Bhutan has become the first country to launch a nationwide tourism payment infrastructure powered by cryptocurrency, marking a significant milestone in national-level blockchain adoption. The initiative, officially announced on May 7, 2025, is a collaboration between Binance Pay and Bhutan’s state-owned DK Bank, a subsidiary of Druk Holding & Investments.

Three game-changing startups – an architectural designer designing biodiversity-boosting building materials, an adaptive fashion brand empowering the disabled community, and a money-saving platform for new parents – have won the Start Up Idea of the Year competition, launched by Monzo Business and Enterprise Nation. Chosen from almost 3,000 submissions, the winners were selected for their groundbreaking solutions to pressing social and environmental problems, showing the power of fresh ideas to make a real difference and boost the economy.  

AdvicePay, the industry-leading platform for managing billing, payments, and compliance of fee-for-service financial planning, today announced the acquisition of AdvisorBOB, the leading independent advisor compensation software company. This marks AdvicePay’s first acquisition and a strategic step forward to support the full revenue lifecycle for advisory firms, from billing clients to paying advisors. 
 

Blend Labs, Inc., a leading origination platform for digital banking and consumer lending solutions, today announced a new integration with 

 dLocal, a leading cross-border payment platform for emerging markets, announces today an expanded relationship with PayPal to offer businesses access to payment processing and local payment methods in more than 40 new untapped emerging markets.

Wolters Kluwer, a global leader in professional information, software solutions, and services, has released compelling survey findings on the current levels of adoption, future plans and key drivers related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in internal audit. The survey shows that 39% of internal auditors are already employing AI and a further 41% intend to adopt AI in the next 12 months.

Nutanix , a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, and Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers the world’s most advanced data storage  platform and services, today announced a partnership aimed at providing a deeply  integrated solution that will allow customers to seamlessly deploy and manage  virtual workloads on a scalable modern infrastructure.  

India is rapidly emerging as one of the most important global markets, with its economy set to become the third-largest in the world by 2030, according to the IMF.

Global digital transformation pioneer ​​GFT is strengthening Canadian credit unions’ defenses so they can exceed compliance requirements and effectively combat fraud with the expansion of their GFT Compliance Suite. With proven success in the other regions GFT operates in, the GFT Compliance Suite leverages AI so credit unions can effortlessly identify, escalate and stop even the most historically effective threats including identity theft and unauthorized payments.