UK Finance’s latest Annual Fraud Report shows its members reported that criminals stole £1.28 billion through payment fraud in 2025

ACI Worldwide has joined the European Payments Initiative (EPI) as a principal member and will integrate EPI’s Wero wallet solution onto ACI’s Payments Orchestration Platform

Redpin has achieved ‘in principle’ approval from the DFSA to process payments in the United Arab Emirates, allowing it to extend its property payment services

Beltone Asset Management has partnered with Telda to broaden access to Beltone’s investment products and mutual funds through Telda’s digital platform

MENA Fintech Association and the Swiss Fintech Association today announced a landmark strategic partnership designed to advance a new era of cross-border collaboration

Latinia released a new industry perspective examining what it describes as a growing governance gap in banking: the management of critical customer communications

Pelican has expanded its offering available via its integration with DXtrade, the flagship multi-asset trading platform from global software developer for the capital markets, Devexperts

The Euro Banking Association (EBA) today announced the publication of a new insight note by its Digital Currencies & Smart Payments Working Group (DSWG) “Adoption of Tokenised Money – Part 2: Considerations of key criteria”.

The Association of National Numbering Agencies (ANNA) the global association dedicated to the support of efficient capital markets through the use of widely embraced International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) standards, announced today that it has re-elected Cristina Ribó Sörensen Deputy Director at the Comisión Nacional del Mercado de Valores (CNMV) as Director of the ANNA Management Body.

S&P Global Ratings has assigned African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) a ‘BBB+’ long-term issuer credit rating and an ‘A-2’ short-term issuer credit rating, with a Stable Outlook, reinforcing the Bank’s strong financial standing and its critical role in driving trade, industrialisation and economic development across Africa and the wider Global Africa community.

Global educational charity and professional body the CISI (Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment) is delighted to announce the appointment of Emilios Tannousis MCSI, FCCA as president of the CISI’s Cyprus National Advisory Council (NAC).

Huawei Cloud hosted the Huawei Cloud Fintech Summit 2026, bringing together financial institutions, fintech innovators, cloud experts, technology partners, and industry leaders

TradeStation Group, Inc. (“TradeStation”) today announced the launch of TradeStation Europe B.V. (“TradeStation Europe”), a fully licensed MiFID Investment Firm in the European Union, regulated by the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) in the Netherlands, to operate as an investment services firm in Europe.

ING has appointed Aled Patchett as Head of Sectors UK, as the bank steps up its push to deepen client coverage and drive cross-product growth in the UK market.

Caseware, the leading AI platform for assurance and financial reporting, today announced, two major milestones with MNP, one of the largest professional services firms in Canada. MNP has selected Caseware to further its audit transformation, deploying Caseware’s full Cloud Engagement Solutions suite across its practice. Simultaneously, MNP has joined the Caseware Agentic Pioneer Program as a founding member — a strategic co-development partnership that will see MNP build and deploy firm-specific AI agents on Caseware’s governed AI platform. Together, these agreements mark a significant step in MNP’s evolution into a cloud-first, AI audit practice.