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/wealth

Stratiphy returns to the crowd for funding boost

UK WealthTech Stratiphy has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube at a valuation of £7 million.

/markets

FCA tenders for suppliers for UK equity consolidated tape

The FCA is inviting Expressions of Interest from potential providers for a UK equity consolidated tape in an effort to boost liquidity in fragmented capital markets.

/retail

Lloyds Bank completes controversial acquisition of Curve

Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed the acquisition of London-based fintech Curve.

/crypto

French crypto banking startup Deblock raises €30m

French crypto-banking startup Deblock has secured €30 million in a Series A funding round led by Speedinvest and joined by CommerzVentures and Latitude.

/payments

NextGen Nordics 2026: Architect the future of money in Stockholm

Registration is officially open for NextGen Nordics 2026, the region’s most influential banking and payments event.

/payments

Visa completes first recurring A2A transaction in the UK

Visa has carried out its first commercial variable recurring payment (cVRP) through its account-to-account (A2A) payments offering in the UK.

/regulation

Thirteen top tech suppliers to banks singled out for regulatory oversight

The European Banking Authority has authorised in-depth examinations at thirteen technology suppliers deemed as providing critical services to the financial services community.

/cloud

Cloudflare outage knocks swathes of internet offline

A host of major websites and apps have been knocked offline by an outage at Cloudflare, the network and security services provider which counts many financial services firms among its clients.

/payments

Klarna to deliver first billion dollar quarter

Klarna is expected to deliver its first billion dollar quarter in Q4, driven by explosive growth in the US, soaring card uptake and improved productivity from deployed artificial intelligence.

/ai

Ramp hits $32bn valuation on latest raise

Expense management startup Ramp has seen its valuation double to $32 billion in just six months off the back of a $300 million primary financing round and an employee tender offer.

/crypto

Deutsche Börse to embed SocGen-issued stablecoins

German exchange Deutsche Börse is to embed EUR and USD CoinVertible stablecoins from Societe Generale's digital asset unit SG-Forge into its infrastructure.

/regulation

Ex-Revoluters raise $10 million for compliance startup

Condukt, an AI-based compliance startup founded by former employees of Revolut, has raised $10 million to support expansion into regulated financial services.