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Investment activity in financial technology, including funding rounds, valuations, and deals for payments, banking, lending, and insurance startups.
Tether and CMCC Global's Titan Fund have invested in Saber Money, a stablecoin payments firm that says volume grew more than sixfold in nine months. The amount and valuation were not disclosed, so the size of Tether's commitment is unknown.
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Neonomics' existing shareholders put EUR 3.6 million into the Norwegian open banking firm after it cut operating costs by almost 50%. No outside investor joined, so the holders backing the restructured company are the ones who owned it before.
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Archa, a Melbourne corporate card company, raised AUD 61 million, of which AUD 50 million is a debt facility. The sum is about USD 42.7 million, and both reports tie the debt line to lending without personal guarantees.
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ID Finance has raised €545m in equity and debt for its Plazo app, about 2.2 times the group's €243m of 2025 revenue. Most of the support offered is in percentages, so the repeat lender, i80 Group, is the firmest signal.
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Vesta raised $30 million from investors including two of its own lender customers, Pennymac and New American Funding. CEO Mike Yu says revenue grew 12x in a year. The stake makes those lenders shareholders in agents they are still learning to trust with loans.
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Iridium Credit raised $3 million, led by Field Ventures and MGV, to run automated checks on every invoice a lender finances. It argues that US factors pay about $22 in staff time for each manual check, so they verify only one invoice in five and leave many small ones unfunded.
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Capitolis raised $220 million, including a $120 million Series E led by Citi at a $1.9 billion valuation, with eight other big institutions joining. Most of the money backs its purchase of eSecLending, putting securities lending inside the capital and balance-sheet software Capitolis sells to banks.
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Nu Holdings, the reported bidder behind an £8 billion to £10 billion Monzo valuation, said in a Sept. 30 filing that it is not pursuing a deal. Monzo's board now has to find that price among investors buying stakes of up to 15%.
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Jeeves raised $110 million after its stablecoin-settled payments grew from effectively zero to a $1.5 billion annual rate in eight months. The round pays for more countries and more products for companies moving money through markets where banking is expensive.
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Paris-based Marble has reportedly closed a 6.5 million euro round for its rule-configurable fraud and anti-money-laundering decision engine. The money backs a bet that banks and fintechs will move split fraud and AML tooling onto one engine their own compliance teams can change and audit.
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HIFI raised a $37 million Series A led by Left Lane Capital for rails that settle the dollar side of tokenized trades around the clock. The settlement work is already running on those rails, but HIFI's own volume figures look more like payouts than settlement.
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Crowdfund Insider's nine disclosed fintech rounds last week add to $401.4m. Grab is paying $1.49bn for a majority of Atome's lending and buy-now-pay-later book. The largest raise, Kaiko's $110m extension, was led by S&P Global.
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KPMG counts $499m across 53 Singapore fintech deals in the first half, the weakest since at least 2019, and $320m of it went to one cross-border payments platform, leaving 52 other rounds to share $179m.
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July was the biggest month for new unicorns in more than four years, and H1 alone had already beaten the whole of 2025. One company priced at $1.1 billion is less than a year old.
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