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Embedded finance boom collides with regulatory reckoning

Embedded finance has quietly become the invisible engine behind everyday transactions, powering everything from lending widgets on Shopify dashboards to insurance upsells inside rideshare...
Aperture leads $300m asset-based facility with Avant

Aperture leads $300m asset-based facility with Avant

Aperture Investors, an alternative asset manager that forms part of Generali Investments, has led a $300m asset-based financing facility with FinTech firm Avant. The facility...
Fundworks upsizes investment-grade notes to $40m

Fundworks upsizes investment-grade notes to $40m

Fundworks, a tech-enabled financing provider serving small businesses across the US, has extended and increased its investment-grade corporate notes to $40m. The capital raised through...
Mbanq secures first institutional backing for $100m note programme

Mbanq lands first institutional backing for $100m note

Mbanq, a US-based banking infrastructure and embedded finance provider, has secured the first institutional investment into its $100m loan participation note programme, with a...
FLOAT lands €4.5m Series A to close Europe's tech funding gap

Float lands €4.5m Series A to close Europe’s tech funding gap

Float, the Stockholm-founded revenue-based financing platform serving European tech SMEs, has secured €4.5m in a Series A round as it looks to narrow the...
Saible raises £2.9m to protect UK construction payments

Saible raises £2.9m to protect UK construction payments

Saible, a Birmingham-based construction FinTech developing software to prevent project funds being delayed, withheld or trapped before reaching suppliers, has secured £2.9m in funding. The...
Aria raises €7m and secures €240m facility for invoices

Aria raises €7m and secures €240m facility for invoices

Aria, the Paris-based embedded invoice financing platform, has secured a €7m Series A extension alongside a new €240m debt facility as it looks to...
Liberty Mutual Investments backs inKind with $320m deal

Liberty Mutual Investments backs inKind with $320m deal

inKind, a restaurant commerce enablement platform helping eateries access customers, capital and technology, has entered a strategic financing partnership with Liberty Mutual Investments (LMI),...
Oxford Finance closes $400m asset backed securitisation

Oxford Finance closes $400m asset backed securitisation

Oxford Finance, a specialty finance firm that provides senior secured loans to businesses globally, has completed a private placement transaction involving the sale of...
Capchase raises $200m+ to scale vendor financing

Capchase raises $200m+ to scale vendor financing

Capchase, a vendor financing platform and lender for enterprise technology companies, has announced more than $200m in incremental funding to expand its embedded financing...

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Big deals dominate in bumper week for FinTech investments

There was $1.33bn raised across 19 reported deals in the FinTech sector this week, showcasing the ongoing power of the growing sector. The raise was...
PRA move could free smaller firms from outdated limits

PRA move could free smaller firms from outdated limits

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), the UK body responsible for supervising banks, insurers and credit unions, has put forward plans to tie 128 regulatory...
Rein Security lands $25m as AI agents outrun security

Rein Security lands $25m as AI agents outrun security

Rein Security, an AI-native platform protecting enterprises at runtime, has secured $25m in a Series A round as companies race to hand autonomous AI...
Powerful September funding drives strong third quarter for RegTech deals

Powerful September funding drives strong third quarter for RegTech deals

As the sizzling hot summer of 2026 rolled through, equally intense was the climbing investment in the RegTech sector seen through the third quarter...
What separates the winners from the losers in the AI race?

What separates the winners from the losers in the AI race?

The commercial divide between AI leaders and laggards is less about efficiency than what comes next. The latest findings from the AI in Risk...

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