Liquid Compute has arranged a $250m compute prepayment facility with K8 Capital, giving buyers of AI computing capacity a way to finance the deposits operators demand before delivery instead of funding them from equity. A buyer draws credit as it signs forward contracts for capacity, and each draw is secured against the prepaid capacity and checked by Liquid Compute before the money moves. The pitch rests on a simple problem that has grown with the AI buildout. Operators want

Confide, the governance software company founded by Wirecard whistleblower Pav Gill, has launched an agentic GRC platform that pulls governance, risk and compliance into a single system and extends the same oversight to the AI agents now working alongside compliance teams. The product replaces the patchwork of separate tools most organisations run for case management, policy, risk and audit, and logs every action, whether taken by a person or an agent, in one defensible audit

The world's biggest post-trade utility has moved tokenisation from pilot to production. As of this week, tokenised Treasuries, equities and ETFs are not a thought experiment, they are an operating service, and the rest of the market has run out of excuses. For almost a decade, "tokenisation of real-world assets" was the fintech conference equivalent of a treadmill: a lot of effort, no actual distance covered. That changed in a hurry over the last seven days. The Depository Tr

Qupital has launched what it calls the first AI-driven on-chain lending protocol for e-commerce trade finance, moving live merchant loans onto the Ethereum blockchain and settling them in USDC. The Hong Kong company unveiled the protocol on 6 October 2026, one day before Token 2049 opens in Singapore, and it arrives three weeks after a US$300 million Series C round that Qupital has tied explicitly to overseas expansion and a planned public listing. For finance professionals,

InsurTech's October begins with Corgi's $108m Series A, Munich Re's $3.2bn LTC deal, and Parametrix building out at Lloyd's. The AI carrier era has arrived.

AI agents in finance are arriving faster than the data access they depend on. An agent can draft a payment run, reconcile an invoice or flag a cash shortfall, but only if it can read from and write to the accounting, invoicing, payment and point-of-sale systems where a company's financial data actually lives. Across Europe, that data is scattered over more than a hundred incompatible local tools, and the gap between what agents promise and what they can reach is where the nex