October 28, 2025 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

bunq, which claims to be one of Europe’s largest neobanks, has reportedly been approved by FINRA in order to operate as a US broker-dealer – a move that is said to have been driven by users who reside, work, and invest across Europe as well as… Read More

 Tagged broker-dealer, bunq, europe, finra, neobank, netherlands

October 28, 2025 @ 8:15 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Natural, a fintech company building the infrastructure powering agentic payments, announced its emergence from stealth, driven by a $9.8 million seed round. Co-led by Abstract and Human Capital, the round was also supported by Forerunner Ventures, Terrain, Restive Ventures, Genius Ventures, and a coalition of… Read More

 Tagged Abstract, AI Agents, Baris Akis, Kahlil Lalji, Natural, payments, Ramtin Naimi

October 28, 2025 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase  (NASDAQ:COIN) is announcing a collaboration with Citi (NYSE: C) that’s said to be focused on solving a pressing challenge: making it more seamless for Citi’s clients to leverage the potential of digital assets as well as stablecoins to facilitate the transmission of value. The… Read More

 Tagged citi, coinbase, digital transactions, payments

October 28, 2025 @ 7:30 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chargebacks911 and its sister firm, Fi911, announced recently the official launch of their Unified Dispute Management System (UDMS)—which is described as the first Disputes-as-a-Service (DaaS) platform of its kind that brings together dispute-related data and workflows, offering a configurable interface for merchants, acquirers, payfacs, fintechs,… Read More

 Tagged chargebacks911, dispute management

October 28, 2025 @ 5:11 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Infineon Technologies introduced two new secure prepaid tag solutions. Infineon’s secured EMV prepaid tag solution focuses on open-loop gift cards, while the secured prepaid tag solution is offered for closed-loop gift cards. The new additions address the challenges associated with traditional gift cards… Read More

 Tagged David Anderson, Infineon, Karta, security tags, Tolgahan Yildiz

October 28, 2025 @ 1:37 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gotrade, an investment app in Malaysia, announced recently the roll-out of options trading for its users across Southeast Asia. This expansion is powered in partnership with Alpaca, a brokerage infrastructure API offering access to options, stocks, ETFs, fixed income, as well as crypto. Investors residing… Read More

 Tagged alpaca, gotrade, options trading, southeast asia

October 28, 2025 @ 12:53 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

CipherOwl, founded by the team that built Coinbase’s on-chain data and compliance platform, this week announced $15 million in seed financing co-led by General Catalyst and Flourish Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Sancus Ventures, Enlight Capital, OKX Ventures, AME Cloud Ventures, Road Capital and Predictive VC. The company is emerging from stealth with an AI-native… Read More

 Tagged CipherOwl, compliance, John Onwualu, Leo Liang, Marc Bhagava

October 27, 2025 @ 9:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Cybrid, a platform for compliant stablecoins and fiat payment infrastructure, has raised a $10 million Series A funding round led by the Growth Venture Fund at BDC Capital with participation from Golden Ventures, Luge Capital, and Panache Ventures. The funding will accelerate Cybrid’s mission to drive stablecoins… Read More

 Tagged Avinash Chidambaram, Brent Carrara, Cybrid, funding round, Jack Fraser, Michael Carrara, payments, stablecoins

October 27, 2025 @ 8:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) unveiled plans to allocate around $1.5T over the next decade as part of its so-called Security and Resiliency Initiative, including as much as $10B in direct equity investments, in order to support the US’s move towards improved national security. As global competition… Read More

 Tagged ai, finance, investments, jpmorgan, security, startups, us

October 27, 2025 @ 4:56 pm By JD Alois  |  

Gradient Labs, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform that targets conversational engagements for finance, is looking to expand its services into the US following “explosive” growth in Europe. Based in the UK, Gradient Labs was co-founded by Dimitri Masin, Neal Lathia, and Danai Antoniou. Each of… Read More

 Tagged gradient labs, uk, united kingdom