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The new capability lets financial institutions vary installment-loan limits, rates and repayment terms using account-level cash-flow and transaction data instead of issuing the same terms to every borrower.
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The new capability lets financial institutions vary installment-loan limits, rates and repayment terms using account-level cash-flow and transaction data instead of issuing the same terms to every borrower.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The stablecoin-enabled payments startup plans to use the capital to expand African payment corridors and develop physical and virtual card products for businesses.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
The platform markets basic signals at no monthly cost, a $29 Pro tier with full AI trade signals and advanced charting, and volume-based institutional access to APIs and algorithmic trading tools.
FinCrunch Staff · Markets Desk
The Conversion Capital-led round brings Vesta's total funding to $85 million as the company says its platform supports lenders originating more than $100 billion in loans annually.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The early-stage project would use Robinhood Chain to represent economic exposure to a T. Rowe Price fund, but the companies have not announced a fund, ticker, launch date or pricing structure.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
The platform page says its AI selects contact channels, negotiates payment plans and enforces FDCPA, TCPA and Regulation F rules while pricing starts at $0 per month plus a recovery commission.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The round will fund new local payment-rail connections and a New York office as the stablecoin infrastructure company expands U.S. compliance and engineering hiring for cross-border transfers.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The cash-backed home-buying platform is pairing the equity round with new debt facilities to fund the real estate purchases behind its Homeward Mortgage and Homeward Title businesses.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The product page markets "simple, volume-based pricing" starting at $99 a month for 500 tradelines. The binding Terms and Conditions for the same software list plans starting at $2,500 a month for 50,000 records — and never mention the advertised price.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The clearinghouse will clear securities financing transactions in Russell 3000 names and the 500 largest US-listed ETFs starting in mid-October, a market first for a European CCP.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
Canadian customers of Wayfair, Joss & Main, AllModern and Birch Lane can now split purchases into interest-free installments or finance larger orders, extending a US-only arrangement north of the border.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The AI-native, Shariah-compliant banking startup raised the largest fintech seed round in Middle East and Africa history in January and cleared a key regulatory step toward launch in May.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
Starting in early 2027, FedEx Dataworks will feed inventory and fulfillment signals into Stripe Capital's financing decisions, while Stripe adds more than 50 payment methods to FedEx checkouts.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The Foundation Capital-led round brings two major transaction banks into a company selling "know your payee" checks meant to catch misdirected and fraudulent payments before they settle.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The specialty insurer will use the primary equity round to scale its proprietary underwriting platform, Blackbird, alongside a separate multi-year reinsurance agreement with Allianz Re.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
Instant Link lets returning borrowers share permissioned cash-flow data with lenders in under two seconds without reconnecting their bank accounts, while LendScore 2 adds a transformer-based model built on transaction sequences.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
Eligible U.S. institutional clients can now access Deribit options and perpetual futures through Coinbase Prime, with a unified liquidity pool connecting U.S. and international derivatives markets expected to go live in the coming weeks.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The proposed Rain National Trust Bank would custody digital and fiat assets and manage reserves for stablecoin issuers, but would not take deposits or make loans.
Samuel Okonkwo · Regulation Desk
The crypto bank plans to layer stablecoin and tokenized-deposit settlement onto Routable's existing fiat payout rails for enterprise customers over the coming quarters.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
Beyond its Hunt Score decision engine, the AI Underwriting platform includes a generator that produces application forms, verification steps and risk logic for custom credit, insurance or eligibility products.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The round, which roughly doubles Valon’s prior valuation, adds Ribbit Capital as a new investor alongside returning backer Andreessen Horowitz as the company pitches an AI-native alternative to legacy mortgage-servicing mainframe software.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
J.P. Morgan Securities and JPMorgan Chase Bank consented to a cease-and-desist order after an employee barred from swap dealing over a 2011 U.K. fine executed and supervised trades for more than two years; the firms avoided a monetary penalty because they self-reported.
