By Financial IT Magazine

As fintech enters a new phase of maturity, the lines between traditional finance and digital innovation are blurring fast. Markus Fehn, Head of Strategy and Innovation at Chartered Investment, shares how the company is bridging that divide — from early blockchain experiments to BaFin-regulated tokenization — and why the future of finance will depend less on disruption and more on collaboration.

Nexi Group, the European PayTech, and Zucchetti, a leading Italian software provider in Europe, have expanded their strategic partnership to provide integrated payments for retail and hospitality vert

Alleviate Financial Solutions, LLC today announced the closing of a $150 million growth capital investment from Sound Point Capital Management, LP. This funding marks a major step in establishing the Debt-to-Wealth category — which goes beyond traditional debt relief to help consumers transform their financial lives.

Across Africa, digital payments are transforming how people live, trade, and connect. From small market stalls in Lagos to online entrepreneurs in Nairobi, fintech has become an essential bridge to financial inclusion.

Rimes, a leading provider of enterprise data management and investment intelligence solutions to the global investment community, today announced two senior appointments as part of its continued investment in talent and global growth. Ross Allen joins as Head of APAC, while  Bill Blythe joins as Global Head of EDM Sales.

Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform, and FTSE Russell, the global index provider, today announced a new collaboration to bring FTSE Russell's world-leading index data onchain via DataLink—an institutional-grade data publishing service powered by the Chainlink data standard. FTSE Russell indices are globally adopted, with over $18 trillion in assets under management (AUM) benchmarked.

Happy Money, a leading consumer finance company dedicated to empowering individuals through responsible lending, today announced a partnership with $3.4 billion-asset TruMark Financial Credit Union. By leveraging Happy Money's participation program, TruMark Financial is further diversifying its balance sheet and deploying capital to generate higher returns through short-duration, high-yield personal loans.

Eric Jing, Chairman of Ant Group, reaffirmed Ant’s commitment to deepening cross-sector collaboration on regulated AI and tokenization innovation in the territory, and to expanding its cross-border payment and trade financing services to support Hong Kong’s initiative to help Chinese businesses go global.

Fireblocks, an enterprise platform for secure digital asset custody, settlement, trading operations, and stablecoin payments, today announced that Singapore Gulf Bank (SGB), a fully licensed digital wholesale bank regulated by the Central Bank of Bahrain, will leverage Fireblocks' digital asset infrastructure to support secure treasury management and digital asset custody, including executing day-to-day treasury operations with automated workflows, as well as optimizing liquidity across mult

Spendesk, the AI-powered spend management and procurement platform, today announced its entry into corporate travel. Spendesk Travel brings access to travel booking, payment, and budgeting directly into the Spendesk platform at no additional charge, unifying a category that finance teams have long managed in separate tools.