Financial IT

As financial messaging and payments infrastructure continues to evolve, institutions are facing growing pressure to improve speed, resilience and interoperability across increasingly complex networks. We asked Laura Bedborough, Director, Sales & Account Management – UK, Ireland & Nordics for the Financial Messaging team at Finastra, about the biggest challenges and pain points customers are experiencing today from a financial messaging and payments connectivity perspective. Laura shares key insights into what financial institutions are navigating right now. Watch the full video to hear her perspective. #Payments #FinancialMessaging #PaymentsConnectivity #Banking #Fintech #RealTimePayments #Finastra

WNSTN Joins Google Cloud Marketplace with New Enterprise API Integration ⠀ 📎 WNSTN.ai, a specialized AI infrastructure provider for the financial sector, has officially joined the Google Cloud Marketplace alongside the launch of its new Enterprise API integration. This move is designed to help brokerages and regulated financial institutions accelerate the deployment of AI-powered features, such as personalized investment ideas, client engagement tools, and explainable market insights, directly within their existing digital platforms. By leveraging Google Cloud’s global infrastructure, WNSTN aims to offer a faster, "turnkey" path to AI adoption that reduces procurement friction and simplifies vendor management. ⠀ 📎 The WNSTN platform is built specifically to address the "compliance gap" in financial services, where institutions often struggle to balance innovation with strict regulatory requirements. Its infrastructure provides a "compliance-first" layer that integrates governance, auditability, and transparency directly into AI workflows. This allows firms to scale AI-driven personalization and automated insights while maintaining the rigorous controls, data privacy, and security standards expected in high-stakes banking and capital markets environments. ⠀ 💬 “Financial institutions should not have to choose between innovation and compliance. Our expanded collaboration with Google Cloud and new enterprise API integration strengthens our ability to help firms deliver intelligent, personalized client experiences while maintaining regulatory controls, explainability, and audit-ready governance from day one.” – Roy M., CEO, WNSTN ⠀ 💬 “Bringing WNSTN to Google Cloud Marketplace will help customers quickly deploy, manage, and grow the company's compliance-first AI layer on Google Cloud's trusted, global infrastructure. WNSTN can now securely scale and support customers using its platform to deliver personalized insights and analysis within their digital platforms.” – Dai Vu, Managing Director, Marketplace & ISV GTM Programs, Google Cloud ⠀ #WNSTN #GoogleCloud #Fintech #CompliantAI

Paysafe Partners with Primer to Streamline Global Card Processing ⠀ 📎 Paysafe, a global leader in payments, has announced a new strategic partnership with Primer, the unified infrastructure platform for global payments. By integrating through Primer’s "Primer for Partners" solution, Paysafe has enabled its card payment processing services for merchants using the Primer platform. This no-code integration allows Paysafe to offer dedicated credit and debit card processing across its extensive global footprint, which spans more than 130 countries. ⠀ 📎 The partnership is designed to optimize transaction performance for international merchants in key high-growth sectors, including iGaming, social gaming, financial trading, eCommerce, and travel. With Paysafe’s 30+ years of card processing expertise, the collaboration provides Primer merchants with increased payment choice, enhanced authorization rates, and robust coverage. The integration is already live, currently supporting merchants across North America, Europe, and Australasia. ⠀ 📎 A key feature of this partnership is the "no-code" nature of the integration, which allows Paysafe’s technology team to manage and enhance its offerings independently. Looking ahead, the two companies plan to expand this integration to include Paysafe’s broader suite of alternative payment methods, such as Skrill and Neteller digital wallets, as well as PaysafeCard and PaysafeCash eCash solutions. ⠀ 💬 “We’re delighted to partner with Primer, whose Primer for Partners solution empowered Paysafe to develop a bespoke integration, streamlining the payment journey for Primer’s merchant partners and their customers. We look forward to strengthening our offering within the Primer infrastructure and growing our presence across the broader payment orchestration space.” – Robert Gatto, Chief Revenue Officer, Paysafe ⠀ 💬 “Paysafe joining Primer for Partners is exactly what this solution was built for. The company came to us, built its own integration from the ground up, and Paysafe is already live and processing payments for our merchants. That's the paradigm shift we set out to create.” – Gabriel Le Roux, CEO and Co-founder, Primer ⠀ #Paysafe #Primer #PaymentOrchestration #Fintech

