Infrastructure & Enterprise Software

Freehand raises $75m to automate enterprise spending

Freehand raises $75m to automate enterprise spending

Freehand, a San Francisco-based AI company building autonomous agents for enterprise spending and financial operations, has raised $75m as businesses look to automate procurement,...
Ramp enters Canada with global finance platform push

Ramp enters Canada with global finance platform push

Ramp, the finance automation platform behind corporate cards, expense management and bill payments, has expanded into Canada with the launch of its local offering...
Circle claims top US blockchain patent spot with IBM deal

Circle claims top US blockchain patent spot with IBM deal

Circle Internet Group, the NYSE-listed financial technology company behind USDC, has acquired fundamental assets from IBM’s blockchain patent portfolio, becoming the largest holder of...
HSBC expands AI strategy with Singapore centre of excellence

HSBC expands AI strategy with Singapore centre of excellence

HSBC is expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities with plans to launch a Global AI Centre of Excellence in Singapore in the second half of...
Salt Edge backs Sientia to grow open banking loyalty

Salt Edge backs Sientia to grow open banking loyalty

Salt Edge, an open banking and open finance platform that has operated globally for more than 13 years, has made an investment in Sientia,...
Objectway targets capital markets growth with SLIB deal

Objectway targets capital markets growth with SLIB deal

Objectway, a pan-European WealthTech technology provider for banking, wealth and asset management firms, has entered exclusive negotiations to acquire SLIB, a French capital markets...
Mbanq secures first institutional backing for $100m note programme

Mbanq lands first institutional backing for $100m note

Mbanq, a US-based banking infrastructure and embedded finance provider, has secured the first institutional investment into its $100m loan participation note programme, with a...
Duplo teams up with Wema Bank to automate business finances

Duplo teams up with Wema Bank to automate business finances

Duplo, a financial operating system designed for African businesses, has joined forces with Wema Bank to bring streamlined financial management to companies operating on...
Why Ctrl Alt’s Irish licence matters for tokenised assets

Ctrl Alt gets authorisation from Central Bank of Ireland

Ctrl Alt, a tokenisation infrastructure provider focused on digital capital markets, has secured MiFID authorisation from the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI), enabling the...
Augustus lands $180m Series B to dollarise the world

Augustus lands $180m Series B to dollarise the world

Augustus, the company building what it calls the Global Dollar Bank, has secured $180m in a Series B round that values the business at...

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Beyond AI pilots: How ForwardLane is helping financial firms scale agentic AI

Beyond AI pilots: How ForwardLane is helping financial firms scale agentic AI

An MIT report found that 95% of generative AI pilots never make it into production. ForwardLane, with eight years of production deployment at some...

Why CPF lifecycle models risk getting age 55 wrong

Kidbrooke has warned that lifecycle investment models built for Singapore's Central Provident Fund (CPF) scheme could be producing dangerously misleading attainment figures, unless they...
Exante overhauls trading app as investor demands grow

Exante’s app redesign puts control back in investors’ hands

WealthTech company Exante is rolling out a redesigned version of its mobile app to all users over the coming weeks. The update retains the platform's...

Bolt debuts industry-first AI insurance platform

Bolt, a leading InsurTech focused on distribution, has rolled out what it calls the insurance sector's first AI-powered distribution platform to give partners access...
AdvisorFinder launches AI visibility tool for advisors

AdvisorFinder launches AI visibility tool for advisors

AdvisorFinder, a Virginia Beach-based organic growth platform for financial advisors, has launched AdvisorFinder Intelligence, a platform built to show advisors how they appear online...

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