Innovation

North America's eighth-largest bank upgrades its equipment finance stack, signalling a broader push to modernise legacy asset finance infrastructure.

Two enterprise AI firms are partnering to bring governed agentic AI to healthcare SaaS, with a $50bn federal programme in their sights.

A deepened design partnership brings AI-driven preconstruction intelligence to one of America's largest contractors, with cross-sector implications for built-environment

Tabby's $6.5bn valuation, a SAR 500m SME financing fund and payouts into six new markets opened Money20/20 Middle East, each built on a licence.

Policymakers, investors and hyperscalers aligned on seven priorities to unlock coordinated digital infrastructure across Africa.

Avalara's IDC MarketScape leadership ranking arrives as governments worldwide accelerate e-invoicing mandates, straining finance and IT teams.

Germany's second-largest retail bank is rolling out AI-assisted email triage, testing how far human-in-the-loop automation can scale in consumer

An AI-native MGA backed by Fastweb+Vodafone targets Italy, where half of households carry no home insurance.

The Italian RegTech firm's agentic compliance platform is cutting regulated-workflow hours by up to 60%, serving Intesa Sanpaolo and Generali.

Two capital markets tech firms combine to offer banks a lower-risk exit from legacy market data systems.

Greenwich Pacific Technology Partners opens a dedicated DORA practice, targeting mid-tier financial institutions struggling to translate regulation into architecture.

The six-year partnership has backed over 30,000 UK merchants, with total funding doubling in under 15 months.

A KBA permit for driverless freight on public roads marks a regulatory watershed for autonomous logistics in Europe's largest road transport market.

Quick Custom Intelligence cuts industry data lag from six weeks to one day, giving casino operators a faster loop for floor optimisation.

The salon software firm's integration push signals vertical SaaS consolidation reaching the fragmented beauty and wellness market.

A sensor-fusion platform integrates counter-UAS and base defence data into one dashboard, with five more US military installations in the pipeline.

The US nuclear triad's ground leg edges toward operational readiness as Sentinel completes vertical integration at Vandenberg Space Force Base.

What a stablecoin is, what backs the dollar, why $300bn now sits in them, and how the US, EU and UK rules written in the last two years change the picture.

Follow a payment from Manchester to Lagos to see where the stablecoin removes the correspondent banks, what it costs, and why the last mile is still hard.

A tokenised deposit is a bank's own money on a shared ledger. Here is how it differs from a stablecoin, who has one live, and why the two will coexist.