August 5, 2025 @ 6:42 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Lili, a platform that integrates business banking, business credit, and accounting for small and mid-sized businesses, this week launched the Lili BusinessBuild Program, a credit-building solution that helps entrepreneurs build and monitor their business credit profile directly from their Lili account. For many business owners,… Read More

August 3, 2025 @ 4:12 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Retab, a San Francisco-based startup, has secured $3.5 million in pre-seed funding and launched a platform focusing on document AI. The round was backed by leading early-stage funds including VentureFriends, Kima Ventures, and K5 Global, alongside Eric Schmidt (via StemAI), Olivier Pomel (CEO, Datadog), and… Read More

August 2, 2025 @ 4:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Onbe, a corporate payouts platform, has partnered with B2B financial services provider Allied Solutions to help financial institutions, finance companies, dealerships and their clients modernize the automotive refund process. Allied Solutions’ Refund Plus offers support for issuing refunds following the cancellation of aftermarket products, including… Read More

August 2, 2025 @ 3:49 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cybersecurity startup Dawnguard has emerged from stealth with $3 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led by 9900 Capital and a group of angel investors. The funds will be used to expand Dawnguard’s engineering team, deepen enterprise integrations, and bring its platform to broader… Read More

August 2, 2025 @ 3:35 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fold (NASDAQ: FLD) has teamed up with Blackhawk Network to expand the distribution of the Fold Bitcoin Gift Card. The Fold Bitcoin Gift Card is available through select online platforms, with additional online retailers set to launch in the coming weeks. In-store retail availability is planned for later… Read More

July 29, 2025 @ 4:51 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Interledger Foundation, an organization building and advocating for an interoperable payments network, is extending its Interledger Protocol to organizations launching their own stablecoins. As many organizations, including governments, fintech providers and financial institutions, explore the introduction of their own digital currencies, there is currently no infrastructure in… Read More

July 29, 2025 @ 7:49 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Web3 continues to celebrate regulatory clarity in the United States. That, and Bitcoin’s recent movement, highlight our Web3 Thoughts of the Week. Web3 regulation to unlock innovation “What we’re seeing in Washington could be a historic turning point for digital assets. For years, the lack… Read More

July 28, 2025 @ 3:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Everything’s in place for Web3 minds to deliver value to every area of finance, beginning with home ownership and extending to areas like instant payments and budgeting. For John Nahas, Ava Labs’ chief business officer, it’s about time. 3 keys to the impending boom Nahas… Read More

July 27, 2025 @ 6:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  JPMorgan’s plans for data tariffs, which run contrary to a growing move to open data, threaten to kneecap Fintechs. Luckily, many industry participants, led by Fintech Sandbox, see a more collaborative path where everybody wins. Co-founder Sarah Biller said that, like most businesses, Fintech… Read More

July 26, 2025 @ 1:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

While online fraud for companies has long been synonymous with payment fraud and account takeovers, a new wave of threats is gaining ground, led by first-party chargeback fraud, refund abuse, and, increasingly, AI-powered attacks. Nearly half of merchants, 47%, report a rise in fraud perpetrated by… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 12:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Quranium, a quantum-secure Layer 1 blockchain, has announced a strategic alliance with Swiss-based Abatis, a provider of patented cybersecurity technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Quranium will integrate Abatis’s endpoint protection technology into its infrastructure stack. This includes software wallets, validator nodes, client platforms,… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 12:50 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

President Donald Trump may be turning up the heat on the Federal Reserve, but he won’t dare pull the trigger on Chair Jerome Powell’s job because the market reaction would be immediate, brutal, and global, deVere Group CEO Nigel Green suggests. This week’s planned visit… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 8:42 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly contemplating a sale of the country’s confiscated Bitcoin stash—some 61,000 BTC seized in a 2018 fraud bust—to alleviate an estimated £20 billion fiscal shortfall. But while offloading crypto could offer short-term relief, Nigel Green, the CEO of global financial advisory… Read More

July 25, 2025 @ 12:45 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Socure, a digital identity verification platform, has launched its Workforce Verification solution to address the rapidly growing threat of employee fraud. Socure’s Workforce Verification adapts its enterprise-grade identity verification and fraud prevention specific to hiring workflows, detecting manipulated or fabricated identities before they enter organizations and addressing workforce risk at… Read More

July 24, 2025 @ 10:41 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

With the average 30-year mortgage rate in the United States continuing to hover near recent highs of 6.8%, homeowners might be expected to feel some tension with their mortgage company. However, high rates alone do not explain why customer satisfaction scores for mortgage servicers are significantly… Read More

July 23, 2025 @ 11:56 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Parfin CEO Marcus Viriato recently shared his thoughts on several key issues facing stablecoins in the weeks ahead. Is the U.S. House of Representatives’ ‘Crypto Week’ a signal to both the traditional finance and Fintech industries that we’re almost over the final hurdle to mass… Read More

July 23, 2025 @ 8:36 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitlayer’s BitVM Bridge has officially launched on Mainnet. As the first functional application based on the BitVM paradigm, Bitlayer BitVM Bridge delivers a trust-minimized bridging solution for Bitcoin holders, addressing critical demands as Bitcoin DeFi scales toward maturity. By eliminating reliance on centralized intermediaries, the… Read More

July 20, 2025 @ 8:23 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The Web3 community had plenty to say on all things crypto this week. Continue reading to learn more. APAC, not the US, is crypto’s growth engine “Bitcoin’s price surge is more than just a market cycle—it’s a clear signal of growing institutional conviction. This institutional… Read More

July 19, 2025 @ 11:23 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

CEOs Michael Carbonara of Ibanera and Nigel Green of deVere Group weighed in on the GENIUS Act and the Clarity Act. “The GENIUS and Clarity Acts represent a long-overdue inflection point for digital finance in the United States. For years, innovation has outpaced regulation, forcing… Read More

July 19, 2025 @ 11:14 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Highnote, a platform for embedded finance and modern card issuance, this week announced the launch of Instant Payments, a new capability that enables businesses to deliver near real-time payouts from Highnote-issued cards to eligible external debit and prepaid cards. The solution is supported by Mastercard Move (Mastercard’s portfolio… Read More