HSLC, $227 million community bank serving Ohio and Kentucky, will reduce commercial loan processing time from days to hours after implementing Vine’s AI-powered lending platform. The 130-year-old institution expects to eliminate manual document processing while improving accuracy across its commercial real estate, equipment financing, and agricultural lending portfolio.

Allocations, a global fund administrator and AI-powered investment platform, has structured $25.6 million through six investment vehicles

New research from HSBC UK reveals that while Brits are actively cutting back on subscription services, many are still losing money to 'invisible spending' - particularly through automatic payments they forget to cancel.

The Fourth AfriCaribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2025) has concluded with over US $300 million in investment and trade deals signed and a robust communiqué affirming both regions’ commitment to deeper collaboration. The two-day event, co-hosted by African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com) and the Government of Grenada, brought together more than 2,100 delegates, from 80 countries, including 11 Heads of State and Government, representatives of governments, private sector leaders, and development partners.

Borough Broth, the UK’s leading brand in organic, slow-cooked bone broths, is using a tailored Invoice Finance facility from eCapital to support its national expansion and product innovation.

South Africa’s fastest, most secure and only digitised bridging funding platform, TransBridj, has been announced as a finalist in the ‘Most Innovative Proptech Company of the Year’ award as part of the Annual Africa Proptech Forum, hosted by the Africa Property Investment (API) Summit. The awards will be handed out on the 18th of September 2025 at the 16th API Summit at The Westin in Cape Town.

Levr Bet, today, announced it has completed a $3 million round led by Blockchain Capital and Maven 11 for the world’s first leveraged sports betting platform. Building on Monad, the seed round brings Levr’s fundraising total to $5.3 million since 2024.

United Arab Bank (UAB), listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX) announced the successful completion of its capital increase, which ended on July 29, 2025. The Rights Issue raised AED 1,031 billion increasing the Bank’s issued capital from AED 2,062 billion to AED 3,093 billion. The newly issued shares were priced at AED 1 per share. All necessary regulatory approvals have been obtained for this transaction.

Alkymi, the leading AI-powered data workflow platform for financial services, today announced a strategic financing round

NG.CASH, a consumer fintech platform built to serve Brazil’s digital-first generation, has announced the close of a $26.5 million Series B funding round

Accenture Ventures has made an investment in Snorkel AI to help enterprises build and scale AI solutions more quickly by curating high-quality datasets

Wagestream, the market leader in workplace finance and wellbeing, has announced advancements to its Workplace Loans product. These developments, supported by the £300 million debt financing secured from Citi in April, directly address the issue of inaccessible credit, and reinforce Wagestream’s commitment to providing fair financial services to the everyday worker.

Luigi Marciano, founder of Objectway, a leading provider of software and services to financial institutions across Europe, North America and the Middle East, along with Objectway’s management team and international private equity firm, Cinven, today announced an agreement under which Cinven will make a majority investment in Objectway. Luigi Marciano will remain a significant shareholder alongside Cinven, and continue in his role as CEO and Chair. He and his existing management team will continue to manage the business, and Cinven’s backing will provide strategic and financial support, including continued investment in technology innovation, as well as support for future organic growth and targeted M&A opportunities. Together, Luigi Marciano, his team and Cinven aim to expand Objectway’s market leadership while delivering consistently high value to clients. Financial terms of the investment are not disclosed.

Lendscape is pleased to announce that DF Capital, a specialist bank, has successfully gone live with Lendscape's asset finance platform. This milestone has enabled DF Capital to launch its asset finance offering to market; providing additional financing solutions to SMEs, as well as its first consumer finance products.