ZBD, a payments innovator powering real-money transactions for games and apps, has announced a new funding round of $40m. The company has secured $40m in Series C financing, with the round backed by Blockstream Capital Partners (BCP), which will support ZBD’s ambition to become a core payments infrastructure provider for game developers and digital platforms. ZBD uses the Bitcoin Lightning...

Zoom has become a core communications channel for regulated industries, but capturing complete, accurate and audit-ready records is far from straightforward. Regulators expect firms to maintain verifiable archives of every meeting, message and collaboration artefact. As Zoom continues to evolve, the durability of any integration depends on how well it adapts to new APIs, workflows and content types. Certification, therefore,...

Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) have become a high-value target for organised criminal networks, largely because they enable fast, cross-border movement of value across exchanges, wallets and tokenised products. According to Arctic Intelligence, the combination of speed, technical complexity and pseudonymous transactions can create opportunities to place, layer and integrate illicit proceeds through on-chain activity, peer-to-peer trades, mixers and opaque...

Zinnia, a life insurance and annuity (L&A) technology provider, and Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, have announced a new integration designed to transform how insurers access, analyse and activate data. The partnership brings together Zinnia’s deep domain expertise in insurance technology with Snowflake’s scalable data and artificial intelligence platform to help insurers modernise operations and improve decision-making. By integrating Snowflake’s...

FinTech Trends: 240 FinTech firms across six regions participated in a survey providing view of how FinTech–incumbent partnerships are shaping innovation and market positioning Nearly half (48%) of the respondents cited technology as the primary partnership driver Partnerships were largely viewed as enablers of scalable growth, strengthening trust, supporting regional expansion, and enhancing long-term strategic positioning 240 FinTech firms across...

Enterprise AI in 2026 is no longer defined by whether the technology works. Across leadership teams, the more pressing question has shifted to why so many initiatives still struggle to scale, stick, and become part of everyday operations. The gap is increasingly less about models, platforms, or compute, and more about the organisational strength required to absorb change, sustain learning,...

Agentic AI is now the phrase dominating financial services, following the recent wave of generative AI. Autonomous agents can plan tasks, pull data, call tools, and complete multi-step workflows, which is why compliance and risk teams are paying close attention. The challenge is that adoption is moving faster than regulation, especially across Asia-Pacific (APAC). SymphonyAI, which offers AI-powered FinCrime prevention...

Insurers, employers and technology providers across the UAE are moving quickly from discussing workplace savings to building real programmes that can compete for talent and stand up to regulatory scrutiny. Kidbrooke, which offers a unified platform for next-generation wealth experiences, recently explored the next generation of group pensions in the UAE. Group pensions are gaining momentum as reforms reshape end-of-service benefits...

Hawk, an AI-powered provider of anti-money laundering (AML), screening and fraud prevention solutions, has launched Analytics Studio, a new AI lifecycle management solution aimed at banks and payment companies. The new product is designed to address growing challenges around the development, maintenance and governance of AI models used in financial crime prevention. As more financial institutions encourage the use of...

Pave Finance, a next-generation wealth management platform, has announced a new integration with Fidelity, one of the world’s largest registered investment advisory custodians and retail brokerage firms, aimed at helping registered investment advisors (RIAs) automate portfolio management without transferring client assets. The integration enables RIAs to connect Fidelity client accounts directly into Pave’s platform, allowing for automated portfolio construction, ongoing...