UK & Europe

OroraTech's satellite achieves first light in under a month, advancing Europe's sovereign wildfire-monitoring capability.

Swiss compressor giant will supply 515-bar hydrogen kit to Norway's HYDS, backing a Nordic green hydrogen supply chain still without pipeline infrastructure.

ASM International taps KPN's finance chief to lead its next growth phase in semiconductor equipment manufacturing.

The partnership brings reusable, eIDAS 2.0-compliant identity wallets to European regulated industries ahead of mandatory public wallet rollout.

The payments and commerce platform targets unattended retail's data gap with AI-driven insights, planogram automation, and visual recognition.

Nexans completes a five-year portfolio rotation, selling its wiring harness arm to Motherson to focus entirely on the global energy transition.

A tweaked settlement mechanic keeps the Wolfsberg lithium mine acquisition on track for September, as Europe races to secure domestic battery supply.

A Shenzhen trade delegation toured Munich's Intersolar Europe to scout photovoltaic and storage partnerships, signalling renewed China-EU clean-energy diplomacy.

The German propulsion giant buys a Huddersfield gearbox specialist with a £700m pipeline, deepening its grip on UK, Australian and Canadian naval programmes.

L'Olivier Assurance adopts AI document verification as generative AI makes insurance fraud cheaper and harder to spot.

NOBA Bank Group is rolling out SaaS-based Verification of Payee with Tieto Banktech as European payment fraud tops €4.2 billion.

Visa externalises the intelligence it uses to block 90 million attacks a month, offering banks a payments-native threat platform.

Berlin's bunch brings AI-native private markets infrastructure to Europe's largest fund domicile via a strategic equity stake in LFS.

Regulatory pressure from MiCA and the FCA is forcing wealth managers to treat crypto with the same rigour as traditional assets.

UK PropTech platform August joins HMRC's Making Tax Digital list as a three-million-landlord compliance market takes shape.

London-based QuantRate enters a crowded AI trading market as algorithmic systems now drive over 60% of US stock activity.

A CATL-linked Chinese team wins the EPO's 2026 European Inventor Award for a battery recycling process that recovers 99.6% of critical minerals.

London-based QuantRate opens institutional-grade AI trading tools to retail users across stocks, crypto, and forex markets.

Capita's Forward Deployed Orchestrator embeds AI-fluent process experts into live regulated operations, targeting the gap between deployment and real results.

Embedded accounting data gives lenders real-time visibility into sole traders, unlocking a segment long shut out of invoice finance.