Financial Services stories - Page 31

Delivery Group secures GBP £45m hybrid refinancing from Investec to fuel eCommerce network expansion and operational investment plans.

Poor-quality customer data has driven more than two-thirds of FCA AML fines since 2020, analysis finds, with penalties topping GBP £430m.

WealthAi secures $1m pre-seed to scale its modular AI wealth platform for UK advisers, targeting system sprawl and manual workflows.

HSBC UK and Sage unveil in-app tax tool for sole traders and landlords as Making Tax Digital for Income Tax rules loom from April.

NTT DATA and AWS sign multi-year deal to speed enterprise cloud modernisation and move agentic AI systems from pilots to production at scale.

NTT DATA strikes multi-year AWS deal to drive agentic AI and cloud modernisation for heavily regulated Asia-Pacific enterprises.

Smart Communications names Heidi Johnson chief product and technology officer as it sharpens AI governance for heavily regulated clients.

Adeptia launches Automate for Retirement Benefits Enrolment to automate fragmented data intake and speed record-keeping enrolment flows.

Remara picks 10x Banking's cloud-native core to speed new lending and investment products and fuel ANZ and Southeast Asia expansion.

Smart Communications appoints Heidi Johnson as chief product and technology officer to spearhead its next phase of AI-led innovation.

UK and Ireland firms trail global peers on post-quantum crypto prep as key, certificate woes mount and budgets constrain defences.

EuroCTP selects Equinix's FR2 data centre in Frankfurt to host the EU consolidated share tape, targeting a Q3 2026 live launch.

GoCanopy secures EUR €2.1m seed funding to build an AI-driven “system of record” for institutional real estate investors in Europe.

Raylo secures GBP £30m funding and inks LG TV and audio subscription deal as it eyes UK growth and a 2026 launch in the US market.

UK finance jobs jumped 13% in 2025 as tech and fintech hiring surged, with London tightening its grip and banking still leading the field.

ControlUp snaps up Unipath to fold security automation into its platform and push deeper into agentic AI for autonomous endpoint management.

Mastercard launches BIN Sponsor Plus in the UK, accrediting card sponsors to give fintechs a vetted route into issuing and payments at scale.

Bitget taps Oliver Stauber to head its new Vienna-based EU hub as the crypto exchange gears up for the bloc's MiCAR regime.

Cerillion names Greg Price as incoming CFO to replace Andrew Dickson, who will step down from the board in March 2026 after four years.

Lenders clinging to legacy payment rails are losing borrowers to fintechs that can approve, fund and collect on loans in near real time.