Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group, today announced the successful launch and seed-phase completion of the Starboard Sygnum BTC Alpha Fund, which delivered an annualised 8.9% net return in BTC for Q4 2025.

Allica Bank has reached a major milestone in its mission to support the UK’s established businesses, surpassing £1 billion in asset finance lending since launching the proposition in 2021.

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com), working with other mandated lead arrangers, has successfully closed a US$1.75 billion syndicated receivables purchase facility for Sonangol, Angola’s national oil company.

Funnel (www.funnel.io), the marketing intelligence platform trusted by global brands including Uber, Adidas and Sony, has secured an $80 million (approximately €68.7 million) debt facility from HSBC Innovation Banking and Hercules Capital, Inc. (NYSE: HTGC). The facility replaces a prior $58 million (€50 million) debt arrangement and provides additional capital to support the company’s continued growth, product innovation and path to profitability.

Vennre, a wealth creation platform enabling HENRYs (High Earners, Not Rich Yet) to access private market opportunities, today announced the successful close of its Pre-Series A funding round, raising USD 9.6 million through a hybrid equity and debt structure.

One in five SMBs would have dipped into their personal savings to keep operating without access to timely funding, according to recent research from Liberis

Pace, the agentic AI platform purpose-built for the insurance industry, announced today that it has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Sequoia Capital. The investment will accelerate Pace’s mission to modernize the $70 billion insurance business process outsourcing (BPO) market by replacing legacy manual workflows with autonomous AI agents.

Binq, AI and open banking powered business marketplace has integrated with one of Europe’s largest SME lenders iwoca, to offer funding to UK businesses:

A total of €66 million was invested through the Estateguru financing platform in 2025. This funding supported several hundred selected real estate projects across the Baltic states. The largest share of investments was allocated to projects related to Estonia, amounting to €25 million.

Stream, the leading workplace finance provider, today announced the close of its $90 million Series D funding round

Wrisk today announced that Allianz has invested in the company as part of its recently announced Series B funding round

CheckSig, an Italian fintech founded in 2019 by Ferdinando Ametrano and Paolo Mazzocchi with the goal of making crypto services safe and transparent for private and institutional investors, has announced the closing of a Series A extension funding round of €3.5 million. The capital raised will be used to accelerate the company's growth in Italy and abroad, strengthening its leadership in the European crypto sector.

Tech-driven, flexible finance provider, PayItMonthly, has secured a £10m asset-based lending facility from Secure Trust Bank Commercial Finance (STB CF) to turbocharge its service to independent businesses across the UK.

AAZZUR Ltd. today announces it has closed a £2 million funding round, completed in October 2025, to expand platform use cases

CheckSig, an Italian fintech founded in 2019 by Ferdinando Ametrano and Paolo Mazzocchi with the goal of making crypto services safe and transparent for private and institutional investors, has announced the closing of a Series A extension funding round of €3.5 million. The capital raised will be used to accelerate the company's growth in Italy and abroad, strengthening its leadership in the European crypto sector.