10x Banking, the cloud-native core banking platform that powers customers including OM Bank, Chase UKand Westpac, today announced a strategic partnership with HassemPrag, a leading African digital banking and orchestration platform.  

Digital economies are built on data, speed, and transparency. But beneath every digital transaction lies something far more fundamental, trust. Trust between buyers and sellers. Trust between enterprises and regulators. Trust that financial records accurately reflect real business activity.

And at the centre of that trust sits one of the oldest yet most misunderstood business documents: the invoice.

Eltropy, the leading agentic AI-powered conversations platform for community financial institutions, today announced that ABNB Federal Credit Union has successfully rolled out AI Voice, marking the latest expansion of the credit union's partnership with Eltropy.

PayNearMe, a leading fintech transforming the payment experience for non-commerce businesses and their customers, today announced record results for 2025. Driven by growing demand for effective, streamlined, and consumer-friendly payment experiences, the company continued advancing its Payment Experience Management strategy in 2025, supported by a $50 million investment.

Jack Henry™ announced today that Blue Sky Bank selected Jack Henry to provide customers with modern, competitive offerings through a blend of self-service and personal banking experiences. Jack Henry's commitment to research and development, along with its vision for the future, significantly influenced the bank's decision.

Standard Chartered and B2C2, a global leader in institutional liquidity for digital assets, announced a strategic partnership to enhance institutional access to digital asset markets. The collaboration combines Standard Chartered’s global banking infrastructure with B2C2’s deep crypto liquidity across spot and options markets.

Crypto exchange Coinbase has introduced “Agentic Wallets,” a new wallet infrastructure designed to give AI agents the ability to spend, earn and trade autonomously.

The company argues that while AI agents have become increasingly capable — answering questions, summarising documents and assisting with tasks — they “hit a wall when they need to actually do something that requires money.”

Porters announces a €2.7 million pre-seed round led by Earlybird Venture Capital, with participation from Seedcamp and a group of leading fintech founders and operators, including executives from Qonto, Upvest, Integral, and Metaco.

The company is building the AI-native back office for financial institutions — enabling fintechs and banks to automate regulated, time-sensitive operational workflows without increasing headcount.

Nullify announced $12.5 million in new funding, led by SYN Ventures with continued support from Black Nova Venture Capital. The investment will accelerate the company’s mission to redefine product security through autonomous AI-powered execution.

Nullify is not another productivity tool for security engineers. It is a platform that deploys a team of AI security employees directly into an organization—designed to operate autonomously across the entire product security lifecycle.

In 2025, the British Virgin Islands (BVI) consolidated its position as one of the world’s most trusted international financial centres, with activity spanning digital assets, global capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, investment funds and infrastructure finance.