FNZ Raises US$650 Million From Existing Institutional Shareholders to Support Its Long-Term Business Plan
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Fundraising News
FNZ, the global wealth-management platform, has secured US$650 million in new equity funding from its institutional shareholders. This provides further financial strength to support its long-term business plan and its commitment to delivering enhanced outcomes for clients worldwide.
One Inc’s ClaimsPay® Powers Mutual Benefit Group’s Drive to Modernize the Insurance Payment Experience
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Insurtech
One Inc, the leading digital payments network for the insurance industry, today announced that the Mutual Benefit Group (MBG) has successfully implemented One Inc’s ClaimsPay® platform to enhance outbound disbursements. The adoption of ClaimsPay is MBG’s latest step forward in providing its policyholders with the optimal tools for the critical moments when fast and seamless claims payments are needed.
Visa’s Scan to Pay Goes Live, Bringing Seamless QR Payments to Millions of Merchants in Asia Pacific
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Visa, a global leader in digital payments, has gone live with its Visa Scan to Pay solution for QR payments, significantly expanding acceptance across Asia Pacific. With millions of merchants now able to accept Visa payments through widely used wallets and payment apps, consumers benefit from greater choice and flexibility - whether shopping locally or traveling abroad. Expanding Payment Choices, Connecting Asia Pacific
Chubb Launches AI-Powered Embedded Insurance Engine
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Chubb, a world leader in insurance, debuted today a new AI-powered optimization engine within Chubb Studio, its global technology platform for embedded insurance distribution partnerships, at the Singapore Fintech Festival. The new capability uses proprietary AI to analyze data and deliver personalized insurance offerings at the point of sale, making it one of the first solutions of its kind available to digital distribution partners in the...
Visa Expands Visa Intelligent Commerce Across Asia Pacific, Prepares for AI Commerce Pilot by Early 2026
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Artificial Intelligence
Visa, a global leader in digital payments, today announced significant strides in expanding Visa Intelligent Commerce across Asia Pacific, accelerating the region’s push into agentic commerce – a new era where AI-powered agents shop and pay on behalf of consumers. This expansion delivers fresh progress on Visa’s agentic commerce strategy by introducing new security protocols and pilot programs that are ready to build upon earlier partnerships...
Boku Launches Innovation Hub in Singapore to Drive the Future of Cross-Border Payment Solutions
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Boku, the global network for localized payment solutions, today announced the launch of its Innovation Hub in Singapore. The Hub includes a dedicated team focused on building new payment capabilities that solve merchants’ cross-border money movement challenges.
VAST Data Partners With Google Cloud to Enable Enterprise AI at Scale Across Hybrid Cloud Environments
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Cloud
VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud, enabling customers to deploy the VAST AI Operating System (AI OS) as a fully managed service and extend a unified global namespace across hybrid environments.
Finastra Bolsters Technology Leadership Team With Strategic Executive Appointments
- 3 months 1 week ago
- People Moves
Finastra, a global leader in financial services software, today announced the appointment of three senior technology executives to its leadership team: a new Chief Data Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, as well as a Chief Information Officer. These appointments reinforce Finastra’s commitment to delivering modern, secure, and trusted financial technology that enables its 8,000+ customers worldwide to innovate, scale and grow.
Banks and Insurers Deploy AI Agents to Fight Fraud and Process Applications, With Plans for New Roles to Supervise the AI
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Banking
Financial institutions are actively moving key customer-facing processes to AI agents, marking a rapid transformation in how customers interact with banks and insurers. According to the Capgemini Research Institute’s World Cloud Report in Financial Services 2026, the top processes for banks to deploy cloud-native, AI agents at scale include customer service (75%), fraud detection (64%), loan processing (61%) and customer onboarding (59%).
Creditinfo and NOTO Partner to Expand Market Access to Modern Fraud and AML Controls for Banks, Fintechs and Lenders
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Banking
Creditinfo, a global provider of credit risk and data intelligence, and NOTO, an enterprise platform for fraud prevention and anti-money laundering (AML), today announced a partnership to bring modern, data-rich financial crime controls to banks, fintechs and lenders across multiple markets. The agreement pairs Creditinfo’s in-market coverage and data expertise with NOTO’s adaptable decisioning and case-management platform, aiming to enhance...
Barclays Announced as Cornerstone Investor in Salica Investments £150M Growth Debt Fund II – Expanding Access to Capital for UK Innovators
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Investment
Salica Investments today announced that Barclays has joined as a cornerstone investor in its £150m Growth Debt Fund II, expanding access to flexible growth capital, to support the next generation of the UK’s high-growth, innovation-led businesses.
Smarter POS and Faster Payments: Helping Merchants Win During Peak Sales Season
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Payments
60% of hospitality businesses say speed is their key reason for investing in smarter point-of-sale (POS) systems ahead of the 2025 holiday shopping season, according to new research from Lloyds Merchant Services. As festive trading ramps up, businesses are upgrading their checkout technology to handle higher volumes, reduce wait times and deliver a more seamless payment experience across busy venues.
UniCredit Named Best Bank in Trade Finance for Corporates in Germany and Joint Second Share Leader in Europe
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Banking
UniCredit has been recognised as the Best Bank in Trade Finance for Corporates in Germany,[i] according to data from Crisil Coalition Greenwich, a leading provider of strategic benchmarking, analytics and insights to the financial services industry, owned by S&P Global. The report also showed UniCredit as joint second Share Leader for corporate trade finance in Europe[ii] (with 27% of businesses citing the bank as an important trade finance...
Diversification Replaces Speculation as Core Investment Thesis for Institutional Crypto Investors
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Blockchain
Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group, has revealed the results of its Future Finance 2025 global institutional investor report. The late-Q3 survey analyses the core interests, market sentiment and behaviour of 1000+ institutional and professional investors active in the crypto market across 43 countries. The 38-page report has six major themes; asset allocation, investment strategies, products and services, investment barriers, market...
Episode Six and Fireblocks Join Forces to Deliver Unified Payments Solution Bridging Traditional and Digital Finance
- 3 months 1 week ago
- Payments
Episode Six and Fireblocks today announced the co-development of a unified payments solution at Singapore Fintech Festival. The payments solution seamlessly integrates traditional and digital finance, bringing fiat, stablecoins, loyalty points, and other digital assets onto a single, programmable platform—empowering financial institutions to operate across asset classes with speed, security, and flexibility.
