Jack Dorsey’s Block to cut nearly half its workforce in AI overhaul, shares surge
In a post on social media platform X, Dorsey said Block opted for a single deep round of cuts instead of multiple smaller layoffs over...
In a post on social media platform X, Dorsey said Block opted for a single deep round of cuts instead of multiple smaller layoffs over...
The acquisition unites Orijin's education, rehabilitation, and workforce preparation platform with Honest Jobs' national employer network...
In addition to customer base from 180 million to more than 210 million by the end of 2028, the bank is betting on enhancements from AI...
Crowdcube's deal with the LSE is meant to open private markets to retail investors and create a more inclusive and liquid ecosystem. The...
Created in collaboration between Ethereum software firm Consensys and Mastercard, the card was initially rolled out in 2024 for a limited...
The tokenized shares were issued under a permissioned access model, whereby holdings and transfers were restricted to eligible and...
While many banks have been cutting their branch networks as customers go digital, in 2024 Chase committed to opening another 500 sites,...
New York based Solana prediction market protocol raised $3m in Seed funding led by CMT Digital and ParaFi.
We are only, currently, offering markets on the polls we are organizing. You are explicitly betting on the outcomes of these ‘digital...…
New York based electronic trading platform raised $13.5m in Series A funding led by Citi.
We've built the first fully all-to-all, truly global electronic marketplace for secondary trading in Mexican local-currency bonds,...…
Tennessee based fashion fintech raised $14m in new funding led by Portage, Third Prime, and George Roberts.
We've built an ecosystem that works. Shoppers love unlocking value by buying better. Brands love acquiring customers who think long-term....…
California based insurance brokerage startup raised $46.8m in Seed and Series A funding led by Emergence Capital.
What often takes a traditional broker five to seven days, we can often do in one to two
San Francisco based data AI platform for financial firms raised $50m in Seed and Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital and Emergence...
UK based digital business bank raised $155m in Series D funding led by Ventura Capital, GLG, and Sona AM.
The Series D funding will support Allica's "continued lending growth" while enabling deeper investment in its proprietary technology...…
California based music industry revenue tracking platform raised $5m in new funding led by Yamaha Music Innovations Fund.
Most companies that we have looked into in this space purport to have robust coverage when in actuality, they have limited connectivity...…
San Francisco based global payouts software platform raised $8.9m in Series A funding led by DCM.
The payout layer is broken, with companies and marketplaces having to reinvent the wheel to handle compliance, onboarding and...…
Singapore based web3 consumer app for crypto raised $11.5m in Series A funding led by Pantera.
Just eight months after launch, the platform has grown to more than 100,000 registered users and 30,000 monthly active users across five...…
New York based agent platform for accountants raised $100m in Series B funding led by Accel.
Our sole focus is to equip accountants with the highest performing, most accurate AI for accounting and to empower firms to drive new...…
Missouri based software maker for wealth managers raised $3.2m in Seed funding led by 1248.
The goal isn’t to replace advisors. It’s to remove mechanical work so human judgment can operate at its highest level.
Germany based revenue management software provider for independent hotels and hotel groups across Europe has raised €6.5 million in...
Canada based company developing SMS native AI agents raised $7.2m in Seed funding led by Radical Ventures.
The company will use the funds to expand AI agent deployments across insurance workflows, including pre-quote, post-quote, and claims...…
Israel based loan management platform for private credit fund raised $13.5m in Series A funding led by Insight Partners.
Admin agents aren’t going away, but the way they operate must change. By combining AI, automation, and human expertise on top of our...…
The pair decided to launch InScope, an AI-powered financial reporting platform that helps companies and accounting firms automate many...
OpenClaw runs locally on a user's computer and requires access to users' files, credentials, passwords, browser history, and more. That...
The company raised the funds to offer employees a way to get liquidity for their shares in the privately held firm.
The company has battled some Wall Street heavyweights as it’s forged its way into the industry. Banks have expressed concerns over...…
Better Home & Finance Holding Company said Monday it has agreed to a strategic partnership with Framework Ventures to integrate into...
Sammy Azdoufal claims he wasn’t trying to hack every robot vacuum in the world. He just wanted to remote control his brand-new DJI Romo...
When Sammy Azdoufal found he had access to data from robot vacuum cleaners around the world, he told a tech publication. But the...
Five regional US banks are launching a blockchain-based tokenized deposit network with Cari, aiming for regulated, always-on settlement...
Nubank’s credit margins increased in the fourth quarter of 2025, as Latin America’s largest fintech expanded its use of a credit model...
Anthropic PBC is expanding the reach of its Claude chatbot into new sectors, weeks after the startup sparked a market meltdown with the...
The trades the system failed to anticipate were, on average, more closely associated with outperformance, implying that the activity that...
For start-up companies, attracting and retaining top talent requires benefits that go beyond salary and equity. However, traditional...
Over the past decade, private equity firms like Apollo have reshaped the life insurance industry by loading insurers with complex private...
In a memo sent Thursday to House and Senate committee leaders, the White House proposed banning investors with more than 100...
