BridgeWise announced the acquisition of Context Analytics, expanding its data analytics capabilities. The deal was disclosed on February 17, 2026, and the financial terms were not disclosed.
Sphinx, a compliance technology startup, announced a $7.1 million fundraising round to develop its compliance agent platform. The funding was disclosed on Feb 17, 2026, and aims to accelerate product development and market expansion. Investor details were not disclosed.
Global fintech investment rebounded in 2025, reaching $116 billion despite a record‑low 4,719 deals, indicating larger, more selective transactions. Venture capital contributed $56.7 billion while M&A added $55.4 billion, with the United States leading deal value. Digital‑assets funding nearly doubled to $19.1 billion, buoyed...
Citi warns that quantum computers could break public‑key encryption within the next decade, estimating a 19‑34% probability of a widespread breach by 2034 and 60‑82% by 2044. A successful quantum attack on a major U.S. bank could generate $2‑3.3 trillion in...

The discussion centers on why 2026 will be a pivotal year for risk transformation in B2B fintech, especially within asset and dealer finance. Adam Tate argues that overlapping pressures—from tighter credit regulation to rapid technological advances—are forcing firms to rethink...

Alex Lipitch and Paul Walton discussed the outlook for UK mortgage lending, projecting a modest 4% rise to roughly £320 bn by 2026. The conversation highlighted that the real battleground will be retaining the 1.8 million borrowers whose fixed‑rate deals expire this...
In‑house Swift connectivity imposes heavy operational and financial burdens due to infrastructure upkeep, specialist staffing, and ongoing compliance. Shifting Swift to an external service bureau reduces technology overhead, eliminates round‑the‑clock support, and lowers total cost of ownership. Consolidating Swift and...
Virgin Media O2 has announced a partnership with U.S. buy‑now‑pay‑later provider Affirm to offer transparent financing for devices. The deal lets new and existing O2 customers select from a range of monthly payment plans for phones, headphones and gaming consoles,...

Broadridge Financial Solutions announced it will acquire CQG, a leading provider of futures and options trading, execution management, and market connectivity, though financial terms remain undisclosed. The deal will integrate CQG’s execution management, algorithmic trading, and analytics capabilities into Broadridge’s...

Cleo, the AI‑powered personal banking assistant, has relaunched in the UK after building a sizable user base in the United States. The chatbot delivers spending insights, budgeting tips and savings advice, while offering playful "roast" and "hype" modes to engage...
NatWest announced it will expand its Accelerator community to 50,000 entrepreneurs across the UK by 2026, a five‑fold increase over its 2025 target. The bank already exceeded its 2025 ambition, reaching roughly 12,000 members and surpassing the total it had...

Commonwealth Bank of Australia has teamed with Melbourne Business School to launch the AI Attitudes Barometer, a longitudinal study of 5,109 Australian adults on AI perception in financial services. Early results show 69% of respondents would favor a bank whose...

Visa has unveiled the Visa & Main platform to give U.S. small businesses broader access to capital, customers, and operational tools. The initiative includes a $100 million working‑capital facility partnered with community lender Lendistry. It also offers merchants marketing support tied to the...

Visa announced the launch of its Visa & Main platform, which includes a $100 million working‑capital facility in partnership with community lender Lendistry to improve financing access for U.S. small businesses. The program also offers marketing support tied to the upcoming FIFA World...

Broadridge Financial Solutions announced it will acquire CQG, a provider of futures and options trading, execution management, and market connectivity. The undisclosed deal will add CQG’s execution management, algorithmic trading, and analytics capabilities to Broadridge’s order management platform, creating an...
Phixius by Nacha announced that its integration with Kinexys Liink, J.P. Morgan’s blockchain‑based data‑sharing network, is now live. The connection creates a multi‑responder account validation system for ACH payments, allowing requesters to receive verification from several trusted Phixius sources. Near real‑time validation...
Circle Internet Group announced a partnership with Polymarket to replace the platform’s bridged USDC.e on Polygon with Circle’s native USDC. The native token is issued by Circle’s regulated affiliates and redeems 1:1 for U.S. dollars, offering a more capital‑efficient and...
EBANX appointed Eduardo de Abreu as its global Chief Product Officer and CEO of EBANX Singapore, relocating from Brazil to Singapore. The move signals a strategic push into the APAC market, where the company now serves over 100 merchants and recorded...

