By immediately deploying £210,000 (£125,000 for 8.5% equity and an £85,000 convertible note) and pre-committing up to £330,000 for the...

Utah based real-time pay and workforce platform for home services raised $6.7m in Seed funding led by Cervin Ventures.

Estonia based financial infrastructure startup for AI-native teams raised €1.8m in Pre-Seed funding led by Practica Capital.

San Francisco based dental revenue cycle management platform raised $21m in Series A funding led by Permanent Capital Ventures.

Los Angeles based financial services and workforce engagement platform for immigrants raised $7.5m in new funding led by TTV Capital.

Los Angeles based global payments platform raised $3.25m in Seed funding led by Aperture Venture Capital.

Atlanta based property insurance company raised $8m in Series A funding led by FINTOP Capital and JAM FINTOP.

New York based AI logistics orchestration platform raised $7m in Seed funding led by Construct Capital and Predictive.

New York based stablecoin infrastructure platform raised $40m in Series B funding led by Polychain and Ribbit Capital.

Miami based payments infrastructure platform raised $6.7m in Seed funding led by Blockchange Ventures.

Dubai based digital home-buying platform raised $22m in Series A funding led by Impact46.

Tampa based heavy equipment repair platform raised $7m in Series A funding led by Outsiders Fund.

New York based K-12 fundraising platform raised $10m in new funding led by High Alpha.

San Francisco based trading infrastructure platform raised $20m in new funding led by HashKey Capital.

San Francisco based AI patient communication platform raised $50m in Series B funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Some consumers make these trips to avoid paying tariffs—although they are supposed to declare their purchases to customs agents upon...

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are now offering sports event contracts, enabling people to make or lose money on game...

Founded in 2020 by CEO Shayne Coplan, Polymarket has helped popularize event derivatives trading. The company, which offers...

In the past, if you knew about Taylor Swift’s engagement before anyone else, you could have felt cool about it, or perhaps you could have...

San Francisco based onchain, permissionless prediction market platform raised $15m in Seed funding led by Union Square Ventures. 

Stablecoin heavyweights Circle Internet Group Inc. and Paxos Trust Co. have piloted a new way to prevent copycats and help companies...

There are many drivers of all this growth, ranging from Chase’s broad portfolio of card products to its vast branch network. What may be...

At its core, Open Banking is designed to allow customers to share their financial data securely with licensed third parties, enabling...

Last year, the NFL made in-person gambling policy education and training mandatory for all players and Perel said no players violated the...

The oil-rich emirate styles itself as the “capital of capital”: it has $1.7tn of sovereign wealth holdings and it wants to use them to...

The ETF boom that has democratized investing across America is reaching a tipping point. Investors and financial advisers have too many...

Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini and blockchain company Ripple collaborated to release an XRP Edition of the Gemini Credit Card. The XRP...

According to the report, sources said the shares sold in the offering could be priced at between $34 and $36 as early as this week, and...

Sigma360 is the first screening platform to concurrently offer this feature, which uses LLMs to generate comprehensive risk profiles in...

Monzo is planning to launch a UK mobile phone service in a move that will intensify competitive pressure on incumbents including...

Banks have shut more than one in three of their UK branches over the past five years and plan to axe more than a hundred more this year...

Atlanta based commercial risk data and analytics company raised $8m in Series A funding led by Continental Investors.

This is the first step in the agency returning to the drawing board to revise the rule after the largest US bank began informing fintech...

The war among some of the richest companies on the planet for talent is playing out in an unprecedented frenzy of talent raids, secret...

On Kalshi, Polymarket and other sites where people wager “predictions” on real-world events, gamblers lay down millions each month on...

Banks have shut more than one in three of their UK branches over the past five years and plan to axe more than a hundred more this year...

Bank of America’s new CTO, Hari Gopalkrishnan, is steering $4b (out of a $13b budget) into AI projects. Plans include building more...

Firms like Monzo, Revolut, and Klarna are launching mobile services as MVNOs, capitalizing on cheap wholesale deals, e-SIMs, and...

EU officials are accelerating digital euro plans after the U.S. passed a landmark stablecoin law. Concerned about dollar dominance, they...

Ether has risen 13.5% this month and 27% in 2025, outpacing bitcoin. Peter Thiel is a major beneficiary, betting Ethereum will underpin...

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent is betting the crypto industry will become a crucial buyer of Treasuries in coming years as Washington...

For Coinbase, the shift is deliberate. The era of agentic commerce is arriving, a world where autonomous systems pay their own computing...

San Francisco based loan origination platform raised $29m in Series A funding led by Canapi Ventures.

Chile based provider of salon management software raised $35m in growth funding led by Riverwood Capital.

Turkey based investment platform raised $80m in Series B funding led by QED Investors.

Austin based supply chain risk management company raised $105m in Series C funding led by Springcoast Partners and Edison Partners.

New York based developer of chatbots for the housing and health care markets raised $250m in Series E funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.

San Francisco based agentic spreadsheet startup raised $5m in Seed funding led by General Catalyst.

San Francisco based back office management automation company raised $43m in growth funding led by Acrew Capital.

London based developer of synthetic threat intelligence raised $4m in Seed funding led by AlbionVC.

San Francisco based POS system for fuel and convenience stores raised $22.6m in growth funding led by Cota Capital.

Boston based strategic finance platform for consumer and retail brands raised $7m in Series  A funding led by Vocap Partners.

With spending on players passing $5 billion this summer, the business model is becoming so big that it’s moving beyond niche financiers...

London based payments infrastructure startup raised $10m in Series A extension funding led by Yunqi.

London based BNPL platform for car repairs raised $11m in Series B extension funding, led by Autotech Ventures. 

New York based peer-to-peer sports betting platform raised $18m led by Forerunner Ventures.

