Azelia Expo Ltd today announced the Africa Forex Trading Expo 2026, a first-of-its-kind event, with Empire FX confirmed as Main Sponsor, bringing together forex traders, brokers, fintech innovators, Payment Service Providers (PSPs), Crypto Exchanges, and financial educators from across Africa and beyond. The two-day expo, scheduled for 10th - 11th March 2026 at Sarit Expo Centre, Nairobi, comes at a critical time when Kenya's forex trading market is experiencing unprecedented growth.

Archax, the first FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker and custodian, has announced a partnership with OpenPayd, a leading provider of financial infrastructure, to streamline fiat settlement across its global trading operations. The partnership addresses a critical bottleneck for digital asset markets as institutional participation grows and settlement workflows require greater operational resilience at scale.

Boerse Stuttgart and Upvest today announce a partnership that enables financial institutions across Europe to offer securitised derivatives trading to their end users via a trusted, regulated exchange.

Allvue Systems, LLC (“Allvue”), a leading software technology provider for the private capital markets, today announced its first customer win for its newly launched document extraction product, Allvue Document IQ, with leading investment firm BC Partners. The solution streamlines portfolio monitoring and financial spreading by combining AI-enabled data extraction technology with human-in-the-loop quality assurance, delivered as a fully managed service.

Adaptive, the leader in custom trading technology solutions, today announced it is developing Aeron Sequencer, a software infrastructure platform designed to tackle the most persistent challenges in modern trading system development: consistency, scalability, performance, and availability.

Fortune® magazine has recognized Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. (NYSE:BR) as one of the 2026 World’s Most Admired Companies, marking the company’s 12th time being named to the prestigious list within the Financial Data Services industry category.

Global broking business Brokerslink has strengthened its network with the addition of Vantel, a Sweden-based specialist insurance technology company focused on AI-powered transformation for commercial insurance brokers.

Currency.com, a global digital finance provider, has announced a new strategic partnership with Zodia Markets, an institutional-grade digital asset liquidity venue. The collaboration strengthens Currency.com’s global trading infrastructure and enhances its ability to support fast, fairly-priced execution of large-volume transactions.

Leading regulated digital prime broker GCEX (GCEX Group) serving institutional and professional clients across the UK, EU and UAE, has added Gold Futures CFDs to its product range.

BWT Alpine Formula One Team and eToro have today announced a partnership agreement for the eagerly anticipated, upcoming 2026 season, becoming the team’s exclusive trading and investment partner.

Allianz Trade introduces Specialty Credit Social2Social, a new solution supporting projects that are addressing a specific social issue and achieving positive social outcomes. Through this product, Allianz Trade enables corporates, financial institutions, multilaterals and public actors to engage in projects that foster a positive social impact through the issuance of a specialty credit policy, protecting them against non-payment and political risks. Eligible projects include affordable basic infrastructure and essential services, affordable housing, and socioeconomic advancement and empowerment for underdeveloped areas or disadvantaged communities. The company also commits to hold all premium received from Social2Social policies as investment in certified social bonds.

BridgeWise, the global leader in AI for investments, has today announced an international partnership with Ultumus, a specialist provider of index and ETF data and technology infrastructure to expand ETF intelligence coverage. Ultumus’ modern, cloud native data provides a backbone to support BridgeWise’s ETF and index operations for its FundWise solution. The partnership allows FundWise to leverage more than 800 additional funds in Europe alone and over 3,000 globally, adding to the 12,000+ funds already covered by BridgeWise.

Building on its strategy to harness AI and harmonized data to optimize global post-trade operations, global Fintech leader Broadridge Financial Solutions Inc. (NYSE: BR), today announced a strategic investment and expanded partnership with DeepSee, a leader in agentic AI technology based in Utah, U.S. The agreement includes Broadridge taking a minority ownership stake in DeepSee and marks a significant milestone in Broadridge’s strategy to leverage AI and harmonized data to optimize global post-trade operations.

Etrading Software (ETS) today announces the launch of Transparent Markets Europe (“TME”), a newly formed, Dutch not-for-profit organisation established to submit a bid for the forthcoming EU OTC Derivatives Consolidated Tape Provider (CTP) mandate under the MiFIR framework.

SimCorp, a global leader in financial technology, today announced the launch of its Axioma Worldwide Equity Factor Risk Model: Trading Horizon. This risk model provides portfolio managers and risk professionals with the precision analytics required for investment strategies that often require rebalancing daily or weekly, including systematic and algorithmic strategies.