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1 Oct 2026
India puts a 0.4% merchant fee on UPI payments above ₹2,000 from 15 October
UPI merchant payments above ₹2,000 carry a 0.4% merchant discount rate from 15 October 2026, capped at ₹300, with a flat ₹5 in some…
Business news
1 Oct 2026
IT services takeovers completed on 30 September and 1 October 2026: Capgemini Government Solutions, OPTiM, GMO NIKKO, Empire State
Capgemini sold its US government unit to ITC Federal; Valtes bought OPTiM; GMO Commerce took over GMO NIKKO and GMO Insight; Usonar bought…
News
1 Oct 2026
Innovate UK Funding Service offline from 4pm Friday 2 October to 10am Monday 5 October 2026: save and submit first
Innovate UK’s Innovation Funding Service is down for maintenance from 4pm on 2 October to 10am on 5 October 2026. Applicants should save…
News
1 Oct 2026
EU consultation on copyright and AI is open until 3 November 2026
The European Commission asks whether EU copyright law needs new measures on the use of protected content in AI, piracy of live events,…
News
1 Oct 2026
FreePBX publishes four security advisories on 29 September 2026: update the Pinsets, Sangoma Connect, SIPSTATION and Contact Manager modules
FreePBX’s 29 September advisories fix three high-severity SQL injection flaws (Pinsets, Sangoma Connect RT API, SIPSTATION) and a…
News
1 Oct 2026
China opens the 2026 list for the chip-industry VAT additional deduction: firms apply from 9 to 16 October 2026
MIIT, NDRC, the Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration: integrated-circuit firms apply 9 to 16 October 2026 for the…
HR News
1 Oct 2026
UK: small employers get £2,000 for every new young apprentice, paid through the training provider
Non-levy-paying employers get £2,000 for each new apprentice aged 16 to 24, in two £1,000 instalments at 90 days and one year (242 days…
News
1 Oct 2026
Exchange Web Services starts switching off in Exchange Online in October 2026, fully off by April 2027
Microsoft begins disabling Exchange Web Services (EWS) in Exchange Online for all organisations in October 2026 and switches it off fully…

News

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News
1 Oct 2026
India puts a 0.4% merchant fee on UPI payments above ₹2,000 from 15 October
UPI merchant payments above ₹2,000 carry a 0.4% merchant discount rate from 15 October 2026, capped at ₹300, with a flat ₹5 in some…
News
1 Oct 2026
Innovate UK Funding Service offline from 4pm Friday 2 October to 10am Monday 5 October 2026: save and submit first
Innovate UK’s Innovation Funding Service is down for maintenance from 4pm on 2 October to 10am on 5 October 2026. Applicants should save…
News
1 Oct 2026
EU consultation on copyright and AI is open until 3 November 2026
The European Commission asks whether EU copyright law needs new measures on the use of protected content in AI, piracy of live events,…
News
1 Oct 2026
FreePBX publishes four security advisories on 29 September 2026: update the Pinsets, Sangoma Connect, SIPSTATION and Contact Manager modules
FreePBX’s 29 September advisories fix three high-severity SQL injection flaws (Pinsets, Sangoma Connect RT API, SIPSTATION) and a…

Blog

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Blog
30 Sept 2026
How we keep spam and off-topic posts off TrustList
How TrustList moved from an open directory to one with rules at the door and in review, and what we now do about spam and off-topic posts.
Blog
30 Sept 2026
How TrustList came back online and then rebuilt its own catalogue in 2026
How TrustList returned after a year offline, read its own catalogue as a reviewer would, and began removing spam, parking what it could…
Blog
30 Sept 2026
Why we stopped taking link-driven guest posts, and what a listing must be to stay
Why we stopped taking link-driven guest posts, what we publish instead, and what a listing or profile must be to appear on TrustList.
Blog
30 Sept 2026
From a list of names to insight: how TrustList is changing what buyers get in the AI era
How TrustList moved from listing names to publishing its own research: matched articles, AI coverage, funders and due diligence, offshore…

Artificial Intelligence

20 articles

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Artificial Intelligence
27 Sept 2026
Seven decision models in ten days, and not one independent score
Our own research: seven decision models listed 15 to 24 September, five open-weight, two hosted. Five carry our red verification note,…
Artificial Intelligence
23 Sept 2026
When the model you build on stops answering
Our own count: two of the 122 AI models we publish record a date on which they stop being served. So we read nine providers’ own…
Artificial Intelligence
20 Sept 2026
The leaderboard carried none of September's thirty model releases
Our own count across 118 launches we listed in September: 64% came from one launch leaderboard, and not one of the thirty model releases…
Artificial Intelligence
19 Sept 2026
What makes a token expensive, and why it is not the model's size
Our own research, from a board of 101 AI models priced one vendor page at a time: of the 23 that publish a per-token rate, 22 charge a…

Product News

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Product News
1 Sept 2026
Two launches, one day: compliance tooling is starting to sell itself as a deal-closer
OneStepWise and Cluesia launched the same day, target different regulations, and share the same pitch: compliance as leverage, not…
Product News
1 Sept 2026
DeepSeek V4 Pro left preview, then its pricing changed four days later — what that teaches buyers
A general-availability launch on 12 August, a peak/off-peak pricing shift on 16 August. A short case study in why launch-day pricing is…
Product News
1 Sept 2026
Five B2B launches worth knowing about from the past two weeks
AI governance, a self-learning sales copilot, compliance-as-deal-closer, an EU accessibility checker, and evidence before you install…
Product News
1 Sept 2026
Three AI labs account for 37% of every model launch on TrustList's board
OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are shipping far more often than the rest of the field. What launch frequency actually tells a buyer — and…

