Trading and investing platform eToro has unveiled a range of new tools to give users a clearer and more in-depth view of their investment performance while also helping them to make more informed investment decisions. 

Designed to help users plan, identify opportunities and benchmark their portfolio against other assets, the new insights provide valuable information on portfolio composition, risk factors and passive income generation.

The increasing burden of complex regulatory requirements are significantly reshaping the compliance landscape for fund administrators. One prominent example is the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) in the European Union, which comes into effect in January 2025. It mandates compliance across digital operational resilience, adding significant oversight and reporting demands. This is indicative of a broader regulatory trend where compliance isn’t optional—it's critical for institutions that wish to maintain their market position.

The insurance industry is poised for significant technological advancements, with global IT spending projected to reach $362 billion by 2025. In response to this rapid evolution, Reuters Events has released the Top 2025 Technology Trends for European Insurers chartbook, offering critical insights into the future of insurance technology. 

Arf, a global leader in providing working capital and settlement liquidity solutions to payments companies, and LuLu Financial Holdings, a global financial services conglomerate, have announced a strategic partnership aimed at revolutionizing settlement times in the global payments and cross-border payments industry. This collaboration will allow LuLuFin to leverage Arf's advanced settlement infrastructure, offering T-0 settlement times.

Pyth Network ("Pyth"), the decentralized data infrastructure designed to power the next generation of financial applications, today announced that it has partnered with, Revolut, a global leader in digital banking, to integrate its digital asset price data into Pyth Price Feeds as a data publisher. This will allow decentralized finance ("DeFi") developers to incorporate high quality digital asset quote and trade data from a digital banking platform with over 45 million users across 200 countries into their decentralized applications (dApps).

Miranda McLean, Chief Marketing Officer at inclusive global payments platform, Ecommpay, has been shortlisted in the prestigious Women in Payments EMEA 2025 Awards.  Winners will be announced at an Awards dinner in London on 9th April following the Women in Payments EMEA symposium.

Tradu, the powerful multi-asset trading platform, today announced the launch of spread betting, offering UK-based investors an accessible, tax-efficient way to engage in leveraged trading. 

Nomupay has completed a third investment round of $37m, bolstering the firm’s ambition to open up the notoriously complex Asian market to international acquirers, merchants, Payment Service Providers (PSPs) and Independent Sales Organisations (ISOs). The final $12m tranche of the September fundraise was led by Endeit Capital, with Uneti Ventures (backed by early Adyen employees) participating. Existing investors continued their support, contributing $25m over the last 18 months.

Akur8, the next generation insurance pricing and reserving solution powered by transparent machine learning, is thrilled to announce that Farm Bureau Insurance Company of Idaho, the largest property-casualty insurance company headquartered in the Gem State, has selected Akur8’s Core Platform solution to streamline the development of high performing, explainable pricing models.

Nium, the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments, today announced the launch of the Diners Club International® Card for its travel customers. This milestone makes Nium one of the first global card issuers in the travel space to offer cards across the four major schemes.