UK startups and scaleups secured $9 billion in venture capital funding in Q3 2025, the second-highest third-quarter total on record

Form3 has secured a strategic investment from Nationwide to accelerate further product development and growth in the US market

Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) (www.AfricaFC.org), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has once again had its long-term issuer credit rating of A3 affirmed by Moody’s Ratings, a rating first assigned in 2014 and consistently maintained for over a decade. Moody’s affirmed this rating with a stable outlook and affirmed AFC’s short-term issuer rating at P-2, underscoring the Corporation’s status as one of the highest-rated investment-grade institutions in Africa.

Kanastra, a financial technology company providing technology infrastructure and services for private credit funds and securitizations, today announced a $30 million Series B round led by F-Prime, with contributions from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank's investment arm, as well as follow-on investments from current investors Kaszek, Valor Capital, Quona Capital and Itaú, Latin America's largest bank. The new capital will be used to accelerate product development, deepen automation across the private credit funds lifecycle, and expand Kanastra's client base.

Plutus, the emerging leader in Agentic AI solutions for the insurance sector, announced an investment from ServiceNow Ventures

This two-day invite-only summit will bring together over 650 senior executives from leading insurers, reinsurers, MGAs, brokers, investors, and technology innovators to explore the biggest challenges in the London Market and UK Insurance landscape, from tech implementation to distribution, insurtech growth and investment, evolving risk, and customer centricity.

Elliptic has secured strategic investment from HSBC, becoming the only blockchain analytics provider to receive investment from four G-SIBs

Revolut pledged £3bn of investment in the UK and 1,000 new jobs, as it opens its new global HQ in Canary Wharf’s YY London building

Tide announced a strategic investment from TPG to accelerate international expansion, and advance investment into agentic AI.

AI in Finance 2025, will take place at the iconic Kimpton Fitzroy London on Wednesday 26th November, and will provide a roadmap for 150+ senior technology leaders from financial services to move beyond the well-established use cases and implement next-generation AI at scale.

Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC) today announced a significant strategic growth investment over the next five years to attract new and grow existing client relationships in some of the strongest growth markets in the country.

TradeStation Securities, Inc. (“TradeStation”), an award-winning†, self-clearing online brokerage firm for trading stocks, options, futures, and futures options, today announced its integration with MultiCharts, a professional trading platform that offers advanced charting, backtesting, and automated trading features for traders and analysts across global financial markets.

Allocations, a global fund administrator and AI-powered investment platform, has structured $25.6 million through six investment vehicles

Total UK fintech investment hit $7.2 billion in the first half of 2025 according to KPMG’s latest Pulse of Fintech report

NG.CASH, a consumer fintech platform built to serve Brazil’s digital-first generation, has announced the close of a $26.5 million Series B funding round