SEI®(NASDAQ: SEIC) today announced it has joined forces with IBM to accelerate enterprise transformation through agentic AI and automation and modernize how it operates, innovates, and delivers value to clients—reinforcing the company's commitment to sustainable growth.

The UK is facing a growing financial literacy crisis, with millions of households navigating credit without fully understanding how it works, according to new research from Creditspring. The research of 2,000 UK consumers reveals widespread misunderstanding of modern credit products with confusion around the risks and costs involved.

Visma and In Extenso today announce the establishment of a strategic partnership, whereby Visma acquires a minority stake in fulll, strengthening the project’s industrial robustness for the benefit of French chartered accountants.

Uzum, Uzbekistan’s leading digital ecosystem, is pleased to announce the closing of a strategic investment exceeding $130 million

Hyundai Card, Korea’s leading card issuer, is actively embedding generative AI capabilities within its organization by conducting Large Language Model (LLM) training for its leadership group, specifically at the team leader level and above. This training is part of a broader initiative to ensure all executives and employees fully master generative AI. The move comes at a time when an organization’s competitiveness is now determined by how deeply technology such as generative AI, is integrated into its operations, moving beyond simply whether it has adopted the technology or not.

docStribute®, a UK RegTech company specialising in regulated customer communications, today announces a strategic partnership with the Tipton & Coseley Building Society.

Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting is collaborating with ApariPro, an AI‑powered tax technology company, to help UK accounting firms prepare for the next phase of Making Tax Digital (MTD) for Income Tax.

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.

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.

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.