The US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has finalised sweeping changes that effectively dismantle one of the country's newest and most significant anti-money-laundering reporting regimes under the Corporate Transparency Act.
The UK's alternative investment fund regulatory regime is set for its most significant overhaul since the AIFMD was first transposed into domestic law in 2013, with implications for private equity, venture capital and hedge fund managers.
A new AI-native services startup, Alfred, has launched in the UK offering households a single assistant interface to manage a range of home and personal services, betting on consumer appetite for agentic AI in daily life.
Indico Data, the Intake and Orchestration Platform for insurance operations, has entered a partnership with HDI Global US, a corporate and specialty insurance carrier, to modernise document-heavy underwriting workflows.
AI-driven growth platform FINNY has launched Pay-as-You-Grow, a new fee structure that ties its charges directly to the growth outcomes it delivers for financial advisors, a shift toward performance-based fintech pricing.
New research from Nest Commerce shows UK finance brands are falling behind other sectors in paid performance marketing, raising questions about fintech customer acquisition strategy amid rising competition.
Cloud spend optimisation company DoiT has acquired Israeli startup Attribute, which built real-time visibility tools for AI and cloud spending, in a deal estimated at roughly $65 million.
Chinese AI startup Z.ai claims its open-source GLM-5.3 model outperformed Anthropic's Mythos 5 on a cybersecurity benchmark, adding fresh momentum to the intensifying US-China race in frontier AI development.
Goldman Sachs is reportedly in talks with institutional investors on a financing structure connected to Nvidia worth as much as $500 billion, a deal that could effectively turn AI compute capacity into a new tradeable asset class.
Payments giant Stripe has acquired OpenRouter, the AI model routing infrastructure platform, for more than $7 billion — over five times its valuation just three months earlier, signalling accelerating consolidation at the intersection of fintech and AI infrastructure.