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Fintech Week London and Fintech Fringe are uniting. As part of the merger, this year’s Fintech Week London will now be incorporated into the Fintech Fringe Festival, taking place 9-10 September 2025 at Old Sessions House, Farringdon, London.

London continues to lead the UK in overall startup and small business activity, according to fresh data from GoDaddy’s Small Business Research Lab. However, rising housing costs in established hotspots like Hackney are prompting more founders to set up shop further east – reshaping the city’s entrepreneurial map.

King’s Entrepreneurship Lab (King’s E-Lab) and Founders at the University of Cambridge have revealed the 24 startups that will join King’s College’s first-ever incubator programme designed to turn research-backed ideas from University of Cambridge students and alumni into investable companies.

London FinTech Summit, part of Fintech Week London, has announced strategic partnerships with Grow London (London & Partners), the London Stock Exchange, and The Global City – three of the most influential institutions driving London’s financial and business leadership. The partnerships position the newly launched Summit as a key moment for the UK’s FinTech sector and a powerful platform for global engagement.

Four in five (81%) UK CISOs believe DeepSeek – the China-based AI chatbot raising global security concerns due to its data handling practices and vulnerability to misuse – must be urgently regulated by the UK Government before it sparks a full-scale national cyber crisis, according to Absolute Security’s UK Resilience Risk Index Report.

A new type of technology is being trialled on the Tonbridge to Hastings railway line to help keep trains running in hotter weather, and more reliable journeys for passengers and freight customers.

New research by Ipsos and American Express Global Business Travel explores the key strategies of high-performing small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), offering insights into the characteristics that differentiate the strongest-growing companies.

Xero has published new independent research revealing UK small businesses are missing out on the benefits of celebrating key achievements. The research showed that milestones often go unrecognised with only 43% of small businesses believing that it’s important to acknowledge wins, while two fifths (40%) admit they never celebrate, citing they’d never thought about doing so (64%).

With cost-saving still top of the agenda, and hiring plans remaining curtailed, new Robert Walters’ data reveals how professionals are working extra hours just to keep up.

StartUpNV, a nonprofit statewide incubator and accelerator for Nevada-based startups, is again sponsoring the Las Vegas edition of Startup Week, Wednesday, 17-20th September.

At the intersection of neurotechnology and artificial intelligence, one of the most promising tech frontiers of the next decade is rapidly taking shape. According to Grand View Research, the global market for brain-computer interfaces (BCI) is valued at over $2.4 billion today and projected to grow to $6.5 billion by 2030. Once limited to research labs and clinical institutions, BCIs are now becoming accessible to indie developers, startups, and even hobbyists — thanks to non-invasive EEG headsets, Bluetooth protocols, and open-source machine learning tools.

Collaboration tools have revolutionised how teams and companies work together, but when it comes to families — the most personal and enduring “teams” in our lives — technology still hasn’t caught up.

AI startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited all-cash takeover offer of Google’s Chrome internet browser for $34.5 billion.

In response to growing interest in hormonal health, female health platform Daye has announced the launch of its comprehensive at-home hormone testing service. The service features an innovative, pain-free blood collection method, designed to make the process of testing much simpler and more intuitive.

Oxford Ionics has announced that it has delivered and installed a full-stack quantum computer, called Quartet, to the UK’s National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC).

Close Brothers Invoice Finance has launched a new team – called ‘Scale Up’ – to help support startups and smaller SMEs with facilities up to £350,000, and prepayments of up to 100% to maximise liquidity from day one.

Wave Photonics has announced the launch of its PDK Management Platform to integrate foundry PDKs with EDA tools, provide ready-calculated S-Parameters for circuit simulation, and provide easy access for designers.

Tide has become the first UK provider of business cards to remove printed numbers from its cards – eliminating its own exposure to several major types of card fraud that rely on visible card details.

Definely, an AI-powered legaltech company that enables lawyers to efficiently and accurately review complex contracts, has launched ‘Cascade’. The product detects and tracks the ripple effects of changes across entire contracts, helping improve document quality, reduce risk, and streamline drafting and review workflows.

A growing number of UK businesses are on the brink, with a new report examining workplace productivity in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) revealing that one in five businesses nationwide say they are operating in or near survival mode.