October 25, 2025 @ 11:39 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Gr4vy, a cloud-based payment orchestration platform, has announced its collaboration with Mastercard to optimize and streamline payment capabilities for global merchants and platforms. The partnership enables merchant customers to integrate Mastercard Merchant Cloud to access advanced payment solutions, including network tokenization, Click to Pay, and… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 11:37 am By Michael Wong  |  

Pave Bank, a fully licensed commercial bank built for this new financial architecture, said it has raised more than $39 million in a round led by Accel. The fresh funding will help scale what it calls the world’s first programmable commercial bank built to operate… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 11:22 am By Omar Faridi  |  

May Mobility, Inc., an autonomous vehicle tech firm, and Grab Holdings Limited (NASDAQ: GRAB), Southeast Asia’s superapp, announced their partnership with intentions to introduce autonomous vehicle services in Southeast Asia. This latest partnership reportedly includes an investment by Grab into May Mobility, backing the AV… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 3:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

BNY Mellon (NYSE: BK) said that they polled community banks across the US on everything from their investment priorities for the next year (such as AI and RTP) to what they need to best serve various client segments. During the last year, BNY launched its… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 2:37 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Splitwise, an app for sharing bills and expenses, and Tink have expanded their partnership across Europe. Building on strong momentum in the UK, where Splitwise has seen a 150% increase in Tink account checks and payment initiations this year, the expansion means users in France, Germany,… Read More

October 25, 2025 @ 1:15 am By Omar Faridi  |  

LSEG announced that 11 global banks (together, the Investing Banks) have agreed to invest in its Post Trade Solutions business, acquiring a 20% stake. The Investing Banks will each now become shareholders in Post Trade Solutions, acquiring the stake for “aggregate cash consideration of £170… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 6:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The recent AWS outage, stablecoins, and crypto investing dominate the Web3 Thoughts of the Week. AWS out(r)age “The recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage has once again highlighted the critical reliance many companies, including Robinhood, have on centralized cloud infrastructure. When a major service provider… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 6:30 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

dLocal (NASDAQ: DLO), a payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, this week announced a partnership with Alchemy Pay, a payment gateway connecting crypto with traditional fiat currencies. The collaboration leverages dLocal’s local payment infrastructure to support  Alchemy Pay’s expansion in Latin America, starting with instant bank… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 6:25 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

African fintech Moniepoint has raised more than $200 million in equity financing in a recently closed Series C funding round. The investment will fuel its ongoing mission to serve businesses and their customers across Africa and the global diaspora. The round was led by Development… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 6:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cowbell, a provider of adaptive cyber and specialty insurance solutions for small and mid-market risks, announced it has strengthened its market position and operational capabilities by appointing Jessica Klipphahn as Head of North America Mid-Market and Stephanie Hewerdine as Director of Claims. Jessica Klipphahn brings… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 5:20 pm By JD Alois  |  

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce attended the CfPA Regulated Investment Crowdfunding Summit this week, sharing insight into the regulatory environment at the Commission. One of the topics the Commissioner discussed was the advent of “Mirror Tokens.” Mirror Tokens are assets that are designed to reflect the… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 1:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Transak, the global payments infrastructure provider for crypto and stablecoins, today announced a strategic agreement with Cross River Bank, a tech infrastructure provider that provides embedded financial solutions, to leverage Cross River’s fiat payment capabilities, “scaling Transak’s fiat-to-crypto and crypto-to-fiat on/off ramp services.” Via this… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 1:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Payments Canada announced recently that it implemented amendments to By-laws No. 1 and 3. These amendments now aim to reflect key changes to the Canadian Payments Act (CP Act) as well as the introduction of the Retail Payment Activities Act (RPAA). The stated objective of… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 11:31 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

MGT, a vertically AI-native neo-insurer built to modernize commercial P&C insurance for small businesses and their agents, has closed an oversubscribed $21.6 million Series B funding round. The round was led by new investors Mubadala Capital with participation from Clocktower Ventures, Tacora Capital and existing… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 11:26 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

lemlist, a sales engagement platform, has acquired AI platform Claap. Claap, valued between $15 million and $30 million, transforms every sales conversation into actionable insights and context-aware AI agents. With the self-funded acquisition, lemlist will now provide sales teams with AI-generated actionable insights based on… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 10:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from ClearBank reveals that large UK businesses now view embedded financial services as a strategic boardroom decision and business growth driver. The research report released by ClearBank examines the attitudes of 200 senior business professionals at established UK-based corporates towards embedded finance as well… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 10:02 am By JD Alois  |  

The UK Financial Conduct Authority is concerned that financial services firms are not prepared for the transition to T+1, scheduled for October 2027. In a recent post, the FCA states that it is seeing “challenges” and “complacency” among firms that the change will impact. “Remember,… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 9:05 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have joined to open up a “Scale Up Unit” with a mission to support regulated firms grow. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, shared the news during a Forum in Leeds. The Forum focused… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 8:47 am By JD Alois  |  

This is kind of interesting. Neobank Chime appears to be gaining popularity among new checking account openings. Chime is a neobank, not a chartered digital bank, that provides services in partnership with The Bancorp Bank and Stride Bank. Chime prides itself on offering services that… Read More

October 24, 2025 @ 8:31 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Epiminds, founded by Swedish entrepreneurs Elias Malm and Mo Elkhidir, has announced its public launch from stealth alongside $6.6 million in funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from EWOR, Entourage, and angels, including the former CMO of Booking.com. In 12 weeks from ideation,… Read More