November 23, 2025 @ 6:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Loyalty’s definition changes with generations, but one thing is certain: For a company to survive in the modern age, its loyalty strategy must begin with payments. Gr4vy helps foster that loyalty. Founded by three-decade payment industry veteran John Lunn, Gr4vy helps merchants simplify fragmented payment… Read More

November 23, 2025 @ 12:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Exegy, a provider of market data and trading technology for capital markets, this week announced that a major investment bank has signed a multi-year agreement to deploy Exegy Nexus, the company’s FPGA-powered market-data appliance designed for ultra-low-latency trading environments. The bank will use Exegy Nexus to process all… Read More

November 23, 2025 @ 12:51 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Algorand Foundation and Noah have announced a strategic partnership to connect traditional finance and decentralized finance. The collaboration was unveiled during AlgoDay at DevConnect 2025, where Min Wei, CBO of Algorand Foundation, and Shah Ramezani, CEO and founder of Noah, highlighted how the integration will empower builders across the Algorand ecosystem by… Read More

November 23, 2025 @ 8:05 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Tailor, the headless ERP platform enabling modern retail and e-commerce brands to build fully composable business systems, has completed its Series A funding round, bringing total investment to $37 million. “We’re grateful to our investors and customers who share our belief that ERP should be composable and… Read More

November 23, 2025 @ 1:07 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Maxio, a platform for billing automation and revenue management for B2B SaaS and AI companies, is partnering with Anrok, a global tax compliance platform built for modern software businesses. The partnership integrates Maxio’s billing and revenue engine and Anrok’s automated global tax platform—giving finance teams… Read More

November 21, 2025 @ 4:26 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Gr4vy (Pron. Gravy), a cloud-based payment orchestration platform, has announced a strategic partnership with payment services provider Worldline. The collaboration brings together Gr4vy’s no-code orchestration technology with Worldline’s global acquiring network and market-specific infrastructure to help merchants simplify and scale their payment operations across international… Read More

November 21, 2025 @ 3:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Zillow is giving renters a new way to turn their largest monthly expense into real financial progress with CreditClimb, a credit-building tool powered by Esusu. Renters nationwide can enroll directly through Zillow to have their on-time rent payments automatically reported to all three major credit bureaus for… Read More

November 21, 2025 @ 3:40 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Modern Life, an AI-powered life insurance brokerage, has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Thrive Capital, with participation from New York Life Ventures, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, and Allegis. Total funds raised sit at $35 million “Life insurance remains one of the biggest… Read More

November 21, 2025 @ 11:11 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Advances in payment technology are giving small businesses new tools to compete for holiday shoppers, according to a study released today by the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) and TSG (The Strawhecker Group). The sixth annual Consumer Holiday Spending Study found that 36% of consumers who… Read More

November 21, 2025 @ 10:56 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Chargeflow, an AI-powered chargeback automation platform, this week announced a $35 million Series A funding round, including a $10 million debt facility, led by Viola Growth, with participation by existing investors OpenView Venture Partners. It brings the company’s total funding to $49 million. The new… Read More

November 21, 2025 @ 9:08 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

The fintech world has begun to release its predictions for 2026. Read on to find out how AI, cybersecurity and general tech developments will shape the industry in the year ahead. Cybersecurity “2026’s cybersecurity threat landscape is high-tech, high-stakes, and fast-changing. From AI-driven hacks to… Read More

November 21, 2025 @ 1:26 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

AI insurtech Federato has raised $100 million in Series D funding led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, with participation from returning investors Emergence Capital, Caffeinated Capital, StepStone Group, and Pear VC. This latest capital infusion reinforces a major shift in insurer sentiment away… Read More

November 21, 2025 @ 1:19 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Global payments infrastructure platform Mercuryo, blockchain infrastructure provider Polygon Labs and Mastercard are partnering to expand Mastercard Crypto Credential to include self-custody wallets. Mastercard Crypto Credential helps verify interactions among consumers and businesses using blockchain networks by offering simple aliases to replace typically long and complex addresses. Making the solution available to self-custody wallets… Read More

November 21, 2025 @ 12:16 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Asseta AI, a purpose-built accounting platform for family offices, today announced a $4.2 million seed funding round co-led by Nyca Partners and Motive Partners. The platform supports more than $10 billion in assets. Nearly one-third of family office clients manage over $1 billion. The capital… Read More

November 20, 2025 @ 9:21 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Insurtech Pibit.AI this week announced a $7 million Series A to accelerate development of its Centralized Underwriting Risk Environment (CURETM). The round was led by Stellaris Venture Partners with participation from Y Combinator and Arali Ventures. Pibit.AI was founded by engineer Akash Agarwal. Having grown… Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 9:42 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

april, an embedded tax technology platform, has launched a real-time, personalized tax calculation product for equity transactions. At the point of decision-making, the solution gives users visibility into potential tax liabilities from liquidation events ranging from stock sales to equity compensation. Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) served as an innovation partner and initial launch partner to address the growing need among employee shareholders for… Read More

November 17, 2025 @ 8:31 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Haiqu, a quantum software company, said it has demonstrated that today’s quantum computers could detect anomalies more efficiently than classical systems in classification problems across finance, healthcare, weather and more. The work, run over the cloud on an IBM Quantum Heron processor, indicates that quantum… Read More

November 16, 2025 @ 10:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  Credibly’s strategy for incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into its underwriting system provides a blueprint for companies wishing to smoothly adopt transformative technologies. It’s a deliberate, well-thought-out plan, dating back several years. Chief revenue officer MJ Jiang said she immediately saw AI’s potential to change… Read More

November 16, 2025 @ 2:00 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Rippling, a business software platform, has released results of a survey demonstrating the staggering impact that software tool sprawl has on IT, HR, and finance departments. According to the Rippling State of Sprawl Report, fragmented technology stacks place a significant burden on organizations, requiring substantial investments of time and budget and… Read More

November 16, 2025 @ 1:33 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitcoin’s sharp fall below US$100,000 could already be shaping the next major buying opportunity for those with a medium- to long-term horizon, predicts deVere Group CEO Nigel Green. Green said the renewed slide — taking Bitcoin to its weakest level since May — has triggered… Read More