Samuel Okonkwo · Regulation Desk
The page advertises $10,000 to $5 million in merchant cash advances, invoice factoring, credit lines and equipment financing through "HL Hunt Capital," and displays specific examples marked FUNDED and APPROVED — while the site’s own subsidiaries list tags HL Hunt Capital "(Coming Soon)."
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The deal pairs NEOPAY’s acquiring infrastructure with noon payments’ e-commerce gateway and merchant network, and is still subject to regulatory and antitrust approval.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The personal finance platform’s move to buy the company formerly known as HMBradley lands the same week Monarch says it crossed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, with MBI co-founder Zach Bruhnke leading the new division.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
Behind the waitlist sign-up, HL Hunt’s business banking page lists country flags for 19 markets and describes payments that "clear in seconds," alongside cross-sells into the company’s own payments and funding products — all tied to a partner bank the company still has not named.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
Roughrider Coin, a dollar-backed token issued by VersaBank and settled on Solana, lets more than 90 North Dakota banks and credit unions move money between each other through infrastructure they already use, without standing up their own wallets.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The partnership embeds USDC minting, redemption and settlement workflows directly into Volante’s existing payments platform, letting banks run stablecoin transactions alongside SWIFT and ACH under their current compliance controls.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The company’s marketing promises same-day approval and a combined $25,000 credit potential, but its own published terms show reporting to the bureaus does not begin until the month after enrollment, and that $25,000 figure is a cap shared across both personal and business membership lines, not a per-product limit.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
SellFi lets sellers finance their own sales directly to buyers, auto-generating payment schedules, contracts and TILA disclosures while the seller keeps 100% of the interest. The product is still pre-launch, with a waitlist and no live deals yet.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
Nordic Capital and Alfvén & Didrikson issued binding equity commitments to the Swedish open-banking payments firm, which says it will use the capital to turn transaction data into AI-driven business intelligence products. The raise is expected to close in November.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
Zoe Financial will pay a $450,000 penalty after the SEC found it steered clients toward advisers on its platform without disclosing its financial stake in the referrals.
Samuel Okonkwo · Regulation
BEYLA's AI agents, which it calls Digital Humans, will run on Visa's payment rails to manage finance, risk and operations tasks for small businesses ��� and the startup plans to issue cards directly on Visa's network pending regulatory approval.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech
The waitlist-only trading platform pitches a live feed of AI-scored trade signals alongside multi-signature cold storage, a stated 95%-plus offline-asset ratio, and digital-asset insurance — claims drawn from HL Hunt's own marketing.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech
The deal, split roughly 75% cash and 25% stock, brings Bluevine’s digital banking platform for small businesses under a regulated bank holding company, with Bluevine CEO Eyal Lifshitz set to lead Valley’s small-business banking unit after close.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
Rather than sell software to existing lenders, the startup acquired Florida-based Hightide Mortgage and is pairing engineers directly with its own loan officers to automate document processing and income calculation.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The platform’s published pricing runs from a free tier at 26% commission down to 3% at its highest paid tier, alongside an automated "escalation waterfall" that moves each account from a gentle reminder to a firm notice, call and letter on a schedule the company says is timed by AI.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The Miami-based platform, which already processes more than $3 billion in annualized volume, will use the new capital to launch a proprietary USDC/USDT wallet, expand its corporate card into 35 countries and build out AI-driven treasury tools.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The all-cash acquisition folds eSecLending’s securities lending and collateral management business into Capitolis’s financial resource optimization platform, with seller Parthenon Capital also investing in Capitolis as part of the transaction.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