San Francisco based modern brokerage platform raised $12.5 million in Series A, led by First Round Capital .

San Francisco based fintech lending platform raised $8 million in Series B funding led by HSCM Ventures.

US giants have the scale and scope to dominate the ETF market, augmented by the rise of low-cost passive investment products , ETFs and...

This collaboration further integrates Ascend’s cutting-edge financial technology to support Embroker’s end-to-end billing and accounting...

Securities and Exchange Commission member Hester Peirce said market forces will ultimately prove which forms of tokenizing securities and...

Visa faces a test in ensuring stablecoins enhance, rather than erode, its core business, according to the company. Cuy Sheffield, Visa's...

Asset managers specialising in catastrophe bonds are fighting a threat to curb retail access to the fast‑growing market, as surging...

A “super league” of US asset managers is dominating the sector’s expansion across Europe and the UK, more than doubling assets under...

The private equity clique is becoming less gilded. Last week, President Donald Trump opened the door for US retirement saving plans known...

San Francisco based AI deal pricing platform raised $7m in Seed funding led by Pear VC and General Catalyst.

Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Mizuho Financial Group and Morgan Stanley are helping to lead the listing, which could take place as soon...

It noted that the surge in transactions was fueled by strategic partnerships with major East Asian payment firms such as Norafirst and...

The firms affected include pension funds, insurers and hedge funds as the FCA seeks to better monitor leverage in the financial system...

US companies are projected to purchase more than $1.1t worth of stock overall in 2025, which would mark an all-time high. The biggest...

Wages for poor workers began rising much faster than they did for the rich, although that era may have now come to at least a temporary...

The fintech giant Stripe is developing a new blockchain, according to a recent job posting on a site for the crypto lobby group...

Digital-asset treasury companies, listed vehicles that pivot into accumulating cryptocurrencies, have to date amassed a Bitcoin stockpile...

Institutions such as pensions and endowments are increasingly concerned their negotiating power will wane as retail investors get invited...

In Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia, users ranging from multinational banks to public universities are turning to large language...

OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b - two state-of-the-art open-weight language models that were trained using a mix of...

Ripple has agreed to acquire Rail, a stablecoin infrastructure company, in a move that will bolster Ripple’s stablecoin ambitions and...

eToro is launching a suite of AI-tools that will transform social investing by creating a community-built marketplace for investing built...

The booming $1.7t private credit industry has filled the BNPL gap. These lenders, which make loans outside both traditional banking and...

In Bolivia the buying power of the boliviano has cratered, and inflation hits three-decade highs and dollars are in short supply. Digital...

The investment fund, dubbed Deutschlandfonds, will help secure strategic sectors such as defense, energy and critical raw materials. The...

Mexican fintech Monato has announced a $13m Seed funding round led by Monashees and FinTech Collective, with participation from IGNIA...

China plans to launch its first stablecoins in a bid to internationalize the renminbi and compete against the dollar, but concerns about...

Klarna said it wouldn’t share data about the bulk of its loans with credit bureaus until it gets assurances that its customers won’t be...

Roman Storm, co-founder of the crypto mixer Tornado Cash, was convicted on one charge in a landmark case that tested the legal limits of...

A fun WSJ profile of Leland Strange, the 84-year-old Waffle House regular behind CoreCard, the obscure tech platform powering Apple Card,...

The order will direct the Labor Department to reevaluate guidance around alternative asset investments in retirement plans and clarify...

The transaction – Octane's fourth forward-flow agreement to date – brings the Company's total value of forward-flow commitments signed in...

In an interview with Startups, Carlos Alonso Torras shared FinTech Collective’s plans to deepen its presence in Brazil, backing Seed and...

Israel based quantum computing company raised $26m in Series A funding led by Sentinel Global.

Toronto based generative AI tax research platform raised $122m in Series D funding led by Oak HC/FT.

São Paulo based digital bank raised $26.5m in Series B funding led by New Enterprise Associates.

New York City based enterprise resource planning company raised $70m in Series B funding led by a16z.

M&A dealmaking rose marginally in the first half of 2025 — Sifted tracked 433 exits across the continent, up from 420 in the same...

New York City based digital bank services company raised $46.6m in growth funding led by Patriot Financial Partners.

California based AI powered supply chain platform raised $43.5m in Series B funding led by Insight Partners.

California based AI powered tax firm raised $10m in Series A funding led by TTV Capital.

Ohio based data operations platform raised $30m in Series B funding led by General Catalyst.

New York based reconciliation automation company raised $1.6m in pre-Seed funding led by Spice Capital.

New York based sales automation startup raised $100m in Series C funding led by CapitalG.

The Financial Conduct Authority’s decision to lift the ban on offering crypto exchange traded products to retail investors has even been...

Energy demand for training machines and running apps is driving a surge of investment into fossil fuels. Data centres’ climate problem...

The company, which employs blockchain technology for home loans and offers cryptocurrency-backed loans, announced Monday that it had...

dLocal launched SmartPix, a tokenized Pix-based solution that enables Brazilian merchants to process recurring and on-demand payments...

A key measure of corporate bond trading costs is down 12% more than a year after the US adopted one-day settlement, according to Barclays...

The ease of approvals, which come in minutes after credit checks designed not to affect a borrower’s credit score, have appealed to...

Hedge funds are seeing their biggest inflows in a decade, with investors allocating about $25 billion to hedge funds in the second...

JPM's asset management arm is partnering with Dutch online broker Bux, to provide elements of discretionary fund management services...

The latest Invest Europe report highlights a major leap: €143b invested in more than 26,000 startups, a million new jobs, and a new sense...

Tech giants like Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and Google are projected to spend nearly $400b in 2025 on AI infrastructure fueling...