Remitly announced it is cutting 110 jobs in Israel, representing more than half of its local workforce. The layoffs follow the company’s $80 million acquisition of Rewire, a platform serving migrant workers, and will leave only sales and business roles in...
Bank ABC’s digital‑only ila Bank has migrated its retail account and lending operations to Temenos’ Core Banking platform hosted on Amazon Web Services, completing the first phase of a broader transformation. The migration, which also incorporated Temenos Payments and Data...

Australian National Bank (ANZ) announced the deployment of Salesforce’s agentic AI to power its next‑generation customer relationship management platform. The AI‑enhanced CRM will automate routine tasks, deliver personalized insights, and streamline interactions across retail and corporate divisions. ANZ expects faster...
Fintech Farm Ltd announced Tom Dahlström as its new chief executive officer, bringing over 20 years of banking and payments experience, including a stint as chief strategy officer at OP Financial Group and a board seat at S‑Bank. Dahlström’s mandate is...
TreasurySpring announced a direct integration with Clearwater Analytics, linking Clearwater’s investment‑accounting platform to more than 1,000 TreasurySpring cash‑investment products. The partnership gives institutional investors access to fixed‑term funds across eight currencies, diversified exposure to 120+ high‑rated banks and issuers, and...
Former executives from Allianz Trade, Oliver Wyman and fintech Hokodo have launched a new consultancy focused on automating accounts payable and receivable processes. The firm, founded by Louis Carbonnier, Richard Thornton, Sami Ben Hatit and Nicolas Rabinovitch, reports early client engagements delivering a...
Finova has secured a five‑year contract extension with Key Group, the UK’s leading later‑life lender, to continue powering its more2life mortgage products. The renewed deal will see Key Group adopt Finova’s next‑generation lending platform and an agile pricing engine, enabling...
UK fintech Sidekick announced a £7.8 million Series A round to fuel growth. The capital, led by existing backers, will expand its digital wealth platform for professionals. Sidekick targets high‑earning individuals whose incomes and assets are becoming more complex, adding a broader...

London‑based Bound, an automated foreign‑exchange hedging platform, closed a $24.5 million Series A round. The capital will fund product development and a push for regulatory authorisation across the European Union. Bound aims to streamline corporate treasury risk management through AI‑driven hedging tools....

ClearBank has appointed Neil Drennan, former Visa chief technology officer for Cross Border Solutions, as its new chief technology officer. Drennan, who created Visa’s Cloud Centre of Excellence and previously held senior roles at Amazon and 10x Future Technologies, brings...

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released findings from Project FuSSE, a proof‑of‑concept that uses a modular microservices architecture for settlement engines. The test demonstrated that the design could handle 10,000 transactions per second without a linear increase in computing...
Figure’s On‑Chain Public Equity Network (OPEN) has added two new partners: moomoo, the first retail brokerage to trade OPEN‑registered equities, and Keplr, the first self‑custodied wallet to hold them. The integrations let investors buy U.S. public stocks on a blockchain,...

Finextra’s Predict 2026 special edition examined how regulatory timelines will shape payments and digital assets in 2026, from the final phases of ISO 20022 migration to emerging quantum legislation and the US‑driven stable‑coin push. Dominique Diggs noted that the coexistence period between MT...
BNP Paribas Personal Finance UK will underwrite Apple’s new Flexible Finance Account for UK customers, making it available in Apple Stores, online, and via the Apple Store app. The product offers adjustable repayment terms for Apple devices, extending Apple’s existing...
Lightyear Capital, a New York‑based private‑equity firm with over $7 billion AUM, has agreed to acquire PayByPhone from Corpay. PayByPhone, a global leader in mobile parking payments, serves more than 1,300 clients and will operate as a stand‑alone business under Lightyear. The...

