/inclusion
Kredete has raised $22 million to help African immigrants in North America and Europe build credit and send remittances via stablecoin payments.
6 hours
/wholesale
The UK accounted for more than half of European fintech venture funding in the first half of 2025, as the sector reached a point of maturity following a difficult couple of years, according to a Finch Capital report.
/crypto
Stablecore has raised $20 million for a platform that helps community and regional banks and credit unions offer stablecoins, tokenized deposits and digital asset products.
14 hours
/regulation
The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has advised firms dipping their toes into crypto activities to use blockchain analytics tools to help them with risk management and compliance.
16 hours
/payments
Google and PayPal have agreed a multi-year collaboration to advance agentic shopping and frictionless commerce payments.
20 hours
/markets
Deutsche Bank's asset management division, DWS, is reputed to be preparing to divest its data centre operations, NorthC in a sale expected to exceed €2 billion
DBS, Franklin Templeton and Ripple have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish repo markets powered by tokenized collateral and stablecoins.
21 hours
Nordic mobile payment platform Vipps MobilePay is to adopt Tink's Pay by Bank platform for account-to-acount payments in Finland.
/startups
A former senior executive at Stripe has raised $3 million in pre-seed funding to build an AI-powered business account for European startups.
18 September 2025
/ai
JPMorgan Chase is responsible for more than a third of all banking sector AI research, according to data from benchmarking and intelligence platform Evident.
PayNearMe, a fintech targeting non-commerce businesses and their customers, has secured $50 million in Series E funding from Atlantic Vantage Point.
/retail
Lloyds Banking Group will deploy VMware Cloud Foundation from Broadcom to support its data centre consolidation strategy.
17 September 2025
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