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Blockchain

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.

On October 15, more than 600 fintech professionals, private investors and European Union regulators will gather in Riga for UN:BLOCK Fintech, a one-day conference exploring the issues reshaping financial services.

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.

 

AI & ML
Cybersecurity
Datatech

UiPath tightens agent governance as AI takes enterprise decisions

UiPath's platform update puts a unified control plane around autonomous agents, robots, and people across regulated enterprise environments.
UiPath's platform update puts a unified control plane around autonomous agents, robots, and people across regulated enterprise environments.
Fintech
Retail & E-Commerce

Lloyds embeds invoicing in its app via BankiFi to tackle late payments

Lloyds' Get Paid tool brings invoicing and payment tracking into business banking, targeting the £26bn overdue payments crisis.
Lloyds' Get Paid tool brings invoicing and payment tracking into business banking, targeting the £26bn overdue payments crisis.
Fintech
AI & 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.
Fintech
Blockchain

Circle and Volante bring USDC into T1 bank payments infrastructure

Circle and Volante are embedding USDC stablecoin workflows directly into the payments platforms used by most of the world's top banks.
Circle and Volante are embedding USDC stablecoin workflows directly into the payments platforms used by most of the world's top banks.
Wellbeing
AI & ML
Datatech

Equasens H1 margin hits 26.8% as AI and sovereign cloud advance

The French healthtech group's ARR surpassed €111m as it embeds agentic AI and a sovereign healthcare cloud across European care settings.
The French healthtech group's ARR surpassed €111m as it embeds agentic AI and a sovereign healthcare cloud across European care settings.
AI & ML

Decision Latency Is The New Bottleneck In Financial Innovation

A secure sandbox helps banks test new technology in context, reduce decision delays, and move promising ideas toward adoption.

Financial institutions are under pressure to move faster on innovation—particularly as AI, digital assets, cybersecurity and new third-party technologies evolve at a pace that traditional evaluation processes struggle to match.

Media & Publishing
AI & ML

Dekuple H1 2026: data marketing convergence lifts margins

The Paris-listed agency group grows digital marketing to 73% of revenue as data, AI and creativity converge into a single performance model.
The Paris-listed agency group grows digital marketing to 73% of revenue as data, AI and creativity converge into a single performance model.
Fintech
Retail & E-Commerce

Silverflow and Hypergate unite to modernise acquiring infrastructure

Two cloud-native payments specialists combine processing and gateway into one API layer for acquirers battling legacy complexity.
Two cloud-native payments specialists combine processing and gateway into one API layer for acquirers battling legacy complexity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Automotive
AI & ML
Energy

AI and electrification to redraw automotive value chain by 2030

PwC's inaugural Global Automotive Outlook finds tech-sector entrants and AI adoption forcing a fundamental rethink of the vehicle business model.
PwC's inaugural Global Automotive Outlook finds tech-sector entrants and AI adoption forcing a fundamental rethink of the vehicle business model.
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.
Cybersecurity
AI & ML

Proofpoint targets AI-era intent attacks with agentic security launch

Proofpoint's new agentic system uses multi-stage AI reasoning to catch sophisticated attacks that mimic trusted business relationships.
Proofpoint's new agentic system uses multi-stage AI reasoning to catch sophisticated attacks that mimic trusted business relationships.
Automotive
AI & ML
Transportation & Logistics

NIO and HERE expand European mapping deal for AI-assisted driving

NIO extends its HERE Technologies mapping partnership across its full European EV lineup, underpinning its Navigation on Autopilot ambitions.
NIO extends its HERE Technologies mapping partnership across its full European EV lineup, underpinning its Navigation on Autopilot ambitions.
Energy
Sustainability
Real Estate

AMG Critical Materials files for Frankfurt secondary listing

The critical materials group seeks broader European investor access as demand for battery and vanadium supply chains intensifies.
The critical materials group seeks broader European investor access as demand for battery and vanadium supply chains intensifies.
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