A published feature-by-feature comparison lays out HL Hunt Pay’s starting rate, fee structure and "never shut down your account" pledge against Stripe and Square — self-reported figures the company says are based on publicly available data.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The Series A, led by MEVP with a wide syndicate of new and existing backers, funds erad’s working-capital platform for small and midsize businesses in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The funding, tied in part to a future strategic transaction, is earmarked for tZERO’s regulated infrastructure connecting tokenization, trading, custody and asset servicing.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
A company explainer on credit builder loans positions HL Hunt’s own revolving tradeline as the complement to installment-based builder loans, arguing the pairing covers more of a business credit file than either product alone.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
Left Lane Capital led the round for the API infrastructure provider, which says it already processes more than $7 billion in annualized volume across 87 countries and will use the funding for regulatory licenses and product expansion into capital markets tooling.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The bank is migrating debit and credit card transactions representing more than $25 billion in projected annualized volume onto blockchain-based settlement using SoFiUSD, with merchants receiving funds directly into SoFi Bank accounts rather than holding the stablecoin themselves.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
Credit or consumer reporting was the single most complained-about category in the CFPB’s 2025 complaint data, with inaccurate information the most common issue cited. HL Hunt’s Metro 2 Reporting Software, covered on this site in September for its speed, is framed by the company as a tool for reducing exactly that kind of error at the point lenders furnish data to the bureaus.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
Insight Partners led the round, which brings the consumer packaged goods finance startup’s total funding to $77 million as it pitches a single system of record across accounting, sales and supply data for a sector still leaning on spreadsheets.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The censure and civil penalty resolve findings that the broker-dealer repeatedly failed to fix written policy gaps around system security, access control and vulnerability management for its OTC Link ATS platform, despite examiners flagging the deficiencies multiple times since 2016.
Samuel Okonkwo · Regulation Desk
A new guide published by the company’s research desk lays out, in unusually direct terms, what HL Hunt’s revolving Personal Credit Builder does not do on its own — and points members toward stacking it with an installment product elsewhere to cover the gap.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The all-stock transaction gives the crypto payments company a stack of SEC-registered licenses — including broker-dealers, an alternative trading system and a transfer agent — that it says will underpin tokenized real-world assets and private securities.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The letters let broker-dealers keep customer cash in an external bank or money-services account instead of inside the brokerage account itself, drawing funds only when a trade requires them — a structural change to where investor cash actually sits.
Samuel Okonkwo · Regulation Desk
The company's marketplace-based tradeline product has been restructured since its August debut into distinctly named plans — Basic through Billion — alongside member testimonials citing specific score jumps and loan approvals that HL Hunt has not independently substantiated.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The round, led by Insight Partners with participation from Salesforce Ventures and Y Combinator, brings the company's total funding to $157 million as it expands nexus monitoring and filing coverage beyond its current 90-plus countries.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The agency alleged Humboldt knowingly processed payments for more than 1,000 shell companies running fraudulent billing scams; the company will pay $12 million in consumer redress and is permanently barred from processing for several high-risk merchant categories.
Samuel Okonkwo · Regulation Desk
Beyond its dispute and billing agents, HL Hunt Pay markets a conversational assistant that sends invoices, issues refunds and pulls revenue reports on command, alongside hosted, embedded and API-based checkout options and native support for buy-now-pay-later and usage-based billing.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The fleet-payments company, formerly known as FleetCor, will fund customer redress after the agency alleged it promised fuel savings that never materialized while obscuring late fees and administrative charges from billing statements.
Samuel Okonkwo · Regulation Desk
BaFin issued a combined €26,000 fine after finding Vivid Money failed to properly report its account models to a national account-comparison service and left required fee information and a glossary temporarily unavailable on its website.
