Fintech

Flex's Series B1 doubles its valuation to $1.2B as stablecoin rails reshape cross-border private banking for global middle-market owners.

Pay by Bank embeds account-to-account payments in Sage invoices, cutting card fees by 54% for UK and Irish small businesses.

Australian crypto lender Vield adopts Integral's institutional FX platform as ASIC's 2026 licensing regime accelerates digital asset maturation.

A three-person UK-founded startup ships the largest publicly available context window, targeting fraud detection and long-horizon enterprise reasoning.

Guinness Ventures leads a Series A in the FCA-regulated platform tackling AI-enabled fraud across property, legal and financial services.

A DeFi platform uses Q2 bank and chip-sector earnings as a launchpad to promote its AI-automated digital asset trading service.

A London fintech offers free automated trading across crypto, equities, ETFs and forex, targeting retail investors priced out of institutional-grade tools.

XRP Power's 2026 AI platform overhaul lacks the cross-sector substance or verified data to support a full Disrupts brief.

Nigeria's SeamlessHR rebrands to target embedded finance for Africa's 1,500-plus business clients.

Birmingham fintech's trust-based payment platform targets a sector with 4,450 insolvencies in 2025 and £11bn annual late-payment losses.

The UK fintech's 37% revenue jump and 101% EBITDA surge signals that data-layer platforms are becoming essential infrastructure across credit markets.

A new partnership targets FCA-regulated firms as UK cyber breach rates climb and regulators link operational resilience to frontier AI risk.

Digital Catapult's QTAP brings NatWest, NHS and rail bodies into applied quantum computing for the first time.

The Cyprus-registered payments infrastructure group targets European capital markets via a technical listing, with no new shares issued.

Nutanix survey data reveals healthcare, finance, and public sector face the sharpest AI governance deficits of any industry.

Nomura-arranged facility and concurrent investment-grade refinancing give PureSky fresh firepower to expand its 300 MW distributed solar portfolio.

The Nasdaq-listed closed-end fund's CEO personally committed $10m, signalling conviction in the physical AI investment thesis.

Direct carrier billing moves beyond digital entertainment as Boku, JustPark and Virgin Media O2 pilot mobile-account parking payments across London and Hereford.

As the FCA flags AI as a defining force by 2030, experts warn insurers are deploying AI before fixing the information foundations beneath it.

The private credit software firm targets an under-tooled market with AI-powered portfolio tools for direct lending managers and their investors.