Paysecure Bolsters Leadership Team with Key Appointments in Product and Partnerships ⠀ 📎 Paysecure, the London-based global payment orchestration platform, has announced two significant additions to its leadership team to accelerate its international expansion within the iGaming and global eCommerce sectors. Ganesh Iyer joins the company as Head of Product, following his tenure at Entain, where he led global payments across more than 20 regulated markets. Additionally, Lili Piper has been appointed as Senior Partnership Manager, bringing extensive experience from her previous roles at Volt.io and Paysafe. ⠀ 📎 These appointments align with Paysecure's ongoing strategy to scale its global technical footprint. Over the past two months, the company has further strengthened its operational capacity by filling key roles, including Head of Infrastructure and Head of Blockchain. These moves are designed to enhance Paysecure’s AI-powered orchestration layer, which provides merchants with intelligent transaction routing, dynamic cashier solutions, and unified reporting to optimize acceptance rates and reduce payment friction across complex, cross-border environments. ⠀ 💬 “After time at Entain, I am pleased to join the Paysecure team and having worked on the operator side of the orchestration space, I can’t wait to get started. I’m looking forward to refining our products to clearly address the deep needs of our client personas, and surface clear product and functionality feature sets that differentiate us in our market as a challenger brand.” – Ganesh Iyer, Head of Product, Paysecure ⠀ 💬 “We’re excited to welcome Ganesh and our new colleagues to the Paysecure team. Ganesh will spearhead our product development, and there’s a shared sense of purpose towards the work we are doing, which we believe is game changing in the payment orchestration space.” – Amit Hooja, Co-Founder and CEO, Paysecure ⠀ #Paysecure #PaymentOrchestration #Fintech #Leadership #iGaming

payabl. Wins "Top Innovation in Payments" at the PayTech Awards 2026 ⠀ 📎 European financial technology provider payabl. has been awarded the Top Innovation in Payments at the PayTech Awards 2026 for its unified platform, payabl.one. The awards ceremony, held on June 25, 2026, at the Honourable Artillery Company in London, recognized payabl.one for its ability to consolidate fragmented merchant workflows. The platform integrates online and in-person acquiring, multi-currency business accounts, virtual card issuing, and access to over 300 local payment methods into a single operating layer. ⠀ 📎 The platform was lauded by judges for effectively replacing the "patchwork" of multiple providers and dashboards that many merchants typically rely on, which often leads to operational friction and visibility gaps in fraud management. By unifying these disparate services, payabl.one allows merchants to view every transaction, channel, and currency through one login, thereby streamlining their financial operations and data connectivity. ⠀ 💬 “Managing a patchwork of separate vendors for acquiring, banking, and card issuing creates operational friction and critical blind spots for fraud. With payabl.one, we have collapsed this complexity into a single, seamless operating layer. By giving businesses total financial clarity from one dashboard, we are not just simplifying transactions, we are unlocking growth.” – Ugnė B., Group CEO, payabl. ⠀ #payabl #payablone #PayTechAwards2026 #Fintech