The ex-AI index is a compilation of all the stocks in the S&P 500 that are not related to AI, also referred to as old-economy stocks....
Boosters say prediction markets create economic and social value by providing better information about what will happen in the world....
A bearish report by Citrini Research outlined potential risks to various segments of the global economy due to AI disruption, using...
With $5 billion in assets under management and over a million paying subscribers, Stash provides an AI-powered investing platform to...
Beast Industries said in a press release Step’s over 7 million users, technology platform and in-house fintech team would complement its...
Austin based AI-powered insurance brokerage raised $60m in new funding led by Lightspeed.
"We built Gyde to give the best brokers the technology, scale, and operational support they need to alleviate the administrative burden...…
Mexico City and Palo Alto based global treasury and cross-border payments company for middle market companies raised $8m in Seed funding...
Europe based financial services compliance startup raised €6m in Series A funding led by Baltic DeepTech and others.
"Regulation is getting sharper, but most compliance is still stuck in spreadsheets. We built Copla so compliance stays current by...…
New York based private markets infrastructure startup raised $8.1m in new funding led by F-Prime.
"We believe that retail portfolio allocation to private markets should and will grow to 15-20% over the next decade, mirroring the...…
San Francisco based reimbursement platform for hospitals and medical groups raised $15m in Series A funding led by Two Bear Capital.
Amsterdam based accounting AI company raised $23m in Series A funding led by Lightspeed.
"Finance teams face pressure to adopt AI, but month-end close and reporting still mostly runs on spreadsheets layered on top of legacy...…
Juniper Research ranked OXIO highest overall for its cloud-based, programmable core network and Telecom-as-a-Service platform, which...
India based fixed income investment startup raised $25m in new funding led by Peak XV Partners.
"Focusing on the fixed income investment space, Stable Money offers fixed deposits and corporate bonds."
New York based onboarding system for financial institutions raised $25m in Series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners.
"Client service in financial services is drowning in point solutions and administrative burden. We believe that AI can change this...…
Colorado based home upgrade marketplace raised $16.8m in Series A funding led by Prelude Ventures.
"Upgrading a home is, at best, a crappy experience for both contractors and home owners."
New York based corporate tax incentives startup raised $31m in Series B funding led by FPV Ventures.
"Corporate tax incentive studies are commonly delivered through manual consulting workflows that are billed hourly and can take months."
San Francisco based compliance agent startup for financial institutions raised $7.1m in Seed funding led by Cherry Ventures.
"Compliance today is mostly human glue between systems that were never designed to work together."
Nashville based accounts receivables company for construction raised $15m in new funding led by Edison Partners.
"Many construction suppliers still rely on manual workflows inside older accounting systems to collect payments and reconcile invoices."
Dubai based fractional property investment platform raised $31m in Series B funding led by Emirates NBD.
"Fractional ownership is gaining momentum in the oil-rich Gulf region where a surge in property demand has lifted values and rents across...…
New York based sports prediction market raised $75m in Series B funding led by Pantera Capital.
"Sports betting is colliding with exchange-style prediction trading, and the regulatory lines are still being tested."
Mexico based online used car dealer raised $300m in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
“We’re able to finance more users because we have data that allows us to understand our users better. With that data and using AI, we can...…
CME Group, the world's leading derivatives marketplace, today announced that its regulated Cryptocurrency futures and options will be...
AI is transforming software by automating code creation and shifting pricing from seat based models to usage based economics, challenging...
Executives from the country’s banking giants will meet this week on the project, driven by fears that the U.S. could shut off access to...
The round was led by Blue Owl Capital and Sixth Street Growth, with participation from new and existing investors, including Neuberger...
Powerlaw Corp, a fund holding stakes in SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic, is filing to list shares in New York, giving everyday investors...
Well-known CFTC-registered exchanges used by tens of millions of Americans—including Kalshi, Polymarket, Coinbase and Crypto.com—face an...
The collaboration is designed to tackle what the companies say is one of the biggest challenges in banking: data fragmentation that...
Having been CoinCover CEO for almost eight years, David Janczewski will transition to being a key advisor at the firm, serving on the...
Japan’s dominant QR-code payments application may list as early as March, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange...
We're solving this by building an AI-native service that doesn't just automate tasks, but truly allows scaling without adding headcount,"...…
"Reindustrialisation, energy security, and the race for technological sovereignty in compute are driving unprecedented demand for...…
"We’ve shown we can build outstanding insurance products and then scale them market by market," said CEO Hedda Båverud Olsson.
“The goal is to go from ‘I need a good’ to payment without having to lift a finger,” said CEO Tim Spencer.
"Global real estate is one of the largest asset classes in the world, yet most individual and cross-border investors are still operating...…
“You now have an opportunity to replace the humans, the labor costs, and the disparate systems into one single transaction...…
"This funding marks a major milestone for ManageMy and validates our vision of a more intelligent, integrated, and adaptable insurance...…
Mid-market companies were held to the same standards as the largest organisations, yet they still relied on spreadsheets, manual...…
"EnFi enables commercial lenders to operate beyond traditional capacity limits while strengthening risk oversight and accelerating credit...…
"We’ve proven that AI agents can operate in production inside the world’s most regulated institutions when built with the right trust and...…
"Despite the size and importance of the U.S. auto retail sector, the industry has struggled with modern consumer journeys and the daily...…
“At a time when AI hype is everywhere, financial institutions need systems that actually work in production,” said CEO Snehal Fulzele.
