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.

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.

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.

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.

City Week is returning for its 16th annual edition. Held in-person at the Royal Garden Hotel between 18 and 19 May, this year’s edition will take place at a time when the financial services are undergoing profound change. Geopolitics – particularly the Iran war - are reshaping trade and investment flows. Technology, especially AI, is transforming business models. Regulatory regimes are having to pivot toward a pro-growth stance amid a widespread cost-of-living crisis. The role of the financial services industry in combating climate change is under challenge. Crypto, digital assets and blockchain have finally achieved acceptance in mainstream finance. No financial institution can afford to stand still in the face of such change.

The fifth edition of the FinTech Roadmap conference will take place on May 14, 2026, at the Czech National Bank Congress Centre in Prague. The event will feature panel discussions, keynote presentations and workshops focused on financial technology innovation, fintech business models, international expansion and current regulatory developments in the Czech Republic and the European Union.

Tanium, a leader in Autonomous IT, announced today that Mizuho Financial Group, one of the world’s largest full-service financial conglomerates, has expanded its deployment of the Tanium Autonomous IT Platform to enhance its security operations and threat hunting driven by real-time endpoint intelligence.

CSI, a leading provider of end-to-end financial software and technology, today announced that Forte Bank has selected CSI as its core banking provider. The independent community bank will implement CSI’s NuPoint® core platform, along with fully integrated Apiture® digital banking as well as loan origination capabilities, enabling the bank to modernize operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive future growth.

Camunda, the enterprise platform for agentic orchestration, today announced that AU10TIX, a global leader in identity verification and fraud prevention, is using Camunda to support Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) workflows at scale - powering secure, high-volume identity verification worldwide. Camunda allows for the management of complex identity processes without embedding decision logic deep inside application code.

Customer experience in financial services is now as commercial as it is operational. Growth, retention, trust, efficiency and regulatory outcomes increasingly sit in the same conversation. That shift will be a central theme in London this May, when senior leaders from across banking, insurance and fintech gather for the Annual Financial Services Customer Experience Conference, taking place on 21 May at 10 Union Street, London.

Findity, the leading provider of embedded expense management, today announced its official entry into the U.S. market. This milestone marks a significant step in Findity’s global growth strategy, bringing its AI-powered, card-agnostic expense platform to U.S. businesses – enabling them to offer seamless expense management directly within their own products.

Lovey (formerly Love Finance), one of the UK’s fastest-growing SME lender and broker, has today announced its integration with Funding Circle, the UK’s leading SME finance platform, to create significantly faster application journeys for customers. Funding Circle’s API will be integrated directly into Lovey’s platform to create a more seamless experience and reduce friction through direct API connectivity.

Ohpen’s mortgage origination and intermediary portal is now live with Dudley Building Society, marking a significant step forward in the Society’s digital transformation programme.