As UK children prepare to head back to school, a new survey from PensionBee, a leader in the consumer retirement market, reveals the stark financial trade-offs parents are being forced to make – with saving for retirement often one of the first casualties.

iCapital, the global fintech company shaping the future of investing, announced today it has extended its global partnership with Pantheon, a leading global private markets investor, to further enhance investor access to evergreen funds to include the Pantheon Global Credit Secondaries strategies.

Rain announced a $58 million Series B funding round led by Sapphire Ventures

Appli, a provider of artificial intelligence-powered financial calculators, today announced that First Northern Credit Union has selected its calculator platform to improve how members explore borrowing options online.

PensionBee, a leading online pension provider, has commented on the latest data from the Department for Work and Pensions, which reveals a 16% decrease in Pension Credit applications from the comparable period last year, whilst showing a 44% overall increase in the year following the initial announcement of Winter Fuel restrictions in 2024.

Tazapay, a leading global cross-border payments infrastructure platform, today announced the successful close of its Series B funding round with investment from Peak XV Partners, Ripple (US), Circle Ventures, Norinchukin Capital (Japan), and GMO VenturePartners (Japan). Existing investor Peak XV Partners led the round and 2 other existing investors January Capital and ARC180 joined the round.

Hemi Labs has announced a $15 million investment round to develop and launch the Hemi Network

Backed by a group of reputed strategic investors, the RM 10 million round will fuel Cashku’s mission to scale its digital financial planning platform across Malaysia

Delivery platform Bolt Food has partnered with financial infrastructure innovator finmid to launch Bolt Food Finance – a program aimed at helping small and medium-sized businesses quickly and easily access funds they need to grow.

Payment Labs, a global fintech leader specializing in payment solutions, has closed a $3.25 million oversubscribed seed round

Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), Qatar’s largest Islamic bank, has announced the successful closure of its 3-years, $1Bn unsecured, Dual-tranche Term Murabaha Financing Facility. The Facility was substantially oversubscribed (2 times) at competitive all-in pricing and upsized from its initial launch amount of $600Mn, due to strong demand from the financial markets.

Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) today announced the continuation of its comprehensive asset servicing relationship with Morningstar Investment Management, supporting nine multi-managed registered mutual funds with approximately $5 billion in assets under management.

Relcu, the all-in-one Unified CRM and AI Agent Co-Pilot built for financial services, today announced it has raised new funding

Today, Experian has published its latest MarketIQ report, detailing M&A activity across the UK and Ireland for the first half of 2025. ThinCats has ranked as the top alternative finance provider of debt funding across the UK, for deal volume.