The Smarter Payments Summit provides an invaluable opportunity for senior payments and finance professionals, including Payments managers from Amazon, BBC, BP, COS, EasyJet, EQI Bank and many more are confirmed to join to interact with providers such as Go Cardless, Adyen, Truelayer, Telesign Corporation All pay, Checkout.com, Justt and many more to explore new services to improve their payments solutions.

Daloopa, the essential data infrastructure for AI and agentic workflows in financial services, today announced a new integration with Perplexity that allows joint customers to connect their existing financial data licenses directly into Perplexity and the always-on digital worker, Perplexity Computer.

Origin, the AI-native Enterprise Benefits Intelligence platform, today announced a new partnership with ServiceNow, the AI control tower for business reinvention. The integration will connect Origin’s proprietary AI engine, Cuido™, with ServiceNow HR Service Delivery, enabling employees to receive accurate, contextual answers to benefits questions directly within the ServiceNow Employee Center, without raising a ticket, waiting for a human agent, or navigating to a separate system.

Alfa has announced the expansion of Alfa Systems, its proven SaaS platform for equipment and automotive finance, to support commercial loan operations.

SunTec Business Solutions has announced that it has been positioned as a Luminary in Corporate Banking in Celent’s Enterprise Pricing and Product Management in Banking: Next-Generation Platforms report released recently. A Luminary is Celent’s top-tier designation reserved for technology solutions that demonstrate excellence in both advanced technology and breadth of functionality.

After leading dozens of investments, primarily in the cybersecurity space that have so far generated 22 exits with a combined value of approximately $2.5 billion, Yaron Elad and Elik Etzion are embarking on a new path. Together with their US-based partner Gurinder Sidhu, they are launching AlphaDrive, a $100 million fund focusing on cybersecurity and AI, operating under a unique investment model.

ETS Connect UK today announced an evolution of the support model for the UK bond Consolidated Tape (CT), announcing an open ecosystem that enables third-party providers to deliver enhanced support services to market participants.

With increasing volumes and growing operational pressure, FICO has identified a significant opportunity for artificial intelligence to transform collections strategies, improving efficiency, reducing costs and delivering better customer outcomes.

Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: BR), global Fintech leader, today announced that its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) processed an average of $368 billion in daily repo transactions during April, with volumes totaling nearly $8 trillion. The daily average is a 268% increase year-over-year and a nearly 4% increase from March, reflecting sustained institutional adoption of tokenized real-asset settlement and the growing role of distributed ledger technology in modernizing funding and collateral markets.

Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show and the place where money does business, concluded three days of industry-shaping conversations, high-impact networking, and packed stages from April 21–23 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC) in Bangkok, Thailand.

Plus1, the Swedish debt consolidation fintech that helps consumers combine multiple loans into single, lower-cost repayments, has appointed ex-Klarna Director Rasmus Rolén as Chief Executive Officer to lead its European expansion.

Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank (ADIB), in collaboration with Emirates NBD, has closed a £121-million, five‑year club financing facility for Union Property to refinance the Pullman London St Pancras. This 50/50 club deal marks the second deal between the two financial institutions, strengthening their presence in the UK real estate market.

Waracle, a UK digital product consultancy, has agreed to acquire Inov8, an Edinburgh-based cloud and data services consultancy. The deal aligns with Waracle’s growth strategy to increase the percentage of revenue from its Data and AI in 2026.

Personal financial management fintech PocketSmith has created an Open Banking Hub to make secure data sharing easier for consumers to understand.

Atos, a global leader of AI-powered digital transformation, announces it has signed a three-year contract with LCH SA, the global clearing house based in Paris, to assist LCH SA with the migration of its financial information systems on a highly secure, SecNumCloud-qualified cloud infrastructure, while guaranteeing full continuity of operations.