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 15, 2026
Greenlight credit union partnerships have crossed a threshold worth reading closely. Greenlight, the family money and safety app, says it has signed more than 100 credit union partners through its Greenlight for Credit Unions program, run out of Greenlight Financial CUSO, the credit union service organization it set up in 2023 specifically to build these
July 15, 2026
Banyan WIZE is a deal about quiet, entrenched software. Banyan Software has completed a majority investment in WIZE, a Geneva-based wealth and asset management software platform serving more than 120 financial institutions across 27 countries, including external asset managers, family offices, private banks, pension funds, and institutional investors. Founded in 2010 and incubated inside TeamWork
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
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
July 13, 2026
Swift blockchain ledger is now ready for initial use. Swift says the ledger is live for early adopters, with 17 banks across six continents lined up to pilot 24/7 cross-border payments using tokenised deposits. The list is not a group of niche crypto-friendly banks. ANZ, BNP Paribas, BNY, Citi, DBS, First Abu Dhabi Bank, FirstRand,
July 13, 2026
Klarna Germany facility is the company's first forward flow and warehouse financing deal in the country. Klarna has established a 900 million euro facility that it says will support up to 5 billion euros of Fair Financing originations there over the life of the program. Under the two-year agreement, Klarna sold a portfolio of existing
July 10, 2026
Amplify Goldman Sachs custody is a bet about what independent advisors really want. Amplify, a platform built around what it calls an AI-native data lake for registered investment advisors, launched its Custody Command Layer this week, integrated directly with Goldman Sachs Custody Solutions. The pitch is same-day account opening, real-time data, and no reconciliation, aimed
