Financial Services stories
Most APAC banks are failing to meet customers' financial wellness needs, an Adobe index finds, leaving a trust gap ripe for fintechs.
Banking Circle wins 2026 AP+ committee seat, vowing to champion fintech needs and speed instant payment adoption across Australia.
DXC weaves Ripple and Euronet tech into its Hogan core platform, adding digital asset custody and blockchain payments for banks.
DXC to plug Euronet and Ripple into Hogan core system, adding issuing and payments tools for banks chasing faster digital rollouts.
AI compliance firm ThetaRay names ex-Symphony chief Brad Levy as CEO, tasking him with scaling its Cognitive AI platform globally.
e& enterprise and Emergence AI team up to roll out autonomous agentic AI for regulated organisations across MENAT and Türkiye.
Qubitra, backed by SC Ventures and Fujitsu, maps out quantum apps and a marketplace to push finance use cases into production by 2026.
Arete and SentinelOne unveil an APAC on-prem security model for regulated sectors, keeping sensitive threat data sovereign and off the cloud.
Bengaluru-based Online Instruments acquires Arizona's Level 3 Audiovisual, securing its first direct US base to bolster global AV delivery.
Airwallex acquires Korean fintech Paynuri, securing local payment and FX licences as it accelerates its expansion across Asia-Pacific hubs.
Adobe has named Lucius DiPhillips CIO, tasking the ex-Airbnb technology chief with driving its global tech operations and AI transformation.
Manual compliance is throttling security teams, as RegScale finds delays, staff strain and patchy automation in most large organisations.
Synechron has launched an Agentic AI suite to automate mission-critical workflows in heavily regulated financial and insurance sectors.
IBRS spotlights Interactive's sovereign-first cloud strategy and hybrid services as Australian organisations rethink data residency and compliance.
Banks face outages costing USD $1.8 million an hour as New Relic says AI-driven observability becomes vital for risk, CX and resilience.
eflow posts 23% client growth and 56 new deployments in 2025 as demand for AI-driven, explainable trade surveillance tools accelerates.
Hybrid work fuels surge in device theft and visual hacking, as Kensington warns cheap physical locks could avert multimillion‑dollar breaches.
British Business Bank pledges up to GBP £50 million to IQ Capital Fund V, reinforcing a 20-year partnership backing UK deep tech.
FM has opened a Mumbai office to strengthen its India reinsurance arm, deepening local risk management and broker partnerships.
Worldline and YouLend launch Cash Advance in Belgium and the Netherlands, offering SMEs embedded card-based funding of up to EUR €250,000.