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 agoSection
Fintech
Citi executive says QR codes and RTP can support safer instant payments
Elena Gomez of Citi discussed QR codes, real-time payments and fraud prevention in a FinextraTV interview at EBAday 2026 in Copenh...
By Rafael Ortiz 2 months agoCaixaBank launches integrated payments platform for business clients
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 agoIBM executive sets out active-active cloud model for core banking
Srini Bala says tougher resilience rules are pushing banks beyond passive disaster recovery for systems of record.
By Ingrid Halvorsen 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 agoBanks urged to treat transaction enrichment as core data infrastructure
Tapix by Dateio executive Martin Korbelar says banks risk customer trust when enriched transaction data is built only for display.
By Ingrid Halvorsen 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 agoNatWest enters UK quantum programme to test financial crime detection
The bank is among 11 organisations in Digital Catapult’s third cohort, which will run to February 2027 and apply quantum work to b...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 2 months agoTriple-A gains Dubai VARA in-principle nod for broker-dealer license
The payment institution says it has reached the final stage of Dubai’s virtual asset licensing process, with conditions still to c...
By Ingrid Halvorsen 2 months ago