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08.05.26

The Health Impact Alliance (HIA) has partnered with Infineon Technologies AG, which operates in the field of semiconductor solutions, to develop advanced connectivity solutions for the rapidly growing senior care market. The partnership combines Infineon’s AIROC CYW55512, Wi-Fi 6 1x1 dual-band and Bluetooth 6.0 combo IC, and PSOC Edge E84, ML-Enabled Arm® Cortex-M MCU powering the HIA’s revolutionary Connected Healthcare Ecosystem. This advanced technology solution will be implemented through Lancens Technology, the HIA’s core technology provider, to deliver superior connectivity and performance across a wide range of senior care devices spanning healthcare watches, emergency response, predictive analytics and family coordination tools.

AI scaleup operation causaLens has expanded its strategic partnership with Syneos Health, a biopharmaceutical solutions organisation, to advance the industry’s shift toward faster, more intelligent and scalable commercialisation. The companies initially partnered to execute advanced causal AI models to optimise commercial programmes, pivoting from time-intensive data science tools to faster, AI-driven decision-making to speed business outcomes. Darko Matovski, CEO, causaLens, said, "y combining causal reasoning, a field we pioneered, with multi-agent automation, we’re helping Syneos Health translate complex data into meaningful commercial action for biopharma brands."

07.05.26

Kraken, one of the world’s longest-standing, most secure and most liquid crypto platforms, and MoneyGram, one of the world’s leading global payments networks, have formed a strategic global partnership enabling millions of Kraken customers to withdraw crypto as cash in hundreds of fiat currencies using MoneyGram’s extensive global cash pickup network.

AI solutions company RWS has acquired Obviously Group Limited, an integrated platform that enables enterprise clients to seamlessly manage, protect and enforce their Intellectual Property and brand integrity. RWS will pay £16.5 million in initial cash consideration, with up to a further £23.5 million in deferred contingent consideration payable over three financial years subject to agreed profit targets, taking total potential consideration to £40 million.

European software growth private equity firm Bregal Milestone has taken a majority growth investment in meteoviva GmbH, which works in AI-powered predictive building energy management. meteoviva's intelligent solutions combine a proprietary physics-based thermodynamic model with AI to deliver energy cost reductions of up to 45 per cent across large-scale commercial real estate portfolios, without structural retrofits.

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc., which provides financial market technology and data powering global capital markets, has committed to a strategic collaboration to enhance transparency and consistency in the global sustainable bonds market with the Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), an international organization providing the global standard for certification in the sustainable bonds market. As part of the collaboration, ICE’s Sustainable Bonds Classification data will support CBI’s sustainable bond universe and its research and alignment assessments. ICE also plans to integrate CBI alignment indicators into its sustainable bond solutions, strengthening the insights available to market participants.

03.05.06

SoftBank Robotics Corp. has debuted its autonomous cooking robots, STEAMA and FLAMA. The robots' development has been  based on SoftBank's FOOD DX expertise cultivated in Japan.

According to The Business Research Company, the animal antibiotics and antimicrobials industry has witnessed significant growth recently, driven by various factors linked to the rising demand for animal health solutions. As the livestock sector expands and veterinary care improves, this market is poised for continued development in the coming years. Below is a detailed overview of the market size, key drivers, regional trends, and future outlook.

02.05.26

WisdomTree, Inc. has completed the acquisition of Atlantic House Holdings Limited. The acquisition strengthens WisdomTree’s ability to design, launch and scale differentiated active ETFs globally, accelerating innovation in outcome-oriented strategies and supporting the planned launch of 15-20 defined outcome ETFs globally, over the next 18 months. It also expands the firm’s Models and Portfolio Solutions platform into the UK wealth market, deepening adviser relationships and enhancing distribution across Europe.

Genius Sports Limited has completed its acquisition of Legend, provides a scaled media platform with marketing technology powering owned and operated digital properties including Covers.com, Casino.org and Casino Guru. In 2025, Legend generated 320 million annual visits from 118 million unique visitors, with more than two-thirds returning on a regular basis.

Payward, a unified financial infrastructure platform advancing an open, global financial system, has completed the acquisition of Bitnomial, the first fully CFTC-licensed derivatives company in the United States built for digital assets. Payward now owns the complete US derivatives stack – a Futures Commission Merchant (FCM), a Designated Contract Market (DCM), and a Derivatives Clearing Organisation (DCO) – built over more than a decade with digital asset markets as the design basis.

01.05.26

Data published by Navan, an AI-powered business travel and expense platform, indicates that overall Europe-U.S. transatlantic flight bookings have increased by 17.4% year-over-year - driven by a nearly 15% year-over-year increase in U.S.-UK business travel and confirms that high-stakes, in-person collaboration is a non-negotiable growth driver for global enterprises. Dane Molter, SVP of Travel Marketplace at Navan, noted, “Double-digit growth of this magnitude proves that in-person connection is at the core of international business. Navan’s AI is eliminating complexity in international booking and expense, helping companies scale their global footprints with unmatched efficiency."

Lab Thread Ltd, a UK‐based life science software company, today announced the worldwide commercial release of its Unified Lab Software Platform. By linking functional modules including molecular biology tools, electronic notebook (ELN) records and laboratory information management (LIMS) functionality, Lab Thread creates a simple, secure digital thread – bringing together scientific teams, data and entire laboratory workflows to accelerate biological research and advance scientific discovery.

Freedom Fibre and Truespeed have today confirmed the completion of their merger, following regulatory approval, creating the Freedom Truespeed Group: a scaled, capital-efficient full fibre platform with an expanded regional footprint across the UK. The transaction brings together two highly complementary full fibre networks, with the combined business serving more than 412,000 premises Ready for Service (RFS) and around 70,000 customers across the North West, West Midlands, South West and East of England.