Astrada, the data layer for autonomous finance, has closed a $3.8m seed funding round backed by a roster of prominent investors including Visa and Mastercard. The round was co-led by Bain Capital Ventures, QED Investors, and Nyca Partners, with strategic participation from Mastercard and follow-on investment from existing backer Visa. Since its launch in 2024, Astrada has handled more than $750m...

dLocal, a cross-border payments platform serving emerging markets, and inDrive, a global mobility and delivery platform, have partnered to introduce card payments and local driver payouts in South Africa. The collaboration enables inDrive to accept local card payments in-app, split fares in real time between drivers and the platform, and disburse driver earnings via South African domestic payment rails, all...

Fun, a payments infrastructure company building high-converting payment flows for large global applications, has raised $72m in a Series A funding round. The round was co-led by Multicoin Capital and SignalFire. The funding will be used to expand Fun's presence across Asia-Pacific through a new office in Singapore, pursue acquisitions to deepen its infrastructure capabilities, and grow its engineering and operations...

Hashgraph, an enterprise software firm powering digital markets, has made three major strategic announcements at HederaCon, covering a new cross-ledger protocol, the general availability of a private network product, and a strategic investment in a digital asset solutions provider. The firm introduced CLPR (pronounced "clipper"), a cross-ledger protocol currently in development that is designed to allow tokens, data, and messages...

On 1 September 2026, the FCA's Code of Conduct will extend to cover bullying, harassment and discrimination across every FCA-authorised organisation — not just banks. Most firms have already completed the visible groundwork: policies have been refreshed, training programmes are underway and "reasonable steps" have been committed to paper. Yet a harder question persists beneath the surface. When the first...

FinScan has announced that its payments platform now covers stablecoin transactions and digital wallet screening for global compliance purposes. The update to FinScan Payments extends its existing capabilities to include stablecoin transactions and digital wallet addresses, screening them against major global sanctions lists. These include lists maintained by OFAC, Israel's NBCTF, Japan's Ministry of Finance, the UK Sanctions List, and...

Regnology, a provider of regulatory, risk, finance and supervisory technology, has launched its Certified Implementation Partner Programme, establishing a new global standard for service delivery across its suite of solutions. The initiative introduces a structured framework aimed at ensuring consistent project implementation and smoother client onboarding across Regnology's regulatory reporting, risk, tax and finance offerings. Central to the programme is a...

Financial crime compliance has been fundamentally reshaped by converging pressures: mounting regulatory complexity, intensifying enforcement, and increasingly sophisticated criminal activity. Legacy approaches are buckling under these demands, particularly as transaction volumes accelerate and institutions are expected to detect and act on risk in near real time. According to IMTF, in this climate, compliance has evolved well beyond box-ticking. It now sits...

Global InsurTech investment cooled further in April, with eight deals raising approximately $119m, marking another step down from March’s already subdued $237m. That represents a roughly 50% month-on-month decline in funding, reinforcing the sharp pullback seen since February’s $1bn-plus peak and underlining a clear contraction in both capital deployment and deal volume. Unlike earlier in the year, April was defined entirely...

Financial crime compliance (FCC) is undergoing a generational transformation — one arguably more profound than the regulatory overhaul that followed the September 2001 terrorist attacks. According to Workfusion, this time, however, the catalyst is not a legislative mandate. It is a fundamental mismatch between decades-old, labour-intensive operating models and the high-velocity, real-time financial system those models are expected to safeguard. Workfusion...