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Barclays leads £4 million total seed round in WealthOS

WealthOS, a cloud-native and API-driven core wealthtech startup, has topped up a £2 million seed round led by Barclays Bank with a further injection of capital from the UK lender and fintech investors.

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Enfuce and Swile team on all-in-one employee benefits card

Card issuer and payment processor Enfuce has teamed up with French worktech Swile to launch an all-in-one employee benefits card.

/people

Funding Circle to cut 120 jobs

Small business lender Funding Circle is cutting around 120 jobs as it looks to slash costs in search of profitability.

/retail

Synapse fallout leaves 85,000 Yotta customers locked out of accounts

Savings app Yotta says 85,000 customers have been locked out of their accounts for three weeks because of the collapse of BaaS platform Synapse.

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Coinbase donates $25m to crypto super PAC

Coinbase has become the second firm in a week to donate $25 million into Fairshake, a federal super political action committee (PAC) backing pro-crypto candidates during the 2024 US elections.

/people

JPMorgan payments boss Georgakopoulos quits

JPMorgan Chase global head of payments, Takis Georgakopoulos, is leaving the bank, according to Reuters.

/retail

Monzo achieves first full year of profitability

UK digital bank Monzo is preparing to expand into the US and Europe after reporting its first full year of profitability, achieving a pre-tax profit of £15.4m for the financial year ended 31 March 2024.

/payments

Fiserv co-leads $16 million seed round in PayFac Forward

Forward, a US-based startup offering payments as a product services for software companies, has raised a $16 million seed round.

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Citi suit prompts dispute between CFPB and industry groups

A legal case involving how Citi responded to customers who had money stolen via wire transfers has caused a spat between the CFPB and industry associations over the scope of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act (EFTA).

/sustainable

UBS invests in climate fintech Doconomy

Climate fintech Doconomy has raised EUR34 million in a Series B funding round co-led by CommerzVentures and the venture arm of UBS.

/security

Hackers claim to have bank account details of 30m Santander customers

Hackers are trying to sell what they claim are the bank account details of 30 million Santander customers for $2 million.

/regulation

Stripe blames regulatory landscape for move to invite-only in India

Payments giant Strip is moving to an invite-only model for new clients in India as it builds up the infrastructure to deal with an evolving regulatory landscape.