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AI in Finance—Charitarth Sindhu—July 20, 2026

AI liability coverage just became a default feature at Counterpart, not an optional add-on. The specialty insurtech built its business on AI-powered management and professional liability underwriting. Now it is expanding into three new lines, insurance agents, accountants, and real estate professionals, while adding excess coverage across its whole suite. The headline piece, though, is

AI in Finance—Charitarth Sindhu—July 19, 2026

Blockchain intelligence now flows straight into bank fraud queues, thanks to a new partnership between Unit21 and TRM Labs. Unit21 sells AI-driven fraud prevention and anti-money-laundering infrastructure to banks and fintechs. TRM Labs traces illicit crypto flows and screens wallets against sanctions and risk databases. Together, they let a compliance analyst flag suspicious crypto wallet

Fintech—Charitarth Sindhu—July 19, 2026

Shift4 One is the first real product to emerge from Shift4's roughly $2.5 billion purchase of Global Blue, and it doubles as an early verdict on that deal. The device is a single handheld unit that merges payment processing, dynamic currency conversion, and tax-free shopping. One piece of hardware now does the work that once

Industry Trends—Charitarth Sindhu—July 19, 2026

Digital euro pilot selection just handed RS2 Financial Services a front-row seat inside Europe's central bank payment experiment. The BaFin-supervised electronic money institution, operating under its Beyond by RS2 brand, will serve as an acquiring payment service provider in the Eurosystem programme. That role moves the whole project from technical preparation into practical validation. In

Fintech—Charitarth Sindhu—July 17, 2026

Velocity stablecoin infrastructure just drew money from a bank. Velocity, a London-based stablecoin treasury and settlement platform founded in May 2025, has raised a $38 million Series A co-led by Dragonfly and FirstMark. The participant list is the story. Activant Capital, QED Investors, Wintermute Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, and Ripple sit alongside Capital One Ventures, the

Corporate Acquisitions—Charitarth Sindhu—July 17, 2026

Octus MCP Connector is the company's answer to a question every financial data vendor is now facing. Octus, the credit intelligence platform used by financial, legal, and advisory firms tracking distressed debt and private credit, has launched a connector that lets subscribers query its data directly inside Claude, ChatGPT, or any other large language model

AI in Finance—Charitarth Sindhu—July 17, 2026

Feathery AI decisioning just got funded by the people it automates. Feathery, which builds an AI operating and decisioning system for insurance and wealth management firms, has raised $30 million in total funding including a recently closed Series A led by Portage Ventures. The round drew Index Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, and Bain Capital Ventures, alongside

Fintech—Charitarth Sindhu—July 16, 2026

Cover Genius has raised $100 million backed by Vista Credit Partners, taking its valuation to $1.9 billion. The detail worth pausing on is who wrote the cheque. Vista Credit Partners is the credit investment arm of Vista Equity Partners, not a venture fund, and it describes itself as a strategic financing partner focused on enterprise

Corporate Acquisitions—Charitarth Sindhu—July 16, 2026

CSI Qolo is a deal about what community banks cannot build themselves. CSI, the core banking technology vendor that has spent recent years buying its way into a fuller product stack, has acquired Qolo, a payments infrastructure company that builds real-time ledgers, multi-rail payment orchestration, and card issuing for banks and fintechs. Terms were not

AI in Finance—Charitarth Sindhu—July 15, 2026

Circle Elliptic is a partnership about a problem nobody has solved yet. Elliptic, the digital asset intelligence firm, announced that an affiliate of Circle has joined its Agentic Design Partner Program, a group meant to bring infrastructure providers, compliance teams, and technology leaders together to shape how compliance works for autonomous, AI-driven financial activity. The

Banking—Charitarth Sindhu—July 15, 2026

Greenlight credit union partnerships have crossed a threshold worth reading closely. Greenlight, the family money and safety app, says it has signed more than 100 credit union partners through its Greenlight for Credit Unions program, run out of Greenlight Financial CUSO, the credit union service organization it set up in 2023 specifically to build these

Banking—Charitarth Sindhu—July 15, 2026

Banyan WIZE is a deal about quiet, entrenched software. Banyan Software has completed a majority investment in WIZE, a Geneva-based wealth and asset management software platform serving more than 120 financial institutions across 27 countries, including external asset managers, family offices, private banks, pension funds, and institutional investors. Founded in 2010 and incubated inside TeamWork