EU lawmakers voted 517-38 in favour of the MiCA legislation, making in the first crypto law to be introduced by a major jurisdiction.

A total of $1bn was raised across the 39 FinTech deals this week, as the US leads the charge with more than half of all FinTech funding rounds.

Assurant, a global business services company that supports, protects, and connects major consumer purchases like automobiles, is partnering with CNH Industrial Capital to provide protection and insurance products through its dealer network.

J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners (GEP) has closed its inaugural Growth Equity Fund, with over $1bn in aggregate capital commitments to invest in growth stage companies across software, FinTech, real estate and consumer technology.

Arity, a mobility and data analytics company, is partnering with Connected Analytics Service (CAS), a Toyota affiliate, to provide driving data from connected vehicles to auto insurance carriers to enable policyholder to access usage-based auto insurance (UBI) products.

HawkSoft, an insurance technology developer based in Oregon, has welcomed ValChoice as a new API Partner.

Singapore-based Betterdata, which leverages programmatic synthetic data to help preserve privacy, has reportedly secured $1.55m in seed funding.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched its Finance for Net Zero (FiNZ) Action Plan to accelerate their plans toward net zero.

YellowBird, an EHS and risk management technology platform, has raised $6.25m in an oversubscribed seed round.

A study by Bain & Company and EcoVadis has found ESG activities correlate with stronger financial profitability and growth.