Capitalixe, a high-risk payments and banking advisory, has expanded into Dubai with both Co-Founders, Ivan Kovachev and Lissele Pratt, relocating to the city. The move positions the firm at the centre of one of the world’s fastest growing financial hubs.

Ebury, the global fintech specialising in international payments and FX risk  management, is pleased to announce the appointment of Andy Dierens as its new  Country Manager for Belgium.  

PAIR Finance, Europe’s leading digital debt collection platform, has announced its expansion into Italy. This market entry follows the company’s success in ten European countries and marks the highly anticipated launch in Italy. As part of this expansion, PAIR Finance has opened a branch office in Milan to ensure optimal support for Italian clients.

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Tide, the UK’s leading business management platform, is expanding its technology centre in Lithuania, reinforcing its commitment to international expansion and scaling its engineering capabilities. Tide is planning to employ an additional 60-70 full-time professionals over the next 3 years, focusing on backend and mobile development in remote-first positions, with an office in Vilnius.

LSEG and Microsoft today announced the next step in their multi-year, strategic partnership: transforming access to LSEG licensed financial data and powering the deployment of agentic AI with data that is secure and accessible through an LSEG managed MCP server. Through this collaboration, agents built in Microsoft Copilot Studio and deployed in Microsoft 365 Copilot can be enabled with LSEG data.

TS Imagine, a leading global provider of trading, portfolio, and risk management solutions for capital markets, today announced a strategic development partnership with Gentek.ai, a pure-play horizontal AI platform with deep domain experience in financial services.

As the EU’s new Entry/Exit System (EES) comes into effect this week, requiring most non-EU travellers to register biometric data such as fingerprints and facial scans at the border, digital compliance expert SmartSearch is calling for greater transparency and stronger safeguards around how digital identity information is used and protected.

Irys, the company rebuilding insurance infrastructure from the ground up, today announced a $12.5 million seed round led by Markd, with participation from Deepwork Capital, Florida Opportunity Fund, Ansay & Associates, HICO Ventures, and JMG Capital.