October 4, 2025 @ 7:09 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Socure, a provider of artificial intelligence for digital identity verification, authentication, KYC, KYB, sanctions screening, and fraud prevention, has launched Socure Signals, giving enterprises direct access to the feature store powering Socure’s ML models. At launch, Socure Signals delivers more than 250 features, with expansion planned in… Read More

 Tagged fraud, Johnny Ayers, machine learning, Pablo Abreu, socure

October 3, 2025 @ 4:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Alto, a self-directed IRA platform for private market and alternative assets, is excited to announce a strategic partnership with FranShares, the fractional franchise investing platform, making it possible “for anyone to diversify into franchising.” Through this partnership, investors can now “use their retirement funds to… Read More

 Tagged alto, Franshares, investing, ira

October 3, 2025 @ 11:36 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Polish crypto law panned. “While the EU’s MiCA provides a clear and balanced rulebook for crypto, Poland’s interpretation of it is a major step backwards, and a prime example of overregulation.  “While regulation is necessary for consumer protection, it can be counterproductive. “Poland has taken… Read More

 Tagged activtrades, BeCoin.net, bima labs, Block Street, circle, devere, Hedy Wang, Kevin Rusher, pdx beam, poland, Przemysław Kral, RAAC, Saqib Iqbal, stablecoin, zondacrypto

October 3, 2025 @ 9:06 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Reveni has closed a €7.5M Series A. The Madrid-based company centralizes global sales, returns, and logistics in one dashboard, integrating with major e-commerce platforms to optimize purchase and post-purchase flows. The funding will help strengthen the company’s presence in the UK and the EU, while… Read More

 Tagged Aleksandra Tyurina, Fernando Pedraz, funding round, Gonzalo Martin, Pablo Molinero, Reveni, spain

October 3, 2025 @ 6:07 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Finastra, a financial services software provider, has unveiled its Intelligent Routing Module at Sibos 2025. The new solution seeks to bring intelligent, data-driven payment routing to banks and financial institutions, enabling them to process transactions faster, at lower cost, and with an upwards of 95%… Read More

 Tagged finastra, Gareth Lodge, Intelligent Routing Module, Radha Suvarna, sibos

October 3, 2025 @ 12:59 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Love Finance, a United Kingdom SME lender and broker, has secured £45 million in its first debt financing arrangement, enabling the company to expand its loan book. The funding package comprises a £35 million revolving credit facility (RCF) from FTSE 250 specialist lender, Paragon Bank,… Read More

 Tagged Love Finance, online lending, uk, united kingdom

October 2, 2025 @ 11:09 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Maximor announced a $9 million seed round to expand its finance automation platform — AI agents that plug into ERPs, payroll, billing, and bank systems to take on the repetitive accounting work and produce audit-ready outputs by default. The round was led by… Read More

 Tagged AI Agents, Ajay Krishna Amudan, aravind srinivas, ashu garg, funding round, Maximor, Ramnandan Krishnamurthy, tien tzuo

October 2, 2025 @ 2:14 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Instant tokenization of US stocks is now possible, according to an update from Alpaca. Alpaca’s Instant Tokenization Network (ITN), a new infrastructure product has been in the works behind the scenes, the company noted. Currently powering many of the global tokenization solutions, with ITN, their… Read More

 Tagged alpaca, defi, tokenization, tradfi

October 2, 2025 @ 2:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ace Hardware, the world’s hardware cooperative, announced a partnership with Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM), the payment network that enables consumers and helps merchants drive growth, to provide a pay over time option to clients making in-store purchases. With more than 5,200 different locations, most of which… Read More

 Tagged affirm, bnpl, buy now pay later, flexible payments

October 2, 2025 @ 2:05 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Brazil’s digital banking platform Nubank (NYSE: NU) has submitted an application for a US national bank charter, furthering its focus on international expansion expansion. Currenty active across Brazil, Mexico as well as Colombia, a national bank charter from the Office of the Comptroller of the… Read More

 Tagged digital bank, latam, nubank, us