Tabby | تابي Secures SAMA Consumer and SME Finance Licences to Expand Lending Capabilities ⠀ 📎 Tabby, a leading financial services app in the GCC, has been granted consumer finance and SME finance licences by the Saudi Central Bank (SAMA). This regulatory milestone allows Tabby to evolve beyond its core Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) model by offering longer-term financing for higher-value purchases, up to SAR 50,000 with tenors of up to 12 months, and providing essential working capital to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on its platform. ⠀ 📎 The new consumer financing plans are Shariah-compliant, utilizing a Murabaha structure that ensures total costs are fixed and transparent, with no compounding interest or late fees. These higher limits are designed to unlock financing for sectors previously restricted by lower BNPL caps, such as education (tuition fees), travel, healthcare, used cars, and furniture. For businesses, the SME licence enables Tabby to extend working capital to retailers, particularly smaller e-commerce sellers, helping address a financing gap for firms that often fall below the thresholds of traditional commercial banks. 📎 These licences follow Tabby’s graduation from SAMA’s regulatory sandbox and its receipt of a dedicated BNPL licence in 2025. By transitioning to a licensed credit institution, Tabby aims to further its goal of becoming a "financial super-app," following recent initiatives such as its acquisition of the digital wallet provider Tweeq and the receipt of a Stored Value Facilities (SVF) licence in the UAE in April 2026. ⠀ 💬 “Tabby already gives millions of people flexibility and control over their money. Now we can extend that to the bigger purchases in life, paying for a course, furnishing a home, booking a holiday. It answers clear demand from our customers and puts the same control in their hands.” – Hosam Arab, CEO and Co-Founder, Tabby ⠀ #Tabby #SAMA #Fintech #SaudiArabia #Vision2030

Smarsh Research: Growing Confidence Gap in Non-Financial Misconduct Detection Ahead of New FCA Rules ⠀ 📎 New research from Smarsh highlights a widening "confidence gap" within the UK financial services sector regarding the detection of non-financial misconduct (NFM). While 63% of employees believe their organizations have prioritized NFM more seriously over the last two years, confidence in the actual effectiveness of detection systems has declined, falling from 81% in 2024 to 77% in 2026. Additionally, the proportion of staff unaware of any monitoring infrastructure has risen from 5% to 8%, suggesting that even as regulatory pressure intensifies, internal communication and technical transparency are failing to keep pace. ⠀ 📎 These findings come as the industry prepares for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to implement new rules on September 1, 2026. Under the updated framework, serious non-financial misconduct (including bullying, harassment, and violence) will constitute a formal breach of the Code of Conduct (COCON) for approximately 37,000 regulated firms. The FCA is moving beyond policy-based commitments, explicitly requiring firms to evidence robust detection and response capabilities. Shaun Hurst, Principal Regulatory Adviser at Smarsh, warns that firms must move toward intelligent, data-driven monitoring, leveraging the communications data they already archive, to bridge the gap between cultural intent and regulatory compliance. ⠀ 💬 “There is a clear gap between firms' commitments and their ability to detect and address non-financial misconduct in communications. Either that, or they are failing to communicate that they have robust systems in place. Regulatory pressure, combined with the rising volume of AI-generated communications firms must monitor, will only widen this gap.” – Shaun Hurst, Principal Regulatory Adviser, Smarsh ⠀ #Smarsh #FCA #NonFinancialMisconduct #RegTech

Trading Technologies Unveils Major Upgrades to Trade Surveillance Platform ⠀ 📎 Trading Technologies International (TT) has announced a significant upgrade to its TT® Trade Surveillance platform, introducing a new Market Replay forensic auditing tool and an enhanced enterprise-level case management UI. These updates are designed to improve the speed, scope, and workflow of surveillance for compliance teams across a wide range of asset classes, including equities, futures, options, FX, fixed income, and cryptocurrencies. ⠀ 📎 The Market Replay module provides a 90-day lookback window for reconstructing historical market activity, allowing for tick-by-tick and frame-by-frame visual playback of order books. Paired with a more intuitive case management interface, the platform aims to help global compliance teams collaborate more effectively, streamline investigations, and manage the full lifecycle of surveillance cases within a single workspace. The updated architecture also lays the groundwork for future AI-driven risk insights. 📎 TT compliance specialists will be showcasing these new tools via live, interactive demonstrations at the XLoD Global - London 2026 conference, which takes place at the InterContinental London - The O2 from June 30 to July 1, 2026. ⠀ 💬 “Market Replay gives exchanges and regulators a powerful vehicle for market abuse enforcement by enabling them to examine behavior with unprecedented granularity. Our case management UI is significantly faster and more comprehensive than what we’ve been able to offer before – and it’s an exponential improvement over legacy systems.” – Jay A. Biondo, Head of Surveillance, Trading Technologies ⠀ #TradingTechnologies #TradeSurveillance #RegTech #XLoDGlobal

