September 5, 2026
Great Hill Aurenity terms went undisclosed, which is the first thing worth noticing. Great Hill Partners made a strategic investment in Aurenity, a technology-enabled excess and surplus managing general agent, with founding investor Agman and management retaining significant portions of their equity. What the Great Hill Aurenity Deal Covers The Great Hill Aurenity target was
September 5, 2026
OakNorth West Coast Estates lending was confirmed on 1 September, funding two commercial acquisitions in Scotland with headroom for further deals under the same facility. Terms were not disclosed. What the OakNorth West Coast Estates Loan Funds In St Andrews the OakNorth West Coast Estates facility funded Craigtoun Road, a seven-acre site with consent for
September 4, 2026
Upstart, August 2026 originations and Upstart Macro Index, published September 3. The latest Upstart Macro Index reading held at 1.50 on September 3, unchanged from the August 3 reading a month earlier, even as the company's AI lending marketplace originated 1,342.1 million dollars in loans through August across 26.5 origination days, an average of about
September 4, 2026
Nacha and dhango, Preferred Partner designation, announced September 3. The new Nacha dhango partner designation names dhango, an Austin-based payments infrastructure company, a Nacha Preferred Partner covering risk and fraud prevention, compliance, and open banking. Nacha is the organization that governs the US ACH network, which processed 35.2 billion payments worth 93 trillion dollars in
September 4, 2026
Socure and Aeropay, identity and bank-linking integration, announced September 3. The Socure Aeropay onboarding integration lets a consumer verify who they are and connect a bank account using only a phone number and two clicks. The integration runs inside Socure's RiskOS platform and inverts the usual sequence in fintech onboarding, where open banking data is
September 4, 2026
Orion Custom Indexing picked up three heavyweight partners on 1 September. Orion added BlackRock, Fidelity Investments and Vanguard as model-portfolio strategists on Tailored Allocation Portfolios, bringing the roster to eight alongside Brinker-Main Management, First Trust Advisors, Frontier Asset Management, Janus Henderson and Russell Investments. What Orion Custom Indexing Adds to the Models The Orion Custom
September 4, 2026
Alpaca IDX agreement documents were signed in Jakarta on 1 September by Alpaca co-founder and chief executive Yoshi Yokokawa and IDX president director Jeffrey Hendrik. The two sides will explore expanding cross-border access between Indonesian and global capital markets using Penyaluran Amanat Luar Negeri, or PALN, the mechanism letting Indonesian brokers route customer orders to
September 4, 2026
FNZ equity raise number three in under two years landed on 1 September. The global wealth-management platform secured $450 million in new equity entirely from existing institutional shareholders: La Caisse, CPP Investments, Generation Investment Management and Motive Partners. No new investors joined. What the FNZ Equity Raise Delivers FNZ says the equity raise funds its
September 4, 2026
Grupo Salinas and Integral Digital, trading desk technology deal, announced September 3. The Grupo Salinas Integral Digital agreement makes Integral Digital the technology behind a new institutional digital-asset trading desk run through Grupo Salinas' COINPRO unit. Grupo Salinas is the Mexican conglomerate that also owns Banco Azteca, and the desk will serve corporate and institutional
September 4, 2026
Block Nova Credit distribution begins now. Block is opening its proprietary Cash App Score to external lenders for the first time, routing it through Nova Credit so lenders can plug the score into underwriting workflows they already run. Customers need no new credentials, and consent lives in the Cash App Money Tab. What the Block
September 4, 2026
BitGo and Decibel, custody connectivity, announced September 3. The new BitGo Decibel custody connection adds support linking BitGo's institutional multi-party-computation self-custody wallets to Decibel, a decentralized spot and perpetuals exchange built on the Aptos blockchain. The integration runs through WalletConnect and lets institutional clients trade on Decibel while their assets stay inside BitGo-connected wallets, preserving
September 4, 2026
ACI Cranium acquisition terms went unpublished, but the strategic reason did not. ACI Worldwide agreed to buy Cranium Ventures, a privately held UK developer of cloud-native card payment switching, and will fold its SYNAP framework into ACI Connetic for Cards. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026. What the ACI
