Apex Fintech Solutions, Inc. (“Apex”), an innovation launchpad for the global investing ecosystem, and Wavvest, the AI engine automating professional financial planning, today announced a strategic partnership to deliver AI-powered financial planning capabilities to Apex clients. The collaboration will integrate Wavvest's planning technology with Apex's custodial data infrastructure, expanding Apex's AI Suite — a comprehensive package of AI-powered tools spanning advisor productivity and platform development capabilities, including Ask Ascend for intelligent coding and documentation support and the Agentic Development Kit for rapid integration development and prototyping.

TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) today announced its AI Analytics Orchestrator Agent, a next-generation capability built on its OneTru™ solution enablement platform. Leveraging Google’s Gemini models, the new Agent is designed to power advanced analytics within TransUnion’s TruIQ® solutions suite.

Nivo has opened access to Nivo AI, its purpose-built agentic AI assistant for specialist lending, to the wider broker and lender market following a successful early adopter phase.

WealthKernel, a digital investing infrastructure provider, today announces its partnership with Seapoint, a business account that automates payroll, expenses, invoice payment, reporting and more for startups and scale-ups. The partnership enables Seapoint to offer access to Money Market Funds (MMFs) and custody services to its customers.

Adaptive, a leader in custom trading technology solutions, announces it has secured strategic investment from two prominent global financial institutions, Citi and HSBC. This funding is set to significantly accelerate Adaptive’s growth and product innovation roadmap.

Segpay, a pioneer in digital payment processing, announced today the addition of Pay by Bank (UK), powered by TrueLayer. This additional payment option offers real-time, secure bank-to-bank payments for UK customers.

As compliance teams across financial services struggle to keep pace with exploding volumes of digital communications and intensifying regulatory scrutiny, Smarsh today announced the launch of its Noise Reduction Agent, an autonomous AI capability designed to dramatically reduce compliance alert volume up to 60% and eliminate thousands of hours of non-actionable review work each month.

The 6th Africa Fintech Forum officially announces a high-impact event featuring senior regulators, top banking executives, decision makers, fintech innovators and global technology partners, underscoring the Forum’s scale and strategic significance within the financial services ecosystem.

The International Center for Strategic Alliances (ICSA) proudly announces the 26th Edition of the Connected Banking Summit – Innovation & Excellence Awards 2026 (East Africa Edition), scheduled to take place on 11 March 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya.

Network International (Network) (www.Network.ae), a leading fintech company across the Middle East and Africa, has announced the successful enablement of Apple Pay acceptance by powering card tokenisation for Apple smartphones for four renowned Egyptian banks, as part of the country’s digital transformation initiatives.

HBX Group (HBX.SM), a leading B2B travel technology marketplace, today announced a strategic partnership with Outpayce from Amadeus, to accelerate the development of its fintech capabilities and transform how travel buyers and sellers manage digital payments.

Pan African Multilateral Bank, African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com), has announced a major expansion of its engagement with the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), increasing its regional financing limit from US$3 billion over the next four years. The enhanced commitment builds on more than $750 million already disbursed across the region and a robust pipeline of over $2 billion in transactions currently under execution, signaling a decisive scale-up of support to governments and the private sector.

xStocks announced today the launch of xChange, a new onchain trading engine designed to power the seamless exchange of xStocks across Ethereum and Solana without relying on third-party intermediaries.

GradBridge, the fintech company focused exclusively on second-look private student lending, today announced the launch of its student lending program backed by Acorn Investment Partners, a portfolio company of funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management L.P. (“Oaktree”) and a sponsor-bank partnership with Hatch Bank. The fintech is now accepting applications for its private student loans program, offered through Hatch Bank, designed to help more students overcome financial barriers and continue their higher education. The launch follows the previously announced closing of a $20 million Series A funding round led by Acorn Investment Partners.

Hashgraph, an enterprise software firm building trusted distributed ledger solutions for regulated institutions, confirmed that HashSphere, its private, permissioned blockchain network built with Hedera technology, operated as part of the core infrastructure for Project Acacia.