The UK is facing a growing financial literacy crisis, with millions of households navigating credit without fully understanding how it works, according to new research from Creditspring. The research of 2,000 UK consumers reveals widespread misunderstanding of modern credit products with confusion around the risks and costs involved.

As the global Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) market accelerates toward nearly USD 912 billion by 2030, G2A.COM is bringing payments spread in time directly into the gaming economy. In a market where digital content consumption is rising but price sensitivity remains high, payment flexibility is emerging as a strategic growth lever. The world’s largest marketplace for digital entertainment has introduced Klarna at checkout, unlocking instalment and deferred payment options across more than 90,000 digital offers.

Global payments infrastructure platform Mercuryo has added native Apple Pay to Bitget Wallet as the leading non-custodial wallet with 90 million users is the first to adopt a feature that makes buying crypto a one-tap experience.

Visma and In Extenso today announce the establishment of a strategic partnership, whereby Visma acquires a minority stake in fulll, strengthening the project’s industrial robustness for the benefit of French chartered accountants.

ClearToken, the FCA-authorised digital financial market infrastructure (FMI) provider, and Canton Network today announced a strategic partnership under which ClearToken will deploy three Daml-based Digital Asset Platforms (DAPs) directly on the Canton Network: ‘CT Register’, ‘CT Pay’ and ‘CT Settle’.

Hyundai Card, Korea’s leading card issuer, is actively embedding generative AI capabilities within its organization by conducting Large Language Model (LLM) training for its leadership group, specifically at the team leader level and above. This training is part of a broader initiative to ensure all executives and employees fully master generative AI. The move comes at a time when an organization’s competitiveness is now determined by how deeply technology such as generative AI, is integrated into its operations, moving beyond simply whether it has adopted the technology or not.

HIVE Underwriters has announced the addition of Dragonfly Intelligence, part of Dow Jones Global Risk Insights and leading global intelligence and security risk advisory firm, to its network of intelligence partners to enhance its knowledge-led underwriting approach and deliver greater value to insurers and airline clients.

As financial institutions explore tokenised securities and distributed ledger technology, platforms capable of supporting both traditional and digital assets are becoming increasingly important. The growth of DLR suggests that distributed ledger solutions are moving beyond experimentation and into real-world market infrastructure, particularly in areas like repo where efficiency gains can deliver immediate operational benefits.

Yellow, an ecosystem dedicated to real-time, non-custodial cross-chain trading, today announced the successful launch of its proprietary trading platform and $YELLOW token. The launch delivers Yellow’s vision of an exchange that combines the speed of a centralized exchange (CEX) with the security of a decentralized exchange (DEX), embedding the principles of fair trading directly into the infrastructure.

docStribute®, a UK RegTech company specialising in regulated customer communications, today announces a strategic partnership with the Tipton & Coseley Building Society.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting is collaborating with ApariPro, an AI‑powered tax technology company, to help UK accounting firms prepare for the next phase of Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax.

Corastone, the hyperscaler for private-market investing, today announced Fidelity Investments, Future Standard, and Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE) as investors in Corastone and its alternative-investing operating platform.

PhonePe, today announced the launch of the PhonePe ‘RuPay On-The-Go’ Card, a National Common Mobility Card (NCMC). This launch is a step towards India’s ‘One Nation One Card’ vision, aimed at digitizing transit payments across India. The PhonePe ‘On-The-Go’ Card is designed to simplify the user’s daily commute by functioning as an all-in-one transit card. It allows for quick, tap-and-pay transactions on all NCMC-enabled services, including metros, buses, trains, tolls, and parking across India in a fully interoperable manner.

Cytora, the digital risk processing platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Quarticle, a provider of cloud-native geointelligence solutions for the insurance industry.

Global financial technology leader FIS® today announced that Integrity Viking Funds has selected FIS Investment Accounting Manager to modernize its investment accounting infrastructure. The partnership demonstrates FIS’ ability to deliver enterprise-grade technology to handle increasingly complex investment strategies without prohibitive costs or operational complexity to assets managers of all sizes.