Jump, an artificial intelligence (AI) solutions provider for financial advisors and financial services firms, has partnered with Wealth.com, an estate and tax planning platform, to integrate estate planning data directly into advisors’ meeting preparation workflows. The strategic integration enables advisors using both platforms to pull estate planning information from Wealth.com into Jump’s pre-meeting preparation experience. Over time, the partnership will...

Aviva Investors, the global asset management business of Aviva, has partnered with financial technology company Ripple to explore the tokenisation of traditional fund structures on the XRP Ledger. Under the collaboration, Ripple will support Aviva Investors in its efforts to bring traditional financial assets with real utility onto the XRPL, a decentralised, open-source public blockchain designed to facilitate fast and...

Birch Hill Holdings, an institutional digital asset infrastructure firm focused on onchain lending and tokenised asset markets, has closed a $2.5m pre-seed funding round co-led by ParaFi Capital and Castle Island Ventures to advance compliant access to blockchain-based credit. The round drew backing from ParaFi Capital and Castle Island Ventures, with additional participation from Nascent, FalconX Ventures, Coin Operated Group,...

Uptiq, an AI platform purpose-built for financial services, has raised $25m in a Series B round to accelerate the rollout of its industry-ready AI solutions and expand its new Qore platform for builders. The $25m round was led by Curql, with participation from Silverton Partners, 645 Ventures, Broadridge, Green Visor Capital, Live Oak Ventures, First Capital, Epic Ventures, Tau Ventures,...

Admiral Group, a UK-based motor and household insurer, has agreed to acquire Flock, a digital commercial fleet InsurTech specialising in telemetry-led risk assessment, in a transaction that values Flock’s equity at £80m and remains subject to regulatory approval. The acquisition builds on an existing partnership between Admiral and Flock that began in 2024 through Admiral Pioneer, the Group’s venture building...

Duck Creek Technologies, a global provider of insurance software, has been selected by Anchor Group Management Inc., a technology- and analytics-focused managing general agency, to deploy its Duck Creek Payments Facilitator as part of a move to modernise insurance payment operations. The selection reflects Duck Creek’s strategy to work with specialised insurance providers that operate in highly transactional segments and...

Tembo, a digital savings and mortgage platform focused on helping first-time buyers onto the property ladder, has secured £16m in growth investment. According to Business Cloud, the funding round was led by new backer Gresham House Ventures, with continued support from existing investors Goodwater Capital, Aviva Investors, McPike Family Office, Love Ventures and Ascension. Tembo has positioned itself as a new...

Reco, an AI SaaS security platform focused on protecting enterprise software environments, has raised fresh capital. The company has secured $30m in a Series B round led by Zeev Ventures. The raise included participation from existing backers Insight Partners, boldstart ventures and Angular Ventures, alongside new corporate investors Workday Ventures, TIAA Ventures, S Ventures and Quadrille Capital. The latest injection...

Sanctions screening is becoming more demanding with each passing year. Watchlists shift overnight, geopolitical tensions trigger rapid updates, and alert volumes continue to surge. Yet regulators are no longer satisfied with evidence that a search was performed. They now expect institutions to demonstrate that their decisions are consistent, explainable and defensible. For compliance teams operating under static budgets, this...

Endor Labs has acquired Autonomous Plane, a company founded by Kyle Quest, creator of DockerSlim, in a move designed to extend its platform’s capabilities across the full software stack. The acquisition strengthens Endor Labs’ AI-native application security offering by introducing full-stack reachability, enabling organisations to trace vulnerabilities from application source code through to container images. While the financial terms of the...