Aveni.ai specialists in AI for Financial Services, have been selected by credit reference agency Equifax UK as a strategic AI partner. 

MoonPay, the global leader in crypto payments, announced that it has appointed Derek Yu as Treasurer. Yu brings a decade of audit and treasury expertise to the company, most recently serving as Treasurer of leading regulated blockchain infrastructure and tokenization platform, Paxos. 

PayQuicker is excited to announce the expansion of our instant payout and local currency solution for clinical trials across Great Britain (U.K.) and the European Union (EU). This real-time digital payment solution offers secure, compliant, and seamless participant compensation to streamline payout operations for clinical trial organizers, including eliminating the need for onsite card issuing.

PayPoint and Fuel Bank Foundation are working together to deliver fuel vouchers to support those most in need.

Each year in the UK, many households who prepay for their energy lose access to heat, light and power because they can’t afford to top-up their meter. The Fuel Bank Foundation is the only national charity who gift energy top-up vouchers for prepayment meters to help people and families living at the sharp end of fuel poverty.

At MWC Barcelona 2025, Accuver will establish a dedicated "AI Zone" to showcase cutting-edge AI-driven network innovation solutions, aligning with the growing trend of AI adoption in the mobile communication industry. The exhibition will feature advanced technologies, including XQbot, an LLM-based network quality analysis chatbot; AEGIS-AP LPS, a base station data-based location positioning solution; and VQML, an AI/ML-powered real-time video quality measurement solution.

Twin Path Ventures, the UK’s leading and only dedicated pre-seed investor in AI-first startups, has received support from British Business Investments for its strategy to invest in UK-based tech founders building and launching innovative and novel AI powered solutions that solve big real world problems.

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the UAE are entering 2025 with strong optimism, fueled by a thriving digital economy, strong government support, and increasing access to financial solutions, according to the third edition of the Mastercard SME Confidence Index. 

Affirm, the payment network that empowers consumers and helps merchants drive growth, and Shopify, a provider of essential internet infrastructure for commerce, today announced an expanded global agreement. The renewed multi-year partnership cements Affirm’s position as the exclusive pay-over-time provider for Shop Pay Installments in the U.S. It also extends this exclusivity into Shopify’s home market of Canada and enables the partnership to continue growing into new markets worldwide, with plans to enter the U.K. on the horizon.

A leading smart card technology, security and ID company based in MEA (Middle-East & Africa) has placed a production order of 10,000 units with IDEX Biometrics. The order supports Visa biometric bank card programs in one of the fastest growing payment markets in the region, and marks the first Visa program in market on the IDEX Pay biometric technology solution. The IDEX Biometrics partner serves over 500 banks, governments, and corporations worldwide.

Apiture, a leading provider of digital banking solutions, today announced that The Freedom Bank of Virginia (“Freedom Bank”), a next-generation community bank headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, has converted its online and mobile banking solutions to the Apiture Digital B