August 28, 2026
Revolut PRAGMA now has a division behind it. The bank launched Revolut Research on August 25 from London. It is a dedicated unit inside the AI department, built to develop proprietary machine learning models rather than buy them. Revolut PRAGMA figures are specific enough to check later, which is more than most bank AI announcements
August 28, 2026
Vanilla Safe entered beta on August 25. The estate planning platform is used by advisors at firms including Vanguard and Mariner Wealth Advisors. Vanilla Safe gives a client's whole household organised access to documents, contacts and guidance during a death or medical emergency. An advisor sets it up with a single invite. It is free
August 27, 2026
Parafin SpotOn Capital results were published on August 25 from San Francisco. Operators who refinanced into the programme paid 35 percent less on average for their financing. Those figures come from SpotOn's own data. Parafin runs underwriting, servicing, compliance and programme operations for SpotOn Capital. Its models weigh restaurant revenue and cash flow rather than
August 27, 2026
Grove Centrifuge stake news landed on August 25. The onchain credit protocol allocates institutional money into tokenized real-world assets. It has taken an initial position of 37.8 million CFG tokens in Centrifuge, the tokenization platform underneath its deployments. Scale matters here, and the token count alone does not convey it. CFG trades around $0.1391 against
August 27, 2026
ExpressoPay One-Click launched on August 25 from Coral Springs, Florida. Nordis Technologies built it on statement and balance data clients already supply. Most people have never heard of the company, despite it touching plenty of the bills they pay. The mechanics are simple. The system generates a unique payment URL for each consumer, pre-populated with
August 27, 2026
Morningstar PitchBook Gemini integrations were announced on August 25 from Chicago and Seattle. Both companies join Google Cloud as launch partners for the preview of Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services. Model Context Protocol carries public and private market intelligence into the product. Note the word preview. This is not general availability. The integrations themselves are
August 26, 2026
FICO UK credit card figures for June 2026 arrived on Monday, August 24, from London. They show a worsening pattern. Consumers spent more, repaid a smaller share of what they owed, and missed more payments than a year earlier. Average spend rose 5.6 percent month-on-month to £835. Meanwhile, the average active balance climbed 1.4 percent
August 26, 2026
Flagright Nacha Preferred Partner status was announced on Monday, August 24, from Reston, Virginia. Worth noting who issued it. Nacha put out the release from its own headquarters with its own media contact, so this is the network naming a vendor rather than the vendor announcing a win. The Flagright Nacha designation covers ACH compliance,
August 26, 2026
Fourthline QTSP status arrived on Monday, August 24. Fourthline Trust Services AB, the Swedish subsidiary, now appears on the EU Trusted List as a Qualified Trust Service Provider under eIDAS. Sweden's Post and Telecom Authority supervises it. The practical effect is narrower than the regulatory language and more useful than it sounds. As a qualified
August 25, 2026
Alfa Prime launched on Monday, August 24, announced from New York and Toronto. Boosted.ai describes it as a multi-model AI investment committee. Three pieces make it up: large-scale signal monitoring, purpose-built research agents, and structured debate between independent AI models. The workflow runs in sequence. The system monitors millions of market, fundamental and research signals.
August 25, 2026
Fasset Series C funding closed at $68 million on Monday, August 24, led by Japan's SBI Group at a $1 billion valuation. The announcement came from Los Angeles. It arrives three months after a $51 million Series B. That takes 2026 fundraising to $119 million and puts the company into the fintech unicorn column. The
August 25, 2026
Invoice factoring keeps getting written off as a relic of pre-fintech finance. Yet the numbers refuse to cooperate with that story. Global factoring turnover hit a record EUR 4.039 trillion in 2025, up 3.7 percent on the year, according to FCI. Meanwhile, the narrow band of US specialist firms has been shrinking for five years
