Float raises €4.5 million to expand revenue financing platform
Stockholm-founded Float will use the Series A funding to grow its team, build an AI-native finance platform and expand in the UK.
By Rafael Ortiz 2 months agoFintech Correspondent
Rafael Ortiz
Rafael covers payments, banking infrastructure, and the software eating financial services. Former product lead at a payments processor.
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The Spanish bank says the Comercia Global Payments platform links card acceptance with business systems to automate transactions a...
By Rafael Ortiz 2 months agoMSCI and UBS partner on private markets data platform
MSCI and UBS will collaborate on an AI-powered platform intended to standardize private markets data, analytics and workflows for...
By Rafael Ortiz 2 months agoHSBC UK and Visa test card payments initiated by AI shopping agents
HSBC UK says a card was used in an end-to-end agentic transaction on a live merchant site as it works with Visa on AI-enabled comm...
By Rafael Ortiz 2 months agoS&P Global takes strategic stake in SSImple to target SSI automation
SSImple said S&P Global has made a strategic investment as firms prepare for T+1 settlement and greater post-trade automation.
By Rafael Ortiz 2 months agoStripe and Advent make joint approach to buy PayPal
Reuters was told the proposal has about $50 billion of bank financing and implies a 28% premium to PayPal’s Tuesday close.
By Rafael Ortiz 2 months agoIBM partner sets out phased route for bank card core modernisation
Srini Bala says large banks can reduce card-platform migration risk by shifting functions gradually from legacy cores to API-based...
By Rafael Ortiz 2 months agoCSI buys Qolo to expand commercial banking and payments tools
CSI said the acquisition adds real-time ledger, payment orchestration and card issuing capabilities for community banks, fintechs...
By Rafael Ortiz 2 months ago
GreenArrow buys three US transportation technology businesses
CAI Capital Partners-backed GreenArrow has acquired The Narwhal Group, HBC Company and Atlantic Transportation Systems, PE Hub rep...
By Rafael Ortiz 2 months ago
Williams draws $5.34bn backing from Blackstone, Apollo and KKR
The energy company will keep majority ownership and operating control of the projects while holding to its 2026 adjusted EBITDA ou...
By Rafael Ortiz 2 months ago
Banyan names Simon Gélinas managing director and head of investments
Banyan Capital Partners has elevated Simon Gélinas to lead its investment function, PE Hub reported.
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