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UN:BLOCK Fintech to Bring 600+ Professionals to Riga
More than 600 fintech professionals and regulators will gather in Riga to discuss MiCA, payments, investment and the future of financial services.
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Retail & E-Commerce
Brand loyalty is a myth: experience is what drives growth
AAWE founder Tom Belt argues that what businesses call loyalty is usually habit or inertia, and that growth comes from the experience customers actually get.Loyalty schemes, cards, discounts and rewards all rest on the assumption that loyalty exists and can be bought.
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Fintech
The next fintech frontier: finance for global citizens
LemFi co-founder and CEO Ridwan Olalere argues that fintech must let migrants carry their credit history and financial identity with them across borders.More than 300 million people now live outside their country of birth, and for many of them a credit history does not survive the move. The founder of one cross-border finance platform argues that this is the gap fintech has so far left open.
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FintechAI & ML
IDEMIA Secure Transactions opens agentic commerce to all networks
IDEMIA's new trust infrastructure lets domestic and regional payment schemes compete as AI agents increasingly automate checkout decisions.IDEMIA's new trust infrastructure lets domestic and regional payment schemes compete as AI agents increasingly automate checkout decisions. -
FintechWellbeing
Checkout.com adds Jaywan to UAE acquiring platform
Checkout.com integrates the UAE's sovereign card scheme, giving merchants local routing and built-in regulatory compliance in one platform.Checkout.com integrates the UAE's sovereign card scheme, giving merchants local routing and built-in regulatory compliance in one platform.
Fintech
AI & ML
Feedzai launches Farol agentic AI to cut fraud investigation times
Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets the fragmentation gap stalling bank fraud teams, with SAR drafting claimed at 12x speed.
Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets the fragmentation gap stalling bank fraud teams, with SAR drafting claimed at 12x speed.
Blockchain
Fintech
AI & ML
Brickken joins Linux Foundation to open-source tokenised asset rules
Brickken's LFDT membership targets shared open standards for tokenised assets and agentic capital markets.
Brickken's LFDT membership targets shared open standards for tokenised assets and agentic capital markets.
Fintech
Retail & E-Commerce
Solaris goes live on SEPA Instant as EU rules rewire euro payments
Solaris Bank's ACI Connetic go-live marks a regulatory inflection point forcing eurozone banks to rebuild payments infrastructure at pace.
Solaris Bank's ACI Connetic go-live marks a regulatory inflection point forcing eurozone banks to rebuild payments infrastructure at pace.
Fintech
AI & ML
Feedzai launches Farol as banks accelerate agentic AI fraud ops
Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets fraud investigation latency as mandatory reimbursement rules raise the cost of financial crime.
Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets fraud investigation latency as mandatory reimbursement rules raise the cost of financial crime.
Fintech
AI & ML
F2 Strategy acquires Callaway Cloud in eighth buy since 2023
F2 Strategy adds Salesforce and data-engineering depth to its wealth-management tech stack with its third acquisition of 2026.
F2 Strategy adds Salesforce and data-engineering depth to its wealth-management tech stack with its third acquisition of 2026.
Fintech
Transportation & Logistics
TBC Bank Uzbekistan adds UZCARD to Salom debit card network
TBC UZ's 1.2 million-card Salom product adds a domestic rails partner, targeting one million new cards in Central Asia's fast-digitalising
TBC UZ's 1.2 million-card Salom product adds a domestic rails partner, targeting one million new cards in Central Asia's fast-digitalising
Fintech
Datatech
Experian-Workday tie-up puts 80m payroll records into lending pipeline
Experian's Workday integration extends instant income verification to over half of US payroll employees, compressing mortgage and auto-loan decisioning.
Experian's Workday integration extends instant income verification to over half of US payroll employees, compressing mortgage and auto-loan decisioning.
Transportation & Logistics
AI & ML
Descartes Datamyne AI Agent targets 90% cut in trade data research
Descartes embeds a conversational AI agent in its trade intelligence platform, drawing on 500 million shipment records across 230 markets.
Descartes embeds a conversational AI agent in its trade intelligence platform, drawing on 500 million shipment records across 230 markets.
