The American Fintech Council (AFC), the largest industry association representing both responsible fintech companies and innovative banks, announced the addition of Blank Rome as the newest member of its Legal Advisory Committee. Blank Rome is an international law firm providing legal services across a wide range of practice areas and industries, including financial services and technology. As a Legal Advisory Committee member, Blank Rome will contribute legal and regulatory perspective to AFC’s work supporting responsible innovation and sound policy development in the financial technology sector.

APEXX Global, the leading merchant-centric Payment Orchestration Platform, today announced a strategic investment of up to $10 million USD led by Finch Capital, a European growth investor with deep expertise in payments and scaling financial technology players internationally.

Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN), the most comprehensive technology platform for investment management and TreasurySpring, the global cash investment platform, today announced an integration that connects CWAN’s investment management platform directly with over 1,000 cash investment products from TreasurySpring, helping institutional clients manage surplus cash with defined maturity requirements.

Eltropy, the leading agentic AI-powered conversations platform for community financial institutions (CFIs), closed 2025 with record growth across key business metrics, positioning the company for continued expansion in 2026. The company's unified platform approach helped CFIs consolidate vendor relationships while improving member engagement and operational efficiency.

Profile, a leading international financial solutions provider, is pleased to announce that the Co-op Bank of Kenya Limited (Co-op Bank) has successfully gone live with Acumen.plus, its internationally acclaimed Treasury Management solution. This milestone marks the culmination of a strategic partnership aimed at optimising and streamlining the bank’s treasury operations through full automation and regulatory compliance.

Turnstile today launched its quote-to-cash platform for sales-led startups with $29 million in funding from First Round, OMERS Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and a number of prominent angel investors.

BlackRock Aladdin has integrated Preqin’s extensive data and technology into its eFront® platform for private markets investors, creating a comprehensive, data-driven private asset management technology solution. In eFront, institutional clients can now manage their full investment lifecycle in one place, with detailed market context via Preqin data. The integration accelerates the firm’s strategy to unite investments, technology and proprietary data within one platform, increasing transparency and data-based insight for clients as they expand allocations to private markets.

Qureos, an AI driven hiring platform founded in the Middle East, has closed a $5 […]

Fingerprint, a leader in device intelligence for fraud prevention, today announced the launch of Authorized AI Agent Detection, its new ecosystem of AI agents, including OpenAI, AWS AgentCore, Browserbase, Manus and Anchor Browser. The ecosystem enables enterprises to detect authorized agentic AI traffic with 100% certainty, allowing organizations to distinguish trusted, permissioned automation from malicious bots and scrapers. With the launch of Authorized AI Agent Detection, Fingerprint now detects the highest number of AI agents on the market.

Noah, the financial infrastructure company, has partnered with Sumsub, a global leader in identity verification and fraud prevention, to bring faster, borderless and scalable onboarding to thousands of financial firms worldwide.

HuLoop Automation, a leader in AI-powered work optimization for financial institutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Ceto, a leader in providing data-driven insights and actionable intelligence for financial institutions. This partnership will combine HuLoop’s Unified Work Optimization platform with Ceto’s intelligence solutions and expert consulting capabilities to help financial institutions enhance operational efficiency, streamline execution and unlock actionable insights for growth.

Karen Zhang from Google Cloud breaks down how they are supporting fintechs through a period […]

NexTech Summit 2026, India’s largest CIO-focused enterprise technology conference, bringing together 500+ CIOs and senior technology leaders for closed-door discussions on enterprise intelligence and cybersecurity.

YouLend, the leading global embedded financing platform, and Intuit, the global financial technology platform that makes Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, today announced that they will make working capital available to QuickBooks business customers across the UK. The collaboration sees YouLend being selected as a launch partner for Intuit UK’s new Capital Marketplace, which connects QuickBooks customers with partners for financing, lines of credit and alternative financing.

Sumsub, a global full-cycle compliance and fraud prevention platform, today announced its partnership with Fireblocks, an enterprise platform providing digital asset infrastructure solutions to businesses building on blockchain, to deliver seamless and secure Travel Rule compliance. Through this partnership, Sumsub’s Travel Rule solution will be natively integrated on the Fireblocks platform, empowering financial institutions and virtual asset service providers (VASPs) with real-time, automated, and dynamic verification for virtual asset transactions. This gives Fireblocks users complete control to tailor compliance workflows to their unique risk profiles, while ensuring automated and encrypted Travel Rule data exchange between VASPs, making stablecoin payments faster and safer.