Love Finance, the UK’s fastest-growing SME lender and broker, has officially renamed itself as Lovey. The new name reflects the company’s modern, approachable and forward-looking perspective, while keeping the same mission, team and customer-first approach that has defined its success to date.

Finova, one of the UK’s leading providers of cloud-based mortgage, savings and lending software, has today announced a new partnership with Covecta, a UK-based AI company that builds configurable agents and workflows to automate activities for financial institutions.

Zango, the UK-based start-up developing AI agents for financial services compliance, today announced that Dean Nash, Global Chief Operating Officer (Legal) at Santander, has joined its Advisory Board.

Network International (Network) (https://www.Network.ae), a leading fintech company in the Middle East and Africa, has signed a strategic processing agreement with Saudi Sudanese Bank, one of Sudan’s prominent financial institutions. The partnership marks an important milestone in Network International’s expansion in the country, reinforcing its commitment to driving modern, secure, and inclusive payment infrastructure across the region.

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a European leader in payment services, and YouLend, the world’s leading embedded financing platform, today announced the launch of Cash Advance, an innovative financing solution designed to empower small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with fast, data-driven access to capital.

Network International (Network) (https://www.Network.ae), a leading fintech company in the Middle East and Africa, has signed a strategic processing agreement with Saudi Sudanese Bank, one of Sudan’s prominent financial institutions. The partnership marks an important milestone in Network International’s expansion in the country, reinforcing its commitment to driving modern, secure, and inclusive payment infrastructure across the region.

Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a European leader in payment services, and YouLend, the world’s leading embedded financing platform, today announced the launch of Cash Advance, an innovative financing solution designed to empower small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with fast, data-driven access to capital.

Alkami Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT) (“Alkami”), a digital sales and service platform provider for financial institutions in the U.S., today announced that Harvard Federal Credit Union (Harvard FCU) has selected MANTL’s Onboarding & Account Opening Solution to modernize its retail and business account opening experience and accelerate member growth across every banking channel. With this addition, Harvard FCU unlocks the full potential of the Alkami Digital Sales & Service Platform to create a unified, insight-driven experience for its retail members and business clients.

Eltropy, the leading AI-powered conversations platform for community financial institutions (CFIs), today announced the complete agenda for EMERGE 2026, taking place April 21-24, 2026, in Santa Clara, California.

MANTL, an Alkami solution team and leading provider of loan and deposit account opening technology, today announced a partnership with Citizens State Bank, headquartered in New Castle, Indiana, to transform its retail and business deposit account opening experience. The partnership marks a key step in Citizens State Bank’s digital transformation strategy, leveraging one unified platform for deposit accounts across all customer segments and banking channels.

Iute Group, a banking group founded in Estonia, has received approval from the National Bank of Ukraine and signed an agreement that enables to proceed with establishing a digital bank in Ukraine.

Napier AI, a global leader in AI-powered financial crime compliance solutions, and Mutual Vision, a trusted provider of banking technology for building societies and credit unions, today announce the launch of MV Shield – Powered by Napier AI. MV Shield is a purpose-built financial crime compliance platform for building societies and credit unions in the UK and Canada, offering a simpler alternative to standard AML systems by aligning controls, reporting, and risk models to mutual-sector needs.

Transaction Network Services (TNS) has expanded its global market data and infrastructure footprint in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region by adding connectivity to the Japan Alternative Market (JAX). This new connection provides TNS customers with direct, managed access to JAX’s market data feeds, delivered across TNS’ extensive global network.

Capital.com has been granted a licence by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) of Kenya to operate as a Dealing Online Foreign Exchange Broker under license number 244.

Mintology, the utility NFT platform powered by Mintable, today announces the launch of its walletless digital loyalty card platform, a major evolution designed to help small and medium-sized businesses run smarter, more secure loyalty and rewards programmes without requiring crypto knowledge, wallets, or technical expertise.