The Ministry of Finance, the Delegation of the European Union to Libya, the Embassy of France in Libya, and Expertise France (www.ExpertiseFrance.fr) officially inaugurated the Invest4Libya project today. An initiative designed to strengthen Libya’s financial governance, improve its investment climate, and boost the performance and inclusiveness of the country’s MSME and entrepreneurship ecosystem.

Duna, the identity fintech founded by two Stripe alumni, today announced a €30 Million Series A funding round led by CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth fund. Existing investors Index Ventures and Puzzle Ventures also participated in the round.

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.

Uniting Europe’s capital markets by consolidating issuance, custody, trading, and settlement of securities into a regulated system built on DLT.

The Gothenburg-based company Fintower recently closed an oversubscribed seed round that attracted both new and existing investors. Among the investors are Chalmers Ventures, Akka, the Stena family through William Olsson, as well as several entrepreneurs and angel investors. Existing investors include Almi, Daniel Jonsson from Inet, and Alexander Hars. In total, €1.5 million was raised.

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.

The funding from Goldman Sachs will enable Clara to scale its payment solutions including corporate credit cards, bill pay, and cross-border transactions

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.

The Republic of South Africa has today officially acceded to the Establishment Agreement of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Africa’s leading Multilateral Financial Institution, marking the formal entry of one of Africa’s largest economies into the Bank’s membership, heralding deeper financial sovereignty.

Incard, the financial platform for high-growth digital companies, has raised £10m Series A funding in a move that will bring greater financial control and agility to more e-commerce brands, agencies, affiliates and resellers. This funding round was led by Smartfin, with participation from Founders Capital, MountFund and top-tier angel investors.

Incard, the financial platform for high-growth digital companies, has raised £10m Series A funding in a move that will bring greater financial control and agility to more e-commerce brands, agencies, affiliates and resellers. This funding round was led by Smartfin, with participation from Founders Capital, MountFund and top-tier angel investors.

Talos, the premier provider of institutional digital asset infrastructure, technology and data supporting the full trading and portfolio management lifecycle, today announced a $45 million Series B extension, including new strategic investors Robinhood Markets, Sony Innovation Fund, IMC, QCP and Karatage, alongside returning investors a16z crypto, BNY and Fidelity Investments.

Sygnum, a global digital asset banking group, today announced the successful launch and seed-phase completion of the Starboard Sygnum BTC Alpha Fund, which delivered an annualised 8.9% net return in BTC for Q4 2025.

Allica Bank has reached a major milestone in its mission to support the UK’s established businesses, surpassing £1 billion in asset finance lending since launching the proposition in 2021.

African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) (www.Afreximbank.com), working with other mandated lead arrangers, has successfully closed a US$1.75 billion syndicated receivables purchase facility for Sonangol, Angola’s national oil company.