Italian advisory and analytics firm Prometeia has expanded its European footprint with the launch of a representative office in Frankfurt. The German city is home to the European Central Bank (ECB), making it the focal point for monetary policy decisions and banking supervisory activity across the eurozone. The move builds on years of work Prometeia has carried out alongside European banks...

Corporate treasury functions are undergoing a profound shift. No longer judged purely on operational efficiency, teams across treasury, finance, tax and procurement are increasingly expected to illuminate risk, optimise financial relationships and embed strategic intelligence into every decision they make. According to LSEG Data & Analytics, this new transparency mandate is fast becoming a defining feature of resilient, forward-thinking organisations...

Banks face a persistent tension at the heart of modern compliance: financial crime never stops, yet the systems built to combat it remain largely fragmented, manual, and reactive. Operationalising regulatory change can take months, investigations are time-consuming, and skilled staff are too often tied up in administrative process rather than genuine risk assessment. SymphonyAI's on-demand webinar, 'From Theory to Action: AI...

A global asset manager turned to Zeidler Group for specialist regulatory guidance after seeking to invest in structured debt instruments issued by a Luxembourg special purpose vehicle (SPV) under a secured note issuance programme. The manager's strategy aimed to enhance portfolio performance, but the complexity of the structured notes meant they needed an expert. The client required a thorough legal...

Extend, a FinTech specialising in embedded virtual card payments, has announced a collaboration with WEX, a global intelligent payment solutions provider, to enable virtual card payments directly within Concur Invoice. The integration allows WEX corporate card customers to connect their commercial accounts within Concur Invoice to generate and settle vendor payments via virtual cards automatically and without leaving the platform. When...

Broadridge Financial Solutions, a global FinTech leader, has completed its takeover of CQG, a leading worldwide provider of futures and options trading, execution management, and market connectivity. The deal strengthens Broadridge's trading and connectivity infrastructure by adding CQG's execution management, algorithmic trading, and analytics capabilities to its existing order management and client connectivity platform. The combined offering forms an integrated,...

Bullish, an institutionally focused global digital asset exchange and information services platform, has broadened its existing partnership with blockchain enterprise solutions firm Ripple. The expanded integration gives Ripple Prime's institutional clients direct entry into Bullish's regulated BTC options markets, adding to the spot, perpetuals, and dated futures connectivity already in place. Ripple's own stablecoin, RLUSD, can be used as the basis...

Tech Mahindra, a global digital transformation and consulting firm, has acquired Avant Techno Solutions (also known as Alluri Technologies), a Canada-based specialist in payments modernisation and wealth platforms. The deal will broaden Tech Mahindra's offering across a range of areas, including Real Time Rail capabilities, ISO 20022 migration, wire modernisation, core payments cloud transformation, and wealth management platforms. It will...

Pmtbox, an enterprise commerce platform designed to consolidate payments, risk, and data for merchants, has closed a $15m seed funding round — reported to be the largest seed raise in Utah over the past decade. The round was led by Tandem Ventures, with contributions from Element Ventures, Cynosure Investment Partners, and Aaron Skonnard, founder and CEO of Pluralsight. The capital will...

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the prudential regulator overseeing banks, insurers and superannuation trustees, has urged the financial sector to significantly raise its standards for managing the risks posed by artificial intelligence. The warning follows a targeted supervisory review conducted by APRA late last year, examining how AI was being deployed and governed across its regulated industries. The regulator...