/startups
CommBank's venture-scaling arm x15ventures has struck a talent-sharing and investment deal with fintech fund Tiple Bubble.
23 September 2025
/retail
Scotland has unveiled a "Fintech Gateway" with North America in an effort to accelerate international growth for the country's fintechs while attracting a wave of foreign direct investment.
/wealth
London-based WealthTech firm Zilo has raised $27 million in a Series A2 funding round.
/regulation
CommerzVentures has led a €9.2 million Series A funding round for Sunhat, a German AI-native compliance platform that helps enterprises automatically validate and share ESG and vital non-financial data.
/crypto
PayPal Ventures has made a strategic investment in Stable, the layer 1 blockchain network for stablecoin transactions.
The UK and US governments have set up a transatlantic taskforce to explore collaboration on digital assets.
22 September 2025
London-based fintech Guavapay says it has temporarily suspended its UK services under an agreement with the Financial Conduct Authority following "significant challenges" with fraudulent activity.
/payments
Embedded credit card platform Cardless has raised $60 million in a Series C growth round led by Spark Capital.
The European Union looks set to block Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta from accessing a new financial data sharing system, according to the Financial Times.
Two Asia-based fintechs, Line Next and Kaia, have launched what is described as a stablecoin superapp, designed to facilitate cross-border payments.
/inclusion
A $120m investment led by asset manager TPG has seen the valuation of Tide, the UK-based business management platform, reach $1.5bn
/ai
Rekord, a Dublin-based startup building an AI-native orchestration platform for credit decisioning, has raised $2.1 million in pre-seed funding.
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