“This funding allows us to expand our reach as the operating platform independent agency owners need and the acquisition partner they...…
“Our goal is to really remove the doubt layer right from the LLM process,” said CEO John Ling.
"Software is becoming the customer of the internet," said CEO Ilan Zerbib.
Bloomberg highlights how junior bankers are driving AI adoption inside major banks, using tools to accelerate modeling, research, and...
Boerse Stuttgart will merge its crypto unit with Tradias, forming a 300 person digital asset platform valued above €500 million,...
In early January, hackers drained over $200 million from a crypto wallet and swapped some of the loot into Monero, a type of digital...
Insurance broker stocks fell sharply on AI disruption fears, as ChatGPT-based insurance apps such as Spain’s Tuio signaled a shift toward...
The FT tries to explain. Nuveen is a US asset manager owned by TIAA with $1.4tn in assets, spanning fixed income, equities and private...
The world’s largest YouTuber by subscriber count, Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has acquired the financial services app Step,...
Despite official wariness, crypto is flourishing across Asia—even in places like India, which has among the world’s strictest...
The new rules mean that BNPL lenders will now have to provide clear, upfront details to consumers using their services covering payment...
A sudden market sell-off in global insurance broking stocks has done more than rattle investors. It has crystallised
The internet made information global. Crypto is making a similar impact on money. While recent headlines might fixate on prices of...
The deal is the latest between active money managers trying to keep up with passive investment giants like BlackRock and Vanguard as well...
The acquisition will elevate the private markets investment experience by enabling greater automation for GPs, supporting all their...
The cryptocurrency exchange says its Agentic Wallets let users quickly equip agents with autonomous spending, earning and trading...
BlackRock on Wednesday revealed it will be bringing its Treasury-backed digital token BUIDL onto Uniswap, a leading DeFi platform, where...
Kalshi said it registered over $1b in trades related to the Super Bowl, a record surge that underscored the threat that booming...
The Big Four firm told its auditor, Grant Thornton UK, it should pass on cost savings from the rollout of AI and threatened to find a new...
Erebor, which is named for the dragon-guarded mountain of treasure in “The Hobbit,” is launching with $635m in capital, and has lined up...
The spending planned by Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft, mainly for new data centers and all the gear housed within them, is in...
The bank has, for the past six months, been working with embedded Anthropic engineers to co-develop autonomous agents in at least two...
New York City based finance platform for insurance raised $8.6m in Seed funding led by nvp capital.
San Francisco based enterprise revenue platform raised $29m in funding led by First Round, OMERS Ventures, and Illuminate Financial.
San Francisco based AI-powered platform designed to automate preparation and review operations for accounting firms raised $75m in Series...
Sacramento based developer of voice-first AI agents for lenders raised $10.1m in Seed funding led by Crosslink and Threshold.
Paris based accounting and financial management platform for SMEs raised €175m in Series E funding led by TCV and Blackstone.
New York City based insurtech using AI to automate underwriting processes raised $30m in Series B funding led by Brewer Lane Ventures.
London based vertical banking platform intended for e-commerce and entrepreneurs raised £10m in Series A funding led by Smartfin.
Stockholm based anti-money laundering startup raised €12m in Series A funding led by Alstin Capital.
San Francisco based audit and advisory platform developer raised $75m in Series C funding led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs.
San Francisco based neobank raised $123.9m in Series G funding led by Warburg Pincus and Coliseum Capital Management.
As artificial intelligence embeds itself deeper into the fabric of modern life, industries from healthcare to transportation are...
San Francisco based agentic AI platform designed for marketing, finance, and operations teams for the restaurant and retail industries...
Los Angeles based operating system designed for residential real estate professionals raised $10m in pre Seed funding led by Ribbit Capital.
London based insurtech helping insurers digitizing the entire insurance life cycle raised $45m in Series B funding led by CommerzVentures.
Shares of companies such as S&P Global, MSCI, Intercontinental Exchange, London Stock Exchange Group, and FactSet Research all...
A stock analyst’s report claimed that users of prediction markets such as Kalshi were losing money faster than on traditional gambling...
The planned revision would allow a new listing to join the Nasdaq 100 after the first 15 trading days, which is shorter than the current...
What is possible today is just extraordinary. Remember the moment in The Matrix (March 1999) when Trinity uploads a new capability in...
An absolutely epic acquisition forVestwell (Accrue 401k is the entity formed to support Guideline 401(k) plans that were not part of the...
The predictions derived from Polymarket’s betting action—Coplan has called the operation a “global truth machine”—are now cropping up...
Investors are becoming increasingly worried that AI will allow more companies and people to build their own custom software, reducing...
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