Investors

Empirical Security

Empirical Security lands $25m to fight AI-driven exploits

Empirical Security has closed a $25m Series A round as it looks to arm security teams against the accelerating wave of AI-driven exploits. Brightmind Partners...
Neo

Neo lands $100m as agentic AI outpaces security teams

Neo has emerged from stealth with $100m in funding to help enterprises govern the rapid spread of AI agents across their software estates. The round...
CSI acquires Qolo to expand embedded finance offering

CSI acquires Qolo to expand embedded finance offering

CSI has acquired payments infrastructure provider Qolo as the financial technology company looks to strengthen its commercial banking capabilities and expand its position in...
FinTech

Investors turn up the heat with $1.9bn raised in FinTech this week

Across the 19 deals reported on by FinTech Global this week, there was a grand total of $1.95bn raised by FinTech firms, reflecting a...
Oak

Can Oak’s $60m seed fix the identity security crisis?

Oak, a security company building what it calls an Identity Operating System, has stepped out of stealth with $60m in seed capital to take...
Cyclops

Cyclops raises $20m to fix stablecoin gap in payments

Cyclops, a stablecoin infrastructure company built solely for the payments industry, has secured $20m in Series A funding to help payments firms launch stablecoin...
Alpaca

Alpaca’s $135m bet on AI-native brokerage infrastructure

Alpaca, a global provider of agent-first brokerage infrastructure, has secured a $135m funding round as it looks to cement its position at the intersection...
Visa and Thredd move closer to the age of agentic commerce

Visa and Thredd move closer to the age of agentic commerce

Thredd has joined Visa’s Agentic Ready programme, allowing European issuers using its processing platform to prepare for AI agent-initiated payments without replacing existing payments...
Bibby

Bibby secures €250m HSBC deal to fuel SME growth

Bibby Financial Services, the international financial services provider, has secured a €250m facility from HSBC UK as it looks to deepen its backing of...
Flex

Flex lands $70m as private banking goes borderless

Flex, the AI-native private banking platform for high-net-worth business owners in the middle market, has secured a $70m Series B1 round to power the...

News Stories

AI can spot scams early, but humans must still decide

AI can spot scams early, but humans must still decide

A payment can pass every check and still be the product of manipulation. The account name matches, the customer insists they know the recipient,...
Why the RegTech and SupTech divide is about to disappear

Why the RegTech and SupTech divide is about to disappear

The long-standing wall between the technology firms use to comply and the technology regulators use to supervise is coming down, according to CUBE, the...
DACH banks must rethink platforms as AI and rules collide

DACH banks must rethink platforms as AI and rules collide

Banks across Germany, Austria and Switzerland that are replacing their wealth management platforms face a difficult balancing act. According to fincite, the DACH region...
Ema secures $77m Series B to scale AI Employees

Ema secures $77m Series B to scale AI Employees

Ema, an enterprise platform that provides agentic AI Employees, has closed a $77m Series B round as it looks to take its autonomous workforce...
Compliance teams trust data but struggle with audit trails

Compliance teams trust data but struggle with audit trails

LSEG Risk Intelligence, the risk-focused arm of LSEG, has published global research showing that although nearly all compliance leaders trust their screening data, fewer...

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