The FinextraTV interview with Will Moroney, Temenos’ chief revenue officer, spotlights core‑banking transformation as the defining agenda for 2026. Moroney frames the conversation around three enduring pillars—reliability, adoptability and customer‑centricity—and argues that banks must modernise the underlying core platforms to...
Financial infrastructure firm Noah has teamed up with identity‑verification specialist Sumsub to embed a reusable KYC framework across its platform. The integration enables users verified by any of Sumsub’s 4,000+ partner institutions to onboard on Noah‑powered wallets, exchanges and payment...
Vault Payment Solutions, a leading Australian card‑payments provider, has selected Thredd as its issuing processor to support expansion into new regions on Mastercard’s global network. The partnership will enable Vault to launch prepaid, debit and private‑label card programmes in Australia...
Starling Bank has introduced a Cash ISA that delivers a 2.5% AER and allows unlimited, penalty‑free withdrawals throughout the tax year. The product is available instantly to personal current‑account holders via the Starling app and sits under the Spaces section...
OneDome, a UK‑based housing and fintech platform, announced a $25 million Pre‑Series C round, bringing its total capital raised to $40 million. The financing was led by a mix of existing backers and new strategic investors. OneDome plans to use the funds to...
Generative AI has become central to digital‑banking fraud defenses as AI‑powered scams now account for over half of global fraud incidents. Traditional rule‑based systems struggle with adaptive threats, prompting banks to adopt deep generative models that analyze transaction graphs and...
IG Group has partnered with fintech compliance platform Adclear to embed AI‑driven checks across its UK and Ireland marketing and product content. The technology automatically scans promotions for finprom rule breaches, flagging required edits and accelerating approvals. In the first...
LemFi, the fintech platform for underserved migrants, has secured AUSTRAC approval to operate as an independent remittance dealer in Australia. The clearance enables the company to launch its fast, low‑cost money‑transfer service to a market where outbound remittances reached $38.2 bn...
i‑exceed Technology Solutions announced a strategic collaboration with Broadcom to run its Appzillon Digital Banking Platform on Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). The integration leverages VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service to deliver low‑code, microservices‑based banking applications with enhanced agility, scalability, and...
Lithuanian digital bank myTU has partnered with London‑based Intrepid Fox to embed AI‑driven Know Your Business (KYB) agents into its business‑banking onboarding flow across the EEA. The integration replaces manual document checks with automated verification, ownership analysis and risk assessment,...
Innovative Systems has appointed Ben Sher as its new chief revenue officer, based in London. Sher brings over 20 years of fintech and enterprise SaaS experience, most recently leading EMEA sales at SimCorp. He will oversee global revenue strategy, including...

Revolut Business has introduced a full‑suite merchant acquiring platform in Australia, allowing companies to run payments end‑to‑end on a single system. The service offers 24‑hour settlement, including weekends, and supports fund holding in more than 30 currencies. Merchants can use...

Kalder’s founder and CEO was indicted by U.S. authorities for allegedly defrauding seed‑round investors of approximately $7 million. The charges allege that the entrepreneur misrepresented the fintech’s financial health and future prospects to secure the capital. Kalder, which offers an embedded...
Private equity firm Lightyear Capital has signed an agreement to acquire mobile parking payments provider PayByPhone from Corpay. The transaction, expected to close in Q2 2026, will see PayByPhone operate as a standalone business under Lightyear’s ownership.
OneDome, a UK‑based housing and fintech platform, announced a $25 million Pre‑Series C funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $40 million. The new capital will support the company’s expansion of its digital mortgage and property‑management services.

Canadian fintech Neo Financial announced a C$68.5 million equity raise to launch a securitisation programme aimed at expanding its lending portfolio. The round was led by a syndicate of over 100 Canadian investors, with institutional participation from Alberta Investment Management Corporation...
Bolt announced a multi‑year partnership with Atomic to embed investing features within its Bolt SuperApp. The collaboration adds brokerage services, allowing users to open accounts and trade directly from the checkout experience. By integrating investing, Bolt expands its fintech suite...
One Inc, the premier digital payments network for insurers, launched its Model Context Protocol, an AI‑driven framework that streamlines carrier integration. The protocol standardizes payment data structures, enabling faster onboarding and secure, real‑time analytics. By automating data validation and risk...

Visa has launched a new software development kit for its Acceptance Platform that enables merchants to offer Tap to Pay contactless payments on iPhone devices. The SDK integrates with Apple’s NFC stack, allowing payments without additional card readers. Visa positions...
Darwinium, an AI‑driven cyber‑fraud prevention platform, announced the appointment of a new executive leadership team to accelerate its go‑to‑market strategy. The hires include a CEO with extensive banking‑fraud experience, a CTO specializing in machine‑learning, and two former regulators joining the...

London-based fintech Novum Investment Management announced it has secured an equity investment from a UK local government pension fund to launch and scale its patent‑pending Doris platform, which aims to help savers transition to investing. The amount of the investment...
Sunrate announced the acquisition of an experienced payments team and its acquiring technology, marking the launch of its global acquiring business line. The deal expands Sunrate's end‑to‑end payment capabilities across merchants in eCommerce, SaaS, travel and other sectors. Deal value...
WealthAi, an AI‑driven operating system for wealth managers, family offices and private banks, announced an $800k pre‑seed funding round. The round was led by venture firms Fuel Ventures and Founders Factory, providing capital to accelerate product development and market rollout.
Ripple announced it has acquired GTreasury, integrating the firm’s treasury management technology into the newly launched Ripple Treasury platform. The combined solution gives CFOs and treasury teams unified control over traditional cash and digital assets, leveraging Ripple’s blockchain infrastructure. Financial...
Wealth creation platform Vennre announced the close of its Pre-Series A funding round, raising $9.6 million through a hybrid equity and debt structure. The capital will support its mission to provide high‑earning individuals access to private market opportunities.
Juspay announced a $50 million Series D follow‑on round led by WestBridge Capital, mixing primary and secondary investments and valuing the company at $1.2 billion. The funding provides liquidity to early investors and employees and supports its global payments platform expansion.

