Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN), the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform, today launched Expense Chat, a new AI agent designed to eliminate manual out-of-pocket expense submissions. The agent brings the ‘swipe and done’ simplicity of Navan’s corporate card transactions to the messiest part of the expense process: situations that require business travelers to manually submit transactions.

Addepar, a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence, today announced the launch of Addison, its new native AI experience embedded within the platform. The release marks a pivotal step in Addepar’s strategy to deploy native AI, intelligent agents, and intuitive workflows across the investment lifecycle, enabling clients to achieve new levels of operating leverage and deliver more consistent, trusted outcomes at scale.

iDenfy, a global RegTech company that specializes in identity verification and fraud prevention services, announced the AI Company Reviewer, its smart Know Your Business (KYB) automation tool that acts as a virtual Data Verification Officer by cross-referencing company documents, government registry reports, and fraud signals against custom, easily configurable rules, helpingto approve, deny, or flag companies more easily. This built-in feature helps reduce what once took compliance teams hours to check to a matter of seconds, making KYB compliance a less complex task in various regulated industries.

Carta, the world’s first fully interconnected system for private capital, today announced it has acquired ListAlpha, the AI-powered CRM and relationship intelligence platform. The acquisition marks the launch of Carta CRM, a major expansion of the Carta ERP that further unifies front-to-back office workflows for the private markets.

QUBE Events is excited to bring back the 24th NextGen Payments & RegTech Forum - Switzerland, taking place on 5 March 2026 at the Marriott Hotel, Zurich, one of the world's leading financial centres. This prestigious forum offers valuable opportunities and powerful partnerships across all aspects of finance, from banking and payments to fintech, compliance, and regulatory technology.

Alkami Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT) (“Alkami”), a digital sales and service platform provider for financial institutions in the U.S., today announced it is a Nacha Preferred Partner, reinforcing Alkami’s commitment to delivering secure, compliant, and modern Automated Clearing House (ACH) solutions for financial institutions and their commercial clients.

Danish fintech company, Aryze, which builds payment infrastructure across bank rails and blockchain rails, has selected Muinmos to strengthen its compliance as it scales globally. Aryze selected Muinmos for its automated and advanced KYC and KYB capabilities.

Pulse, a leading embedded credit and SaaS company, has announced a new strategic partnership with Binq, a UK-based AI-powered business marketplace and app.

SaaScada, the 5th Generation cloud-native core banking platform, and Vacuumlabs, the highly experienced financial product development company, are teaming up to help banks and fintechs launch and modernise core-led products faster, with significantly less delivery risk.

Private equity firm Incore Invest has completed the acquisition of CoreOrchestration AB from Worldline. Upon closing, the previously announced carve-out has now been finalised and PaymentIQ has been established as an independent standalone company under Incore Invest’s ownership. The purchase price amounts to approximately SEK 1.75 billion.

Safra Sarasin Group, a global leader in private banking and wealth management, has completed its acquisition of the majority stake in Saxo Bank, a prominent international FinTech bank serving investors, traders, and institutional partners. This transaction marks a significant milestone for both companies, enabling enhanced global potential and strategic growth.

Happy Money, a leading consumer finance company dedicated to empowering people to achieve their goals through responsible lending, today announced the launch of its Partner-Branded Program, which includes partner-branded marketing and embedded delivery capabilities. This program enables financial institutions to offer personal loans to their members and reach new borrowers using the strength of their brand, while Happy Money manages marketing and the full lending lifecycle end-to-end.

Today, the investors of N26 decided on a change in the composition of its Supervisory Board. With immediate effect, Stefan Ermisch, an expert of the European banking sector, has been elected as a new Supervisory Board member of N26. As usual, his appointment is subject to approval by the German banking supervisory authority. Ermisch succeeds Peter Kleinschmidt, who steps down from the Board with immediate effect.

Eltropy, the trusted leader in unified conversations, today launched the industry’s first Agentic AI platform for credit unions. The platform provides a safe environment where AI agents can be created, governed, integrated, and deployed. It unites the three key stakeholders of the credit union ecosystem:

ThetaRay, a global leader in Cognitive AI financial crime compliance, and Matrix USA, a premier global service integrator of anti-money laundering (AML), financial crime and compliance systems, today announced a strategic partnership designed to help financial institutions modernize their transaction monitoring programs ahead of major supervisory shifts coming into effect across the U.S. and Europe in 2026.