UK lender Abound acquires Ahauz for mortgage market entry
UK consumer lender Abound has made its first company acquisition with the purchase of Ahauz, a lendtech start-up specialising in shared equity…
Alpaca bags $150m Series D at $1.15bn valuation
US brokerage platform Alpaca has secured unicorn status after raising $150 million in a Series D funding round, with plans…
UK’s FCA grants EMI licence to Capi Money
Capi Money, a London-based payments and financial infrastructure provider aiming to open up emerging markets, has secured an Electronic Money Institution…
B4B Payments co-founder Paul Swinton steps down from executive chair role
Paul Swinton has stepped down from his role as executive chair of B4B Payments, a card issuing and payment solutions provider…
BVNK to power stablecoin payment pilots for Visa Direct
Visa has expanded its partnership with US fintech BVNK, with the payments giant set to utilise BVNK’s infrastructure to power…
US Bancorp to acquire BTIG in deal worth up to $1bn
US Bancorp, the parent company of US Bank, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based financial services firm BTIG in…
Old Glory to go public via $250m SPAC merger with DAAQ
US-based Old Glory Bank and Digital Asset Acquisition Corporation (DAAQ), a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), have entered a definitive…
Hatch Bank hires ex-Unit chief Amanda Swoverland as president
Hatch Bank, a California-based sponsor bank with approximately $150 million in assets, has named Amanda Swoverland, former chief compliance officer…
US President Donald Trump calls for temporary 10% cap on credit card interest rates
US President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose a temporary 10% cap on credit card interest rates in the…
Atomic Invest buys Groene Hart Financial Diensten to boost EU expansion
US-based embedded investing and savings platform Atomic Invest has acquired Groene Hart Financial Diensten, a Dutch markets in financial instruments…
S&P Global completes sale of EDM and thinkFolio businesses to STG
Analytics company S&P Global has sold its enterprise data management (EDM) and thinkFolio businesses to private equity firm STG. The financial…
Polygon Labs buys Coinme and Sequence for more than $250m
Polygon Labs, the US-based blockchain payments firm, has secured agreements to acquire Coinme, a Seattle-headquartered stablecoin and crypto payments platform, and…
Fireblocks to acquire Web3 data and reporting fintech Tres Finance
Stablecoin infrastructure company Fireblocks has agreed to acquire Tres Finance, a financial data and reporting platform for digital assets. While the financial…
Rain hits $1.95bn valuation with $250m Series C
Rain, a stablecoin-focused payments infrastructure platform based in the US, has raised $250 million in a Series C funding round…
FMO and SMBC Americas tap Fenergo for onboarding tech
Irish regtech Fenergo has inked two separate deals with Dutch entrepreneurial development bank FMO and SMBC Group in Japan for client lifecycle…
HKMA expands AI sandbox to drive cross-industry fintech adoption
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is preparing to widen the scope of its artificial intelligence sandbox as part of a…
Brazilian fintech PicPay files for U.S. IPO as Claure invests
PicPay, a Brazilian financial technology company, has filed paperwork for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States. This…
Mastercard teams with LoanPro to upgrade digital lending systems
Slated to launch in 2026, the new solution is positioned to combine installment lending with the digital convenience and global…
Nuvei expands Microsoft partnership to scale global payments throughput
Nuvei and Microsoft today announced a major expansion of their strategic partnership, enabling Nuvei’s core payment processing APIs to run…
Nuvei and EPI roll out Wero payments for European online merchants
Nuvei announced that its eCommerce merchants have started processing transactions via Wero, the innovative digital wallet of the European Payments…