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
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
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 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
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
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
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
July 14, 2026
Ruleguard Continuous Assurance is a bet that regulated firms are done reconstructing their compliance position after the fact. Ruleguard has launched a Continuous Assurance Platform aimed at getting financial firms off the periodic compliance cycle, the quarterly or annual review model, and onto something closer to a live, continuously updated view of where they stand
July 14, 2026
MSCI UBS private markets is a bet on standardizing an asset class that has resisted it. MSCI and UBS announced a strategic partnership meant to bring more transparency to private markets, pairing MSCI's data and analytics with UBS's alternatives business, which oversees more than $340 billion in combined invested assets across hedge funds, private equity,
July 14, 2026
BitGo quantum risk tooling is now live for institutional Bitcoin wallets. BitGo has rolled out new quantum-risk management capabilities, aimed at helping custody clients assess and reduce exposure tied to UTXO-based wallet structures before quantum computing becomes a practical threat rather than a theoretical one. The release adds four concrete pieces. A UTXO Selection Method
July 13, 2026
Alight BNY retirement is a partnership aimed at a small, real annoyance. Alight, the benefits administration giant that handles recordkeeping and participant experience for a large chunk of corporate retirement plans, and BNY, the custody and asset servicing bank, launched a joint retirement solution aimed at defined contribution and defined benefit plan sponsors and their
July 13, 2026
Citi 24/7 USD Clearing has its first live bank client. The Siam Commercial Bank has become the first financial institution client globally to go live on Citi's integrated 24/7 USD Clearing paired with Citi Token Services, enabling near-instant cross-border USD payments for corporate and institutional clients at any hour, any day of the year. The
