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Optiak, the modular operating system for enterprise AI, has announced a €4 million (approximately $4.7 million) pre-seed funding round led by Market One Capital, Next Tier Ventures, EA Ventures Plug and Play EMEA Fund and Mission. The round is also backed by investors linked to giants such as SpaceX, Amazon, Stripe, Crowdstrike, or Databricks, making…
Europe’s AI race is entering a decisive new phase. After years spent chasing larger models, faster pilots, and breakthrough capabilities, the challenge facing enterprises is no longer intelligence itself — it is trust. As organisations move artificial intelligence from pilot projects to mission-critical operations, boardroom conversations have fundamentally shifted from capability to credibility. That shift…
DataVisor, the leading AI-powered fraud and AML platform, today announced that Tru Cooperative Bank (formerly First West Credit Union) has selected DataVisor’s AI-powered fraud and risk platform to protect members in real time across the banking journey. Delivered through DataVisor’s pre-integrated deployment with VeriPark’s VeriChannel digital banking platform, the solution brings seamless, out-of-the-box fraud protection…
Gr4vy, the cloud-based payment orchestration platform, today announced a new partnership with Airwallex, a leading global financial and payments platform for modern businesses, adding Airwallex as a payment connection. The integration gives enterprise merchants direct access to Airwallex’s card acquiring capabilities through Gr4vy’s orchestration platform, along with access to Optimize 360, Airwallex’s AI-powered payment optimization engine….
The UK’s largest event dedicated to tackling financial crime returns on Monday, 2 November 2026 at Old Billingsgate, London, uniting 1,500+ senior decision makers for a single, powerful day of insight, collaboration and action. Bringing together senior leaders from banking, fintech, regulation and law enforcement, Financial Crime 360 is your opportunity to get ahead of…
Europe’s digital identity market is entering its most significant transformations in a decade. New regulations, digital identity wallets and increasingly sophisticated AI-driven fraud are challenging assumptions that have shaped the digital identity market for more than a decade. Reflecting this shift, IDnow today announces the launch of the IDnow Trust Platform, marking the company’s expansion beyond traditional identity verification. The platform is designed to…
Following this week’s Global Anti-Scam Alliance Summit in Lisbon, Visa (NYSE: V), a global leader in digital payments, today announced that its dedicated Scam Disruption team has identified over $2.6 billion (€2.2 billion) in fraud attempts globally since its creation just over two years ago. This represents an additional $1.6 billion (€1.4 billion) uncovered since…
Icon Solutions – the UK fintech enabling banks to design and implement state-of-the-art payment systems – has released a reference implementation showing how banks can use the Icon Payments Framework (IPF) to accelerate support for payments processing using distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based digital assets. As IPF is agnostic to both the type of digital asset and the DLT…
Payfuture, the global payments company building financial infrastructure in emerging markets, today announced a strategic partnership with ACE Money Transfer, one of the UK’s most established remittance providers, serving more than 1.3 million customers across UK, Europe, Australia, and Canada. As part of its ongoing efforts to support leading remittance providers in delivering seamless cross-border…
Banking Circle S.A. (Banking Circle) today announces a collaboration with Bridge, a leading stablecoin infrastructure platform and a Stripe company, to support its global money movement capabilities through Banking Circle’s regulated, API-led banking infrastructure. Bridge is using Banking Circle’s infrastructure to enable businesses and developers to move stablecoins in and out of local currencies including EUR…
DECTA, a global payment technology provider, has been recognised in The Payments Power 50 2026, the annual list from The Power 50 celebrating the companies and industry voices making their mark across the global payments industry. Now in its second year, The Payments Power 50 recognises 40 companies and 10 industry influencers making a meaningful contribution…
TBC Uzbekistan, Central Asia’s leading digital banking ecosystem and part of London-listed TBC Bank Group, today announces the launch of its new fully digital payroll feature for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs), further enriching its offering for business customers. The new feature is part of TBC Business, Uzbekistan’s first fully digital banking solution for…
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