The Citation Group, a leading international provider of compliance software and services for SMEs, has announced the acquisition of PayCaptain, the award-winning payroll software and managed services provider trusted by hundreds of UK employers.

Over the past three years, Connect, a global business communications expert with over 35 years’ experience, has supported StepChange, one of the UK’s largest debt advice charities, in completely modernising its contact centre operation, improving access to support for people facing financial difficulty.

TS Imagine, a leading platform for integrated electronic front-office multi-asset trading, portfolio management, prime brokerage and financial risk management, today announced the expansion of product coverage within its TradeSmart Fixed Income EMS to include comprehensive support for loans trading.

Integral, a leading currency technology provider, has expanded its longstanding partnership with StoneX Group Inc, (“StoneX”), a global financial services firm, to establish connectivity at the Equinix SG1 data facility in Singapore, strengthening StoneX’s ability to serve clients in APAC.

In preparation for BME (Bolsas y Mercados Españoles) migrating its matching engines from BME’s Las Rozas data center to the Equinix MD6 colocation data center in Madrid, Waypoint Trading Solutions, a TNS business, is expanding its European exchange footprint with the launch of services in MD6.

Haruko, the modern digital markets risk and portfolio management system, today announces its integration with Kalshi's perpetual futures exchange, following the CFTC's approval of Kalshi's BTCPERP contract on 29 May 2026. Haruko clients can now manage their Kalshi perpetual futures exposure within a single, consolidated view of their broader multi-asset portfolios, with the same real-time risk and performance oversight they apply everywhere else they trade.

Taurus, a global leader in digital asset infrastructure for banks and financial institutions, announced that FalconX, a leading institutional digital asset prime brokerage, has joined Taurus-NETWORK, the institutional interbank settlement and collateral system for digital assets.

Support services provider MorganAsh is urging financial services firms to strengthen how they evidence outcomes for vulnerable customers, as regulatory scrutiny of Consumer Duty board reports intensifies ahead of July’s reporting deadline.

AIQ Markets, a New York-based fintech company building AI-powered tools for the U.S. corporate bond market, has partnered with MarketAxess, a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, to develop AIQ Insight™, an AI-native tool designed for fixed-income traders and portfolio managers.

Strada, a people, payroll, and technology leader that simplifies international workforce management, and datascalehr, the context layer for global HCM data, today announce a strategic agreement that will empower customers to accelerate global payroll implementation times, reduce manual effort and simplify onboarding across complex international workforces through the use of AI.

Global analytics software leader FICO (NYSE:FICO) announced the winners of its second FICO® Decision Hero Awards, recognising leaders who are pushing the boundaries of what advanced analytics can achieve in banking and financial services. This year’s honourees include executives from TD Bank in North America, Lloyds Banking Group in the UK, and Siam Commercial Bank in Thailand.

Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), today released a joint report with Block Scholes examining liquidity conditions across its real-world asset (RWA) perpetual futures markets. The research finds that tokenized equity and commodity markets on Bitget have continued to mature throughout 2026, with liquidity levels increasingly approaching those of major crypto trading pairs.

The Euro Banking Association (EBA) today announced the publication of a new insight note by its Digital Currencies & Smart Payments Working Group (DSWG) “Adoption of Tokenised Money – Part 2: Considerations of key criteria”.

The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) the global association dedicated to the support of efficient capital markets through the use of widely embraced International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) standards, announced today that it has re-elected Cristina Ribó Sörensen Deputy Director at the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) as Director of the ANNA Management Body.

S&P Global Ratings has assigned African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) a ‘BBB+’ long-term issuer credit rating and an ‘A-2’ short-term issuer credit rating, with a Stable Outlook, reinforcing the Bank’s strong financial standing and its critical role in driving trade, industrialisation and economic development across Africa and the wider Global Africa community.