UK & Europe

Singapore-based solo VC K2 Global is doubling down on AI infrastructure, humanoid robotics, BCIs and national security as convergence reshapes venture capital.

Manchester's Conferma has 95% of hotel payment traffic off fax, with the US the last major holdout before a year-end deadline.

The Essex mutual joins a growing cohort of UK building societies adopting agentic AI to modernise origination across a £500bn mortgage market.

The Dublin fintech's latest debt deal signals a pivot from consumer brands into new verticals, backed by a deepening European private-credit push.

Bosch bets on electric powertrains, software-defined vehicles and AI sensors to double its €4bn truck business within a decade.

Rubrik's Code Guardian applies frontier AI to air-gapped code repositories, marking a new front in the race between AI-powered attack and defence.

VoxSmart's VX1 platform consolidates fragmented trader communications data into one AI-augmented compliance stack for financial institutions.

A new SaaS platform and a Chainlink tie-up signal financial institutions' accelerating pivot from legacy rails to blockchain-native payment ecosystems.

French deep-tech firm Novacium lands its first commercial defence order, supplying silicon-anode battery packs for Alta Ares' counter-drone interceptor.

The Dutch AC charging operator brings roaming, invoicing and customer relationships in-house as EV infrastructure matures beyond roll-out.

A €3m C&I battery portfolio spanning Spain and Chile positions Turbo Energy as energy volatility reshapes industrial competitiveness globally.

Cambridge-based Speechmatics launches a speech-to-text API built to catch the small errors that silently break enterprise voice agents.

A Mastercard-Trip.com-Network International tie-up brings autonomous AI booking to travel, with a commercial rollout set for early 2027.

A £250,000 rooftop solar project at a Swansea manufacturer shows how Welsh public finance is decarbonising energy-intensive industry.

A joint white paper from three major finance bodies argues governance gaps, not technology, now block tokenised markets from scaling.

BOS's record $31m backlog reflects surging European defence budgets and Israel's growing role as a global supply chain integrator.

A new GRC automation tool targets the third-party risk blind spot exposing firms across regulated and unregulated sectors alike.

Fime's Red Alert Labs buy signals that payments, digital identity and cybersecurity compliance are converging into a single regulated stack.

The EU's EIT merges AI and robotics into one pan-European founder pipeline, targeting over €80m in leveraged investment by 2028.

As agent payment protocols solve identity and consent, a critical verification gap at the moment of payment threatens the auditability of autonomous commerce.