Liquidnet, a leading technology-driven agency execution specialist, today announced the appointment of Michael Gibbons as Global Head of Listed Derivatives Business Development. Gibbons joins from Morgan Stanley, where he spent over 12 years leading electronic futures sales and coverage across global markets.

INSEAD, the world’s top ranked business school, has chosen TransferMate, the world’s leading provider of embedded B2B payments infrastructure, to deliver a seamless, secure and cost-effective international payment solution for students enrolling in INSEAD’s degree programmes.

Zūm Rails today announced that it will enable companies to embed credit card acceptance directly into its all-in-one payment ecosystems, creating custom checkout experiences for customers across the US and Canada. This final piece of Zūm Rails’ payments ecosystem was contingent upon it becoming an official payments facilitator, which it has now completed through its work with Fiserv. Early adopters include the brokerage platform Questrade, which uses the platform to accept credit card payments for educational content, and Canadian real estate company Zolo, which uses it for property transactions.

BridgeWise, the global leader in AI for wealth, today announced the acquisition of Chicago-based Context Analytics, the top AI-powered alternative data processing company, used by tier-one financial firms including S&P Global Market Intelligence.

Paytently, a licensed payment institution authorised by the Malta Financial Services Authority, has partnered with SEON to deploy advanced fraud prevention and anti-money laundering controls across its payment orchestration platform.

Nuveen, a global asset manager with $1.4 trillion in assets under management1, and Schroders (LON: SDR), a leading provider of active asset management, advisory and wealth management services with $1.1 trillion in assets under management have agreed to the terms of a board recommended cash acquisition (“the Transaction”) by Nuveen for the entire issued and to-be-issued share capital of Schroders for approximately £9.9 billion.

Finery Markets, a leading ICT solutions provider for institutional digital asset trading, has integrated Fireblocks’ custody technology to automate off-exchange trading and settlement workflows.

Franklin Templeton, a global investment leader and Binance (www.Binance.com), the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and users, announced a new institutional off-exchange collateral program, making digital markets more secure and capital-efficient. Now live, eligible clients can use tokenized money market fund shares issued through Franklin Templeton’s Benji Technology Platform as off-exchange collateral when trading on Binance.

BVNK, the leading independent provider of stablecoin infrastructure, has today secured its Crypto-Asset Services Provider (CASP) licence from the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA). This licence will allow BVNK to offer MiCA-regulated digital-asset services from Malta and passport them across EEA member states.

Morphic Financial Group, the London-based holding company of leading European crypto payments provider Ari10, today announced its subsidiary, WEB3 Holding B.V., has officially been granted a MiCA license by the Dutch regulator. The approval will consequently allow Morphic Financial Group to operate across the European Union under the EU’s new Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework.

TBC Bank Uzbekistan (TBC UZ), the country’s largest digital bank and part of TBC Uzbekistan’s market-leading digital banking ecosystem, announces that it has issued more than 1 million TBC Salom cards - its flagship debit card and daily banking product - in just over one year since its rollout.

PIMFA WealthTech, the market network and technology platform for fintech firms in the wealth, advice and planning sector, and Morningstar, a leading provider of independent investment insights, have launched a new AI Tech Sprint inviting fintech providers to apply to showcase their AI-driven solutions. The selected winner will present their technology to an audience of industry peers and decision-makers at the Morningstar Investment Conference UK on 7th May 2026.

Day Air Credit Union has partnered with InvestiFi, the provider of the leading InvestTech platform that enables Credit Union members to trade from deposit accounts. The platform will deliver guided digital investing solutions to the credit union's 54,000 members.

CheckSig, a leading provider of professional crypto solutions in Italy, has appointed Crypto Risk Metrics to provide MiCA white papers as well as crypto-asset ESG data pursuant to Article 66(5) under the "Written-Consent-Model".

Brickflow has recorded its strongest two-week performance to date in January, with £29.22m of completed lending supporting 157 residential and mixed-use units across the UK, underlining the platform’s growing role in delivering funding for housing and property projects.