Industry innovations were fast-paced as regulators kept the rhythm in tandem with key players.
Partnerships on the backend featured prominently alongside futuristic use cases.
Headlines to take note of:
- Trading Technologies was back again in the news with a CME integration;
- Bloomberg revealed upgrades to its IB solution;
- BlackRock’s Aladdin now has subscription options for alternative market players;
- Temenos launched a GenAI product;
- Plus, Q2 announced direct ERP integrations! (read on to find out);
- And much more!
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Wealthtech, Regtech, Regulatory, and Treasury
Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT)/CME Group
In a May 20 announcement, TT revealed an integration with EBS Market, CME’s bespoke FX solution. The deployment links TT’s infrastructure with the EBS Market central limit order book (CLOB).
Plans are also underway to connect TT with CME’s optimization-focused EBS Direct.
Financial software behemoth Bloomberg unveiled improvements to its Instant Bloomberg (IB) chatbot offering. Firms can now connect their native, in-house bots via Bloomberg Anywhere.
The Bloomberg IB Connect: Cross-Firm Chatbot solution enables the creation of personalized bots on the go.
Investment behemoth BlackRock teamed up with fund workflow-focused Passthrough. The tie-up integrates BlackRock’s Aladdin with Passthrough’s infrastructure.
Furthermore, Passthrough’s subscription tech now connects with BlackRock’s eFront, creating options for the alternative and private markets.
In a May 21 announcement, finance giant MSCI revealed a memorandum of understanding with cloud-focused Fintech Intapp. The collaboration enables access to MSCI’s full range of private assets data, including market insights, real estate, equities, private credit, and benchmarks within the Intapp DealCloud environment.
Moreover, the deployment enables optimized decisions for alternative asset players.
Crypto, Blockchain, and Digital Assets
Fireblocks, Inc.
Boutique digital asset infrastructure platform Fireblocks revealed ecosystem improvements to aid adoption. Enhancements include a policy engine with dApp access filters, wallet tagging and organization capacities, bulk and batch transfers, one-click asset sweeping, and gasless transfers.
The new features aim to improve security, scalability, and stability.
VanEck Associates Corporation/Avalanche Blockchain
Investment giant VanEck unveiled intentions to debut a tokenized, Web3-focused private digital assets fund next month. The setup will run on the Avalanche network.
Moreover, the VanEck PurposeBuilt Fund will focus on Web3 investments across several areas, including AI, finance, payments, and gaming. The fund will only be open to accredited investors.
The first XRP futures traded on CME on May 18. Ripple Labs subsidiary Hidden Road cleared the transactions.
CME Group XRP futures have large (50,000 XRP) and micro-sized (2,500 XRP) contracts. Transactions have the CME CF XRP-Dollar Reference Rate as a cash-settled standard.
Fintech, Personal Finance, and Apps
Data security-focused Fintech Bluefin partnered with boutique platform Verifone to enable secure payments for fuel retailers and convenience SMBs. The cooperation integrates Bluefin’s Decryptx, its foremost Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE) product, with Verifone Commander, a leading retail site management solution.
Additionally, the collaboration enables smooth, secure payments within a secure ecosystem.
Pay To Me/Amazon Web Services (AWS)
On the AI end, the AWS Strategic Startups Team revealed the niche Fintech marketplace Pay To Me selection. The decision gives Pay To Me access to special perks, including technical support and fundraising tie-ups within the AWS ecosystem.
AWS will also provide AWS Activate credits and enable access to strategic partners, including Socure, Alloy, Moov, Unit, and others.
Expense-focused Fintech Brex revealed its collaboration with procurement software ecosystem Zip to launch Brex for Zip. The joint offering speeds up procurement and expense lifecycles for SMBs, enabling efficiency and business process optimization.
Furthermore, the setup integrates with Zip’s ecosystem, increasing productivity.
Galileo Financial Technologies, Inc./Atomic FI Inc.
Boutique Fintech Galileo partnered with Atomic to launch an all-purpose information update solution. Galileo Payment Method Switch enables FIs, banks, Fintechs, and others to provide smooth update options for their customers.
Customers can now revise the information they store on platforms, including cards, wallets, and bank accounts.
Banking, Payments, and Infrastructure
Still, on AI, leading banking software provider Temenos introduced its Responsible Generative AI solution for the industry. The offering integrates with its Temenos Core solution and compliance-focused features for tracking suspicious transactions.
Consequently, banking software users can now interact via natural language, enabling increased accuracy.
nCino, Inc.
At the recently concluded nSight 2025 event, niche Fintech nCino CEO Sean Desmond announced several AI-leveraged enhancements to its product portfolio. They include intelligent onboarding, automated document validation, a mortgage advisor, auto loan quotes alongside a banking advisor, and a continuous Credit Monitoring (CCM) offering.
nCino also revealed improvements across several banking segments, including retail, consumer, commercial, and mortgage.
Q2 Holdings, Inc.
Financial software specialist Q2 unveiled Direct ERP, which integrates banking ecosystems with customer enterprise ERP platforms. The solution simplifies reconciliation processes for accounting and treasury teams.
Consequently, the deployment enables increased transparency and operational efficiency.
CU*Answers, Inc./Pocketnest, Inc.
Pocketnest teamed up with CU*Answers on the credit union end to enable access to personalized financial advice. The deployment also allows CUs to discover products and other profit lines.
Pocketnest has integrations with the CU*Answers Me 247 online banking platform.
REtech, Insurtech and Investing
Land id, Inc.
Bozeman, Montana-based property data firm Land id™ introduced Smart Search, the latest upgrade to its ecosystem. The tool enables national access to in-depth property insights.
Moreover, Smart Search’s results have a local focus and a broad, national perspective and are accessible via an intuitive browser-agnostic interface.
Lundy, Inc./MetroList Services, Inc.
Thanks to a collaboration between niche Fintech Lundy and boutique listing platform MetroList, real estate professionals in Northern California can now edit and update their listings by voice. The feature is available within the MetroList new add/edit app.
Additionally, the app intelligently processes aural descriptions and automatically updates listings in real time.
WTW (Willis North America, Inc.)
Interestingly, the American and UK-based teams of global insurance broker Willis introduced FinTech Plus, a sector-focused offering. FinTech Plus offers umbrella protection in a single form.
Furthermore, the solution covers critical cyber and financial operational risks Fintechs face.