Samuel Okonkwo · Regulation Desk
Beyond its multi-channel outreach pitch, HL Hunt says its platform scores contact confidence before every attempt, generates AI-picked payment plans, and auto-enforces the 7-in-7 contact rule and cease-and-desist flagging in real time.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The developer platform, built with M0 and MoonPay, lets companies configure their own application-specific tokens without building issuance infrastructure themselves; three companies were live at launch with combined processed volume above $100 million.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The round, which started with a $10 million tranche from Vertex Ventures earlier this year, will fund merchant-network expansion and a new enterprise portal and app.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
The waitlist-only platform's three hireable trading agents span conservative to aggressive risk profiles, with HL Hunt stating plainly that the performance figures behind them are simulated backtests, not live trading results.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The integration lets AI agents built on Alchemy issue Mastercard-backed payment credentials through the Agent Card standard, part of a broader industry push toward AI-initiated purchases.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The deal adds onchain smart-contract risk assessment to S&P Global’s ratings business as capital markets increasingly move digital assets onchain; financial terms were not disclosed.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
Six weeks after HLX first appeared on HL Hunt’s site, the platform remains waitlist-only, with the same 1:1 reserve claims, AI trade signals, and three hireable AI trading agents.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The new model reads the sequence and timing of a consumer’s credit history rather than static summary scores, letting Affirm approve thin-file and no-FICO applicants earlier systems would have declined.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The bilateral USD transaction is the first of its kind for a Middle East or Africa bank, using distributed ledger technology to coordinate payments while deposits stay on each bank’s own balance sheet.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
The platform automates multi-channel recovery across SMS, email, calls, letters and voicemail, on a commission model that starts free at 26% and falls to 3% at the top tier.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The deal folds one of Southeast Asia’s largest buy-now-pay-later providers into Grab’s ride-hailing and delivery super-app as it pushes deeper into consumer lending.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The service will let corporate and institutional clients hold and transfer Bitcoin, Ether and select stablecoins while the bank manages the underlying wallets and private keys.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
The live payment-processing platform pairs 0.8-second authorizations and same-day settlement with seven always-on AI agents and a self-published comparison table against Stripe and Square.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The strategic round brings in BNP Paribas, Broadridge, Nasdaq Ventures, RBC, Coinbase Ventures and Stellar to back data infrastructure for tokenized markets.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
The cross-border payments platform’s new connector lets tools like Claude and ChatGPT draft beneficiaries, FX conversions and payment instructions, with every instruction routed through existing human approval rules.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The lending marketplace runs merchant cash advances, invoice factoring, credit lines and equipment financing off a single application, with a stated 90%-plus approval rate and 24-hour funding.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The Hong Kong-based fintech paired a Series C equity round led by M Capital with fresh asset-backed securities commitments from MUFG and Quester Capital.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The firm agreed to a cease-and-desist order and a $100,000 penalty after regulators found it negotiated bond terms and took transaction-based fees on 31 affordable-housing offerings without registering.
Samuel Okonkwo · Regulation Desk
The deal would fold Amazon’s regional payments arm into PayTabs, creating a combined entity the companies project will process over $40 billion in annual payment volume across the MENA region.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
A fraudulent information request sent from a spoofed but authenticated government domain tricked Revolut’s compliance team into releasing KYC documents and transaction histories.
Samuel Okonkwo · Regulation Desk
The GSmart platform automates liquidity rebalancing, cash forecasting and fraud monitoring, but requires manual approval before any agent-proposed action involving money actually executes.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The live payment-processing platform undercuts Stripe and Square on headline rate while pairing checkout with seven autonomous agents that fight disputes, chase failed payments and reconcile books.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The internal transaction tested minting, redemption, freezing and clawback of USBDC tokens between the bank’s North American and European entities, with no client-facing launch date announced.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
The deal, expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026, would combine two of the larger technology platforms serving financial advisors on trading, tax management and portfolio engineering.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The BaaS-style account pairs an operating and reserve balance with corporate cards, invoicing and payroll tools, running through a partner bank for FDIC coverage up to $250,000.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The round, led by Halo Fund, brings the AI-driven registered investment advisor’s total funding to more than $200 million as it recruits independent financial advisors onto its technology platform.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The specialty insurer is offering 20 million shares at $15 to $17 apiece under the ticker OIG, seeking to raise up to $340 million as coastal-property insurers face persistent climate-driven underwriting pressure.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
The agency alleged Nuvei opened and kept accounts open for merchants it knew or should have known were running deceptive schemes, including tech-support scams; Nuvei is now permanently barred from serving certain high-risk merchant categories.
