October 26, 2025 @ 7:49 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Clerq, a payments platform for high-ticket transactions, has secured $21 million in capital to power the future of payments. The funding includes a $12 million Series A round led by 645 Ventures, with participation from existing investors FirstMark Capital, Fika Ventures, Commerce Ventures, and Dash Fund. The Series A also included new strategic participation… Read More

October 26, 2025 @ 7:48 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

BillGO, a payments technology company, recently released new research examining the state of small business financial health. The study, The Small Business Payments Pulse, highlights how payment delays and fraud are impeding small business growth in 2025. BillGO partnered with Ipsos, a leading global market… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 2:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

UnifyApps this week announced a $50 million Series B led by WestBridge Capital with participation from ICONIQ and others. The new capital brings UnifyApps’ total funding to $81 million and marks a new phase of scale with Ragy Thomas joining as chairman and co-CEO, alongside… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 11:45 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

According to a new study commissioned by Green Dot (NYSE: GDOT) and conducted by PYMNTS.com, 94% of enterprises plan to increase their investments in embedded finance, with three out of four planning to increase investments in the next 12 months. Companies are focused on enhancing… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 11:39 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Gr4vy, a cloud-based payment orchestration platform, has announced its collaboration with Mastercard to optimize and streamline payment capabilities for global merchants and platforms. The partnership enables merchant customers to integrate Mastercard Merchant Cloud to access advanced payment solutions, including network tokenization, Click to Pay, and… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 2:37 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Splitwise, an app for sharing bills and expenses, and Tink have expanded their partnership across Europe. Building on strong momentum in the UK, where Splitwise has seen a 150% increase in Tink account checks and payment initiations this year, the expansion means users in France, Germany,… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 6:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The recent AWS outage, stablecoins, and crypto investing dominate the Web3 Thoughts of the Week. AWS out(r)age “The recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage has once again highlighted the critical reliance many companies, including Robinhood, have on centralized cloud infrastructure. When a major service provider… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 6:30 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

dLocal (NASDAQ: DLO), a payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, this week announced a partnership with Alchemy Pay, a payment gateway connecting crypto with traditional fiat currencies. The collaboration leverages dLocal’s local payment infrastructure to support  Alchemy Pay’s expansion in Latin America, starting with instant bank… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 6:25 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

African fintech Moniepoint has raised more than $200 million in equity financing in a recently closed Series C funding round. The investment will fuel its ongoing mission to serve businesses and their customers across Africa and the global diaspora. The round was led by Development… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 11:31 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

MGT, a vertically AI-native neo-insurer built to modernize commercial P&C insurance for small businesses and their agents, has closed an oversubscribed $21.6 million Series B funding round. The round was led by new investors Mubadala Capital with participation from Clocktower Ventures, Tacora Capital and existing… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 11:26 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

lemlist, a sales engagement platform, has acquired AI platform Claap. Claap, valued between $15 million and $30 million, transforms every sales conversation into actionable insights and context-aware AI agents. With the self-funded acquisition, lemlist will now provide sales teams with AI-generated actionable insights based on… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 8:31 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Epiminds, founded by Swedish entrepreneurs Elias Malm and Mo Elkhidir, has announced its public launch from stealth alongside $6.6 million in funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from EWOR, Entourage, and angels, including the former CMO of Booking.com. In 12 weeks from ideation,… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 3:25 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Shippo, a shipping platform for e-commerce businesses, this week announced the launch of its direct integration with TikTok Shop – just in time for peak season, the busiest time of year for e-commerce merchants. For TikTok Shop sellers, the holiday rush brings both opportunity and… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 1:18 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

DriveWealth, a financial technology platform providing Brokerage-as-a-Service, this week announced its partnership with BtcTurk | Hisse, Turkey’s first Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading platform. This collaboration marks BtcTurk’s move beyond digital assets and into traditional finance since starting in 2023 with Turkish stocks. With this launch,… Read More

October 23, 2025 @ 7:19 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Naoris Protocol, a decentralized cybersecurity mesh powered by a post-quantum blockchain and distributed AI, has announced a major milestone: an independent research submission to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has officially cited Naoris Protocol as the reference model for quantum-resistant blockchain infrastructure in its Post-Quantum Financial Infrastructure… Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 11:30 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Rain, a provider of earned wage access (EWA) solutions, this week announced the launch of a new integration with HR, payroll and spend management platform, Paylocity. Paylocity clients will now have access to a streamlined earned wage access solution directly through the company’s integrations marketplace. This… Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 10:22 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Nuvei announced its support for the launch of Trusted Agent Protocol, a new framework developed by Visa that enables merchants to recognize and transact with trusted AI agents securely. Trusted Agent Protocol is part of Visa Intelligent Commerce (VIC), a global framework designed to help… Read More

October 21, 2025 @ 1:22 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Payroc, a provider of payment processing solutions, now enables its U.S. merchants to accept in-person contactless payments with Tap to Pay on iPhone. With the Payroc Mobile iOS app, merchants can now accept contactless credit and debit cards, Apple Pay, and other digital wallets using… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 5:21 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

U.S. Bank (NYSE: USB) has created a new Digital Assets and Money Movement organization to accelerate development of and grow revenue from emerging digital products and services such as stablecoin issuance, cryptocurrency custody, asset tokenization and digital money movement. Jamie Walker, a veteran in the… Read More

October 20, 2025 @ 3:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

SecureLend this week announced the commercial launch of its AI-powered lending platform, designed to make loan origination up to 10 times faster and 60% more cost-efficient for community banks, factoring companies, and alternative lenders. The Delaware-based fintech said it is the first to introduce a large language model (LLM)-agnostic architecture, enabling institutions… Read More