The Open Banking Expo Awards 2025 have unveiled this year’s winners – a celebration of the organisations and individuals driving excellence across Open Banking, Open Finance and payments.

Now in its fourth year, the Awards once again took centre stage at the end of day one of Open Banking Expo UK & Europe, held at London’s Business Design Centre. The event recognises outstanding contributions across 17 categories, from emerging talent to game-changing partnerships and pioneering product design.

PNC Bank, N.A., today announced it has expanded its instant payments capabilities by joining the Federal Reserve’s instant payments system, the FedNow Service. The FedNow Service is a real-time payment infrastructure developed by the Federal Reserve that enables participating U.S. financial institutions to send and receive instant payments 24/7, 365 days a year.

Today, Smarsh announced that Jefferies has selected the company’s flagship communications surveillance technology to address the growing challenge of monitoring vast and complex digital communications. Jefferies, a leading full-service global investment banking and capital markets firm, faced a need to scale its global electronic communications and sought a solution that was compatible with its existing infrastructure and that could enhance its surveillance and increase the efficiency of its compliance team.

ClearScore, a global leader in financial marketplaces, and the UK’s #1 credit score and report app, has today announced a multi-year deal to become an Official Partner of both the Emirates FA Cup and Adobe Women’s FA Cup.

SmartSearch, the UK’s leading provider of digital a

ENBANTEC Cyber Security Conference and Exhibition will be held on 12 May 2026 in Istanbul, Turkey. ENBANTEC is a global conference which is one of the most important and prestigious conferences in EMEA region with its focus on Cyber Security, IT Security, Network Security, Data Security, Cloud Security, Mobile Security, Endpoint Security and Identity and Access Management. 

Tradu, the multi-asset trading platform, today announced its expanded integration with the charting and trading platform, TradingView.

ACI Worldwide, an original innovator in global payments technology, and Prosa, one of the largest electronic payments networks in Latin America and a technology leader in financial infrastr

CloudWalk, the technology company behind the financial service platforms InfinitePay in Brazil and 

Shift4 , the leader in integrated payments and commerce technology, has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire Bambora Inc, Bambora Holding Corp, Bambora Corp, and Worldline SMB US, Inc (collectively “Bambora North America”), Worldline’s North American subsidiaries. The contemplated transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2026, subject to usual customary approvals.