Blockchain
Fintech
Hedera's CLPR targets blockchain fragmentation in tokenised finance
Hedera contributes a bridgeless cross-ledger protocol to open-source governance, aiming to end liquidity trapping across tokenised asset networks.
Hedera contributes a bridgeless cross-ledger protocol to open-source governance, aiming to end liquidity trapping across tokenised asset networks.
Defence
Aerospace
AI & ML
Tessera eyes aerostat maker RT LTA to extend airborne surveillance reach
Tessera's option to acquire Israeli aerostat firm RT LTA signals a cross-sector convergence of persistent ISR hardware and AI-driven security platforms.
Tessera's option to acquire Israeli aerostat firm RT LTA signals a cross-sector convergence of persistent ISR hardware and AI-driven security platforms.
Fintech
AI & ML
Purple Group launches Hello Purple fintech infra platform
Hello Purple opens Purple Group's payments and trading stack to external founders, targeting the persistent infrastructure bottleneck in fintech product creation.
Hello Purple opens Purple Group's payments and trading stack to external founders, targeting the persistent infrastructure bottleneck in fintech product creation.
AI & ML
Internet of Things
Fintech
Bird.com raises $450m to wire the agentic economy
A J.P. Morgan-led debt package backs Bird's Agentic Harness, letting AI agents call, text and email without human intervention.
A J.P. Morgan-led debt package backs Bird's Agentic Harness, letting AI agents call, text and email without human intervention.
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Environmental Management & Markets
GOWell Energy Technology begins Nasdaq trading as "GOW"
The Singapore-based well logging company completed a SPAC merger to reach public markets, citing geothermal and carbon storage among its target applications.
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Enterprise Software
Keeta marks one year in UAE with 10,000-plus merchant brands
Meituan's international delivery arm has reached all seven UAE emirates, onboarded over 40,000 locations and served tens of millions of orders in its
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Pharmaceuticals
Oryzon secures EMA approval to start HOPE-2 vafidemstat trial in PMS
Oryzon Genomics has received EMA authorisation to begin a Phase IIa study of vafidemstat in Phelan-McDermid Syndrome, a rare autism-linked genetic disorder with
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Bioeconomy & Agritech
Haffner Energy wins €3.2m Quebec order for first Multi-Energy Hub
The French biomass-to-fuels developer will deliver thermolysis equipment to Bécancour's INCAD project, Quebec's first hub targeting RNG, biochar and SAF.
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Semiconductors
OPPO Find X10 Pro Max to launch with MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro
OPPO's next flagship will be among the first smartphones powered by MediaTek's 2nm Dimensity 9600 Pro, with a global debut followed by a
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Pharmaceuticals
Belite Bio to present DRAGON Phase 3 tinlarebant data at Euretina
Belite Bio will present topline Phase 3 results for tinlarebant in adolescent Stargardt disease at Euretina in Vienna, ahead of a February 2027 FDA PDUFA
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Advanced Energy & Grid
Jackery launches Red Cross Edition home battery range for emergency use
Jackery's co-branded HomePower Emergency Pro Series spans three capacity tiers and pledges 10% of profits to frontline emergency responders.
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Data Centres
Castrol CORE brings integrated thermal management to data centres
Castrol has launched CORE, an end-to-end thermal management offer combining design, cooling technology and lifecycle services for data centre operators.
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AgriTech
Cibus and Crystal Crop partner to gene-edit India's mustard crop
The deal gives Crystal Crop exclusive India rights to Cibus gene-editing technology targeting higher mustard yields across 8.5 million hectares.
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Low-Carbon Mobility & Logistics
A.P. Moller Capital acquires majority stake in Euroports Group
The Danish infrastructure fund is buying into one of Europe's largest bulk port operators, handling over 70 million tonnes of cargo annually across 50
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Enterprise Software
Innovation City uses Agentforce to automate company registration
The UAE free zone has deployed Salesforce's Agentforce platform to cut company registration from days to minutes using autonomous AI agents.
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Medical Devices
IBA to install first gantry proton therapy centre in central Italy
IBA has signed a contract with Rome's IFO to deliver a Proteus ONE proton therapy system, bringing gantry-based treatment to central and southern
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