Members First Credit Union (‘Members First’) has selected Mahalo Banking’s Thoughtful Banking® platform as part of a broader technology modernization initiative to deliver a more flexible, intuitive, and future-ready digital banking experience for its members. The partnership aligns with the credit union’s transition to the Corelation Keystone core platform and reflects a strategic effort to strengthen digital agility and member engagement.

Network International (Network), a leading fintech company across the Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Compass Plus Technologies, an international provider of retail banking and payments software, celebrated 20 years of collaboration and evolution as both companies remain committed to supporting digital payment innovation.

Volante Technologies, the global leader in Payments as a Service (PaaS), today announced that its Payments Platform and PaaS operations are now powered by its “Vol360i” Agentic AI. The core upgrade unlocks autonomous and semi-autonomous collaboration to reduce manual intervention, significantly increasing straight-through processing (STP) rates to over 95%, accelerating exception resolution, and proactively managing SLA performance.

Titan, the first of its kind, banking‑native AI platform purpose‑built for financial services, today announced it has raised $3 million in new funding, led by Entropy Ventures. The raise accelerates its mission to deliver auditable, explainable AI infrastructure for the highly-regulated banking landscape, allowing institutions to innovate securely and at speed.

Feedzai, the global leader in AI-native financial crime prevention, today announced the availability of Feedzai IQ Score, an AI-native, network-derived fraud risk scoring solution for banks of all sizes.

Taskize, the leading investment operations collaboration platform and Euroclear-owned fintech, has partnered with Global Relay – an innovative provider of integrated digital communications and mobile compliance solutions for highly regulated industries – to bring structured, secure, and fully auditable API-based archiving capabilities to Taskize users.

SDB Wallet announces the launch of its digital wallet platform — multi-currency accounts, Mastercard cards, international transfers and digital-asset deposits in one secure app.

Offa, an award-winning British Islamic property finance fintech firm, has announced it is partnering with Iress to make its halal home finance products available on Iress XPM and Trigold.

Dojo today unveils Dojo Go Max, its most advanced payment terminal yet, designed to help UK businesses take payments even more quickly, reliably and confidently when it matters most.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions, has signed a multiyear transformation and managed services agreement with Canada Life, a leading global life and pensions insurer. The partnership will support the modernisation of Canada Life’s IT infrastructure services across its European Businesses.

Telda and Mastercard have joined forces to introduce a new integrated solution in Egypt, seamlessly connecting everyday payments and investment wallets within the Telda app, marking a major step toward a fully unified digital ecosystem.

Blnk, a fintech company on a mission to enable financial inclusion through rapid point-of-sale financing, has raised $12.5 million in equity funding and $24.6 million in local debt facilities. The funding will scale its consumer finance operations in Egypt, with a focus on onboarding women and the underbanked, by offering flexible loan sizes for a wider range of products and services.

Temenos (SIX: TEMN), a global leader in banking technology, and Interswitch Group, a leading integrated payments and digital commerce company in Africa, today announced a collaboration, wherein Interswitch will adopt Temenos technology to enhance its digital banking capabilities, supporting its growth and expanding access to modern financial services across the continent.

Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today announced the launch of Bybit IPO Express, becoming one of the first centralized crypto exchanges globally to offer tokenized IPO (initial public offerings) at the offering price. Powered by Payward Services' xStocks, eligible retail investors worldwide can now participate in blockbuster IPO projects by subscribing to tokenized representations of publicly traded equities, starting with SpaceX as the inaugural offering.

Monzo, the UK’s leading digital bank, and Fair4All Finance, a not-for-profit focused on improving financial inclusion, announce a new partnership to widen access to affordable¹ credit, as 16m+ UK adults face barriers to borrowing - a figure that has increased around 30% since 2018.²