DTCC Tokenized Securities: 5 Proven Market Wins
More than 30 firms settled real trades with tokens converted from DTC-held securities, covering collateral pledges, securities lending and Treasury transactions.
Charitarth SindhuJuly 21, 2026
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Itaú Unibanco Makes Cross-Border Payments Clearer: 3 Wins for Brazil Senders
Itaú, Brazil's largest private bank, is the first in the country on Swift's retail framework, which shows fees and rates up front and delivers the full amount sent.
Charitarth SindhuJuly 20, 2026
Rothera Launches Event Contracts Exchange: 3 Signals From Its Kalshi Challenge
Rothera built its CFTC-regulated event contracts exchange on Adaptive's Aeron platform in under five months, with the 2026 World Cup as its launch market.
Charitarth SindhuJuly 20, 2026
Counterpart Makes AI Liability Coverage Standard: 3 Signals to Watch
Counterpart now includes AI liability cover in every professional liability policy and is expanding into agents, accountants and real estate professionals.
Charitarth SindhuJuly 20, 2026
Unit21 Brings Blockchain Intelligence Into Bank Fraud Workflows: 3 Signals From the TRM Labs Deal
Unit21 users can now see TRM Labs crypto wallet risk and sanctions data inside the same workflow they use for bank fraud and AML investigations.
Charitarth SindhuJuly 19, 2026
Shift4 One Puts the Global Blue Acquisition to the Test: 3 Signals to Watch
Shift4 One combines payments, dynamic currency conversion and tax-free shopping in one handheld device, the first product from its roughly $2.5 billion Global Blue deal.
Charitarth SindhuJuly 19, 2026
Velocity Raises $38M to Bring Stablecoins Into Corporate Treasury, With Capital One in the Room
Capital One Ventures joined Dragonfly and FirstMark in Velocity's $38 million Series A. The London firm builds stablecoin treasury and settlement for corporates.
Charitarth SindhuJuly 17, 2026
Octus Joins the MCP Land Rush for Credit Data, a Little Late but With Real Substance
Octus subscribers can query its distressed debt and private credit data directly inside Claude, ChatGPT and other MCP-compatible models, powered by CreditAI.
Charitarth SindhuJuly 17, 2026
Feathery Raise Gets Insurers to Put Money Behind AI Underwriting
Insurers are among the backers of Feathery's Series A, led by Portage Ventures, bringing total funding to $30 million for its AI decisioning system.
Charitarth SindhuJuly 17, 2026
Cover Genius Raises $100M From a Credit Arm, Not a VC Fund, to Push Embedded Insurance Further
Vista Credit Partners, a credit arm rather than a venture fund, backed Cover Genius's $100 million raise at a $1.9 billion valuation.
Charitarth SindhuJuly 16, 2026
CSI Buys Qolo to Give Community Banks a Real Embedded Finance Story
CSI has bought Qolo's real-time ledgers, multi-rail payment orchestration and card issuing, giving community banks embedded finance tools they could not build themselves.
Charitarth SindhuJuly 16, 2026
Circle Joins Elliptic Effort to Figure Out Compliance for AI Agents That Move Money
A Circle affiliate has joined Elliptic's Agentic Design Partner Program, which aims to work out how compliance should apply to AI agents that move money.
Charitarth SindhuJuly 15, 2026