Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show and the place where money does business, today unveiled the startups selected for its 2026 Start-Up Media Session, held live at the event in Amsterdam. This year’s cohort represents breakthrough innovation across AI-native finance, fraud prevention, digital assets, trust infrastructure, and modular banking technology.

Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show, and the place where money does business, today convened senior policymakers, regulators, central banks, supervisors, and industry leaders for Policy 20 at Money20/20 Europe. The session held at the RAI in Amsterdam was a high-level forum focused on one of the defining challenges facing financial services: the cross-border implications of diverging policies, implementation, and technological momentum.

Lorikeet today announced self-optimising agents, giving regulated businesses a way to test and improve their AI support agent against thousands of customer scenarios before it ever talks to a real customer.

Wallester UK has been authorised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI), establishing a regulated foundation for its operations in the United Kingdom and advancing the company's international expansion strategy.

Consequently, banking software has remained stuck in a "copilot" model—where an AI simply summarizes data or suggests actions to a human operator. Experian’s Agent Operating System fundamentally breaks this pattern, introducing an agentic software layer embedded natively within the Experian Ascend Platform (which services over 2,300 global enterprises).

Da Nang, Vietnam: Organised by Aeternum and co-hosted with the Da Nang Innovation Start Support Center (DISSC), with institutional participation from the Da Nang People’s Committee, the State Securities Commission of Vietnam, and the Da Nang Department of Science and Technology, the summit drew over 2,150 registrations and welcomed more than 500 delegates, including senior policymakers, institutional leaders, founders, investors, and technology builders from across Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and North America.

Lorum today announced the upcoming launch of a yield-bearing capability within its cash management offering for institutional treasurers. The capability extends Lorum's existing cash management service, giving treasurers access to money market instruments alongside the multi-currency clearing, custody, and FX they already use, through a single account structure. Clients will be able to earn yield on idle balances held on the platform, including dollars held for foreign exchange execution, operational liquidity buffers, and funding held between collection and payout cycles.

LSEG Risk Intelligence today announced, at Money 20/20 Europe, the launch of Identity Gateway, a new technology infrastructure layer designed to simplify access to trusted digital identity schemes.

Today Hey Savi launched UK’s first agentic commerce experience with native checkout powered by PayPal. The app is the first of its kind AI-powered, brand agnostic fashion search platform for women, making it easier for shoppers to find, compare and buy must-have styles without leaving the app. Debenhams Group - including the Group brands Debenhams, Karen Millen, Boohoo and Pretty Little Thing – is the first retailer in the UK to bring end-to-end AI-powered shopping to UK consumers.

BHM Capital, the leading financial institution in the capital markets of the United Arab Emirates, announced the activation of Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) market coverage through Tabadul, the cross-border digital trading platform under Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX), further enhancing regional market connectivity.

Infosys (NSE, BSE, NYSE: INFY), a global leader in AI-first business consulting and technology services, today announced the expansion of its strategic collaboration with DNB Bank ASA (DNB), Norway’s largest bank, to modernize its Financial Crime (FinCrime) operations using NICE Actimize X-Sight Enterprise platform. Through this engagement, Infosys will help DNB transform fragmented, legacy systems into a unified, intelligence-driven, cloud-native platform that enhances risk insights, improves detection accuracy, and strengthens multi-jurisdiction regulatory compliance.  

Hypercore, the AI company disrupting loan administration for private credit, today announced a technology integration with Arcesium, a leading global financial technology provider to the investment industry, to connect all disparate components of the private credit fund process. The integration creates a continuous, automated data flow from loan origination through servicing and lifecycle events into portfolio- and fund-level workflows creating a unified platform purpose-built for private credit. This positions Hypercore not as a standalone tool, but as the loan operations hub eliminating manual processes, improving data consistency, and enabling funds to scale more effectively.

Bankjoy, a leading digital banking provider for community financial institutions, today announced strong and growing adoption of JoyCompass, its personal financial management (PFM) platform built to help members take control of their financial lives. Thirty financial institutions have now signed on, including Ellafi, CommunityWide, Advantage Plus, Statewide, Lewis Clark, OU FCU, and SIU CU, with more joining every month.

Finastra brought together leading voices from across the financial services ecosystem at its Innovating Finance Together Summit in Sydney, highlighting how banks, fintechs, and technology partners are turning strategy into execution and delivering tangible results. The Summit reflected a clear shift underway across the industry, from ambition to action. Conversations centered on how institutions are applying AI in practical ways, modernizing core platforms, and working more closely across the ecosystem to accelerate innovation and improve customer outcomes. The central theme was the power of collaboration. As complexity grows and expectations rise, institutions are moving beyond siloed innovation towards more connected, partner-driven models. Speakers emphasized that meaningful transformation increasingly depends on open platforms, shared capabilities, and the ability to innovate together.

Torus and SRM will host a free webinar discussion on what acquirers may still be missing about Interchange++ and how pricing, finance, and operations teams can better manage scheme fee complexity, reconciliation, and margin control.