Profile, a leading international financial solutions provider, announces a major upgrade to its flagship Axia solution, placing artificial intelligence and intelligent automation at the core of the wealth management experience. The latest release transforms how financial institutions and wealth managers interact with data, clients, and investment opportunities, setting new standards for efficiency, transparency, and personalisation.

Money and identity are no longer separate domains, they are converging into the backbone of national digital infrastructure. As global monetary networks become the new frontlines of geopolitical competition, digitalization has shifted from innovation experiment to a lever of national power and policy. Payments and identity aren’t just technical challenges or regulatory checkboxes – they are the building blocks of economic sovereignty, resilience, and strategic influence.

Regulatory requirements such as the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) underscore the need for financial institutions to improve their resilience to very real threats such as cyberattacks, system failures and other operational risks. A primary challenge here is how banks can not only meet regulatory requirements, but also remain competitive with innovations and attractive product portfolios. The answer lies in the right combination of new processes and the use of advanced technology.

Zimpler, a leading Swedish company in Pay-by-bank solutions, today launches Swish Handel (Swish Commerce) and Swish Utbetalningar (Swish Payouts) for its partners. The company becomes the first non-bank operator ever to integrate directly with Getswish, the company behind Sweden’s most widely used payment method. For the first time ever, Swish can now be offered directly through a payment institution, without applying through a bank.

Binance, the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and users, and Franklin Templeton, a global investment leader with $1.6 trillion in assets under management, announced a collaboration to build digital asset initiatives and solutions tailored for a broad range of investors.

Mastercard is advancing AI-powered payments with new tools for developers, expanded consulting services and deeper collaboration across the global tech and finance ecosystem. These efforts are laying the foundation for smarter, more secure shopping experiences using artificial intelligence and intelligent agents as the company is helping to set the standards for how AI can securely and confidently handle payments.

Building the future of AI shopping

Pipe, a fintech company offering embedded capital products to small businesses, and Uber Technologies, Inc. today announced a strategic relationship that will provide hundreds of thousands of restaurants in the US access to working capital.

Stripe, the programmable financial services company, revealed it will launch Stripe Capital in Australia. The new offering will provide eligible small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) access to fast, flexible business financing through the Stripe platform, helping them invest in growth, manage cashflow, and stay resilient amid economic uncertainty. 

Nutanix, a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced it has been recognised as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure. The recognition marks Nutanix’s third time in this Magic Quadrant, and its second time as a Leader.

Thousands of pension transfers are being held up unnecessarily by providers who are raising flags for transfers that have no real scam risks, according to new analysis.