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With fewer deals getting done, investors are digging deeper into the ones they back. A founder who closed a round this year and two advisers explain what the data room now needs to prove.
Charitarth SindhuNovember 7, 2026
With fewer fintech deals getting done, investors have more time to test each one. We asked industry leaders what fintech due diligence focuses on now. They say founders underprepare on proof that controls work and that lenders can recover loans.
Charitarth SindhuNovember 6, 2026
With funding down for three straight quarters, profit has become the currency that matters. Two industry voices share the change that moved their numbers, and the big fintechs show which levers work.
Charitarth SindhuNovember 3, 2026
Cognitive Credit raised $40 million to expand its corporate credit data and AI tools. On the same day, LSEG agreed to pay $3.535 billion for Octus, a credit data rival.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 26, 2026
Tradeweb is buying the bond trading platform Trumid for about $1.97 billion. It lands one quarter after ICE agreed to buy MarketAxess, so both big electronic bond venues are now consolidating.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 22, 2026
Valley National Bancorp will pay about $340 million for Bluevine, a small-business banking platform holding $2.1 billion of deposits. The cheaper funding is real, but on its own it would take roughly two decades to repay the price.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 7, 2026
Pagaya has opened a revolving line of nearly $700 million with Apollo-backed ATLAS to hold new personal loans before securitization. Pricing and terms are missing from the release.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 1, 2026
Trading pace has roughly tripled since launch, and the next step puts dealers on the same regulated venue as their hedging clients.
Charitarth SindhuSeptember 30, 2026
DTCC took an undisclosed stake in iCapital, giving the market utility a foothold in the fastest-moving corner of wealth distribution.
Charitarth SindhuSeptember 30, 2026
A down round usually leaves the founder running the company, while a sale often hands over far more control than expected. Kuldeep Kundal of CIS explains what acquirers actually want.
Charitarth SindhuSeptember 29, 2026
