July 27, 2026
Mbanq funding note just found its first institutional backer. Mbanq, the US-based banking infrastructure and embedded finance vendor, said a leading Swiss private bank has made the inaugural investment into a new institutional funding program built to bankroll its lending and Earned Wage Access business. The notes are listed on the Open Market of the
July 27, 2026
Dilosk Pepper Advantage is the kind of deal that reshapes a market without making noise. Dilosk DAC, the Irish mortgage lender known by its ICS Mortgages brand, has agreed to be acquired by Pepper Advantage, the international credit management platform wholly owned by private equity firm J.C. Flowers & Co. Terms were not disclosed. Once
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
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
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
July 10, 2026
Account takeover confidence at financial firms sits far above the evidence supporting it. Secret Double Octopus, a passwordless authentication vendor, published its 2026 State of Identity Security in Financial Organizations report this week, based on a survey of 200 identity and access management leaders at US and Canadian financial services firms. The topline is a
July 4, 2026
InvoiceCloud CentralSquare partnership targets a slow corner of digital payments: government. On July 1, 2026, the two companies announced an alliance to modernize billing and payments for governments and utilities across North America. A pre-built integration connects InvoiceCloud's payments platform with CentralSquare's public administration software. The InvoiceCloud CentralSquare pitch is simpler payments for residents and
June 28, 2026
MSCI acquires First Street. On the surface, this is a $120 million data acquisition by a $42 billion index and analytics company. At a deeper level, it is the moment financial services formally acknowledged that the physical consequences of climate change are no longer a sustainability-reporting footnote but a core input into investment underwriting, credit
June 22, 2026
Adyen acquires Orb for $335 million. That is the headline from Amsterdam on June 11, 2026, and it reads, at first glance, like a routine fintech infrastructure deal: a large payments processor buys a smaller billing platform. It is not. Adyen acquires Orb to solve the most consequential unsolved problem in enterprise payments: the structural
June 3, 2026
Kaiko Acquires Amberdata in a landmark digital assets deal! There is a principle in financial markets that predates fintech, crypto, and most of what we call modern capital markets: the firm that controls the data controls the market. Bloomberg built a $10 billion business on it. Refinitiv, sold to the London Stock Exchange Group for
March 25, 2026
Regnology enhances its RegTech offerings by adding Invoke to its portfolio, strengthening compliance solutions and driving innovation in regulatory technology. Discover the benefits today!
March 24, 2026
"FinTech acquisition activity declines sharply in H1 2023, outpacing downturns in other sectors as market dynamics shift and investor confidence wanes."
