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Fintech

The next fintech frontier: finance for global citizens

LemFi co-founder and CEO Ridwan Olalere argues that fintech must let migrants carry their credit history and financial identity with them across borders.

More than 300 million people now live outside their country of birth, and for many of them a credit history does not survive the move. The founder of one cross-border finance platform argues that this is the gap fintech has so far left open.

 

Rowen Brooks  · 
AI & ML

How Uzbekistan Built Open Banking Before The West

Uzbekistan is emerging as a serious fintech market, driven by its young population, local payments infrastructure, and evolving regulation.

When you think about the next big fintech market, Uzbekistan probably isn’t the first country that comes to mind. But it should be.

Disrupts Editorial Team  · 
Fintech
Blockchain

Circle and Volante bring USDC into T1 bank payments infrastructure

Circle and Volante are embedding USDC stablecoin workflows directly into the payments platforms used by most of the world's top banks.
Circle and Volante are embedding USDC stablecoin workflows directly into the payments platforms used by most of the world's top banks.
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Fintech
AI & ML

IDEMIA Secure Transactions opens agentic commerce to all networks

IDEMIA's new trust infrastructure lets domestic and regional payment schemes compete as AI agents increasingly automate checkout decisions.
IDEMIA's new trust infrastructure lets domestic and regional payment schemes compete as AI agents increasingly automate checkout decisions.
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Fintech
Wellbeing

Checkout.com adds Jaywan to UAE acquiring platform

Checkout.com integrates the UAE's sovereign card scheme, giving merchants local routing and built-in regulatory compliance in one platform.
Checkout.com integrates the UAE's sovereign card scheme, giving merchants local routing and built-in regulatory compliance in one platform.
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Fintech
Retail & E-Commerce

Lloyds embeds invoicing in its app via BankiFi to tackle late payments

Lloyds' Get Paid tool brings invoicing and payment tracking into business banking, targeting the £26bn overdue payments crisis.
Lloyds' Get Paid tool brings invoicing and payment tracking into business banking, targeting the £26bn overdue payments crisis.
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Robotics
Transportation & Logistics

Tacta Systems opens Singapore haptic lab to give robots human touch

Tacta's sensor-glove facility in Singapore aims to transfer human dexterity to robotic hands, targeting electronics and auto manufacturing.
Tacta's sensor-glove facility in Singapore aims to transfer human dexterity to robotic hands, targeting electronics and auto manufacturing.
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Fintech
Retail & E-Commerce

Volt's AFSL completes A2A regulatory trifecta across UK, EU, Australia

Volt's ASIC licence unifies real-time A2A payments under direct regulatory authority across three of the world's most advanced payment markets.
Volt's ASIC licence unifies real-time A2A payments under direct regulatory authority across three of the world's most advanced payment markets.
Disrupts Editorial Team  · 
AI & ML
Cybersecurity
Datatech

UiPath tightens agent governance as AI takes enterprise decisions

UiPath's platform update puts a unified control plane around autonomous agents, robots, and people across regulated enterprise environments.
UiPath's platform update puts a unified control plane around autonomous agents, robots, and people across regulated enterprise environments.
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Real Estate
AI & ML

CubiCasa and Restb.ai speed up listings for 500,000 MLS agents

Two proptech firms unite to halve floor plan delivery times across 30 US MLS networks, signalling deeper AI-driven consolidation in real estate workflows.
Two proptech firms unite to halve floor plan delivery times across 30 US MLS networks, signalling deeper AI-driven consolidation in real estate workflows.
Disrupts Editorial Team  · 
AI & ML
Biotech
Datatech

GuideAI and vRad renew data deal to extend AI vascular diagnostics

GuideAI secures exclusive imaging data from 2,100 US hospitals to train AI models across multiple vascular diseases.
GuideAI secures exclusive imaging data from 2,100 US hospitals to train AI models across multiple vascular diseases.
Disrupts Editorial Team  · 
Wellbeing
AI & ML
Datatech

Equasens H1 margin hits 26.8% as AI and sovereign cloud advance

The French healthtech group's ARR surpassed €111m as it embeds agentic AI and a sovereign healthcare cloud across European care settings.
The French healthtech group's ARR surpassed €111m as it embeds agentic AI and a sovereign healthcare cloud across European care settings.
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Datatech
AI & ML

KAYTUS launches onsite AI managed service to cut data centre downtime

As AI clusters scale to thousands of accelerators, KAYTUS brings OEM-grade repair to customer sites, targeting 12-hour node recovery.
As AI clusters scale to thousands of accelerators, KAYTUS brings OEM-grade repair to customer sites, targeting 12-hour node recovery.
Disrupts Editorial Team  · 
AI & ML
Fintech

Mitratech acquires BotDojo to push agentic AI into legal ops

The legaltech incumbent bets that proprietary data depth beats standalone AI wrappers as agentic platforms go enterprise-standard.
The legaltech incumbent bets that proprietary data depth beats standalone AI wrappers as agentic platforms go enterprise-standard.
Disrupts Editorial Team  · 
AI & ML

Decision Latency Is The New Bottleneck In Financial Innovation

A secure sandbox helps banks test new technology in context, reduce decision delays, and move promising ideas toward adoption.

Financial institutions are under pressure to move faster on innovation—particularly as AI, digital assets, cybersecurity and new third-party technologies evolve at a pace that traditional evaluation processes struggle to match.

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Media & Publishing
AI & ML

Dekuple H1 2026: data marketing convergence lifts margins

The Paris-listed agency group grows digital marketing to 73% of revenue as data, AI and creativity converge into a single performance model.
The Paris-listed agency group grows digital marketing to 73% of revenue as data, AI and creativity converge into a single performance model.
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AI & ML
Sustainability

AfDB and UNDP launch free AI training for African public officials

A multilateral coalition is upskilling African governments in AI, backed by a projection of up to $1 trillion in GDP gains by 2035.
A multilateral coalition is upskilling African governments in AI, backed by a projection of up to $1 trillion in GDP gains by 2035.
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Fintech
AI & ML

Feedzai launches Farol as banks accelerate agentic AI fraud ops

Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets fraud investigation latency as mandatory reimbursement rules raise the cost of financial crime.
Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets fraud investigation latency as mandatory reimbursement rules raise the cost of financial crime.
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Blockchain
Fintech
AI & ML

Brickken joins Linux Foundation to open-source tokenised asset rules

Brickken's LFDT membership targets shared open standards for tokenised assets and agentic capital markets.
Brickken's LFDT membership targets shared open standards for tokenised assets and agentic capital markets.
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Fintech
AI & ML

Feedzai launches Farol agentic AI to cut fraud investigation times

Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets the fragmentation gap stalling bank fraud teams, with SAR drafting claimed at 12x speed.
Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets the fragmentation gap stalling bank fraud teams, with SAR drafting claimed at 12x speed.
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