May 30, 2025 @ 12:40 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Velocity, a financial infrastructure platform, announced a $10 million pre-seed funding round. It was led by Activant Capital, with participation from Fuel Ventures, Triton Capital, Fabric Ventures, Commerce Ventures, and Preface Ventures. Strategic shareholders include current or former executives from Stripe, Worldpay, Visa,… Read More

May 30, 2025 @ 8:06 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

According to a series of recent studies of bank and credit card mobile app and online users, released today by J.D. Power, the gap between best-performing and lowest-performing apps and websites has shrunk to its lowest level to date, providing customers a highly consistent but… Read More

May 30, 2025 @ 7:53 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Dexari, a self-custodial crypto wallet and trading app, has raised $2.3 million in seed funding to redefine how users engage with DeFi. The round was led by Prelude and co-led by Lemniscap, with participation from notable angels across the Hyperliquid ecosystem and beyond. Amid the… Read More

May 28, 2025 @ 9:30 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Federal oversight of stablecoins is forthcoming. Last month, the House Financial Services Committee reviewed the STABLE Act (HR 2392). Introduced by Chairman French Hill and Rep. Bryan Steil, the STABLE Act expands federal oversight of stablecoins by strengthening compliance mechanisms and providing clear rules for their… Read More

May 25, 2025 @ 6:22 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

RevenueCat, a platform for managing consumer app monetization, has raised a $50 million Series C round led by Bain Capital Ventures. Returning investors Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Adjacent, Volo Ventures and SaaStr Fund also participated. This adds to the prior $12 million Series C that… Read More

May 25, 2025 @ 5:12 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This past week, SukuPay, a cryptocurrency-cross-border payments company, has been fully embedded as the remittance engine inside Zigi, the mobile app of Banco Industrial, Guatemala’s largest bank. SukuPay claims this is the first time a crypto-native protocol has gone live at this depth inside a… Read More

May 25, 2025 @ 3:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

The LexisNexis Risk Solutions Cybercrime Report concisely describes how fraud has evolved over the past two years. First-party fraud, for one, surged in 2024, with BNPL and financial services companies popular targets. Fraudsters’ attack modes are also changing. In 2023, the top three types were… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 9:17 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Carrot, a digital lending startup expanding access to credit for African businesses and individuals backed by their digital financial assets, announced its $4.2 million seed funding round, led by MaC Venture Capital, with participation from Partech Africa and Authentic Ventures. The funds will be used… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 7:15 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Pay-i, a value-intelligence platform, announced $4.9 million in seed funding to address enterprise spending on GenAI. The round was co-led by Fuse Partners and Tola Capital, with participation from Firestreak, Pear VC, Gaia Capital, and angel investors from Fortune 100 companies. Today, most teams still… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 7:13 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Panther Protocol has officially released its codebase as open-source software, following a successful security audit conducted by Veridise. This launch offers access to Panther’s Zero-Knowledge technology to build DeFi solutions that meet customizable regulatory requirements and users’ on-chain data privacy needs. The open-source code will… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 6:37 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

YouHodler’s chief of markets, Ruslan Lienkha, believes Bitcoin could soon eclipse $150,000. Find out why below. Sustainability of the bullish momentum “Bitcoin scored another all-time high this week. The sustainability of Bitcoin’s recent momentum largely hinges on the broader sentiment across financial markets, particularly the… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 8:41 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bitcoin’s rise to an all-time high above $110,000 has torched expectations—and it’s forcing a reappraisal of what’s possible in 2025. According to Nigel Green, CEO of deVere Group, the latest rally means that “$150,000 no longer looks ambitious—it looks cautious.” The flagship cryptocurrency has gained… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 7:38 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Web3 personalities had plenty to discuss this week, as AI companies risk trampling over copyright protections, historians are concerned about ownership of the digital record, and gold and BTC price surges fuel concerns. AI companies skirting copyright law “What was simply a global race for… Read More

May 23, 2025 @ 6:08 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Greenlight, a money and safety app for families, has launched Family Shield, its newest subscription plan designed to help caregivers protect seniors from financial fraud and ensure their physical safety. Family Shield streamlines financial account monitoring and alerts, provides protections against fraud (including deceptive transfer… Read More

May 21, 2025 @ 10:13 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Billtrust, a B2B order-to-cash and digital payments provider, has announced a series of AI advancements. The company’s AI solutions derive their intelligence from a large network of buyer-supplier relationships, creating a virtuous cycle of continuous learning and improvement. A multi-agent AI ecosystem uses specialized agents that collaborate… Read More

May 19, 2025 @ 7:22 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Infosys (NYSE: INFY) has announced an expansion of its strategic collaboration with DNB Bank ASA  (DNB), Norway’s largest bank, to accelerate its digital transformation. The collaboration will leverage Infosys’ services, solutions, and platforms, including the Infosys Finacle platform, to accelerate their IT modernization journey, improve… Read More

May 18, 2025 @ 10:59 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Fireblocks released its annual payments report, State of Stablecoins 2025. Drawing on insights from nearly 300 C-suite leaders across banking, fintech, and crypto-native firms, the report reveals that stablecoins are no longer in pilot mode—they are becoming the financial core of modern payments infrastructure. Roughly… Read More

May 18, 2025 @ 10:57 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, AU10TIX, a respected provider of identity verification and fraud prevention, announced the launch of continuous risk monitoring as part of its advanced anti-money laundering (AML) solution. Driven by customer demand, this new capability delivers real-time risk insights across the full customer lifecycle—empowering businesses to detect behavioral… Read More

May 18, 2025 @ 10:22 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Mashreq, a MENA financial institution, is set to announce a strategic partnership with Clari5, a provider of real-time financial crime management, to launch Clari5 Genie, a Gen AI-powered fraud detection and investigation platform. Clari5 Genie is designed to help banks proactively manage fraud by using Gen-AI to uncover… Read More

May 18, 2025 @ 1:39 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Hedera announced the launch of AI Studio—an open-source, modular toolkit for building intelligent AI applications on its network. As AI enters a new era of autonomy, interoperability, and verifiability, AI Studio gives developers and enterprises a suite of tools to build powerful, trusted applications. The… Read More