Today, Barclays announced the next phase of its Demo Directory platform, giving innovative UK startups a new route to secure strategic investment and commercial partnerships directly with corporate organisations. The update expands the platform beyond investor access alone, enabling corporates to discover new technologies, source innovation and invest in future growth opportunities aligned to their strategic priorities.

NCR Atleos Corporation, a leader in expanding self-service financial access for financial institutions, retailers and consumers, today announced an advancement in the dual-sided ATM concept, leveraging company expertise and AI-assisted design, to optimize form factor, sustainability and efficiency.

Sokin, the global business payments company, has secured a $100 million long-term debt facility from Oxford Finance LLC (“Oxford”), a leading specialty lender.

The facility will accelerate Sokin's expansion across North America, Asia, the Middle East, and South America, and fast-track the acquisition of further regional licenses, banking partnerships, and global infrastructure scaling. Additionally, investments will fund the development and launch of new products, including embedded payments capabilities.

Boerse Stuttgart and Upvest today announce a partnership that enables financial institutions across Europe to offer securitised derivatives trading to their end users via a trusted, regulated exchange. 

Temenos, a global leader in banking technology, today announced ADCB Egypt, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank Group, one of the leading banking institutions in the UAE, has gone live with Temenos Payments Hub to modernize its payments infrastructure and enable faster and more efficient cross border payments.

Plumery, the digital banking development platform, and Lokalise, a leading platform for continuous localisation have joined forces to embed enterprise-grade localisation functionality, including translation and market adaptation, directly into digital banking experiences. This will enable financial institutions to deliver hyper-localised experiences at scale, improving accessibility, engagement, compliance and customer satisfaction.

Veriff, a global AI-native identity verification (IDV) platform, achieved a 100% detection rate of synthetic fraudulent documents in recent benchmarking against the IDNet dataset. The results reinforce the company’s leading position in fighting against AI-driven fraud.

TerraPay, a global money movement company, today announced its strategic partnership with MilX powered by Air Media Tech/Influencers Group, marking TerraPay’s official launch of the payouts for content creators and the gig economy. This milestone reinforces TerraPay’s vision of powering borderless payments for emerging digital communities worldwide.

UAB Profitus Crowdfunding, the operator of the Profitus real estate crowdfunding and peer-to-peer (P2P) investment platform, has selected AMLYZE, a RegTech provider focused on modern, technology-driven compliance solutions, to strengthen its client risk management processes and support the platform’s continued growth.

PT Artajasa Pembayaran Elektronis (“Artajasa”), Indonesia’s leading payment system infrastructure provider, has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation and financial technology provider. This strategic collaboration will advance the integration of seamless cross-border payment, AI-powered mobile innovations, and SME digtialisation solutions between Indonesia and Ant International’s extensive global ecosystem.