Pulse, a leading embedded credit and SaaS company, has announced a new strategic partnership with Binq, a UK-based AI-powered business marketplace and app.

SaaScada, the 5th Generation cloud-native core banking platform, and Vacuumlabs, the highly experienced financial product development company, are teaming up to help banks and fintechs launch and modernise core-led products faster, with significantly less delivery risk.

Private equity firm Incore Invest has completed the acquisition of CoreOrchestration AB from Worldline. Upon closing, the previously announced carve-out has now been finalised and PaymentIQ has been established as an independent standalone company under Incore Invest’s ownership. The purchase price amounts to approximately SEK 1.75 billion.

Safra Sarasin Group, a global leader in private banking and wealth management, has completed its acquisition of the majority stake in Saxo Bank, a prominent international FinTech bank serving investors, traders, and institutional partners. This transaction marks a significant milestone for both companies, enabling enhanced global potential and strategic growth.

Happy Money, a leading consumer finance company dedicated to empowering people to achieve their goals through responsible lending, today announced the launch of its Partner-Branded Program, which includes partner-branded marketing and embedded delivery capabilities. This program enables financial institutions to offer personal loans to their members and reach new borrowers using the strength of their brand, while Happy Money manages marketing and the full lending lifecycle end-to-end.

Today, the investors of N26 decided on a change in the composition of its Supervisory Board. With immediate effect, Stefan Ermisch, an expert of the European banking sector, has been elected as a new Supervisory Board member of N26. As usual, his appointment is subject to approval by the German banking supervisory authority. Ermisch succeeds Peter Kleinschmidt, who steps down from the Board with immediate effect.

Eltropy, the trusted leader in unified conversations, today launched the industry’s first Agentic AI platform for credit unions. The platform provides a safe environment where AI agents can be created, governed, integrated, and deployed. It unites the three key stakeholders of the credit union ecosystem:

ThetaRay, a global leader in Cognitive AI financial crime compliance, and Matrix USA, a premier global service integrator of anti-money laundering (AML), financial crime and compliance systems, today announced a strategic partnership designed to help financial institutions modernize their transaction monitoring programs ahead of major supervisory shifts coming into effect across the U.S. and Europe in 2026.

Revolut suggests a significant opportunity to support residents with advanced money management tools and financial wellbeing solutions in the UAE

AKUVO, a leading provider of cloud-native, AI-driven collections technology, today announced the release of two AI-powered features within the AKUVO Platform — Collector Assistant and a new chat-based Virtual Collector. These capabilities represent the first phase of a broader strategy to embed AI across every stage of the collections lifecycle.

FMSI, a provider of branch performance and workforce management software for financial institutions, today announced its relaunch following a divestiture completed at the end of 2025. With more than 140 bank and credit union clients and a 20-year track record in the industry, FMSI is moving forward with a sharper focus on product development and client service.

iDenfy, a global RegTech company specializing in identity verification and fraud prevention solutions, announced the launch of its ROI Calculator tool, a dynamic comparison gadget that’s designed to help businesses understand the financial Know Your Customer (KYC) service cost impact compared to other popular providers in the industry. iDenfy’s calculator provides finance and compliance officers, as well as product leaders, with transparent, data-driven projections of verification costs with chosen plans and add-ons without the need to book calls or go through complex, gated processes.

SimCorp, a global leader in financial technology, today announced the introduction of the Axioma Factor Library Suite. The suite brings together a wide array of fundamental, technical, and macroeconomic factors into a unified data resource, offering hedge funds, systematic investors, and asset managers a broad and flexible signal universe to accelerate the development of customized strategies.

Embat, the AI-powered treasury management platform, is experiencing rapid adoption among UK finance teams due to its seamless integration with Oracle NetSuite.

Facephi (BME Growth: FACE; Euronext Growth Paris: ALPHI), a global leader in digital identity verification and fraud prevention, announces its entry into Japan through Hancom, its exclusive partner in Asia-Pacific (APAC).