ThetaRay, a global leader in Cognitive AI financial crime compliance, today announced the appointment of Brad Levy as Chief Executive Officer. Levy, a leading financial markets infrastructure executive and former CEO of Symphony, will lead ThetaRay’s next phase of growth as the company continues to scale its Cognitive AI platform, now emerging as the leading AI strategy and technology for transaction monitoring and transaction due diligence, across banks and fintechs worldwide. 

Volante Technologies, the global leader in Payments as a Service (PaaS), today announced the launch of its premium Multi-cloud Resiliency Service, engineered to keep financial institutions’ payment operations running seamlessly during major cloud provider outages. Built on Volante’s proven cloud-native payments platform, the service provides true cross-cloud continuity, eliminating single-cloud/provider dependency for the payments layer.

Humanity Mainnet is now supported by Fireblocks, an enterprise platform for secure digital asset custody, settlement, trading operations, and stablecoin payments, enabling more than 2,400 institutions using Fireblocks’ infrastructure to securely hold, manage, and interact with H and other assets native to the Humanity ecosystem.

Smarsh, the global leader in communications data and intelligence, today announced new additions to its executive leadership team to accelerate the delivery of AI-powered risk management and data intelligence solutions. By appointing proven expertise across product and finance functions, Smarsh is positioning its platform to help customers automate compliance and unlock actionable insights within increasingly complex regulatory environments.

Duetti Inc., the music-tech and financial services company that empowers independent music creators to unlock the value of their music catalogs, today announces it has secured $200 million in new funding to accelerate music catalog acquisitions and expand its technology and services globally.

With tighter budgets and rising admin demands, school finance teams face constant pressure to work smarter. In response, ParentPay Group has completely updated its trusted FMS platform – keeping everything schools know and rely on but redesigning it for clarity and speed within a secure cloud setting.

CISO Financial Services (CISO FS) 2026 is an exclusive, senior-level cybersecurity event designed for security leaders across banking, insurance, asset management, and fintech. This one-day, in-person conference brings together CISOs and senior decision-makers to tackle the most critical cyber and resilience challenges facing financial services today.

AssetOps New York 2026 is a focused, one-day event for senior operational leaders in the asset management industry, designed to drive practical transformation, operational excellence, and data-driven innovation across the global buy-side.

This conference brings together Heads of Operations, COOs, CTOs, CDOs, and other senior executives to share actionable strategies for simplifying complex workflows, harnessing clean and connected data, modernising technology stacks, and building adaptive operating models that deliver measurable business impact.

Phuket is taking another step toward becoming a world-class smart tourism destination with the launch of Tap & Go EMV contactless payments on the Phuket Smart Bus. Phuket City Development Co., Ltd. (PKCD), operator of the Phuket Smart Bus, has teamed up with Mastercard as the key technology provider and Krungthai Bank Public Company Limited as the payment backend provider to enable cashless, open-loop payments on electric buses across two major routes connecting Phuket International Airport, Rawai, and Phuket Old Town.