Digital Sovereignty

Seoul's record 2027 budget and a $118bn Future Response Fund reveal how sovereign AI ambition collides with physical infrastructure limits.

Ethiopia's state telco targets 96 million customers and ETB 295 billion in revenue as telebirr becomes a continental fintech force.

New PensionBee data shows 61% of savers want global returns, complicating the UK government's pension mandation push.

The Nasdaq-listed autonomous defence firm bets its Gulf expansion on a former Israeli diplomat with deep sovereign-capital ties across the GCC.

LSE's blockchain equity push and Payward tie-up signal regulated markets are converging with on-chain infrastructure at speed.

Africa's payment giants are repatriating capital and listings as domestic metrics outpace offshore ambitions.

The UK healthtech raises a significant Series round as digital infrastructure investment in primary care management accelerates.

A Nasdaq-listed critical minerals firm moves toward absorbing Europe's first fully permitted lithium mine via Australian court schemes.

AI compute infrastructure is now writing the largest single cheques in UK deep tech, reshaping the capital stack across sectors.

eIDAS 2.0, PSD3 and the Wero A2A network are converging to redraw European payments infrastructure before 2028.

BitGo's NYDIG acquisition cements a push to own the full digital asset lifecycle, from custody to derivatives, on one regulated platform.

A London co-innovation hub and cloud-first deal positions agentic AI at the heart of pharma's race to shorten the path from target

Two new task orders covering 25 countries bring Parsons' counter-nuclear smuggling portfolio to $90m, spanning the Middle East and Africa.

UAE fintech FOO hits 100 feature milestones on Bahrain's national digital wallet, serving 1.3 million active users.

Stockholm's Float closes a CHAPTERS-led Series A to bridge Europe's venture capital gap with non-dilutive, AI-powered financing.

A UAE traffic-systems platform becomes a live insurance distribution channel, collapsing vehicle registration and policy issuance into one digital transaction.

Razorpay's 4bn-transaction AI model is the opening shot in a race for national payment AI that regulators are not yet equipped to oversee.

A Singapore-London merger backed by 12 global banks aims to create end-to-end infrastructure for scaling voluntary and compliance carbon markets.

The Canadian miner's 45% year-on-year revenue drop accelerates a strategic bet on AI data centre colocation over Bitcoin.

Tashkent's Silk Road Forum draws 6,000 delegates as Uzbekistan converts regulatory reform into a pitch for global Islamic and digital-finance capital.