United Fintech, the industry-neutral fintech infrastructure and ecosystem for financial institutions, asset managers & wealth managers has secured a strategic investment from Barclays, further strengthening its shareholder base of leading global banks, including BNP Paribas, Citi and Danske Bank and most recently Standard Chartered, which have all joined in just the past two years.

FinTech Scotland is aiming to help address the growing link between people’s financial situation and their health in later life with the launch of a new initiative that will accelerate innovation through the development of new research, technologies, and services. 

PayTabs Egypt, MENA’s award-winning payments powerhouse, announced today a strategic partnership with Edita Trade as a subsidiary of Edita Food, a leader in the Egyptian packaged snack food market. This collaboration will integrate PayTabs Egypt's cash collection solution into Edita's operations, streamlining payments and cash collection between their representatives and end-point distributors.

Eltropy, the leading AI-powered conversations platform for community financial institutions (CFIs), today announced the launch of E-Notary, allowing CFIs to complete secure, state-compliant electronic notarizations during live video banking sessions. The new capability addresses a critical operational bottleneck that delays loan closings by days or weeks and drives member abandonment.

Coinbase, the leading publicly-listed firm for digital assets, and Chainlink, the industry-standard oracle platform, today announced the selection of Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the exclusive bridging solution for all Coinbase Wrapped Assets, enabling cross-chain transfers and expansion.

Coinbase Wrapped Assets, which include cbBTC, cbETH, cbDOGE, cbLTC, cbADA, and cbXRP, currently have an aggregate market cap of approximately $7B.

Standard Chartered and Coinbase announced today an expanded partnership on digital assets to explore the development of trading, prime services, custody, staking and lending solutions for institutional clients.

Finastra, a global leader in financial services software, today announced British Caribbean Bank (BCB), a Turks and Caicos-based financial institution focused on delivering innovative banking products to its customers, has successfully gone live with Finastra Essence, a next-generation core banking platform. This move signifies a major step in democratizing access to enterprise-grade technology for small banks, empowering BCB to compete and innovate at the same level as larger financial institutions.

Ripple, a financial technology company that offers crypto solutions for businesses, today announced a new partnership with AMINA Bank AG,  to support near real time cross-border payments for AMINA Bank’s clients using Ripple Payments.

Gatehouse Bank has today announced that it has expanded its community sports fund to support four additional local teams.

The new sports teams to receive the Bank’s support are the Matthiola Rangers U6s based in Cheshire, South London Schools FA based across Southwark, Lambeth and Wandsworth, the Bugbrooke Black U14s based in Northampton and Monk Fryston Football Club based in Leeds. All new teams will be supplied with Gatehouse Bank branded kits.