Investment

Berlin's bunch brings AI-native private markets infrastructure to Europe's largest fund domicile via a strategic equity stake in LFS.

UK PropTech platform August joins HMRC's Making Tax Digital list as a three-million-landlord compliance market takes shape.

A CATL-linked Chinese team wins the EPO's 2026 European Inventor Award for a battery recycling process that recovers 99.6% of critical minerals.

Cemtrex bolts on a hydraulic-press engineering specialist to chase domestic manufacturing capital flowing into automotive and defence plants.

London-based QuantRate enters a crowded AI trading market as algorithmic systems now drive over 60% of US stock activity.

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

Eos Energy is raising fresh capital via a rights offering to back its Frontier Power USA joint venture in long-duration zinc-based storage.

ClearScore's Clearer technology enters Stream's workplace loans platform, covering three million UK employees with automated payroll-linked debt repayment.

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

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

A $100m Series B backs TwelveLabs' push to make video as machine-readable as text, with Amazon joining as both investor and cloud partner.

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

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

Alibaba's Token Hub restructure and 105-zone cloud expansion signal a shift from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale deployment.

Czech industrial group CSG launches a Michigan subsidiary to sell NATO-proven artillery and tactical vehicles to the US Army.

A US drinking-water consultancy joins a UNEP platform to feed infrastructure data into Paris Agreement climate-transparency reporting.

The Stairs building sale to State Street marks Luxembourg's second sub-EUR 100m-plus real estate deal of 2026.

A share-swap giving Greenland Mines a 9.9% stake in AnorTech fuses Greenland's anorthosite reserves with a multi-asset rare-earths platform.

An OTC-listed rebrand into gas-to-liquids and sustainable aviation fuel positions the company at the crossroads of energy security and aviation.

London-based QuantRate upgrades its automated trading infrastructure, targeting retail investors priced out of institutional quantitative strategies.