
Fintech venture funding fell to $11 billion in Q3 2026, but the six largest signed fintech acquisitions totalled about $22.3 billion, roughly double what startups raised.
Marvin Evans·October 20, 2026

Credential phishing dominates and credit unions see twice the mule activity. Fintechbits notes Q2 publishes shares and ratios but no signal counts or dollar amounts behind them.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 17, 2026

Victory Park Capital has launched VALTS, a tokenized feeder into its asset-backed credit fund, with Tradable. Fintechbits notes Tradable's tokenized total grew from $1.7 billion in July to $3 billion.
Marvin Evans·October 17, 2026

Experian has made its mortgage soft-pull profile reusable at no extra charge and put VantageScore 4.0 at the top of the file. It is a pricing move in the score war with FICO.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 14, 2026

ConnexPay has wired its pay-in and pay-out tools into MIDOCO's travel back-office software. Putting supplier virtual cards where reconciliation already happens is a sensible way to win travel agencies.
Marvin Evans·October 10, 2026

Venmo will pay an extra 1% on top of 3% cash back on dining and entertainment when cardholders split the bill in its app, from 15 October 2026.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 8, 2026

Wayfair has renewed with Klarna and added six-month interest-free financing across its brands. The deal shows where buy now, pay later is heading: bigger baskets and longer terms.
Marvin Evans·October 8, 2026

About 17% of stablecoin-linked card volume at Visa sits in business and commercial programs. The number is real, but it measures cards funded with stablecoins, not companies settling invoices on-chain.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 3, 2026

Eclipse Bank in Louisville has chosen Lumin Digital for retail and commercial banking. Neither side named the system it replaces, which leaves the deal's real significance hard to judge.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 26, 2026

Nasdaq Ventures has joined the Series A of Transient.AI, which sells an AI governance layer to banks, hedge funds and asset managers. The size of the check was not disclosed.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 26, 2026

Sola's grocery software partners can now process chip-enabled EBT cards as states replace magstripe benefit cards to cut skimming. The Brooklyn payments platform already handled EBT on magnetic stripe.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 25, 2026

Earnix Agent Hub lands 25 insurance AI agents inside pricing and underwriting. The agent count does more marketing work than the launch admits.
Marvin Evans·September 21, 2026