Innovation

Long Ridge's growth equity bet targets AI-driven appraisal tech for community banks, where legacy credit workflows remain largely manual.

The Middle East's leading gifting platform has replaced rule-based chatbots with orchestrated AI agents, cutting service costs 15% at seasonal peaks.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

The fintech-insurance tie-up targets a UK SME protection gap, with 28% of sole traders currently carrying no business insurance at all.

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

ClearScore's Clearer technology embeds into Stream's workplace loans, automating debt repayment for three million UK employees via payroll.

The Berlin-based payments platform centralises its AI agenda under a new C-suite role as it serves 90,000 European merchants.

Norway's largest bank deploys agentic AI lending infrastructure, with plans to extend to SME clients and nine international branches.