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.

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.

US fintech start-up Veritus has raised $10.1 million in seed funding to accelerate deployment of its AI agents across the consumer lending value chain, company co-founder and CEO Joshua March reveals exclusively to FinTech Futures.

Tandem Bank has announced the promotion of Ryan Heaps to Chief Financial Officer following regulatory approval

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Profile, a leading international financial solutions provider, is pleased to announce that the Co-op Bank of Kenya Limited (Co-op Bank) has successfully gone live with Acumen.plus, its internationally acclaimed Treasury Management solution. This milestone marks the culmination of a strategic partnership aimed at optimising and streamlining the bank’s treasury operations through full automation and regulatory compliance.

Inclusive global payments platform, Ecommpay has entered a new strategic partnership with Payrails, the financial operating system for global enterprises. Designed to empower large e-commerce businesses to significantly optimise their payments, the collaboration aims to directly impact top-line growth and bottom-line costs. By leveraging the combined strengths of both platforms, enterprises can aim to expect improved acceptance and conversion rates, reduced costs and accelerated speed to market for their services.

By connecting directly to NICS Real, Moonrise enables partners to send and receive Norwegian Krone (NOK) in real time, 24/7/365. With this launch, Moonrise becomes the only provider offering a unified, API-first entry point to all three Nordic instant payment rails, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, through a single integration.

Volt, the real-time, rail-agnostic money movement platform, today announces the full launch of its flagship cash management products, leveraging its e-money licences: Volt Accounts, Named Accounts, and Virtual IBANs.

Sidekick, the wealth platform built for professionals whose finances are becoming more complex as their incomes and assets grow, has raised £7.8m in Series A funding. The funding will be used to scale its investing products and make sophisticated investment tools more accessible outside traditional private banking.