, has enhanced its financial reporting thanks to its implementation of AccountsIQ’s cloud accounting software.

One Mortgage System (OMS), the CRM and loan origination platform for intermediaries and lenders, has announced that Twenty7tec’s ADAPT solution is now fully integrated into its platform, with the functionality live and available to users immediately.

Ghezali, Secretary General of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO), will take the stage at African Energy Week (AEW) 2026, taking place October 12–16 in Cape Town. Ghezali leads the pan-African body that, alongside the African Export-Import Bank (Afrexibank), is spearheading the African Energy Bank (AEB) - a landmark institution expected to become operational by June 2026 in Abuja, Nigeria. His confirmation at AEW places Africa's evolving financing architecture at the center of the event's agenda.

Gresham, a leading provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) solutions and services to global markets, has announced a strategic partnership with FundGuard, the cloud-native, AI-enabled investment accounting platform.

Allvue Systems, LLC (“Allvue”), a leading technology provider for the private capital markets, and RSM US LLP (“RSM”), a leading provider of assurance, tax and consulting services for the middle market, today announced a strategic alliance to launch the industry’s first-of-its-kind Agentic AI Capital Operating Model. The model will redefine how quickly and efficiently capital calls are executed and governed across private capital firms using agentic AI orchestration.

FMSI, a provider of branch workforce management and lobby optimization solutions for financial institutions, today announced a new partnership with Bulldog Federal Credit Union, a community-chartered credit union serving Washington County, Maryland since 1968.

ParaScript, an AI-powered document processing company, today announced an alliance with ABBYY, combining ABBYY’s OCR and intelligent document processing (IDP) platform with ParaScript’s handwriting recognition and fraud detection capabilities to deliver a unified document intelligence solution that improves accuracy, reduces manual review and strengthens fraud prevention.

Addepar, a global data and AI platform for investment professionals, today announced the launch of Addepar Data Exchange (ADX), a managed data environment within the Addepar platform that enables firms to unify, govern and activate their data to power investment workflows, analytics and AI at scale.

Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has introduced its Scan to Pay feature on Bitget Pay, enabling users to spend USDT directly at offline merchants by scanning QR codes through the Bitget App.

Lamina and Farm Credit Bank of Texas (FCBT) today announced a strategic partnership to modernize FCBT’s capital markets operations through the implementation of Lamina, a purpose-built platform for managing loan syndications and participations through API-driven workflow orchestration and AI-powered data extraction.

Pit, an AI-native platform that replaces the patchwork of spreadsheets, inboxes, and rigid SaaS tools that run enterprise operations today, announced its public launch alongside $16 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). The round includes participation from Lakestar, the Pit founders and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Deel, and Revolut, as well as the Stena and Lundin families.

Deep Patel, Partner & UK Payments Lead at global management and technology consultancy Capco, comments on the changes to payment safeguarding rules introduced by the FCA today.

Accreditation will enable ETS Connect Plus clients to access integrated, round‑the‑clock support services alongside the UK bond Consolidated Tape (CT).