
Tradeweb is buying the bond trading platform Trumid for about $1.97 billion. It lands one quarter after ICE agreed to buy MarketAxess, so both big electronic bond venues are now consolidating.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 22, 2026

The Kraken parent is buying a Lithuanian bank to take Payward Banking into the EU. The release, Fintechbits notes, gives no price, no deposit or loan figures and only a 2027 close.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 16, 2026

Intuit is buying Sequence, the London revenue automation start-up. Fintechbits notes that Adyen paid a disclosed $335 million for billing platform Orb in June, while Intuit named no price at all.
Marvin Evans·October 16, 2026

Jefferies is selling FXCM in pieces, with Trade Nation taking the UK clients and AvaTrade most of the rest. No price, no timetable, and a lot riding on client retention.
Marvin Evans·October 11, 2026

Brevan Howard, an investor in Ripple, has become a prime brokerage client of Ripple Prime. The relationship is circular, and the financing capacity behind it is the number to look for.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 9, 2026

Four infrastructure partners bought into OKX at the same $25 billion pre-money valuation set in March. Every new investor already supplies a layer of the exchange, so the capital doubles as a commercial bond.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 9, 2026

Payward, the company behind Kraken, has plugged into Singapore Gulf Bank's real-time clearing network so institutions in Asia and the Gulf can settle dollars at any hour, starting with a select group of clients.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 8, 2026

Vishal Garg has certified a 52.02% consent result and cut Better's board to five seats, while the company's special committee withdrew its challenge citing cost and uncertainty.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 8, 2026

Basware has closed its purchase of payment fraud specialist Trustpair, with price undisclosed and a promise that Trustpair stays independent and open to rival systems.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 8, 2026

Valley National Bancorp will pay about $340 million for Bluevine, a small-business banking platform holding $2.1 billion of deposits. The cheaper funding is real, but on its own it would take roughly two decades to repay the price.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 7, 2026

A budgeting app with over 1 million members buys a former neobank's technology team, and the founder of that team will run a new unit named Monarch Labs.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 6, 2026

Stripe has agreed to buy the embedded lender that already powers credit offers for DoorDash, Gusto, Jobber and Mindbody. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 6, 2026