Uniting Europe’s capital markets by consolidating issuance, custody, trading, and settlement of securities into a regulated system built on DLT.

The American Fintech Council (AFC), the largest industry association representing both responsible fintech companies and innovative banks, announced the addition of Blank Rome as the newest member of its Legal Advisory Committee. Blank Rome is an international law firm providing legal services across a wide range of practice areas and industries, including financial services and technology. As a Legal Advisory Committee member, Blank Rome will contribute legal and regulatory perspective to AFC’s work supporting responsible innovation and sound policy development in the financial technology sector.

Chargebase, a new chargeback-prevention platform built for high-growth e-commerce and SaaS businesses, today announces its official launch. Designed to solve an expensive and existential problem for merchants – chargebacks – Chargebase gives companies instant access to Verifi and Ethoca alerts in a single, easy-to-use platform with automated workflows and transparent pricing.

APEXX Global, the leading merchant-centric Payment Orchestration Platform, today announced a strategic investment of up to $10 million USD led by Finch Capital, a European growth investor with deep expertise in payments and scaling financial technology players internationally.

Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN), the most comprehensive technology platform for investment management and TreasurySpring, the global cash investment platform, today announced an integration that connects CWAN’s investment management platform directly with over 1,000 cash investment products from TreasurySpring, helping institutional clients manage surplus cash with defined maturity requirements.

The Gothenburg-based company Fintower recently closed an oversubscribed seed round that attracted both new and existing investors. Among the investors are Chalmers Ventures, Akka, the Stena family through William Olsson, as well as several entrepreneurs and angel investors. Existing investors include Almi, Daniel Jonsson from Inet, and Alexander Hars. In total, €1.5 million was raised.

Eltropy, the leading agentic AI-powered conversations platform for community financial institutions (CFIs), closed 2025 with record growth across key business metrics, positioning the company for continued expansion in 2026. The company's unified platform approach helped CFIs consolidate vendor relationships while improving member engagement and operational efficiency.

US fintech start-up Veritus has raised $10.1 million in seed funding to accelerate deployment of its AI agents across the consumer lending value chain, company co-founder and CEO Joshua March reveals exclusively to FinTech Futures.

Tandem Bank has announced the promotion of Ryan Heaps to Chief Financial Officer following regulatory approval

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Profile, a leading international financial solutions provider, is pleased to announce that the Co-op Bank of Kenya Limited (Co-op Bank) has successfully gone live with Acumen.plus, its internationally acclaimed Treasury Management solution. This milestone marks the culmination of a strategic partnership aimed at optimising and streamlining the bank’s treasury operations through full automation and regulatory compliance.

Inclusive global payments platform, Ecommpay has entered a new strategic partnership with Payrails, the financial operating system for global enterprises. Designed to empower large e-commerce businesses to significantly optimise their payments, the collaboration aims to directly impact top-line growth and bottom-line costs. By leveraging the combined strengths of both platforms, enterprises can aim to expect improved acceptance and conversion rates, reduced costs and accelerated speed to market for their services.

By connecting directly to NICS Real, Moonrise enables partners to send and receive Norwegian Krone (NOK) in real time, 24/7/365. With this launch, Moonrise becomes the only provider offering a unified, API-first entry point to all three Nordic instant payment rails, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, through a single integration.

Volt, the real-time, rail-agnostic money movement platform, today announces the full launch of its flagship cash management products, leveraging its e-money licences: Volt Accounts, Named Accounts, and Virtual IBANs.

Sidekick, the wealth platform built for professionals whose finances are becoming more complex as their incomes and assets grow, has raised £7.8m in Series A funding. The funding will be used to scale its investing products and make sophisticated investment tools more accessible outside traditional private banking.