As European businesses face an approaching regulatory overhaul with the eIDAS 2.0 framework and the AMLR regulations, Signicat, Europe's leading digital identity platform, today announces the integration of ID Austria into its comprehensive eID and Wallet Hub. This expansion allows European businesses to securely onboard and verify the identity of over 4.8 million Austrian users, representing 60% of the country's adult population.

CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals, has released the 2027 curriculum for the CFA® Program, introducing new learning modules, enhanced learning features, and expanded Practical Skills Modules.

Offa, an award-winning British Islamic property finance fintech firm, has entered into a partnership with Knowledge Bank, the multi-award-winning property finance criteria search system designed for and built by intermediaries.

SimCorp, a global leader in financial technology, today announced that Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (“Sony Life”), has selected SimCorp One as its core investment management platform, helping the insurer reduce complexity in its investment infrastructure.

InvestiFi, the award-winning digital investing solutions provider for financial institutions, has announced its partnership with Tucson Federal Credit Union (TFCU), embedding its InvestTech solutions into their existing online banking platform. With the new partnership, the credit union's members will have the ability to invest digitally in stocks and cryptocurrency directly from their checking accounts.

Abhi Saudi, powered by Alraedah Digital Solutions, has partnered with Alruqee Group, a diversified business group in Saudi Arabia, to introduce Earned Wage Access (EWA) for its employees.

Octane® (Octane Lending, Inc.), the fintech company unlocking the power of financial products for retailers and consumers, announced today that it has executed a $350 million forward-flow agreement with Nuveen, the global investment leader managing $1.4 trillion in public and private assets for clients including TIAA, its parent company, and one of the world’s largest institutional investors. Guggenheim Securities, LLC acted as sole structuring advisor and arranger on the transaction.

Treasury Prime today announced the launch of Prime Cash (Powered by Green Dot Network®), a solution that enables fintechs to let customers deposit cash at more than 90,000 retail locations nationwide, including Walmart, CVS, Walgreens and 7-Eleven, without requiring a branch visit.

Pivot, the AI operating system for procurement, today announced that it has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round, taking the total amount raised since the company’s founding in 2023 to $70 million. The oversubscribed round was led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital, with participation from Greyhound and procurement industry veterans, including the former Global VP Sales at Ariba and the founder of EcoVadis, as well as existing investors including Hedosophia, Visionaries Club, and Emblem.

SimplyGo Pte. Ltd., the exclusive system integrator and acquirer for Singapore’s public transport ticketing and payments ecosystem, and Embed Financial Group Holdings Pte Ltd (“EFGH”) have entered into a Strategic Partnership Agreement to explore the co-development of an embedded micro-insurance platform within the SimplyGo app.

Caseware, the leading AI platform for assurance and financial reporting software, today announced the launch of Verity, a new AI frontier intelligence and orchestration layer that operates directly inside assurance and financial reporting engagements, alongside a suite of workflow-native AI agents designed to automate and accelerate work across the full engagement lifecycle.

Natech Banking Solutions, Southern Europe's leading banking technology platform, today announced that BMW Financial Services in Greece is using Natech solutions to support regulatory compliance processes. The partnership brings Natech's flagship regulatory solutions, Bancapp and e-Pothen, to the local operations of BMW Financial Services in Greece, enabling automated compliance and streamlined access to verified customer financial data.

Armalytix, the multi-award-winning intelligence firm delivering precision client information for AML, affordability, and more, has today launched Armalytix Complete Compliance Bundles. These new solutions give the ability for firms to combine bundles of digital ID, Source of Funds, AML, fraud and affordability checks into a single, structured journey that meet the specific needs of home movers at different stages of the process. Designed to reduce friction, these bundles will streamline processes and strengthen trust across the full property transaction chain.

Equifax® (NYSE: EFX), a global data, analytics, and technology company, and GBG (LSE: GBG), a global identity and location technology business, are expanding their global partnership into the United States and strengthening the power of their identity and fraud protection offerings globally. As part of this expanded relationship, Equifax Identity and Fraud solutions will be integrated into GBG’s adaptive identity platform, GBG Go. This will allow more businesses to leverage proprietary Equifax data to protect themselves from the rising cost of fraud – critical when synthetic identity fraud alone is expected to generate at least $23 billion in losses by 20301.

Equifax, the global data, analytics and technology company, has launched Authorized Payment Protection in the UK, a purpose-built solution designed to help prevent Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud in real-time, before funds leave a customer’s account.