Kalepa is pleased to announce that Canopius, a leading global specialty (re)insurer, has licensed its award-winning underwriting AI platform to accelerate growth and innovation across its lines of business in the US.

Paychex, Inc. (Nasdaq: PAYX), an industry-leading human capital management (HCM) company, today announced a new financial management solution for accounts payable provided by BILL (NYSE: BILL), a leading intelligent financial operations platform for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). Launching through Paychex Flex®, Bill Pay, Powered by BILL, integrates payroll, HR, and accounts payable and empowers SMBs to manage their people and payments in one seamless experience.

Brumby Pay, a regional Victorian fintech start-up, is pleased to announce Monoova as their preferred Payment Service Provider, combining Brumby Pay’s patent-pending architecture with Monoova’s enterprise-grade infrastructure to deliver compliant, rapid and secure payment flows to the Australian market.

Delfi, the AI-native risk management platform for financial institutions, has introduced the Optimal Duration Index (ODIN), a benchmark designed to bring clarity to loan origination decisions in today’s uncertain interest rate environment.

Input | Output (IO), a blockchain infrastructure and research engineering firm dedicated to advancing the Web3 ecosystem, today announced it has joined CryptoUK, the leading trade association for crypto and digital assets in the United Kingdom. The trade body advocates for fair, proportionate regulation and constructive engagement with policymakers, regulators, and the public to foster innovation, consumer protection, and market integrity. The association represents over 100 member organisations across exchanges, blockchain networks, payment providers, law firms, and fintechs.

Apiture, a leading provider of digital banking solutions, has been recognized as the “Best SMB/SME Banking Solution” at the 2025 Finovate Awards. This program honors the financial institutions and companies driving fintech innovation forward and the individuals bringing new ideas to life.

Citi Investor Services has enabled Financial Information eXchange (FIX) API connectivity between its proprietary Advanced Citi ETF System (ACES) platform with Bloomberg’s BSKT service to further automate the ETF creation and redemption process for authorized participants (APs). This builds on an existing integration between Citi ACES and BSKT, which is Bloomberg’s ETF creation and redemption solution for the primary market.

InsureMO, the global leader in insurance middleware, today announced a strategic partnership with Appian (Nasdaq: APPN), a leader in process orchestration, to launch a unified underwriting solution tailored for the US Excess & Surplus (E&S) specialty insurance market. This collaboration brings together InsureMO’s enterprise-grade Excel Rater platform and robust API ecosystem with Appian’s advanced, AI-powered Connected Underwriting Workbench, setting a new benchmark for speed, flexibility, and operational excellence in E&S insurance.

Florent Venture Partners has launched its debut fund, a Luxembourg SCSp, to back founders building the next generation of AI-native applications across Northern Europe and beyond.

Tristán Torres Velat, Chief Commercial Officer at PayRetailers said: “Open banking has been talked about for years, but the real challenge isn’t opening the APIs, it’s orchestrating them. Banks, fintechs, and tech platforms now have access to more data than ever, but turning that into connected, intelligent experiences is another story.

BIMBANK, Mauritania's leading Islamic bank and one of the pioneers in digital banking, has chosen the advanced SmartVista Fraud Management solution from BPC, a global leader in payment solutions, to implement enterprise-wide fraud prevention, fully comply with the requirements of the Central Bank of Mauritania, and ensure real-time protection across its cards, core banking, and digital channels.

The L&G App, which supports its 5.7 million workplace pension members, is now the UK’s highest-rated workplace pension app, with 4.8 stars on iOS and 4.9 stars on Android. The milestone comes as the app marks its first anniversary.

Monex Canada Inc. (“Monex Canada”), a subsidiary of the wider financial services group Monex S.A.P.I. de C.V. (“Monex”), a global investment-grade financial services institution and one of the world’s leading commercial foreign exchange specialists, today announced the launch of its Toronto-based Digital Client Services (DCS) Desk. The new desk is dedicated to providing Monex Pay users with personalized, high-touch support for managing cross-border payments and foreign exchange (FX) trades.

Finery Markets, a leading provider of non-custodial crypto ECN and SaaS trading solutions, has partnered with Yield.xyz, a DeFi yield aggregation platform serving 25M clients, to simplify institutions’ access to a broad spectrum of native staking and DeFi opportunities.

Paysecure, an award-winning payment orchestration provider, has unveiled its dynamic cashier product - the most customisable checkout solution on the market, providing merchants with deep insights into user behaviour to improve conversion and reduce fraud.