BNP Paribas stories
The deal underlines lender appetite for Malaysia's expanding cloud and AI infrastructure, as the campus is set to support lower-impact digital growth.
The funding lifts the Spanish AI firm to a USD $1.7 billion valuation as demand grows for cheaper, lower-energy model deployment.
Seventeen banks will test whether tokenised deposits can speed cross-border payments and extend settlement beyond normal market hours.
The data centre developer gains extra funding headroom as tightening power access makes new sites harder to secure across Europe and North America.
The move gives banks and brokers a clearer path to tokenised securities, with limited trading due to start in July 2026 and broader rollout in October.
Credit market users in Asia-Pacific now have access to more than 1,800 issuers as volatility and private lending reshape funding choices.
Banks modernising payments infrastructure are under pressure to balance speed, compliance and control as Icon expands in Asia and EMEA.
Boomi tops Gartner's 2026 iPaaS Magic Quadrant for Ability to Execute, extending its run in the Leaders segment to a 12th year.
Swift enlists over 50 banks to launch common rules for faster, clearer cross-border retail payments, with first flows live by June.
MariaDB moves to buy in-memory specialist GridGain in a bid to deliver sub-millisecond latency for agentic AI and real-time workloads.
Boomi tops 30,000 customers and runs 75,000 AI agents in production, as enterprises shift from AI experiments to large-scale automation.
Forrester's latest microsegmentation review boosts Illumio's credibility with large enterprises seeking to curb attacker movement after a breach.
The governance shift gives the fintech a clearer ownership structure as it seeks deeper ties with major banks and asset managers.
Financial firms face fewer costly errors as a PowerPoint plug-in flags contradictory figures, calculation mistakes and mismatched data across decks.
Banks may avoid building separate systems for stablecoins, tokenised deposits and CBDCs as UK regulators back tokenisation in wholesale markets.
European banks are stepping up plans for a regulated euro token as dollar-linked stablecoins dominate global digital payments.
Banks seeking to replace ageing payments systems without disruption will note the fintech's national recognition for modernising infrastructure.
AirTrunk secures a record JP¥191.6bn green loan to refinance and expand its TOK1 hyperscale data centre campus in east Tokyo.
WealthAi secures $1m pre-seed to scale its modular AI wealth platform for UK advisers, targeting system sprawl and manual workflows.
GoCanopy secures EUR €2.1m seed funding to build an AI-driven “system of record” for institutional real estate investors in Europe.