PayPal announced it will acquire Tel‑Aviv‑based multi‑channel orchestration platform Cymbio, enhancing its agentic commerce capabilities across AI surfaces such as Microsoft Copilot and Perplexity. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition will integrate Cymbio’s technology into PayPal’s Store Sync service,...
LendInvest announced a new funding agreement with Castlelake, under which the asset manager will purchase up to £250 million of loans. The partnership expands LendInvest’s bridging loan capacity and offers greater flexibility for UK property borrowers. The deal highlights strong institutional...
ZBD, a payments innovator for games, announced a $40 million Series C financing round led by Blockstream Capital Partners. The capital will accelerate its real‑time Bitcoin payment platform, expand licensing, and grow its global footprint across gaming publishers.
Allocation Strategy, a provider of asset allocation analytics for institutional investors, announced a £1.6 million funding round led by Fuel Ventures, with participation from angel investors and industry experts. The capital will be used to expand R&D, scale the business and...
The Luxembourg Stock Exchange (LuxSE) announced it will acquire Tetrao International’s ESG data‑analytics business line, bolstering its sustainable‑bond data offering. The acquisition, expected to close by the end of February 2026, will integrate Tetrao’s AI‑driven data‑collection team into the LuxSE...

Argentinian payments infrastructure firm Pomelo announced a $55 million Series C funding round co‑led by Kaszek and Insight Partners, with participation from Index Ventures, Adams Street Partners, S32, Endeavor Catalyst, monashee and TQ Ventures. The round brings Pomelo’s total funding to $160 million...
AAZZUR Ltd. announced the closing of a £2 million funding round, completed in October 2025, to expand its fintech orchestration platform. The round was led by Haatch Ventures with participation from Alert Venture Foundry, Alumni Ventures, Great Stuff Ventures, Tyr Ventures, Tenity...
Sinpex, an AI-powered KYB/KYC lifecycle management platform, announced a €10 million Series A financing round to accelerate product development and market expansion.
Italian fintech CheckSig announced the closing of a €3.5 million Series A extension, bringing its post‑money valuation to €33.5 million. The round, backed by a pool of strategic private investors and selected companies, will be used to accelerate growth in Italy and abroad,...
Defaqto, via its parent Fintel plc, announced the acquisition of Pearson Ham Group’s Market Pricing Business for £11 million. The deal expands Defaqto’s data and technology offerings for the UK retail financial services and insurance sectors, adding pricing data across motor, home,...

Canadian investment firm Portage announced a deal to take over the management of fintech assets owned by US venture capital firm Point72 Ventures. The transaction is structured through a $280 million continuation vehicle, funded by Goldman Sachs Alternatives and other secondary...

Brazilian digital banking and payments platform PicPay has filed for a US initial public offering, its second attempt after a 2021 filing was withdrawn. Citigroup, BofA Securities and RBC Capital Markets will act as joint global coordinators, and the company...

UK digital compliance specialist SmartSearch announced the acquisition of identity verification provider Credas Technologies. The deal, reported on Jan 7, 2026, aims to strengthen SmartSearch's anti‑money‑laundering and digital compliance capabilities. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Pluto Financial Technologies announced a seed round of $8.6 million to develop its AI‑powered credit infrastructure for private‑market assets. The round was backed by Motive Ventures, Portage, Apollo Global Management, Hamilton Lane, Tectonic Ventures and Broadhaven Ventures. The funding will support...
Broadridge Financial Solutions announced the completion of its acquisition of Acolin, a Zurich‑based provider of cross‑border fund distribution and regulatory services. The deal expands Broadridge’s distribution solutions for asset managers, adding access to over 3,000 distributors across 30+ countries and...

Citigroup's board has approved the sale of its remaining Russian business unit, AO Citibank, to investment bank Renaissance Capital. The transaction is expected to generate a pre‑tax loss of about $1.2 billion and is slated to close in the first half...