October 20, 2025 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

AWS, the incredibly successful infrastructure venture by Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) experienced an outage earlier today that impacted thousands of website. AWS confirmed the outage explaining there was an issue with a Domain Name System (DNS) failure that mainly impacted the US East – 1 region. While… Read More

 Tagged amazon, aws, concryt, outage

October 20, 2025 @ 8:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Euronet (NASDAQ: EEFT), a firm focused on payments processing and cross-border transactions, announced it has chosen to leverage Fireblocks, an enterprise platform for digital asset infrastructure (non-custodial), settlement, trading operations and stablecoin payments. Fireblocks enables Euronet to integrate stablecoin tech into its payments infrastructure, “accelerating… Read More

 Tagged cross-border payments, euronet, Fireblocks, stablecoins

October 20, 2025 @ 8:09 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bank payment Fintech GoCardless has elevated two company execs to its newly formed EMEA leadership team as it seeks to further expand its business operations in the fast-evolving market. Borja Valiente has been named VP of Sales and GM, EMEA and Hamish Wood as the… Read More

 Tagged bank payments, emea, fintech, gocardless

October 20, 2025 @ 6:25 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

AAF Management has closed a $55M early-stage hybrid fund. The Axis Fund invests in emerging managers (Funds I and II) and their most promising underlying portfolio companies at the pre-seed to pre-IPO stages. The Axis Fund is AAF’s fourth vintage and raises the firm’s assets-under-management… Read More

 Tagged AAF Management, FIntechs, flutterwave, Kyle Hendrick, moneylion, Omar Darwazah

October 20, 2025 @ 4:32 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Basis Theory, an independent payments infrastructure company, this week announced a $33 million Series B round led by Costanoa, with participation from Stage 2 Capital, Moneta VC, and continued support from Bessemer Venture Partners, Kindred Ventures, Box Group, and Offline Ventures. The funding will accelerate… Read More

 Tagged Amy Cheetham, Basis Theory, Ben Milne, Brian Billingsley, colin luce, payments

October 20, 2025 @ 2:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Creditstar Group, a European fintech providing digital consumer credit in eight markets and fixed-return investment product in 31 countries, has secured an additional $10 million funding facility from Singapore-based Kilde, reportedly increasing the total to $20 million. The capital injection reflects continued institutional confidence in… Read More

 Tagged credit facility, Creditstar, europe, singapore

October 20, 2025 @ 1:14 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Instacart (NASDAQ: CART) recently announced that a new, full suite of business features is available across the company’s white-label e-commerce solutions: Storefront and Storefront Pro retailers are already leveraging these capabilities to better support business customers, such as restaurants, offices, healthcare facilities, and schools, directly through… Read More

 Tagged instacart, Instacart Business, Ryan Hamburger, Storefront, Storefront Pro

October 20, 2025 @ 12:33 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) has agreed to acquire With Intelligence, a leading source of private markets data, insights and analytics, for $1.8 billion. The deal was cut with a group led by majority investor Motive Partners, a private investment firm exclusively focused on financial technology. By… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, Charlie Kerr, Martina Cheung, rob heyvaert, s&p global, Saugata Saha, With Intelligence

October 19, 2025 @ 10:14 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Flare, a provider of threat exposure management, has launched Identity Exposure Management (IEM), which is designed to prevent exposed identities from causing large-scale incidents. Every hour that exposed accounts go unaddressed intensifies the risk of a breach. Verizon’s DBIR 2025 report found that stolen credentials… Read More

 Tagged flare, Identity Exposure Management, Nick Ascoli, Serge-Olivier Paquette, stolen identity credentials

October 19, 2025 @ 10:04 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Carta has introduced a new addition to its product suite, the Carta Loan Operations, purpose-built for private credit companies currently navigating the complexity of loan admin workflows. Carta Loan Operations comes as a result of their acquisition of Sirvatus, a loan administration platform for private… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, carta, loans, sirvatus