December 16, 2025 @ 8:21 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Octane has closed its Series F funding round of $100 million in equity capital. The raise includes new equity capital to be used for growth initiatives, and amounts to be used for secondary share transfers. Valar Ventures led the round with participation from Upper90, Huntington Bank, Camping World and Good Sam, Holler-Classic, and… Read More

 Tagged Billy Libby, equipment financing, funding round, james fitzgerald, Jason Guss, octane

December 16, 2025 @ 8:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LendInvest Mortgages (LSE: LINV), an alternative platform for property finance, announces the launch of a long-term development finance funding partnership with AB CarVal and HSBC, intended to scale the company’s development finance proposition and enable the delivery of new homes across the nation. The funding… Read More

 Tagged financing, lendinvest, sme's, uk, united kingdom

December 16, 2025 @ 8:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank announced a £15 million investment into PolyAI, a key player in enterprise conversational AI, as part of an $86 million Series D round. The round has reportedly been co-led by Georgian, Hedosophia, Khosla Ventures, with additional investment from NVentures (NVIDIA’s VC… Read More

 Tagged british business bank, polyai, uk, united kingdom

December 16, 2025 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Proxymity, the digital investor communication platform, announces the expansion of its partnership with Deutsche Bank, one of the global financial institutions, with the rollout of Proxymity Vote Connect Access in Thailand. Deutsche Bank is said to be one of the first adopters of Proxymity’s digital… Read More

 Tagged deutsche bank, proxymity, southeast asia, thailand

December 16, 2025 @ 1:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Fintech Pulse report has provided a data-driven look at Latvia’s financial technology sector. The research report offers insights from Riga Technical University’s Riga Business School Fintech Observatory, covering sector — wide turnover, taxes, profit, as well as overall employment trends. According to the research… Read More

 Tagged europe, fintech, latvia, research

December 15, 2025 @ 8:33 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Australian fintech ecosystem has remained broadly stable during this year, according to an extensive update from KPMG, which also noted that with 801 independent Australian owned fintech companies, “marking a slight 2% decline year-on-year change from 2024.” The research report from KPMG also mentioned… Read More

 Tagged australia, fintech, insights, research

December 15, 2025 @ 8:16 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Conduit is pleased to announce a partnership with Tempo, incubated by Stripe and Paradigm. This partnership will now offer Tempo’s ecosystem with “performant” as well as “production-ready” RPC infrastructure to build the so-called next generation of finance. As Tempo continues its mission to “upgrade” the… Read More

 Tagged conduit, digitalization, finance, infrastructure, tempo

December 15, 2025 @ 12:03 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Germany’s regulatory authority BaFin has reportedly imposed stricter oversight on digital bank N26, which now includes certain limits on new business based in the Netherlands along with the appointment of a special monitor. As widely reported, this is not the first time that N26 has… Read More

 Tagged bafin, compliance, digital bank, europe, n26, netherlands

December 15, 2025 @ 11:43 am By JD Alois  |  

The world’s most loved big tech firm, Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), is under scrutiny by the Secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) for possible transgressions of Swiss competition laws. The Secretariat launched a preliminary investigation on December 10, 2025, to determine whether other mobile payment app providers can effectively… Read More

 Tagged apple, payments, Secretariat of the Swiss Competition Commission, switzerland

December 15, 2025 @ 11:19 am By Omar Faridi  |  

United Fintech, the fintech infrastructure and ecosystem for financial institutions, asset managers & wealth managers reportedly secured an investment from Barclays, strengthening its shareholder base of “global banks, including BNP Paribas, Citi and Danske Bank and most recently Standard Chartered, which have all joined in… Read More

 Tagged barclays, investment, uk, united fintech