UK & Europe

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

General Catalyst and Blackbird back the NHS's sole AI documentation supplier as clinical AI regulation and workforce capacity collide.

Adyen's ML-powered authentication overhaul, backed by Google, Mastercard and Visa, promises double-digit conversion gains for global merchants.

VAST Data's confidential AI runtime brings frontier models to regulated industries' locked-down data, partnering NVIDIA, Cohere and CrowdStrike.

Adyen's upgraded Authenticate module routes every transaction to the best verification method in real time, reporting double-digit conversion gains.

UK insurtech Subcontext lets insurers sell protection products inside AI assistants, days after the FCA flagged agentic distribution as a protection-gap fix.

ProCredit group deploys Teciem's cloud-native Kondor Up across ten development banks in Eastern Europe.

A US-UK offtake pact worth over $230m annually cements allied critical-minerals supply chains backed by both governments' strategic funds.

Belfast startup targets independent aesthetic clinics with a £25 flat-fee system, cutting deposit commissions to zero.

Juniper Research warns agentic AI is industrialising social engineering, pushing fraudulent banking transactions past 2.2 billion within five years.

The proptech startup is targeting Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool with a fixed-fee model designed to cut Britain's 120-day completion times.

Morph Payments expands blockchain network support, targeting SMEs in emerging markets where TRON-based USDT transfers dominate cross-border trade.

Emailage Adaptive builds institution-specific fraud models that recalibrate automatically, as generative AI accelerates attack sophistication.

Verto's Visa-backed corporate card offers African SMEs spend across 11 currencies with zero FX markups at 150 million merchants.

Juniper Research forecasts a 180% surge in fraudulent banking transactions as agentic AI rewrites the economics of financial crime.

NATO's defence accelerator opens a screened investor network to channel Allied capital into battle-ready deep-tech startups.

The Paris-based advanced modular reactor firm goes public via SPAC at a $2.4bn valuation, targeting US and European nuclear commercialisation.

Revolut's FINMA application and five-year capital commitment signal neobanks' push to embed inside the world's tightest regulatory regimes.

Qure.ai's primary care AI system earns one of the EU's highest medical device certifications, opening procurement pathways across health ministries globally.

The Cyprus banktech group reports near-breakeven H1 profits while its Eurosystem T2 settlement access sets up a 2027 revenue inflection.