September 21, 2025 @ 5:31 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Flywire (Nasdaq: FLYW) unveiled enhancements to its Student Financial Software (SFS) solution. With direct integrations into ERPs Banner Ethos and Unit4 (Agresso), Flywire delivered its first SFS implementations featuring real-time student account presentment for U.K. customers, which is then linked to Flywire payment… Read More

September 21, 2025 @ 5:25 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Senpi, the AI wallet, this week announced its $4 million seed round led by Lemniscap, with participation from Coinbase Ventures Base Ecosystem Fund, SuperLayer, Primal, Auros, Mana, and angel investors. This funding round will help Senpi continue on its accelerated growth trajectory, with plans to… Read More

September 21, 2025 @ 2:19 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Sift’s Q3 2025 Digital Trust Index reveals that account takeover attacks targeting the fintech and finance industry have surged 122% year-over-year. Travel and ticketing platforms also faced significant increases with a 56% year-over-year rise in account takeover attacks, as fraudsters target accounts rich with loyalty… Read More

September 21, 2025 @ 2:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

While large retail and investment banks go all in on AI, Canadian credit unions are taking a different approach to implementing the technology, according to a new report released today. Part 2 of the two-part Banking Disruption Index from global AI and digital transformation company… Read More

September 20, 2025 @ 12:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Envive AI, a digital commerce Fintech, has closed a $15 million Series A round led by Fuse VC, bringing total funding to $20 million. The company is developing brand-safe, self-improving AI agents designed to drive every customer interaction towards business outcomes, enabling performance and growth at scale. Consumer… Read More

September 20, 2025 @ 12:10 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bolt, a checkout, identity, and payments provider, this week announced the launch of Bolt Activate, a program designed to help digital commerce founders bring their ideas to market and scale. “The future of commerce won’t be written by the biggest companies with the deepest pockets…. Read More

September 19, 2025 @ 6:30 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Finastra, a provider of financial services software, has developed new functionality within Fusion Invest to serve the specific needs of annuity carriers. Enhancements include the automation of dynamic hedging of annuity contracts, providing greater transparency and operational efficiency for both traders and risk management teams…. Read More

September 19, 2025 @ 3:46 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Gr4vy, a cloud-native payment orchestration platform, has released its alpha MVP for Agentic Payments Orchestration. It comes alongside a strategic collaboration with Google to support a new open protocol for agentic payments designed to ensure trust and transparency across ecosystems. As agentic commerce emerges, Gr4vy… Read More

September 19, 2025 @ 8:42 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, global digital transformation company GFT Technologies announced its work to launch a generative AI-powered credit risk assistant in the U.S. to inform and scale lending decisions for private capital firms and banks. The new tool automatically pieces together financial data to create credit… Read More

September 19, 2025 @ 4:00 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Pi Squared, the team building Web3 infrastructure beyond blockchain, has announced a strategic partnership with EigenCloud, the developer platform that extends the trust and verifiability of blockchains to any application, on or off-chain. Through this collaboration, Pi Squared will leverage EigenCloud as the default registry… Read More

September 19, 2025 @ 12:44 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Seapoint, a Fintech for European startups, has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by Frontline Ventures, with participation from Tapestry VC and the ex-COOs of Stripe, Revolut, Tide, and Tines. After nine months of building, the team has launched a private… Read More

September 18, 2025 @ 11:14 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Extend, a spend and expense management platform, has secured $20 million in additional capital, including new venture debt and an equity investment led by B Capital. Additional participation came from March Capital, Point72 Ventures, FinTech Collective, and a new investor, Commerce Ventures. Through its partnerships… Read More

September 17, 2025 @ 11:51 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Reach3 Insights, in collaboration with PayPal, announced new research uncovering the powerful role that rewards play in consumer payment decisions. Using Reach3’s conversational, mobile-first approach, the study revealed that consumers’ preferences go far beyond dollars and cents, and that rewards drive loyalty, shape… Read More

September 16, 2025 @ 10:21 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

OwlTing, a global blockchain Fintech company, has launched gift card purchases within its self-custody digital wallet, OwlPay Wallet Pro. This update allows U.S. individual users to buy more than 100 digital gift cards directly with USDC on the wallet for everyday spending, offering a new… Read More

September 16, 2025 @ 10:16 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  Nasdaq and tokenized stocks, digital asset treasuries, and Justin Sun had Web3 talking this past week. Nasdaq’s bet on tokenized stocks “If the SEC allows tokenized equities to be traded on the Nasdaq, it would mark a watershed moment for the crypto industry –… Read More

September 16, 2025 @ 2:46 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

finmid, an embedded finance provider, this week announced that its embedded lending infrastructure is now available in 30 European markets, giving access to 32 million SMES across the region. finmid has added Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, France, Hungary, Ireland, Malta, Romania, Iceland and Switzerland to the… Read More

September 16, 2025 @ 8:50 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

According to the J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Retirement Plan Digital Experience Study, 62% of retirement plan website and app users say security is more important than convenience regarding their overall digital experience. Moreover, account security is now one of the biggest drivers of overall customer… Read More

September 16, 2025 @ 8:22 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Episode Six, a global provider of enterprise-grade card issuing and ledger infrastructure, and Trustly, a provider of Pay by Bank, have this week announced a partnership. Through this collaboration, Episode Six will provide the issuer processing technology for Trustly’s “card rail plugin integration,” enabling U.S…. Read More

September 16, 2025 @ 8:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Green Dot (NYSE: GDOT), a financial technology and bank holding company, has added Stripe as its newest Green Dot Network partner. Powered by Green Dot’s embedded finance platform, Arc, Stripe Treasury will allow users to quickly and conveniently add cash to their accounts at any of Green Dot’s more than… Read More

September 16, 2025 @ 8:10 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Lumera Protocol, an AI-first Layer-1 blockchain evolved from Pastel Network, has launched its mainnet, delivering verifiable, modular services for decentralized storage, AI inference, and content authenticity. Built on the Cosmos SDK with CometBFT consensus and native Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC), Lumera enables integration with Cosmos chains,… Read More