Fintech
Cordant Raised $8 Million to Watch Your Money Get Lost Between Systems
Cordant raised $8 million for software that helps banks and fintechs trace payments across fragmented systems, adding visibility before AI automation.
Fintech
TIPS Clone Just Made Balkan Banking Boring in the Best Possible Way
TIPS Clone went live July 20, bringing 24/7 instant-payment settlement to the Western Balkans and turning payment plumbing into policy for banks.
Fintech
Strivve Wants Your Bank Card to Win the AI Shopping Race
Strivve is extending card-on-file placement to AI shopping agents, turning “top of wallet” into a fight over which issuer gets picked by software.
Fintech
T. Rowe Price Just Put a Crypto Variety Pack in Your Brokerage Account
T. Rowe Price launched TKNZ, an actively managed multi-token crypto ETP that gives investors one ticker for a volatile digital-asset basket.
Fintech
CSI Bought Qolo to Give Community Banks Better Payments Plumbing
CSI's Qolo acquisition shows embedded-finance plumbing getting pulled into bank tech stacks as community banks chase real-time treasury and payments tools.
Fintech
Circle Got a Trust Bank for USDC and Made Crypto Wear a Tie
Circle's new OCC-approved trust bank pulls USDC deeper into the federal perimeter, proving stablecoin ambition now looks less bankless and more chartered.
Fintech
Open USD Turns Stablecoin Reserve Revenue Into a Group Project
Open USD is a new stablecoin backed by Visa, Stripe, Coinbase, BlackRock, BNY, and 140-plus partners that shares reserve revenue.
Startups
KapitalGPT Turns Financial Education Into Games, Because Flashcards Had It Coming
KapitalGPT is gaming software for financial education, covering credit repair, real estate, stock market lessons, options, insurance, and FINRA exam prep.
Fintech
MoneyGram Built a Stablecoin for Remittances and Kept the Cash Window Open
MoneyGram's MGUSD launch shows stablecoins growing up into remittance infrastructure, where cash-out, FX, and settlement timing matter more than crypto ideology.
Fintech
Charles Schwab Turns the S&P 500 Into a Yes-or-No Button
Schwab's reported Cboe deal shows prediction markets becoming ordinary brokerage product, wrapped in options language and aimed at retail traders.
Fintech
Big Banks Built Tokenized Deposits So Stablecoins Stop Stealing Treasury Work
The Clearing House tokenized-deposit push shows big banks absorbing stablecoin-style speed and programmability into regulated treasury and settlement rails.
Fintech
Klarna Launched a Savings Account So BNPL Can Keep Your Cash Too
Klarna's new U.S. savings account shows BNPL maturing into a full cash-habitat play, with partner-bank plumbing, membership hooks, and sticky deposits.