Flexa, the leading provider of pure-digital payments, is today introducing Tap to Pay support for cryptocurrency transactions, becoming the first digital currency acceptance platform to enable direct blockchain payments via NFC-enabled hardware wallets. This marks a major step in digital asset usability, allowing in-person transactions without the need for a mobile phone or internet connection.

European Regtech scale-up Salv has been recognised by Chartis Research for its leadership in intelligence sharing, winning the first-ever Intelligence Sharing Award and securing a place in the 2025 Financial Crime and Compliance (FCC) 50 rankings.

Fusion Specialty, the global underwriting agency (managing general agent), has chosen Insly to provide end-to-end insurance software across its global operations. The system will enable Fusion Specialty to better handle rapidly increasing business volumes, support the underwriting process, and automate and standardise processes across the insurance lifecycle. 

Ecommpay, the truly inclusive global payments platform, recently held a charity auction like no other.  Employees from the UK, Latvia, Kazakhstan and Cyprus offices came together to raise funds for Street Child, a charity dedicated to working with local organisations around the world to ensure every child has access to an education. Employee bids raised more than €2400 which was then trebled by the company to give Street Child €7395.

Marqeta, Inc., the global modern card issuing platform, today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Mike Milotich as Interim Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Milotich will also continue to serve in his current role of Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Milotich succeeds Simon Khalaf, who has stepped down as Chief Executive Officer and as a Director.

Leveraging products from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Alloy’s identity and fraud prevention platform can now decision on more than eight billion financial events per month, an increase of more than 400%. Alloy, a fast-growing company that enables global financial institutions and fintechs to manage identity risk, has added nearly 200 new clients in the last year alone and was recently named to the Forbes Fintech 50 for the third consecutive year.

With the UK experiencing the unexpected hike in inflation in January 2025 to 3%, TransUnion, a global information and insights company, is releasing previously unseen research that reveals one in five (20%) UK adults – the equivalent of 11 million people – would consider themselves financially vulnerable.  

Finastra, a global provider of financial software applications, today announced that its core solution for US community banks and credit unions, Finastra Phoenix, has been named a top retail core banking system in the United States by Celent and Gartner, two leading analyst firms.

Bloomberg today announced the launch of its new Digital Asset Exposure Analytics, providing transparency into the direct and indirect exposure of a broad range of assets including spot currencies, futures, options, and equity tickers for companies with crypto activities, as well as funds holding these assets.