Infrastructure & Enterprise Software

Payward

Nasdaq deepens Payward tie-up with $100m investment

Payward, the parent company of Kraken, has widened its relationship with Nasdaq through a $100m investment from Nasdaq Ventures, continued work on a shared...
Unlimit's Hong Kong licence sharpens its APAC edge

Unlimit’s Hong Kong licence sharpens its APAC edge

Unlimit, a global financial infrastructure company, has secured a money service operator licence in Hong Kong, strengthening its presence in the Asia-Pacific region and...
Castellum.AI brings AI inside AML screening

Castellum.AI brings AI inside AML screening

Castellum.AI, an AI compliance technology provider, has integrated its Arbiter AI agent platform into LexisNexis Bridger Insight XG, enabling compliance teams to resolve sanctions...
Nivo puts AI costs under the microscope for brokers

Nivo puts AI costs under the microscope for brokers

Nivo, an AI platform for mortgage brokers and lenders, has relaunched its website with pricing, a sample case report and service comparisons designed to...
Mistral

Mistral raises €3bn to make sovereign AI the frontier

Mistral, the Paris-based artificial intelligence company known for its open-weight large language models, has closed a €3bn Series D funding round that values the...
Chime to acquire Stride Bank for $590m

Chime to acquire Stride Bank for $590m

Chime, the Nasdaq-listed US FinTech, is set to acquire Stride Bank, N.A., its long-standing banking partner, for $590m as it moves to bring its...
OMS strengthens digital lending infrastructure with Scroll Finance integration

OMS strengthens digital lending infrastructure with Scroll Finance integration

One Mortgage System (OMS), a mortgage CRM and loan origination platform for intermediaries and lenders, has integrated with Scroll Finance, the specialist second charge...
Ant International wins payment licence in Brazil

Ant International wins payment licence in Brazil

Ant International, a global digital payments and financial technology provider, has secured a Payment Institution (PI) licence from the Central Bank of Brazil, strengthening...
APX Lending launches five-year digital asset-backed line of credit

APX Lending launches five-year digital asset-backed line of credit

APX Lending, a Canadian regulator-approved digital asset lending platform, has launched a five-year revolving line of credit that allows borrowers to use Bitcoin, Ethereum...
Finzly embeds AI security layer into BankOS

Finzly embeds AI security layer into BankOS

Finzly, the banking technology company behind BankOS, has launched Assure, an AI-powered security and assurance layer designed to give banks continuous monitoring across security,...

News Stories

Why insurers are struggling to scale AI adoption

Why insurers are struggling to scale AI adoption

AI is gaining traction across the insurance industry, with businesses exploring its potential to reshape everything from underwriting and pricing to claims management. However,...
Marsh targets Bahrain's growing captive insurance market

Marsh targets Bahrain’s growing captive insurance market

Global professional services firm Marsh is preparing to introduce captive insurance management services in Bahrain, which would make it the first international broker to...

Why fragmented sales channels are costing financial firms

Financial institutions rarely sell through a single route. A typical insurer, bank or wealth manager runs a website or app, a team of employed...

Why EXANTE rejected AI to migrate its critical tests

Breaking a monolith into microservices is often treated as a simple engineering exercise. For broker EXANTE, a single migration became a full audit of...
Aon combines healthcare reinsurance and risk advisory

Aon combines healthcare reinsurance and risk advisory

Global professional services firm Aon has established a dedicated North America healthcare vertical within its Risk Capital division, bringing together its healthcare reinsurance and...

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