Investment

A Shenzhen trade delegation toured Munich's Intersolar Europe to scout photovoltaic and storage partnerships, signalling renewed China-EU clean-energy diplomacy.

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.

XTech US Equity Flow combines Level 3 order-book data with proprietary inference to decode institutional versus retail positioning in near real time.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.