Vitesse Names Richard Reggel as Chief Commercial Officer for Europe
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- People Moves
Vitesse, the financial infrastructure connecting the global insurance ecosystem, today announced the appointment of Richard Reggel as Chief Commercial Officer for Europe. The hire follows a year of significant momentum for the company, which has seen customer growth of 40% year-on-year, with nearly 600 customers now active on the platform, spanning global carriers, Lloyd's market participants, MGAs, TPAs, and brokers.
BBVA Develops a New Technology Architecture With AWS to Accelerate Its AI Solutions
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Artificial Intelligence
BBVA has developed a new MLOps architecture together with Amazon Web Services (AWS), integrated into ADA, the bank’s global cloud-based data and artificial intelligence platform, to accelerate the development, validation and deployment of AI models across the Group. The solution enables teams to work more autonomously, reuse common components and automate governance controls, reducing development times by up to 75% in use cases such as...
Lloyds and Stripe Join Forces to Modernise Payments for Small Businesses
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Payments
Lloyds is collaborating with Stripe to deliver the latest payments technology to small businesses. Stripe’s global payments infrastructure is now integrated into Lloyds’ Business Account through a new suite of tools called Lloyds Accept.
Icon Solutions Showcases How Banks Can Accelerate Digital Asset Innovation With IPF
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Infrastructure
Icon Solutions – the UK fintech enabling banks to design and implement state-of-the-art payment systems – has released a reference implementation showing how banks can use the Icon Payments Framework (IPF) to accelerate support for payments processing using distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based digital assets. As IPF is agnostic to both the type of digital asset and the DLT network on which they are issued, the risk of fragmentation is...
Payfuture and ACE Money Transfer Strengthen Cross-Border Payment Services Through Strategic Partnership
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Payments
Payfuture, the global payments company building financial infrastructure in emerging markets, today announced a strategic partnership with ACE Money Transfer, one of the UK’s most established remittance providers, serving more than 1.3 million customers across UK, Europe, Australia, and Canada.
CFIT Launches New Financial Inclusion Coalition With Project Nemo to Develop Safer Supported Payments
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Payments
The Centre for Finance, Innovation and Technology (CFIT) today announced the launch of its fifth national Coalition - a first-of-its-kind initiative focused on developing safer and more inclusive payment solutions for people who wish to live independently but need support managing their money.
Paymentology Powers PayMongo’s New Virtual Mastercard Card for Philippine SMEs
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Payments
Paymentology, PayMongo and Mastercard have announced the launch of a new Virtual Prepaid Business Payment Card designed specifically for Philippine small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The solution is the first virtual prepaid card in the market to combine prepaid functionality with business-focused payment capabilities, giving SMEs access to tools that help them manage spending, control expenses and operate more efficiently.
PAIR Finance Accelerates in France and Appoints Thomas Duvacher as Managing Director
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Infrastructure
PAIR Finance, Europe’s leading AI-based digital debt collector, has announced the appointment of Thomas Duvacher as Managing Director of PAIR Finance France. This strategic appointment marks a new phase in the group’s accelerated expansion within the French market.
Blackhawk Network (BHN) Research Finds Gift Card Momentum Building as Consumers Adopt Defensive Spending Strategies
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Payments
Blackhawk Network (BHN), a global leader in branded payments, today released new U.S. findings from its annual global gifting research study showing how consumers are adopting defensive spending behaviors to manage budgets, bolster spending power and navigate continued financial pressures. The research found that the number of consumers planning to purchase gift cards for self-use as part of a spending strategy nearly doubled year over year,...
Huawei Cloud Announces Agentic AI Products, Shaping the Foundation for the Intelligent Era
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Artificial Intelligence
On June 5, Huawei Cloud INSPIRE 2026 kicked off at the West Bund International Convention & Exhibition Center in Shanghai. At the event, Huawei Cloud officially introduced the new paradigm of Agentic Infra, and unveiled a series of Agentic AI products, including the Agentic Infra unified infrastructure for general & AI workloads, a new-generation model training and inference platform, and an enterprise-grade agent platform, laying the...
Opal Security Raises $23M
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Fundraising News
Opal Security, the AI-native access governance platform for every identity, today announced $23 million in new funding alongside five senior leadership appointments, including Chief Product Officer Sameer Mehta, who joins from identity security platform Veza, where he built products across non-human identity and access intelligence. The new funding was led by Greylock and Battery Ventures, with outside participation from Cambium Capital, and...
XS.com Concludes Successful LATAM Tour With Private Event for Clients and Partners
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Infrastructure
XS.com, the award-winning global multi-asset broker, has officially concluded its high-profile Latin American (LATAM) tour with an exclusive, private multi-stage event hosted at the prestigious Hotel InterContinental Medellín.
Bybit Launches IPO Express, Becoming One of First Centralized Crypto Exchanges to Offer Tokenized IPO Access, Starting With SpaceX
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Cryptocurrencies
Bybit, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today announced the launch of Bybit IPO Express, becoming one of the first centralized crypto exchanges globally to offer tokenized IPO (initial public offerings) at the offering price. Powered by Payward Services' xStocks, eligible retail investors worldwide can now participate in blockbuster IPO projects by subscribing to tokenized representations of publicly traded...
Temenos Acquires Additiv to Strengthen Its Wealth Proposition and Accelerate AI-Driven Orchestration
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Wealth Management
Temenos AG, a global leader in banking technology, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire additiv AG (“additiv”), a Switzerland-based fintech company that provides a specialist platform to orchestrate financial services (the “Transaction”). The company integrates process steps and data into a single orchestration layer for wealth and other financial services workflows. additiv will become part of the Temenos...
TP ICAP Launches RealQ, a New Institutional Credit Trading and Data Platform
- 1 month 2 weeks ago
- Lending
TP ICAP Group, a world leading provider of financial markets infrastructure and data, today announced RealQ, a new credit trading and data platform designed to improve how liquidity is discovered, accessed and transacted in bond markets. Following the acquisition of Neptune Networks by TP ICAP in partnership with nine global banks in 2025, this marks the next milestone in building a combined dealer to client (D2C) credit business integrating...
