Databento raises $97M to take on Bloomberg’s terminal
ECB tells Europe’s big banks to plan for AI cyber threats
Axos buys AI fintech Arc Technologies to bolt modern software onto a bank
Karina Portugal: learning to ask the right question
How crypto payment processors can help businesses accept cryptocurrency
Klarna applies for a US banking licence, its boldest American move yet
Uber quietly pauses 5 of 7 European food-delivery launches as it chases Delivery Hero
Thought Machine crosses $100M revenue and delays its London IPO to 2028
Citi boss Jane Fraser says 2 AI races will decide banking’s future
Starling Bank cuts 130 jobs as it bets on AI and looks beyond the UK
London’s MDOTM raises $27M to put AI inside wealth managers
Cross-border payroll runs on $200B and zero shared infrastructure
AI shopping just beat search at its own game on Prime Day
Google’s GV bets $30M on a stock exchange for space
India’s payments chief says AI will drive UPI from 750 million to a billion daily transactions
TikTok is building a super app, and most of its users have not noticed yet
Hackers stole three million dollars from Polymarket users through a compromised third-party vendor
Meta’s new prediction market app Arena could bring betting to 3 billion users
Robinhood is raising $2 billion in zero-coupon convertible bonds to buy back stock
Meta buys a fifth of Cred, and a new WhatsApp boss
Warren raises €10M to fix Belgium’s broken workplace pensions
He spent 15 months hunting for compliance software that didn’t exist. So he built Flagright, which just raised $12.5M.
A 201-year-old mutual bank just launched an AI Center of Excellence with a startup partner
Parafin lands a Goldman Sachs credit facility to embed lending inside Amazon, DoorDash, and Walmart
American Express acquires TheFork for $700m to build out its dining empire
FINQ’s AI-managed ETFs quietly outrun Wall Street in early 2026
Crypto exchanges promised users access to the SpaceX IPO. The tokenized shares never arrived.
Current’s $80M Series E values the neobank below its 2021 peak
Pleo unveils finance AI agents amid broader business transformation
Alibaba is offering $1.5 billion for China’s last big independent grocer. The bidding war with Meituan is on.
Coinbase launches an AI agent that can trade crypto and pay for research on your behalf
Poetic emerges from stealth with $50M from OpenAI to automate insurance underwriting and compliance
Capsa AI raises $18M to build the ‘AI operating system’ for private equity
The ECB moved to rein in Revolut’s ‘self-guided missiles’, just as a share sale values it at $115bn
Vinted’s CEO says the US is an “enormous opportunity” as the $9B secondhand marketplace plots its Atlantic crossing
Klarna launches US savings accounts at 3.28% as the buy-now-pay-later company tries to become a bank
Why REAL Finance sees infrastructure as the next phase of tokenized finance
AI is choosing which online stores you see, and it’s ignoring most of them
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