For years, buying something online in China meant typing keywords into a search bar and scrolling through an endless grid of listings. That ritual is being dismantled. On Monday, Alibaba Group integrated its Qwen artificial intelligence assistant with Taobao, its largest marketplace, giving the chatbot access to a catalogue of more than four billion products. […]
Revolut’s chief executive, Nik Storonsky, has told employees across the company that business banking is now its top priority, and is offering each of them £1,000 to prove he means it. In a memo sent to staff on Friday, Storonsky asked everyone, regardless of department, to help bring in new business customers, send pitches […]
Fintech is a sector known for speed and pressure. Employment is usually described in the language of momentum: rapid growth, market disruption, fast-paced decisions. However, this language has stopped resonating with strong candidates. Millennials and Gen Z in particular tend to seek a sense of purpose at work, with roughly 9 out of 10 […]
Visionaries Club returns; Stéphane Kurgan (ex-King COO) and Miro founder Andrey Khusid join. Total funding now over $30m in less than two years. The London fintech says its customers see late-payment rates 7x lower than the UK SME average. Adfin, the London-based fintech building an agentic money-movement platform, has raised $18m in a Series A […]
Paymentology, the London-based global issuer-processor, has raised $175m in a round co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners, the company said on Tuesday. Apis invested through its Apis Growth Fund III vehicle, which the firm said takes its total payments-sector investment count to 16. For Aspirity, a pan-European private-equity firm focused on financial technology and […]
Wise began trading on Nasdaq on Monday under the ticker WSE. Shares opened at 15.96 dollars. The London-founded fintech, which went public on the London Stock Exchange in July 2021 via a direct listing that valued it at 11 billion dollars, has moved its primary listing to New York while keeping a secondary listing […]
The Dublin and London-based fintech, founded by ex-Stripe and ex-Tide engineers, has processed over 100,000 transactions and 40,000 invoices across 80+ early customers. Its €7.5M seed round, led by 13books, brings total funding to €10M and opens the platform to any startup in the UK and Ireland. Seapoint, the AI-powered financial operations platform for startups, […]
Slash, the vertical banking platform built by two college dropouts, has raised a $100M Series C backed by Khosla Ventures and Ribbit Capital. The company’s valuation has nearly quadrupled since its May 2025 Series B, the latest leg of a comeback story that began when its core market evaporated overnight. Slash, the San Francisco-based vertical […]
The Copenhagen fintech has built a platform of specialised AI agents that handle KYC and KYB work, document reviews, ownership mapping, risk rationale, in minutes rather than hours. NEA led the Series A; Northzone, Seedcamp, and PSV Tech participated. Spektr, a Copenhagen-based startup building AI infrastructure for financial compliance, has raised $20 million in a […]
The London fintech, used by Cleo and PostHog, has closed a seed round led by Alstin Capital, with Backed VC and Love Ventures participating. The co-founder of Indeed also joined as an angel. Passion Capital, an early backer of Monzo, Tide, and GoCardless, doubled its investment. Round, a London fintech that automates treasury management, payments, […]
