Standard Chartered and Ant International today announced a new collaboration to introduce an AI-Powered Treasury and FX Management Solution that integrates Ant International’s Falcon Time-Series Transformer (TST) Model with Standard Chartered’s Aggregated Liquidity Engine (SCALE).

Standard Chartered and Ant International are active Pathfinder institutions in MAS’ financial sector PathFin.ai programme, and this collaboration is a leading example of how AI is augmenting Singapore’s financial sector services.

Holo, a fintech platform reinventing how people buy homes in the UAE, has announced that it has raised $22 million in one of the largest Series A rounds in the GCC in 2025. The investment round was led by Saudi Arabia’s Impact46, with support from Mubadala Investment Company “Mubadala”, an Abu Dhabi sovereign investor, and participation from Rua Growth Fund, anb seed, MoreThan Capital, and returning investors Salica Oryx Fund and Dubai Future District Fund.

Experian today announced the integration of Incode Technologies, Inc. (“Incode”) into the Experian Ascend Platform™. This collaboration will enable seamless, secure and efficient identity validation for over 1,800 global clients across industries including financial services, automotive, healthcare and digital marketing.

Evergent, the global leader in customer management and monetization for streaming, direct-to-consumer sports, PayTV, and digital subscription businesses, today announced its collaboration with Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses. The partnership fuels the launch of Evergent Payments, a powerful, pre-integrated new module within the Evergent Monetization Platform (EMP).

Ebury, the global fintech specialising in international payments and FX risk management, delivers  market-leading payment solutions built for payroll teams through its Ebury Mass Payments platform.  This solution enables companies to make salary payments in a simpler, more scalable way to over 160  countries in 140+ currencies. 

Since its launch in 2019, the Mass Payments business has registered growth of 800% in terms of volume  of transactions carried out. 

Bitso Business, the B2B arm of Bitso that provides infrastructure for efficient and transparent cross-border payments, and BVNK, the global stablecoin payments provider, announced today a new partnership to help institutions across the globe expand to new markets, especially across Latin America and Europe. 

Yaspa, a hyper-growth UK fintech specialising in payments and identity, has bolstered its senior team with the appointment of Renuka Rawlins as Head of Policy and Public Affairs.

Rawlins joins from Revolut, where she served as a Government Affairs and Policy Manager. Renuka will lead the Policy and Public Affairs team from Yaspa’s head office in London. 

UKG, a leading AI-first provider of HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions, today announced the appointment of Jim Joudrey as Chief Technology Officer to lead the company’s global engineering and cloud organization of more than 4,000 people. Joudrey will serve on the UKG executive leadership team and report to CEO Jennifer Morgan.

Exabeam, a global leader in intelligence and automation that powers security operations, today announced the findings of its new multinational report, From Human to Hybrid: How AI and the Analytics Gap Are Fueling Insider Risk. Based on a survey of 1,010 cybersecurity professionals across key sectors, the research reveals that insider threats have overtaken external attacks as the top security concern, with AI accelerating the shift.