Monzo is about to enter buy now, pay later market

iplicit, the leading cloud accounting platform purpose-built for the UK and Ireland mid-market, has today launched iplicit Insights, its AI-enabled analytics and reporting suite giving finance leaders visibility into their organisation's financial position.

Regnology, a leading provider at the intersection of regulatory, risk, and supervisory technology, today announced that KfW Bankengruppe (KfW) is advancing its long‑term partnership with the company by electing to migrate to the next-generation Regnology Reporting Hub (RRH). The solution will be delivered as a cloud-native service on Rcloud, Regnology’s high-performance cloud architecture layer.

Cashless payments innovators Marker Trax and Koin today announced the alignment of their organizations under a single, unified leadership structure, marking a significant new phase in the companies’ continued evolution. This combined leadership structure is designed to accelerate growth while enhancing operational focus and support the long-term opportunity ahead for both brands.

Model risk management is entering a period of rapid transformation as institutions integrate increasingly complex AI, ML, and GenAI models into their inventories. Traditional validation approaches are no longer applicable and there is need for stronger documentation and explainability.

Historically, community banks have relied on relationship-driven in-branch visits to open complex accounts. However, this high-touch model naturally limits scaling velocity. By integrating MANTL’s omnichannel software directly into its core banking ledger, FVSBank can slash retail account opening times to under five minutes online and under ten minutes in-branch. This strategy removes geographic restrictions entirely, allowing the Wisconsin lender to cross-sell specialized and specialty deposit accounts across digital boundaries without expanding its physical branch footprint or scaling up operational headcount.

Bitget Wallet, the everyday finance app, has integrated xStocks, the leading standard for tokenized equities and ETFs, adding more than 130 new tokenized equities products and expanding its total RWA offering to over 300 assets for its more than 90 million users. Users can access tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, precious metals, and index-linked assets through a self-custodial trading experience alongside more than a million cryptocurrencies, with zero trading fees and gasless execution.