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Vermeg launches tool to simplify collateral optimisation

At Sibos 2025, one of the recurring topics is the growing pressure on financial institutions to do more with less collateral. Between rising funding costs, tightening regulatory ratios, and heightened market volatility, optimization has become a strategic priority.

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Hungarian payments firm Barion makes acquisition

Barion Payment Zrt., a leading Hungarian payment service provider, has completed the acquisition of PSC CEE Ltd., the company behind the SmartKassa brand.

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Outdated payments systems driving customers away - survey

FreedomPay, a global leader in Next Level Commerce™, and Stripe, the programmable financial services company, today released the "Enterprise Payments Playbook," a new report in partnership with Forbes Insights.

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iDenfy adds criminal background check to compliance platform

iDenfy, a Lithuania-based identity verification, fraud prevention, and compliance company, announced the launch of its Criminal Background Check tool.

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Cambodia's chief Bank makes mobile banking play

Chief Bank, a fast-growing Cambodian bank serving micro, SME and large enterprises, has partnered with BPC, a global leader in payment solutions, to revamp its mobile channel on the modern SmartVista digital platform.

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Two Mena fintechs announce merger

Network International (www.Network.ae), a leading fintech company across the Middle East and Africa (MEA), and Magnati, a leading payment solution provider in the UAE, today announced the completion of their strategic merger under the ownership of a Brookfield-led consortium.

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Wealthblock appoints chief revenue officer

WealthBlock, the AI-powered platform transforming how private fund managers raise capital and manage investors, today announced the appointment of William McNeil as Chief Revenue Officer and General Counsel.

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Partisia and Squareroot8 launch 'quantum-safe' collaboration

Partisia (DK), a global leader in cryptographic software, and Squareroot8 (SG), a quantum-safe hardware innovator, has announced the launch of FracQtion – a jointly developed product designed to protect the financial sector, alongside other high-trust industries such as telecoms, from the imminent risks posed by quantum computing.

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Waystone closes BIL Manage Invest acquisition

Waystone, a leading provider of specialist services to the global asset management industry, has today announced the successful closing of its acquisition of BIL Manage Invest from Banque Internationale a Luxembourg (BIL) Group, following regulatory non-objection from the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF).

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SEI partners with infrastructure-as-a-service provider Graphene

SEI® (NASDAQ:SEIC) today announced a strategic partnership between SEI Investments (Europe) Limited (SIEL) and Graphene, a U.K.-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, to power the growth of Graphene’s offering for wealth managers, family offices, and independent financial advisers.

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BVNK surpasses $20bn in annualized processing volume

BVNK, the global stablecoin infrastructure company, today announced it has exceeded USD $20bn in annualized processing volume, just four years after its launch in October 2021.

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Ignyte and Binance form Mena blockchain alliance

Ignyte - the region’s leading global digital start-up ecosystem has announced a landmark collaboration with Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, to accelerate blockchain innovation across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).