Visa, a global leader in digital payments, announced extended digital wallet capabilities within Visa Commercial Pay, a suite of B2B payment solutions built in partnership with Conferma Pay, the world’s foremost provider of virtual payments technology, to revolutionize how businesses manage transactions globally.

In line with its commitment to providing the latest in digital payments, Al Baraka Bank announced its partnership with Mastercard, a global leader in digital payments technology, to introduce an array of premium consumer, commercial, and SME products, in Egypt.

GCEX (GCEX Group), a regulated digital brokerage that enables brokers, funds, and professional traders to access deep liquidity has partnered with Crossover Markets Group, Inc.,  a digital asset technology firm focused on meeting the unique liquidity requirements of institutions.

Crypto Finance AG, part of Deutsche Börse Group, has reached another milestone in its history. The prudentially FINMA-supervised provider of institutional-grade investment solutions, custody, and trading for digital assets has now also secured four licenses from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority, BaFin. The licenses for its subsidiary, Crypto Finance (Deutschland) GmbH, include regulated digital asset trading, settlement, and custody services in Germany.

Moneyhub has been named as a supplier of Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) Open Banking Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) framework for its Open Banking and Payment services. 

Crown Commercial Service supports the public sector to achieve maximum commercial value when procuring common goods and services. In 2021/22, CCS helped the public sector to achieve commercial benefits equal to £2.8 billion - supporting world-class public services that offer the best value for taxpayers.

Cascading AI, a cutting-edge fintech startup founded by alumni of Stanford University and Y Combinator, is thrilled to announce the successful completion of its $3.9 million pre-seed funding round to unlock $1 trillion in value of advanced AI for the global banking industry 

Casca, the flagship product of Cascading AI, is revolutionizing the lending landscape as the first AI-native Loan Origination System.

Data Zoo, a leading global identity provider, has appointed former  London Stock Exchange Group executive Charlie Minutella as its new Chief Executive Officer. 

Minutella brings nearly two decades of experience leading risk, identity, and compliance teams,  notably spearheading the Refinitiv risk division at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG).  

Today, investment platform Lightyear announces the full launch of its web application with new stock screeners, a highly requested feature by investors on the platform. The screeners - a directory of instruments with metrics and data - are completely available to the public.

Private equity investor, LDC, has invested in the rapidly expanding insurtech business Uinsure, to support its ambitious growth strategy.

Duco, the leading SaaS provider of AI-powered data automation, today announced it has acquired Metamaze, a fast-growing company in the unstructured data ingestion and Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) space. Metamaze uses AI and no-code techniques to accurately replace manual data extraction and classification from documents and emails for customers across multiple industries, with a strong focus on banking and insurance.