The Fintech Awards London 2025, the capital’s flagship celebration of innovation and excellence in financial technology, brought the UK fintech community together in spectacular style beneath the iconic Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre at The Underglobe on Wednesday, 18 June.

As Colorado’s HB 1182 introduces new requirements for wildfire risk transparency and mitigation recognition, ZestyAI is helping insurers comply with proven, mitigation-ready solutions.

XBTO, a global leader in institutional digital asset management, today announced a strategic partnership with Arab Bank Switzerland that will enable the Swiss private bank to launch a sophisticated Bitcoin yield product for its wealth management clients. The collaboration leverages XBTO's proprietary "Diamond Hands" strategy to provide Arab Bank Switzerland's clientele with an actively managed approach to generating yield on their Bitcoin holdings.

Financial services technology provider EV today announced a significant upgrade to its digital financial guidance solution, EVDirect. Rebuilt on cloud-native and mobile-first technology, the upgraded EVDirect introduces a smarter, more engaging way to deliver financial guidance, forming a crucial component of EV’s comprehensive multichannel suite of solutions that support the whole financial planning spectrum from guidance and hybrid advice to fully holistic financial advice.

Bitget, the leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company, has secured regulatory approval in Georgia to operate as a provider of digital asset exchange and custodial wallet services through the Tbilisi Free Zone (TFZ). The new licensing development is a strategic expansion aligned with Bitget’s plans of growing its licensing portfolio in Eastern Europe, a region increasingly dictating the growth of crypto through open regulatory frameworks and progressive economic outlooks.

opt.fun, a decentralized options trading platform, today announced the launch of its innovative 1-minute expiry options on Hyperliquid’s HyperEVM.

Xceptor today unveiled findings from a new report conducted in partnership with Crisil Coalition Greenwich titled Operational efficiency is driving digital transformation in capital markets. The report reveals how firms across the capital markets landscape are rethinking their operational strategies in response to growing complexity, rising trade volumes, and evolving regulatory demands.

IG Group (“IG”), the FTSE 250 online trading company, has partnered with Alloy, a leading identity and fraud prevention platform provider. The partnership enables IG to better achieve full regulatory compliance without impinging on the company’s capacity to provide a seamless customer experience and hit ambitious business growth objectives.

Zellis Group, a leading provider of AI-enabled HR, workforce management, payroll and benefits, today announced the acquisition of Hastee, a pioneering financial wellbeing platform that empowers employees to take control of their financial lives through earned wage access, financial education, savings and comprehensive money management tools.

Tenity is doubling down on Quanted—the UK startup modernising quant data infrastructure with cutting-edge tooling—alongside Flixfounders and strategic angels, including the owners of a $41B AUM asset manager, a $1.4B commodities firm, a quant hedge fund, and senior execs from tier-one quant funds, investment banks, and data providers, underscoring strong market confidence in Quanted’s vision.

Atec Group, the high-growth multichannel insurance distribution platform, has announced it has acquired Commercial SME insurance specialist, Moorhouse Group, subject to regulatory approval.

One Inc, the leading digital payments network for the insurance industry, today announced the launch of a pre-built payment integration for Verisk’s FAST (“Flexible Architecture, Simplified Technology”), a modern, flexible platform designed to streamline and scale life insurance operations.

iPipeline®, a leading provider of comprehensive and integrated digital solutions for the life insurance, pensions, savings, and investment markets in the UK, has launched a groundbreaking enhancement to SolutionBuilder®. Advanced Underwriting will revolutionise the adviser experience, providing more precise premiums to initial protection quotes.

Synchrony (NYSE: SYF), a premier financial services company, and Payzer, a WEX company that provides field service management software for residential contractors, have partnered to offer a comprehensive digital process designed to streamline sales and business transactions for contractors. This collaboration integrates Synchrony's robust financing options directly into Payzer's solution, making it easier for contractors to help customers fund their home improvement projects.

Visa, a world leader in digital payments, and Pismo today jointly announced that the Nordic challenger bank Lunar will start Visa card processing with Pismo’s platform as the first bank in the Nordics. The move to Pismo enables Lunar to develop and launch new products and solutions faster and more independently for their over one million private and business users across Denmark, Sweden and Norway.