Funding guides

7 articles

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Funding guides
26 Sept 2026
How to raise money for a startup, step by step
A step-by-step guide for first-time founders: how much to raise, getting ready, finding the right investors, meetings, term sheets, due…
Funding guides
26 Sept 2026
Funding rounds explained: pre-seed, seed, Series A and beyond
What each startup funding round pays for, who invests, which instruments are used and what rounds look like in 2026, with sourced UK and…
Funding guides
26 Sept 2026
Which funding round is your company ready for?
A practical self-assessment for founders: the signals investors use to place a company at pre-seed, seed, Series A or later, what to do…
Funding guides
26 Sept 2026
Ways to fund a company: equity, SAFEs, debt, grants and crowdfunding compared
How each way to fund a company works and what it costs: bootstrapping, angels, VC, SAFEs and notes, priced rounds, venture debt, loans,…

HR News

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HR News
1 Oct 2026
UK: small employers get £2,000 for every new young apprentice, paid through the training provider
Non-levy-paying employers get £2,000 for each new apprentice aged 16 to 24, in two £1,000 instalments at 90 days and one year (242 days…
HR News
29 Sept 2026
Australia changes gender-equality reporting: public-sector employers move to April–March, large employers get a gap between target cycles
After the Regulatory Reform Omnibus Bill 2026 passed, WGEA said Commonwealth public-sector employers with 100+ staff move to the 1…
HR News
29 Sept 2026
Singapore will require a certified HR professional at firms with more than 200 staff from 1 July 2028
Singapore accepted a tripartite workgroup’s recommendations on 24 September 2026: from 1 July 2028 organisations with more than 200…
HR News
29 Sept 2026
India raises the EPFO wage ceiling to Rs 25,000 a month: employees earning Rs 15,000–25,000 now come under mandatory PF
India raised the wage ceiling for mandatory EPFO coverage from Rs 15,000 to Rs 25,000 a month with effect from 17 September 2026, the…

Funding announcement

4 articles

Funding announcement
26 Sept 2026
Savvy Wealth raises $100M as its AI-native advisory platform reaches $9B in assets
Savvy Wealth, an AI-native registered investment advisor, said on 9 September 2026 it raised $100 million in a Series C at a $600 million…
Funding announcement
26 Sept 2026
Lightfield raises $47M to build a CRM designed for AI agents, not people
Lightfield, an AI-native CRM startup, said on 9 September 2026 it raised $47 million in a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. TrustList…
Funding announcement
26 Sept 2026
Harvey raises $550M as legal AI adoption inside law firms accelerates
Harvey, the legal AI vendor, said on 9 September 2026 it raised $550 million at a $15.5 billion valuation, up from $11 billion in March.…
Funding announcement
26 Sept 2026
Island adds an "agentic control plane" to its enterprise browser
Island, the enterprise-browser vendor, raised new funding on 24 September 2026 to extend from browser isolation into governing AI agents.…

Mergers & Acquisitions

3 articles

Mergers & Acquisitions
26 Sept 2026
Adlib acquires Paperbox to link AI insurance intake to an audit trail
Adlib Software, a US document-data governance vendor, agreed to acquire Paperbox, a Belgian agentic-AI intake tool for insurance claims…
Mergers & Acquisitions
26 Sept 2026
Priority Technology Holdings agrees to go private in a CEO-led buyout
Priority Technology Holdings agreed on 21 September 2026 to go private at $8.05 a share, about $1.6 billion, in a buyout led by its own…
Mergers & Acquisitions
26 Sept 2026
Softcat agrees to buy GDT, building a transatlantic IT services platform
Softcat agreed on 17 September 2026 to buy Dallas-based GDT from H.I.G. Capital for an enterprise value both companies disclosed at about…

Investor guides

3 articles

Investor guides
26 Sept 2026
How to evaluate an early-stage company before you invest
How angels and early-stage funds can judge a young company: team, market, product, revenue quality, competition, the round and its terms,…
Investor guides
26 Sept 2026
Angel investing explained: how it works, the risks and the tax reliefs
Who can become an angel investor in the UK and US, the ways to invest, what the research says about returns and losses, follow-on…
Investor guides
26 Sept 2026
Finding early-stage deals and doing due diligence on them
Where early-stage investors find companies, how to screen them quickly, and the due diligence a seed cheque deserves: legal, financial,…

Business news

2 articles

Business news
1 Oct 2026
IT services takeovers completed on 30 September and 1 October 2026: Capgemini Government Solutions, OPTiM, GMO NIKKO, Empire State
Capgemini sold its US government unit to ITC Federal; Valtes bought OPTiM; GMO Commerce took over GMO NIKKO and GMO Insight; Usonar bought…
Business news
11 Jun 2024
Converting from Navision to QuickBooks- Import All Navision Data to QBDT or QBO
Microsoft Dynamics NAV (formerly Navision) and QuickBooks are two popular accounting software solutions catering to different business…

Software announcements

1 article

Software announcements
5 Jul 2026
Rutba Media FileServer
**Rutba Media FileServer** is a backend-based **media file server application** developed to manage, store, and serve different types of…

Data collection

1 article

Data collection
27 Jun 2026
Navigating the Complexities of ICD Codes: A Comprehensive Guide for Medical Professionals
MedICD is a professional medical billing company offering the USA’s most cost effective and profitable billing services. We are a revenue…

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