Lüt, a new financial ecosystem built for accessibility, reliability and growth with a first-of-its-kind closed-loop digital payments platform for cannabis and other high-risk industries, has announced its new partnership with leading financial services provider Safe Harbor to address one of the cannabis industry’s most persistent challenges: compliant and reliable payments. Through the collaboration, Lüt becomes a Safe Harbor Advantage Partner in closed-loop payment, expanding access to compliant, guaranteed-funds digital payments for cannabis and specialty merchants.

Figure is expanding investor access to the On-Chain Public Equity Network (OPEN) through new integrations with moomoo and Keplr, extending the distribution of blockchain-native public equities across both regulated brokerage platforms and self-custody wallets. OPEN allows companies to issue their equity native on blockchain and enables investors worldwide to invest in U.S. public equities while accessing decentralized finance (DeFi) for borrowing against and lending out stock.

OneDome, the UK-based housing and fintech platform, has raised $25 million in a Pre-Series C funding round, taking total funding raised to date to $40 million.

intelliflo and Söderberg & Partners today announced a new strategic partnership designed to deliver greater efficiency, smarter workflows and an enhanced technology experience for financial advice firms.

Chargebase, a new chargeback-prevention platform built for high-growth e-commerce and SaaS businesses, today announces its official launch. Designed to solve an expensive and existential problem for merchants – chargebacks – Chargebase gives companies instant access to Verifi and Ethoca alerts in a single, easy-to-use platform with automated workflows and transparent pricing.

APEXX Global, the leading merchant-centric Payment Orchestration Platform, today announced a strategic investment of up to $10 million USD led by Finch Capital, a European growth investor with deep expertise in payments and scaling financial technology players internationally.

Pluto Finance (“Pluto”) has expanded its UK team with the appointment of Carl Bowcher as lending director.

Clearwater Analytics (NYSE: CWAN), the most comprehensive technology platform for investment management and TreasurySpring, the global cash investment platform, today announced an integration that connects CWAN’s investment management platform directly with over 1,000 cash investment products from TreasurySpring, helping institutional clients manage surplus cash with defined maturity requirements.

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ANZ is investing in its business banking experience by deploying Salesforce's Agentforce 360 platform within its new CRM tool

Zip announced the launch of Pay in 2, a new payment option that allows consumers to split a purchase into two installments

Bain & Company announced the acquisition of JJC FinTech, a London-based boutique financial services consulting and technology firm with deep industry experience in CLM and Anti-Financial Crime.

NatWest has today announced a major expansion of its support for UK entrepreneurs, aiming to grow the Accelerator community to 50,000 members

MANTL announced a partnership with Amplify to modernize its business and consumer onboarding and account opening experience

Visa announced the launch of Visa & Main, a new platform designed to give small business owners across the United States better access to the resources