Investment

Rome summit delegates called on Europe to control chips, compute and defence procurement before rivals move faster and further ahead.

A Franco-German venture alliance targets 20 dual-use deep-tech companies to keep European defence capital, talent and IP on the continent.

The tie-up gives 350,000 European merchants instant access to Italy's most-used domestic card network, closing a critical acceptance gap for small

PayPal and PPRO expand cross-border checkout coverage, targeting a European international e-commerce market the companies value at €359bn.

Africa's leading payments platform claims continental infrastructure now sets the pace globally, with stablecoins recast as regulated financial plumbing.

A UAE construction giant and a global robotics firm are running autonomous site-monitoring robots at a $463m Dubai residential megaproject.

Abu Dhabi's Presight selects 12 AI companies from 376 applicants, deepening the UAE's sovereign AI ecosystem strategy.

StakePredict turns crowd-sourced investor sentiment into fractional property ownership, a first for the Gulf's most-watched real estate market.

A Franco-German venture alliance targets 20 dual-use companies as Europe's €800bn rearmament push reshapes continental capital flows.

Ripple's prime brokerage platform integrates with EDX Markets, bringing TradFi-grade infrastructure to institutional digital asset trading.

UAE and Saudi Arabia top global agentic AI deployment rates, exposing data infrastructure as the critical constraint on scale.

Chargebacks911 argues post-transaction dispute rights, not technology, are the missing link between crypto ownership and everyday spending.

The London firm's sentiment product spans 95 countries and 80+ languages, giving institutions earlier signals on inflation, FX and policy risk.

A $40m clean-process upgrade at a California ethanol facility signals how US biofuel producers are chasing tax credits and carbon savings simultaneously.

A Chinese state engineering giant anchors Central Asia's first industrial-scale sustainable aviation fuel complex in a $6.1bn clean fuels bet.

A new 25-year exclusive water licence for Grand Cayman locks in regulated infrastructure as record tourism reshapes island utility economics.

Cerberus-backed Frontier Power activates its first purchase order, putting zinc-based long-duration storage into the Texas grid market.

Silicon carbide filtration crosses into EGR vessel platforms, signalling broader regulatory pressure reshaping commercial shipping globally.

Quino Energy's CarbonX grant funds the first commercial deployment of water-based organic flow batteries on a climate-vulnerable island.

The Utah-based post-purchase platform has closed an $81m round led by Smash Capital, acquiring international returns provider ReturnBear as part of the deal.