UK & Europe

Germany's second-largest retail bank is rolling out AI-assisted email triage, testing how far human-in-the-loop automation can scale in consumer

The six-year partnership has backed over 30,000 UK merchants, with total funding doubling in under 15 months.

Greenwich Pacific Technology Partners opens a dedicated DORA practice, targeting mid-tier financial institutions struggling to translate regulation into architecture.

The Italian RegTech firm's agentic compliance platform is cutting regulated-workflow hours by up to 60%, serving Intesa Sanpaolo and Generali.

Avalara's IDC MarketScape leadership ranking arrives as governments worldwide accelerate e-invoicing mandates, straining finance and IT teams.

An AI-native MGA backed by Fastweb+Vodafone targets Italy, where half of households carry no home insurance.

The Eindhoven chip startup's Series A targets the power and cost constraints throttling foundation model deployment at scale.

A KBA permit for driverless freight on public roads marks a regulatory watershed for autonomous logistics in Europe's largest road transport market.

Follow a payment from Manchester to Lagos to see where the stablecoin removes the correspondent banks, what it costs, and why the last mile is still hard.

Take one card payment apart: interchange to the issuer, scheme fees to Visa or Mastercard, margin to the acquirer, and why the new rails are aimed at all three.

What a stablecoin is, what backs the dollar, why $300bn now sits in them, and how the US, EU and UK rules written in the last two years change the picture.

A tokenised deposit is a bank's own money on a shared ledger. Here is how it differs from a stablecoin, who has one live, and why the two will coexist.

The merger of two leading climate-software firms creates a transatlantic carbon data platform targeting one billion tonnes of CO₂ managed by 2030.

Commerce payments lead Michaela Weber on what Lululemon's in-store Klarna move signals, why shoppers stack payment methods, and what is hard at the till.

Cyberette founder Julia Jakimenko on the deepfake fraudster who opened 46 ABN AMRO accounts, five ways to beat a face check, and why the EU AI Act stops none.

FBX Capital Group partner Alex Fenton on 54 per cent growth, £143 million arranged for UK SMEs, and why slow bank decisions matter more than higher rates.

Redmill Advance founder David Tait on the skills advice firms now ask for, how empathy and judgement can be assessed, and why trust does not pass with assets.

Exactly.com COO Mark Andreev argues that Klarna, Revolut and their peers have gone from fringe challengers to owning the customer relationship.

Sokin chief financial officer Tom Steer on why a private company disclosed its numbers, what an AI agent needs from regulated rails, and the risks to $120m.

G2A.COM chief growth officer Paweł Wróbel on the AI support assistant that resolved 14,400 seller cases in 63 days, and why a wrong answer is worse than none.