Convergence Tech

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

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

Perk's ADGM office targets tripling UAE travel spend by 2028, backed by Abu Dhabi's push to make AI 20% of non-oil GDP.

A BBB+ S&P rating and a $2bn syndicated facility underpin Afreximbank's push to shift Africa from raw-material exporter to industrial power.

The cookware brand's fulfillment overhaul cuts parcel costs 20% and grows its SKU count from 6 to over 860.

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

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

Refined Energy's first drill programme at Dufferin West returns weak uranium signals, guiding next steps in the Athabasca Basin.

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

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

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.

XTech US Equity Flow combines Level 3 order-book data with proprietary inference to decode institutional versus retail positioning in near real time.

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

Ondo and Broadridge deliver the first SEC-model custodial tokenised US securities, with on-chain proxy voting for IVV and Micron shares.

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

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.

Cemtrex bolts on a hydraulic-press engineering specialist to chase domestic manufacturing capital flowing into automotive and defence plants.

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.