Paystand, the leading blockchain-powered B2B payments network, today announced on stage during Bitcoin Las Vegas the launch of USDb, the first stablecoin built from the ground up for commercial-scale enterprise finance. Unlike the stablecoins that dominate 90% of today's market, USDb is not designed for crypto trading or retail transfers. It is designed to work inside the accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and treasury workflows that run the global economy.

Lightspark, the open global money company, today announced a partnership with Visa, a global leader in digital payments, to enable stablecoin- and Bitcoin-backed Visa debit cards across more than 100+ countries.

LemFi, the leading financial services platform for underserved communities globally, is investing £100 million in the UK over the next five years as it selects London as its new global headquarters.

Interpolitan Money has received regulatory approval to operate within GIFT City, marking a significant step in the company’s global expansion and strengthening its cross-border capital infrastructure connecting international financial centres.

Smart money app Plum has announced that the company reached operational profitability for the first time in January 2026.

Tenzo, the real-time data and analytics platform for hospitality operators, has secured a $5m first close of its Series A extension round. The round is led by Edge.vc, with participation from existing investors Amadeus Capital Partners and YourVC, alongside Frontive Holdings, one of Tenzo’s customers.

Nationwide Building Society (Nationwide) and PayPoint today announce they have made it even easier for customers to manage their money, with the launch of a new deposit service.

nCino, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCNO), the platform for agentic banking, today announced that Raiffeisenbankengruppe Oesterreich has selected nCino as its unified corporate lending platform. The group is a landmark institution for nCino in the DACH region and a key example of the cooperative banking model nCino employs for thousands of US credit unions in Europe.

LandTech has integrated Brickflow’s market-leading software into its LandInsight platform, providing developers and property investors with instant funding comparisons during site appraisal. The partnership creates a full-stack tech solution that allows users to evaluate project viability and secure capital within a single digital workflow.

D.Energy, the world’s first Layer 1 blockchain built on a Proof of Energy consensus mechanism, today announced it has become the Official Sustainability Partner of TGR Haas F1 Team. The partnership brings verifiable, real-time energy accountability to one of Formula 1's most closely watched teams, as it enters a new era alongside Toyota Gazoo Racing.

Targa Telematics, one of the world’s leading players in AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) for the development of digital solutions and platforms for connected mobility, announces significant progress in tackling vehicle misuse through Smart Vehicle Protector (SVP), an advanced AI-driven solution capable of identifying early signals of risk and supporting vehicle recovery.

Ortec Finance, the global provider of risk and return management solutions, today announces the BETA launch of OPAL Targeted Support: a framework designed to help wealth management and financial advice firms deliver on the operational reality of Targeted Support, not just its regulatory threshold.

Access to professional-grade investment research has always come at a price most people can’t afford. Bloomberg and FactSet terminals cost between $30,000 and $60,000 a year — tools built for institutional desks, not the tens of millions of self-directed investors who are now active on the markets. Two brothers, Peter Pavlov and Miroslav Pavlov decided to change that. Over the past six months, the two co-founders have committed €1.5 million of personal capital to build Edge Hound: an AI platform that distills the kind of multi-signal, narrative-driven intelligence that hedge fund analysts spend their careers developing, and puts it in the hands of anyone with a trading account.

Ondo Finance, a blockchain-based platform focused on tokenizing real-world assets, today announced a partnership with global fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions (NYSE: BR) that, for the first time, enables holders of third party tokenized stocks and ETFs to participate in proxy voting.

New quarterly data from V12 Retail Finance shows that UK consumers continued to turn to point-of-sale finance for high-value purchases in the first three months of 2026, with total finance values across the platform growing 4% between January and March, compared to Q1 2025.