Creditspring, the subscription-based credit provider on a mission to improve financial stability across the UK, has closed 2025 with its strongest year to date, having provided over 1.7 million loans to members across the UK since the company’s inception in 2016, totalling more than £715 million.

Unlimit, a leading global fintech company providing the world’s largest portfolio of financial technology services, today announced that it has received final authorisation from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to operate with a Payment Aggregator - Cross Border licence (PA-CB). As a fully authorised payment partner in India, this licence allows Unlimit to facilitate cross-border transactions, enabling Indian merchants to receive international payments and global merchants to accept payments from Indian customers via UPI, cards, and local payment methods.

Duco, a leading SaaS provider of AI-powered operational data automation, has announced a strategic collaboration with Phoenix Group, one of the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement businesses, to modernise reconciliation infrastructure, empower operational teams, and scale efficiently across its Asset Management division.

Cytora, the leading digital risk processing platform, has partnered with Pilotbird, a provider of lifestyle analytics to reduce claim leakage and improve payout accuracy.

Boku the global network for localised payment solutions, marks today a year of significant commercial growth with revenues for H1 2025 up 34% year-on-year. EBITDA increased by 53% as well as a 20% rise in Monthly Active Users to more than 95 million, and a 28% increase in Total Payment Volume to $7.4 billion.

OCR Studio, a developer of AI-powered document recognition systems, has adapted its OCR MRZ-scan solution in advance of the upcoming ICAO/ISO changes to the machine-readable zone (MRZ) format in identity documents. The system correctly handles IDs that follow the current ICAO Doc 9303 specification as well as those that will comply with the new standard once it is officially adopted. This helps banks, fintech companies, telecom operators, government agencies, and other regulated businesses maintain stable KYC and border-control workflows throughout the transition period.

As federal policymakers explore faster, more decentralized approaches to disaster relief, new research from Socure reveals that these programs are deeply vulnerable to fraud, and that bad actors possess the scale and sophistication to exploit existing weaknesses, as well as those introduced by proposed reforms.

dLocal, the leading payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, has announced a new strategic partnership with Convera, a global leader in commercial payments. With this partnership, dLocal and Convera will streamline and scale its local payout capabilities in key emerging markets starting with Colombia and expanding across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Viamericas, a leading provider of remittance and international money transfer services,has announced its 20th annual fundraising campaign in support of its charitable organization, Viamistad. The campaign is a joint effort with partner Grupo Financiero G&T Continental (Banco G&T Continental), the third largest financial organization in Guatemala.

Xceptor, a global leader in data automation for capital markets, today announced significant AI-powered enhancements to its solution delivery operations, designed to speed up deployment and minimise associated risk. The new capabilities include an enhanced upgrade toolkit for on-premises environments and ai-exceptions-bot, an AI agent for SaaS updates within the Xceptor Data Automation Platform. By streamlining solution delivery, Xceptor enables financial institutions to access innovation and reduce technical debt faster, while strengthening operational resilience, agility, and compliance across the trade lifecycle.

Tetra Digital Group, parent company of Tetra Unity and Tetra Trust, Canada’s first fully regulated digital asset custodian, today announced that CAD Digital successfully conducted a series of test transactions within its testnet environment for its fiat backed token, CADD. This marks a major step toward CADD’s expected Q1 2026 launch and demonstrates real-world progress in building a safe, compliant, and fully transparent form of digital money for Canadians that can be utilized for payments and transactions.

Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a world leader in transforming the way people bank and shop, and Autogrill, part of Avolta and the world's leading provider of food and beverage services for travelers, have expanded their partnership in Italy. Acting as a single point of contact for Autogrill's entire multivendor IT ecosystem in the country, Diebold Nixdorf will provide a powerful suite of managed services and new, flexible retail technology solutions, strengthening Autogrill's commitment to keeping the traveler at the center when creating outstanding restaurant experiences.

Sequence today announced a $20M Series A led by 645 Ventures, alongside a16z, Firstminute Capital, Passion Capital, Dig Ventures and Vor Capital. A group of world class founders and execs including the CFOs at Decagon, Klaviyo and Wise also joined the round. The new financing comes after a year of 10x ARR growth, driven by mid-market and enterprise companies like Cognition, Legora, Bridge, 11x, and Incident.io choosing Sequence to automate revenue operations. Sequence has raised $40M to date and will use the new capital to accelerate investment on their agent roadmap to eliminate manual finance work, expanding both the engineering and go to market teams.

EDX Markets, a leading digital asset technology firm that combines an institutional-only trading venue with a central clearinghouse, today announced a strategic partnership with the Canton Network, the public, permissionless blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance. Both EDX and the Canton Network are backed and leveraged by leading blue-chip institutions in traditional finance.

Kpler, a global trade intelligence technology company that helps markets operate with greater transparency, today announced the acquisition of Bridgeton Research Group LLC, a company known for providing predictive insights into the behavior of Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) and systematic investment strategies across global commodities and financial markets.