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Revolut signs multi-million dollar deal with Google Cloud

Revolut has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal with Google Cloud to drive global growth.

/crypto

Boerse Stuttgart launches pan-European settlement platform for tokenized assets

Boerse Stuttgart is rolling out Seturion, a pan-European, blockchain-based platform for the settlement of tokenized assets, within and across national borders.

/crypto

Utila triples valuation in six months as stablecoin infrastructure demand triggers extension round

Digital assets operations platform Utila has closed a $22 million Series A extension round, tripling its valuation in just six months as the stablecoin boom continues.

/ai

Banks set to accelerate spend on AI as productivity surges

Lloyds’ Financial Institutions Sentiment Survey finds that UK financial firms are doubling down on AI as producivity surges.

/startups

Pave raises $14m for AI-driven portfolio management platform

Pave Finance, a provider of AI-powered, institutional-grade, personalised wealth management software, has raised $14 million in seed funding.

/markets

BT sells Radianz business to TNS

BT is offloading its financial information business Radianz to Transaction Network Services (TNS).

/ai

Kapital doubles valuation to become Latin America's first AI unicorn

Mexico City-based AI-powered platform for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) Kapital has raised up to $100 million in a Series C funding round that doubles the firm's valuation to $1.3 billion.

/payments

Airwallex buys OpenPay to take on Stripe Billing

Business payments outfit Airwallex is pitching itself directly against Stripe Billing through the acquisition of billing platform OpenPay. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

/ai

PayPal leads funding round in agentic AI firm Kite

PayPal Ventures has led an $18 million funding round in Kite, a company building the trust infrastructure for AI-generated autonomous payments.

/payments

Majority of UK adults no longer carry a wallet or a purse

Research from UK ATM network Link reveals that fewer than half of UK adults carry a physical wallet as part of their day to day routine.

/startups

Fintech venture builder OT09 emerges from stealth

0TO9, a pan-European fintech venture builder and investor backed by an all-star team of serial entrepreneuers, has emerged from stealth with the ambition to start and scale 1,000 profitable fintechs by 2045.

/sustainable

Sustainable Finance.Live 2025: Check out the agenda and speakers

Finextra’s annual Sustainable Finance.Live conference will return on 4 November 2025 at Events@No6 in London.