Financial IT

pay.com.au Finalises $53 Million Capital Event as Part of Its Expansion Strategy

AUD$53 million in its latest capital raise round, propelling the company’s strategic growth and international expansion plans ...
Financial IT

Worldpay Accelerates the Future of Agentic Commerce with Model Context Protocol (MCP): A Publicly Available Server Powering AI-driven, Agent-Enabled Payments

Worldpay®, a global leader in payment technology, has announced the launch of Worldpay MCP (Model Context Protocol), a publicly available set of server specifications and tools, designed to accelerate ...
Financial IT

Tidalwave Raises $22M Series A, on Track to Reach 4% of U.S. Mortgage Market

Tidalwave, an agentic AI-powered mortgage point-of-sale (POS) platform, today announced a $22 million Series A funding round led by Permanent Capital, with participation from D.R. Horton, Inc., the ...
Financial IT

iwoca SME Expert Index: Three-Quarters of Finance Brokers Say Government Policies Harming SMEs, With Budget Likely to Worsen Outlook

More than three-quarters (76%) of business finance specialists say the Government’s policies have had a negative impact on the UK’s 5.5m small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with the situation ...
Financial IT

Barker Secures $3.5 Million to Scale Warrantied AI Valuations for Asset-Backed Lending

Barker, a pioneering Fintech firm that transforms illiquid asset valuations into insurance-backed instruments, secured $3.5 million in funding led by Walkabout VC. The new capital will accelerate ...
Financial IT

Grasshopper and Narmi Expand Access to Generative AI to Streamline Financial Workflows With ChatGPT Integration & OAuth

Grasshopper, a client-first, full service digital bank, and Narmi, a leading digital-banking-platform provider, today announced the next evolution of their groundbreaking Model Context Protocol (MCP) ...
Financial IT

British Business Bank Publishes Five-Year Strategic Plan to Deliver Step Change in Smaller Business Finance

Today, the British Business Bank responds to an updated mandate from the UK Government by publishing a five-year strategic plan for delivering a step change in how UK smaller businesses are financed.
Financial IT

Ant International Launches Alipay+ in Bahrain

BENEFIT, the Bahraini innovator and a leading company in fintech and electronic financial transactions service, and Ant International, a leading global digital payment, digitisation and financial ...
Financial IT

Tech Mahindra Launches i.GreenFinance, an AI-Driven Sustainable Lending Platform Built on AWS for Financial Institutions Globally

Tech Mahindra, a leading global provider of technology consulting and digital solutions to enterprises across industries, announced the launch of i.GreenFinance, an advanced sustainable lending ...
Financial IT

TerraPay Launches Xend - A Global Payments Interoperability Network to Power Borderless Payments for Billions of Wallet Users

TerraPay, a leading global money movement company, today announced the launch of Xend, a first-of-its-kind Payments Interoperability Network designed to unify the fragmented world of wallets, banks, ...
Financial IT

Paysafe Enables Brazilian Gamers to Pay for Boosteroid via Pix

Paysafe, a leading payments platform, today announced its expanded partnership with Boosteroid, the world’s largest independent cloud gaming provider. Through Paysafe, Brazilian gamers wanting to ...
Financial IT

Episode Six and Sharesies Partner to Launch New Debit Card Linking Everyday Spending to Long-Term Investing

Episode Six, a leading global technology provider of enterprise-grade card issuing and ledger infrastructure, today announced its partnership with leading wealth app Sharesies, to support its newly ...