UK & Europe

The Nasdaq-listed trading platform lets retail investors query live portfolios through AI assistants, marking a step toward agentic investing.

Matej Trbara, co-founder of FP&A platform Farseer, on black box forecasts, correlated model risk and what regulators should demand of AI in finance.

Pebblio founder Alex Postlethwaite on research showing half of UK adults lend or borrow within their circle, why it goes wrong, and what regulators should do.

Mia Wealth co-founder Sophia Jarvis on building a children's investing app around gifting, what stops families using Junior ISAs, and what the beta showed.

HCLTech's purpose-built AI portfolio spans banking to aerospace, targeting enterprise scale-up beyond the pilot stage.

Dublin-based AvaTrade absorbs one of retail forex's oldest brands, accelerating its push to dominate global multi-asset trading.

A 1,000-leader survey finds banks overrate their fraud readiness by 13 points while agentic AI adoption stalls on data fragmentation.

eToro's MCP connectors let retail investors query live holdings inside AI assistants, signalling a pivot from market access to agentic intelligence.

UK fintech Stoa lets consumers unlock cloud storage via deposits, blurring the line between savings products and everyday digital subscriptions.

Spain's largest digital bank locks in a seven-year Google Cloud pact, deploying agentic AI across its 13 million-strong customer base.

Vault Forge and AWS Transform combine to compress multi-year mainframe migrations into days, rewriting the economics of core banking modernisation.

Historical order-book data meets generative AI as two fintech firms create reactive market simulators for capital markets.

A joint Vault Forge and AWS Transform pipeline converts COBOL mainframe logic into cloud-native products, compressing multi-year migrations into days.

Payrails' hybrid MoR lets AI and SaaS companies sell globally from day one, then exit to direct acquiring without re-integrating.

Agentic checkout assistants are rewriting retail fraud detection, forcing merchants to ask not "is this a bot?" but "who authorised it?"

A 475-firm global study finds agentic AI adoption lagging far behind ambition, with only 16% of insurers using it.

Mercia Ventures leads a $6m round backing PlannerPal's push to unify fragmented client data across UK wealth and mortgage advice firms.

Onecom's rebuilt Vox platform combines synthetic-voice detection with biometric ID and AI call intelligence for UK businesses.

Berg Insight ranks Targa first in Europe with 979,000 active systems, as agentic AI reshapes how leasing fleets are managed.

WeFi CEO Maksym Sakharov discusses what MiCA got right, the cost of compliance and why Europe cannot regulate stablecoin demand away.