Accounting software provider FreeAgent has announced a new partnership with Fathom, the all-in-one reporting, analysis and forecasting platform, to make it easier for UK small businesses and their accountants to manage their finances and make more-informed business decisions.

Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, today announces the launch of faster, more reliable, and more transparent payments into China’s mainland following a deepened collaboration with UnionPay International (UPI).

Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments company, has announced a new partnership with Freenow by Lyft, the European taxi app, to deliver reliable and high-performing digital payments across all nine of its European markets.

tricount by bunq, a global go-to app that automates group expense tracking for nights out, holidays, and housemates, published its annual wrap-up, tallying British users’ shared expenses in 2025.

Intelligent Lending Group, the fintech group which includes TotallyMoney, CredAbility, and Ocean brands, has announced its partnership with AI-powered financial promotions platform, Adclear.

Adclear’s software will transform marketing and social media compliance across Intelligent Lending Group, speeding up reviews, and enhancing output to deliver transparent and impactful campaigns, more efficiently and effectively.

Benepass, a global benefits capital management platform, today announced it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Centana Growth Partners, with participation from FoW Partners and existing investors Portage Ventures and Threshold Ventures. The funding will support Benepass’ efforts to expand into larger, more complex employers with their pre- and post-tax benefit offerings.

ThetaRay, a global leader in Cognitive AI financial crime compliance, today announced the appointment of Brad Levy as Chief Executive Officer. Levy, a leading financial markets infrastructure executive and former CEO of Symphony, will lead ThetaRay’s next phase of growth as the company continues to scale its Cognitive AI platform, now emerging as the leading AI strategy and technology for transaction monitoring and transaction due diligence, across banks and fintechs worldwide. 

Volante Technologies, the global leader in Payments as a Service (PaaS), today announced the launch of its premium Multi-cloud Resiliency Service, engineered to keep financial institutions’ payment operations running seamlessly during major cloud provider outages. Built on Volante’s proven cloud-native payments platform, the service provides true cross-cloud continuity, eliminating single-cloud/provider dependency for the payments layer.

Humanity Mainnet is now supported by Fireblocks, an enterprise platform for secure digital asset custody, settlement, trading operations, and stablecoin payments, enabling more than 2,400 institutions using Fireblocks’ infrastructure to securely hold, manage, and interact with H and other assets native to the Humanity ecosystem.

Smarsh, the global leader in communications data and intelligence, today announced new additions to its executive leadership team to accelerate the delivery of AI-powered risk management and data intelligence solutions. By appointing proven expertise across product and finance functions, Smarsh is positioning its platform to help customers automate compliance and unlock actionable insights within increasingly complex regulatory environments.