FinCrunch Staff · Regulation Desk
The Brazilian neobank giant is using an FDIC-insured sponsor bank to launch in America while its own national charter application remains pending.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The deal pairs Coinbase’s regulated custody and payments tools with Moov��s existing rails at smaller banks and credit unions, letting them offer stablecoin services without building blockchain infrastructure themselves.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
The tool automates the notoriously rigid Metro 2 formatting lenders use to report tradelines to Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, pricing by tradeline volume starting at $99 a month.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The proposed Know-Your-Agent framework would let an AI agent be recognized across competing payment networks without separately registering with each one, building on protocols the three firms already run individually.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The all-stock deal would give the USDC issuer a network of banking and fintech partners across more than 100 markets, aimed at extending stablecoin use in cross-border commerce.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
The upcoming multi-asset platform pairs continuous reserve attestation with AI-generated buy/sell signals and optional automated trading agents, still in waitlist mode ahead of launch.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The deal gives the neobank its own bank holding company structure for the first time, with Stride set to be renamed Chime Bank, N.A. once regulators clear the transaction.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The Monetary Authority of Singapore license lets Gemini’s local entity offer digital payment token and cross-border transfer services without standard transaction-volume caps.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
The upcoming platform lets sellers of cars, jewelry, real estate and equipment set their own financing terms and collect payments directly, without a bank in the deal.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The deal for the AI-forward wealth platform is Vanguard’s move into the technology layer serving independent financial advisors; terms were not disclosed.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
The Singapore bank and the payments company will pair DBS’s regional banking network with Stripe’s programmable infrastructure, and jointly develop agentic AI capabilities.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The platform automates multi-channel recovery across SMS, email, calls, letters and voicemail, on a commission model that starts free at 26% and falls to 3% at the top tier.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
LSEG and Payward plan to bring blockchain-based tokens of FTSE-listed companies to Kraken’s xStocks platform, with an eye toward a 24-hour trading venue launching in 2027.
Elena Cortés · Markets Desk
The proprietary score, built from Cash App transaction data, becomes available to auto, credit card and personal lenders through Nova Credit’s Cash Flow Intelligence Platform — with users controlling whether their data is shared.
Priya Raghunathan · Fintech Desk
The five-tier membership opens a revolving account in a member’s own name and reports it monthly in Metro 2 format, pairing the tradeline with dispute support and credit monitoring.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The S&P 500 gained roughly 1.1% on the week’s final trading day after data cleared the three catalysts investors had been positioning around since Monday.
FinCrunch Staff · Markets Desk
The AI Underwriting platform scores more than 1,000 data points per application and says it approves more borrowers at a lower default rate than bureau-only models.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The accounting software company placed AI agents directly in the general ledger. ICONIQ led the round, which takes total funding past $200 million.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The stablecoin neobank has raised $119 million this year across two rounds. Proceeds go toward its Own Network settlement layer and cross-border banking infrastructure.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
The membership product opens a revolving account in a business’s name and reports it monthly in Metro 2 format, with no personal guarantee and no personal credit check.
FinCrunch Staff · Fintech Desk
Non-accrual loans at the largest business development companies are at their highest level since 2017, while retail funds gate withdrawals and institutions keep committing capital.
FinCrunch Staff · Private Credit Desk
The S&P 500 eased about 0.3% at the start of a week carrying a chipmaker’s results, a PCE reading and the Fed chair’s Jackson Hole address.
FinCrunch Staff · Markets Desk
The Committee held rates at 3.50%–3.75% on a 9-3 vote, with three regional presidents dissenting in favor of a quarter-point increase.
FinCrunch Staff · Economy Desk
The Fed chair has stepped back from traditional forward guidance since taking office in May, leaving markets to read a 20-to-30-minute speech for direction on September.
FinCrunch Staff · Economy Desk
Under the GENIUS Act framework, licensing begins January 18, 2027, and unlicensed issuance is barred from July 18, 2028. Comments are open for 60 days.
FinCrunch Staff · Regulation Desk