During MWC Barcelona 2026, China Unicom and Huawei host an innovation summit with the theme of Innovating on a Solid Foundation and Advancing with Stability; Co-Creating an Intelligent Digital Ecosystem. At the summit, China Unicom and Huawei unveiled the AI Reshaping Co-Creation Initiative and China Unicom Universe Ecosystem Co-Creation Platform. Huawei will support China Unicom in developing AI computing backbones and intelligent agent services to enable digital and intelligent industry transformation and empower its principal services.

Rent is one of the largest recurring payments in the UK economy, yet it still largely runs on traditional bank transfers. While consumers can pay for travel, groceries and even taxes by card, rent — often their biggest monthly expense — has remained structurally locked to legacy payment rails.

London-based fintech Payr has raised $2.1 million in seed funding to change that.

Nutanix , a leader in hybrid multicloud computing, today announced the findings of its eighth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI) survey and research report, which measures global enterprise progress with cloud adoption. This year’s report looked closely at the challenges IT executives face as they navigate the rapid increase of AI use and need for application and infrastructure modernisation in the enterprise.

Transaction Network Services (TNS), a global provider of connectivity and infrastructure for financial markets, has appointed Levent Mehmet as Managing Director, Asia Pacific, for its Financial Markets business. Based in Singapore, Mehmet will lead strategy, sales, and client engagement across the region.

During MWC Barcelona 2026, Huawei released 115 industrial intelligence showcases, together with its customers, during Industrial Digital and Intelligent Transformation Summit 2026. The summit, titled Advancing Industrial All Intelligence, was held by Huawei to explore new practices in industrial intelligence with its customers, partners, and peers. In addition, Huawei also announced the launch of upgrades to its SHAPE 2.0 partner framework.

YouLend, the leading global embedded financing platform for e-commerce, payment and technology platforms, today announces a multi-year financing partnership with Värde Partners, a global investment firm, to further expand its capital base in the United States. The financing is structured as a forward-flow agreement with potential for Värde to purchase up to $225 million in receivables originated by YouLend.

Basware, a global leader in Invoice Lifecycle Management (ILM), has appointed Donna Wilczek as Chief Product and Technology Officer to lead its next era of AI-driven and growth.

The former Basware board member and Coupa executive will lead product strategy, technology vision, and the roadmap that will make Basware the defacto standard in intelligent finance. Wilczek will join Basware’s Executive Team and report directly to CEO Jason Kurtz.  

Modulr, the payments automation platform built to scale, today announces a new partnership with AI powered HR, Finance and Payroll platform, HiBob. The partnership will see HiBob deploy Modulr’s payments automation directly into its payroll workflow, reducing the administrative burden and improving the pay day experience for customers.

AccessPay, the leading bank integration provider, today announced a new partnership with PayPoint to integrate PayPoint's Confirmation of Payee (CoP) capability into AccessPay's payments automation suite for modern finance teams.

Targeted support is a once in a generation change that will help millions navigate their financial lives. From 6 April 2026, people’s banks, pension providers, or other financial firms that are authorised for targeted support can provide suggestions designed for groups of consumers with common characteristics. This will help them make important decisions across their pensions and investments.