Investment

Discovery's banking pivot reaches profitability while its behavioural-insurance model expands across health, finance and four continents.

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

The robotic vacuum leader's IFA 2026 push into new consumer categories signals a broader smart-home ecosystem land grab.

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

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

China's largest online chronic disease platform scales its proprietary LLM across 59.8 million users, testing AI's role in mass healthcare delivery.

Two senior hires signal growing demand for transactional risk insurance across structured finance and Middle East M&A markets.

A phone-number intelligence firm and Google's co-founded fraud clearinghouse merge datasets to close the gaps scammers exploit across services.

Vivek Jetley's exit after nearly 20 years leaves a leadership gap at a critical moment for EXL's data and AI pivot.

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

Doroni Aerospace renews its communications mandate as its two-seat personal eVTOL approaches FAA certification and commercial production.

A RMB5.99m campus deal tests whether China-proven AI content training can scale into a global edtech delivery model.

A Malaysian deep tech seed round targets the copper interface bottleneck throttling global AI compute, with cross-sector plays in green hydrogen and diagnostics.

NorthEdge's ninth tech exit hands Stockport-based cybersecurity distributor to Foresight, underlining regional PE appetite for security-channel plays.

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

The mortgage-tech firm's new client portal targets the fragmented advice journey, where 62% of homebuyers still repeat the same data submissions.

The fintech and telecoms giants combine payments, issuing and wallet infrastructure into one pre-integrated platform targeting global digital money deployment.

The Israeli supply chain integrator's record backlog signals sustained defence procurement demand amid regional security pressures.

Delinea's runtime authorisation push at GISEC signals a regional shift from AI access control to governing what agents actually do.

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