Datos Insights, the leading research and advisory partner to the banking, insurance, and securities industries, has recently recognized Feedzai and Jack Henry® (Nasdaq: JKHY) as the silver medal winner of the 2025 Impact Award for Best Joint AML and Fraud Transaction Monitoring Innovation.

Sovos, a leading provider of global tax compliance software, today announced a strategic partnership with Epicor, a global leader in industry-specific enterprise software solutions. This collaboration integrates Sovos' AI-powered tax compliance platform with Epicor Kinetic ERP, delivering automated, real-time tax management capabilities to manufacturing and distribution companies worldwide.

Alacriti, a leading provider of cloud-native money movement services for banks and credit unions, today announced a new partnership with Early Warning Services, LLC, the company behind Zelle®. Zelle will be embedded in Alacriti’s Orbipay Payments Hub, an all-in-one payments platform that provides financial institutions with all the tools, services, and technology infrastructure they need to quickly enable Zelle for consumers, small businesses, and commercial clients.

MANTL,an Alkami solution team andleading provider of loan and depositaccount opening technology,today announced an integration withTaktile, anext-generation decision platform that helps teams automate and improve risk management strategies across the customer lifecycle. Together, the companies are enabling community banks and credit unions to fully automate credit underwriting and decision-making, giving institutions the speed, flexibility, and control they need to drive loan growth and operational efficiency.

Codebase Technologies, a global leader in digital banking technology, has entered a strategic partnership with Mojo Payments (MojoPay); to launch a next-generation digital banking platform, Digibanc™ BaaS 2.0, designed to accelerate innovation and financial inclusion across Ghana’s fast-growing financial sector. In Ghana alone, the serviceable addressable market for the Digibanc™ BaaS 2.0 platform includes over 240 financial institutions, with significant growth potential across Africa.

UniCredit has today announced the next step in the evolution of its securities services offering – partnering with BNP Paribas for custody services and with FNZ for its cloud-based post-trade securities platform, as it continues to harmonise its set-up across Italy and Germany.

FNZ and UniCredit, one of Europe’s leading banks, have entered into a long-term strategic partnership to evolve the bank’s securities services offering.

FinTech Wales has announced the appointment of Sarah Jones as its new Chief Executive Officer.

For decades, compliance in financial services has meant preventing market abuse, detecting insider trading, and ensuring data integrity. But the FCA's latest consultation paper, CP25/18, signals a clear shift: the focus is now on people, behavior, and culture, said Shield in a statement.

CoinShares International Limited (Nasdaq Stockholm: CS; USOTCQX: CNSRF), Europe's largest digital asset investment manager, today announced the launch of "The Advisor Series," an exclusive educational video content platform that advances the company's aggressive U.S. market expansion strategy through its strengthened partnership with TMX VettaFi.

Tap Global Group plc (AIM: TAP), the innovative digital finance hub that brings money payments and crypto settlement services together in a single user-friendly app, is pleased to announce it has entered into a strategic partnership with tell.money to integrate its open banking gateway into the Tap Group platform. Open banking is a framework that allows consumers to securely share financial data with third-party providers through standardised APIs, with their consent.

Carrington Labs, a leading provider of credit risk analytics and cash flow underwriting models, has launched Cashflow Score. Cashflow Score meets the growing demand for cash flow underwriting capabilities, providing an inclusive measure of credit risk that can be used on a standalone basis or alongside a traditional credit score.

Fintech Fringe Festival, the UK’s largest event dedicated to scaling fintechs, will return on 9-10 September 2025 in London with its most ambitious programme to date - bringing founders, investors, banks, regulators, and industry heavyweights together to tackle the sector’s biggest growth opportunities and toughest challenges.

Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a world leader in transforming the way people bank and shop, announced today that Eurasian Bank, a leading financial institution in Kazakhstan, is the first to implement VCP-Lite 7, part of the company's latest generation multi-vendor self-service software family (Vynamic® Connection Points). The successful pilot was implemented on a DN Series® 450V cash recycler operating Microsoft® Windows 11®. Installation and services for this implementation were provided by BS/2, Diebold Nixdorf's licensed partner in the Central Asia region.

Zest AI, a leader in AI lending technology, announced today that Rodney E. Hood, who previously served as Acting Comptroller of the Currency, Chairman of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), and Director of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, has rejoined Zest AI’s Board of Directors. Hood, who previously served on Zest AI's board, returns at a pivotal moment as the company accelerates efforts to modernize America's lending infrastructure through responsible AI innovation.