HSBC UK today announces the relaunch of its Premier Credit Card. Reimagined to deliver significantly greater value, enhanced travel rewards, and instant access to exclusive lifestyle perks.

The refreshed card offers a fee-free alternative to the existing HSBC Premier World Elite (£290 annual fee) for eligible customers*.

Simply Asset Finance, the specialist SME lender, today announces it has launched a fully automated lending experience. Integrating seamlessly with Simply’s personal, expert-led approach the new functionality allows customers and partners to complete a lending journey, from application through to payout of funds, in under eight minutes.

PEXA, the digital property completions and data insights business, today announces that it has been selected to take part in the Bank of England’s Synchronisation Lab, an initiative set up to test use cases for atomic settlement of funds across various sectors.

PensionBee, a leading online retirement savings provider, has today called on the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to ensure that proposed reforms to pension transfers apply across the entire UK pensions market - warning that anything less would entrench a two-tier system and fail consumers.

EthSwitch, Ethiopia’s national switch owned by all public and private banks together with the National Bank of Ethiopia has launched the country’s National Instant Payment System powered by BPC’s next-generation SmartVista platform. The system was officially launched at the Ethiopia Digital Payment Conference 2.0 in December 2025, opened by H.E. Dr. Eyob Tekalign, Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia, and H.E. Temesgen Tiruneh, Deputy Prime Minister.

Levl, a unified platform powering fiat and stablecoin global payments, announced today it has closed $7 million in seed funding. The round was led by Galaxy Ventures with participation from Protagonist, Deus X, Blockchain Builders Fund, OpenFX, FalconX, CMCC, Variant Fund, and a strategic angel network including leaders from Revolut, Brex, Comun and others.

10x Banking, the cloud-native core banking platform that powers customers including OM Bank, Chase UKand Westpac, today announced a strategic partnership with HassemPrag, a leading African digital banking and orchestration platform.  

Digital economies are built on data, speed, and transparency. But beneath every digital transaction lies something far more fundamental, trust. Trust between buyers and sellers. Trust between enterprises and regulators. Trust that financial records accurately reflect real business activity.

And at the centre of that trust sits one of the oldest yet most misunderstood business documents: the invoice.

Eltropy, the leading agentic AI-powered conversations platform for community financial institutions, today announced that ABNB Federal Credit Union has successfully rolled out AI Voice, marking the latest expansion of the credit union's partnership with Eltropy.