The platform will bring together buyers and sellers of shares in private companies to trade on an intermittent basis.  

Breaking new ground with the world’s first regulated private stock market, PISCES (Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System) is a great example of industry, government and regulators working together to go further and faster on innovative reform.

Simon Walls, executive director of markets at the FCA, said:

Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, announced today the nationwide rollout of its in-store payment solutions across Walmart Canada’s network of 400+ stores, making Walmart Canada the largest retailer in the country to offer Klarna’s flexible payments options.

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.