Ubyx enables regulated digital money flows across international banking and blockchain networks
LONDON and NEW YORK, Feb. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- AB Xelerate, Arab Bank's Fintech Accelerator, has made a strategic investment in Ubyx Inc., a provider of clearing and acceptance infrastructure for tokenised deposits and regulated stablecoins, as regulated digital money continues to move from pilot initiatives to execution across global financial markets.
The investment reflects Arab Bank focus on supporting the next phase of cross-border financial infrastructure, particularly as regulated digital money plays a growing role in international trade, treasury and payments flows connecting the Middle East with global markets.
Ubyx is developing a shared network that enables regulated financial institutions to issue, accept and redeem digital money at par value across multiple Blockchain and jurisdictions, while operating within established regulatory and compliance frameworks.
"Digital assets and stablecoins represent a major opportunity for financial innovation in the MENA region. Our investment with Ubyx reflects our confidence in their infrastructure and their ability to support the secure, compliant, and scalable adoption of this emerging ecosystem," said Hala Zahan, Head of AB Xelerate.
Tony McLaughlin, CEO of Ubyx, said: "The future of digital money depends on global networks, not isolated platforms. For digital money to scale, it must move seamlessly across institutions, markets and jurisdictions while retaining par-value integrity and regulatory confidence. AB Xelerate's solid experience in banking innovation makes them an ideal partner as we build infrastructure designed for global adoption and support the next generation of regulated digital finance."
Cross-border financial flows linking the Middle East with global markets are a key focus for digital money adoption. AB Xelerate and Ubyx share a common objective to enable these flows using regulated digital money infrastructure that supports international trade, liquidity management and settlement, while operating fully within supervisory and compliance frameworks.
About Arab Bank
Established in 1930 and headquartered in Amman, Jordan, Arab Bank operates one of the largest global Arab banking networks, comprising over 600 branches. The bank offers a wide range of banking products and services designed to meet the needs of individuals, corporations, and other international financial institutions. These services cover various areas, including personal banking, corporate and financial institutions services, and treasury operations. Arab Bank also maintains a strong presence in key international markets and major financial centers such as London, Dubai, Singapore, Shanghai, Geneva, Paris, Sydney, and Manama.
For more information, please visit https://www.arabbank.com
About AB Xelerate
AB Xelerate acts as Arab Bank's Fintech Accelerator, operating a Corporate Venture Capital model that identifies strategic internal alignment with emerging technologies and high-potential startups across the MENA region. Positioned at the intersection of venture building, corporate innovation, and strategic investment, AB Xelerate bridges entrepreneurial innovation with enterprise-scale adoption. The platform focuses on dynamic collaborations, including strategic joint ventures, marketable agreements, integrations, and innovative partnerships. AB Xelerate facilitates strategic investments relevant to Arab Bank's internal innovation adoption and departmental needs.
For more information, please visit https://abxelerate.com/
About Ubyx
Ubyx was founded to enable the global acceptance of regulated digital money by connecting multiple issuers with multiple receiving institutions in a shared settlement environment. Ubyx supports the redemption of tokenised deposits and regulated stablecoins at par value and helps preserve the singleness of money across emerging digital financial ecosystems.
For more information, visit https://ubyx.xyz
Media Contacts
Arab Bank:
CorporateCommunication@Arabbank.com.jo
AB Xelerate:
hello@abxelerate.com
Ubyx:
press@ubyx.xyz
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AB Xelerate invests in Ubyx to strengthen global digital money connectivity
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4CRisk was recently named, alongside CUBE, in the RegTech100 for 2026, recognising the world's most innovative RegTech companies operating across the financial services sector.
Transaction details were not disclosed.
Key highlights:
- Purpose-built, proven and trusted AI maps regulatory obligations directly to controls, policies, procedures and risks
- Expands CUBE's leadership in financial regulation into adjacent corporate regulatory domains
- Furthers CUBE's capabilities to serve customers with a unified, AI-first, enterprise wide compliance and risk platform
LONDON, Feb. 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CUBE, a global leader in Automated Regulatory Intelligence (ARI) and Regulatory Change Management (RCM), announces the acquisition of 4CRisk.ai (4CRisk), a Silicon Valley headquartered RegTech business whose agentic AI platform delivers policy and procedure mapping to regulatory obligations, controls and risks. Additionally, 4CRisk provides specialised corporate compliance solutions to meet evolving requirements across cyber, AI, privacy, labour laws and ESG.
Founded in 2019, 4CRisk has developed a sophisticated, purpose-built compliance and risk platform that analyses and breaks down corporate policies and procedures, mapping them directly to regulatory obligations, controls and risks at all levels of granularity. Its AI technology leverages proprietary Specialised Language Models (SLMs) trained on authoritative regulatory compliance and risk sources which, together with its AI compliance CoPilot, Ask ARIA, drives unparalleled automation. This innovative approach produces highly accurate results up to fifty times faster than equivalent manual processes.
The acquisition strengthens CUBE's ability to deliver fully automated compliance and risk solutions, complementing its existing capabilities in regulatory compliance, operational risk and regulatory change management. Together, CUBE and 4CRisk enable customers to move seamlessly from identifying regulatory change to automatically assessing the impact on policies, procedures and controls enterprise wide. The 4CRisk team, based across the US, India and the UK, will join CUBE, expanding its global team of AI engineers and regulatory experts.
Ben Richmond, Founder & CEO of CUBE, said: "CUBE is the strategic partner of choice for the world's leading financially regulated organisations for both their financial and non-financial compliance and risk requirements. 4CRisk extends our reach in adjacent corporate regulatory domains and enables our RegPlatform customers to move from understanding regulatory changes to fully automating the mapping to internal governance frameworks. This is a natural extension of our capabilities and a meaningful step forward in helping our customers manage their compliance and risk more effectively across the enterprise."
Richmond continued: "The pace of AI innovation coming out of Silicon Valley is remarkable, and 4CRisk is a great example of that. They've built an incredible platform and the team behind it will be instrumental in helping us further accelerate innovation for our customers."
Venky Yerrapotu, Founder & CEO of 4CRisk, commented: "We are honoured to join CUBE, a company we have long admired for its global vision and for setting the standard in regulatory intelligence. 4CRisk was founded to help organisations navigate regulatory complexity with clarity and confidence using AI that can be trusted and explained. CUBE's industry-leading content, combined with the automation our platform brings, makes for a compelling combination."
Joshua Gielessen, investor at Hg, added: "We are delighted to support CUBE's continued expansion with the acquisition of 4CRisk. Building the industry's leading AI-powered, end-to-end compliance and risk platform has been a strategic priority since our investment in 2024. Combining CUBE's existing capabilities with 4CRisk's purpose-built regulatory AI further accelerates that vision and creates an even stronger proposition."
Backed by Hg, the acquisition of 4CRisk marks another major milestone in CUBE's growth, as it continues to build a unified platform for compliance and risk based on agentic AI. CUBE now serves more than 1,000 customers globally across financial services and adjacent industries, with its platform covering every regulated country.
4CRisk was recently named, alongside CUBE, in the RegTech100 for 2026, recognising the world's most innovative RegTech companies operating across the financial services sector.
Transaction details were not disclosed.
** The press release content is from PR Newswire. Bastille Post is not involved in its creation. **
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