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British Caribbean Bank Goes Live with Finastra Essence to Drive Innovation, Efficiency, and Agility

Finastra, a global leader in financial services software, announced British Caribbean Bank (BCB), a Turks and Caicos-based financial institution focused on delivering innovative banking products to its customers, has successfully gone live with Finastra Essence, a next-generation core banking platform. This move signifies a major step in democratizing access to enterprise-grade technology for small banks,…

FinTech · DEC 12, 2025 · 2 min read

xpate Introduces ScheduleFX to Enable a Fully Manageable Automated Payout Flow

xpate, the all-in-one payments and banking hub, has launched ScheduleFX, a new automation feature that allows merchants to schedule and automate currency conversion directly within their xpate wallet. The release extends xpate’s broader automation capabilities, following the recent launch of Scheduled Transfers, and gives merchants full control over how and when funds are converted after…

FinTech · DEC 12, 2025 · 2 min read

Fifth Third and Brex Partner to Bring AI-Powered Finance to Businesses, Unlocking $5.6B in Commercial Card Volume

Fifth Third Bank (NASDAQ: FITB), a pioneer in financial innovation known for improving the lives of its customers, and Brex, the intelligent finance platform, announced a multi-year partnership that unlocks $5.6 billion in annual commercial card payment volume. Built on Brex Embedded, Brex’s proprietary API-driven payments infrastructure, the Fifth Third Commercial Card powered by Brex will…

FinTech · DEC 10, 2025 · 3 min read

Payfuture Enters South Africa to Unlock New Growth for Global Merchants

Payfuture, an enterprise payments partner for high-growth international businesses, has launched its operations in South Africa, creating new opportunities to engage with one of Africa’s most mature and fast-growing digital economies. With Payfuture’s advanced payments technology and deep regulatory knowledge, businesses can now navigate the complexities of this high-potential market with ease. Payfuture’s platform removes…

FinTech · DEC 10, 2025 · 2 min read

TBC Bank Georgia Wins Best Use of Tech in Consumer Lending at 2025 Banking Tech Awards

TBC Bank Georgia, the country’s leading financial services provider and part of London-listed TBC Bank Group, was crowned the winner in the Best Use of Tech in Consumer Lending category at this year’s Banking Tech Awards. TBC Bank Georgia received this important industry award for its continued innovation in fast consumer loans, where it has…

FinTech · DEC 10, 2025 · 2 min read

AllScale Raises $1.5M to Empower Small Businesses with Accessible, Compliant Stablecoin Solutions

AllScale, a financial technology startup building stablecoin solutions for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), has announced the closing of a $1.5 million funding round to accelerate the development and adoption of its intuitive, compliant, and secure stablecoin invoicing, social commerce, and payroll solutions. Their investors and backers include DraperDragon, Amber Group, Y2Z Capital, KuCoin Ventures,…

Venture & Investment · DEC 10, 2025 · 2 min read

Lucanet launches market-first AI Tagger Agent for XBRL reporting

Lucanet, a leading global provider of Office of the CFO software solutions, today announced the launch of a market-first Tagger Agent for XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) reporting for the upcoming reporting season. The Tagger Agent uses a multi-agent AI architecture to perform narrative tagging, numeric table tagging, extension creation and calculation link base generation…

Artificial Intelligence · DEC 9, 2025 · 3 min read

ClearToken Launches CT Settle, a Game-Changer for Institutional Digital Asset Trading

ClearToken today launched CT Settle, a new, multi-currency service designed to modernise how global financial institutions settle trades across the digital asset market. CT Settle acts as a neutral, supervised and regulated platform that standardises the trade completion process, making it safer and dramatically more efficient. ClearToken’s CT Settle completed its first complete settlement cycle, settling…

FinTech · DEC 9, 2025 · 4 min read

GTreasury’s New FinTech Solution Automates Exposure Analysis for Treasury and Finance Leaders

GTreasury, a Ripple solution delivering adaptable treasury solutions for the Office of the CFO, today launched GSmart Risk Insights, an AI-powered risk insights engine embedded into GTreasury’s extensive Exposure Management capabilities. Built on the GSmart AI platform, GSmart Risk Insights interprets interest rate and foreign exchange exposures, detects anomalies and policy breaches, and produces executive-ready narratives. Treasury teams must…

FinTech · DEC 9, 2025 · 3 min read

ClearBank to Power Finseta’s Multicurrency and Cross-border Payments

ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, today announces its partnership with Finseta plc (AIM: FIN), a foreign exchange and payments solutions company, to deliver agency banking services supporting GBP and multicurrency (MCCY) accounts. Under this partnership, Finseta will leverage ClearBank’s virtual IBAN technology to provide both GBP and MCCY wallets for its UK…

FinTech · DEC 9, 2025 · 2 min read

Airwallex Raises $330M Series G at $8B Valuation

Airwallex, a leading global financial platform for modern businesses, raised $330 million in a Series G funding round, led by Addition and with participation from T. Rowe Price, Activant, Lingotto, Robinhood Ventures and TIAA Ventures. The financing values Airwallex at $8 billion, a ~30% increase since its Series F six months ago. The investment will…

Venture & Investment · DEC 8, 2025 · 4 min read

COINPAYMENTS becomes Global Partner of Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team

Ahead of the Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix this weekend, COINPAYMENTS, a leading global digital payment gateway, announces it has become a global partner and the Global Digital Payments Processing Partner for the Aston Martin Aramco Formula One™ Team. COINPAYMENTS is the gateway that underpins the future of digital commerce, empowering merchants…

FinTech · DEC 5, 2025 · 2 min read

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