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Sumsub, a global full-cycle compliance and fraud prevention platform, today announced its partnership with Fireblocks, an enterprise platform providing digital asset infrastructure solutions to businesses building on blockchain, to deliver seamless and secure Travel Rule compliance. Through this partnership, Sumsub’s Travel Rule solution will be natively integrated on the Fireblocks platform, empowering financial institutions and virtual asset service providers (VASPs) with real-time, automated, and dynamic verification for virtual asset transactions. This gives Fireblocks users complete control to tailor compliance workflows to their unique risk profiles, while ensuring automated and encrypted Travel Rule data exchange between VASPs, making stablecoin payments faster and safer.

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Taurus SA, a leader in enterprise-grade digital asset infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership with global management and technology consultancy Capco, a Wipro company. The new partnership will see Capco acting as Taurus’ implementation and integration partner in Continental Europe, supporting financial institutions as they deploy and integrate Taurus’ digital asset infrastructure within existing banking and capital markets environments.

Transaction Network Services (TNS) has completed its acquisition of BT’s Radianz business. The deal brings together two long-standing providers of financial markets connectivity and expands access, reach and service capability for institutions worldwide.

Teciem launches today with a mission to grow and innovate across its proven portfolio of treasury and capital markets software solutions, putting customers’ evolving needs at the centre of everything it builds and delivers. The Apax Funds are committing to support the new company following the completion of the purchase of Finastra’s Treasury and Capital Markets division. The investment will allow Teciem to deepen its focus on product development while growing and nurturing expert talent across the business.

Yaspa, a leading fintech specializing in payments and identity solutions, today announces it has become a founding member of the newly launched AI Research Hub (AiR Hub) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) International Gaming Institute (IGI). This collaboration underscores Yaspa’s commitment to integrating next-generation financial technology with academic research to foster a safer, more sustainable gambling environment.