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…
Steffen Jentsch named CEO of Solaris, succeeding Carsten Höltkemeyer
Carsten Höltkemeyer stepped down as CEO of the German embedded finance firm Solaris at the end of 2025. He has…
Nuvei gains EU licences to expand crypto and payment services
Source: Fintech Futures – https://www.fintechfutures.com/blockchain-crypto-digital-assets/nuvei-secures-eu-casp-and-payment-institution-licences Nuvei received two regulatory approvals in the European Union. The company secured a crypto asset…
Trade Republic reaches €12.5bn valuation after major secondary sale
Source: Fintech Futures – https://www.fintechfutures.com/venture-capital-funding/trade-republic-hits-12-5bn-valuation-following-1-2bn-secondary-share-sale Trade Republic reached a valuation of 12.5 billion euros after a secondary share transaction. Investors…
Clearwater Analytics to go private in $8.4bn acquisition
Clearwater Analytics, a US-based investment management platform, has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired in a deal valued…
Banxware co-founder and COO Fabian Heiß to depart
Fabian Heiß, chief operating officer (COO) and co-founder of German lending infrastructure provider Banxware, has announced his departure from the…
How banks and FinTechs are scaling AI in financial crime
AI has moved decisively from experimentation to execution within financial crime and compliance teams. New research from Hawk, conducted in partnership…
Ethos launches Aflac supplemental cancer insurance on digital platform
Ethos, a life insurance technology company focused on simplifying access to protection, has announced a new partnership with Aflac to bring supplemental…