Wultra Raises €6.8M Series A to Expand Post-Quantum Digital Identity Solutions ⠀ 📎 Wultra, a Prague-based provider of post-quantum authentication and digital identity solutions, has closed a €6.8 million Series A funding round. The investment was led by Seventure Partners, with co-investment from ARIADNEXT founders Marc Norlain and Guillaume Despagne, and participation from returning investors J&T Ventures and Elevator Ventures. The company, which specializes in replacing legacy banking authentication with phishing-resistant, quantum-safe technology, plans to use the new capital to scale its platform, build out digital identity wallet capabilities for the EU ecosystem, and accelerate international expansion into the Middle East and the United States. ⠀ 📎 The funding comes as financial institutions face mounting pressure to modernize their security infrastructure to counter AI-driven fraud, such as deepfakes, and prepare for long-term quantum computing threats. Wultra’s platform covers the end-to-end digital identity journey, including identity proofing, user authentication, transaction authorization, and electronic signatures. Following a year of significant momentum, which included opening a regional hub in Singapore and expanding its client base to over 70 organizations across 25 countries, Wultra aims to leverage this investment to support larger strategic enterprise customers and further solidify its position in the emerging post-quantum cybersecurity category. ⠀ 💬 “Last year was a highly dynamic period for Wultra. We expanded our product portfolio beyond authentication to cover the broader digital identity journey... We grew our team by nearly 50%, established a presence in Singapore, and now support more than 70 clients across 25 countries worldwide.” – Petr Dvorak, Founder and CEO, Wultra ⠀ 💬 “At Seventure Partners, we invest at the intersection of innovation and market readiness. Wultra sits precisely at that intersection: a team that has built a proven post-quantum-ready authentication solution already trusted by financial institutions across multiple markets.” – Julien Cazor, Venture Partner, Seventure Partners ⠀ 💬 “As Identity experts, we believe that quantum-resistant authentication solutions will play a key role in the emerging European wallet ecosystem. We have known Wultra for years as their customers, and we are convinced they will be a leader in this field.” – Marc Norlain and Guillaume Despagne, ARIADNEXT Founders and Angel Investors ⠀ #Wultra #SeriesA #PostQuantum #Fintech #Cybersecurity

emerchantpay Research Highlights Rise in Travel Fraud as AI Scams Target Holidaymakers ⠀ 📎 New research from emerchantpay reveals that 34% of holidaymakers have noticed an increase in potentially fraudulent travel content on social media over the past year. With the rise of AI-driven tactics, including sophisticated phishing, impersonation of travel brands, and the manipulation of online reviews, scams are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from legitimate offers. Data from McAfee underscores this threat, showing that 56% of consumers feel AI is making fraud harder to identify, while 38% of travelers report having already encountered travel-related scams. ⠀ 📎 This surge in criminal activity, which saw £1.28 billion stolen via payment fraud in the UK in 2025, is forcing a shift in consumer behavior. Travelers are becoming significantly more cautious: 70% are now wary of promotional travel emails, and 50% prioritize booking with providers that explicitly detail their fraud protection measures. To mitigate risk, 68% of consumers view credit cards as the safest payment method, and 40% actively alter their spending habits while abroad due to fears of card theft or financial loss. ⠀ 💬 “Instead of looking forward to switching for a much-needed break, holidaymakers are increasingly targeted by social media scammers looking to take advantage of the peak travel season. Millions of Brits are seeing their social media feeds flooded with potential scams and offers that unfortunately really are ‘too good to be true’.” – George Ralchev, Head of Risk, emerchantpay ⠀ #emerchantpay #TravelFraud #CyberSecurity #AIScams