Natural raises $30M to reinvent payments for AI agents — and take on Stripe

The one-year-old startup aims to reinvent financial architecture for autonomous AI transactions.

Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B

Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint bid to acquire PayPal in a deal valued at approximately $53.4 billion.  Reuters reports that the offer was submitted earlier this month and is backed by roughly …

Saible raises £2.9M to tackle construction’s chronic late-payment crisis

Saible, a UK construction fintech building software to stop project money from being delayed, withheld or trapped before it reaches suppliers, has raised £2.9 million from angel investors. The funding…

Float raises €4.5M Series A to bridge Europe’s funding gap

Float, the Stockholm-founded revenue-basedfinancing platform for tech SMEs, has secured a €4.5 million Series A fundinground led by Hamburg-based CHAPTERS Group AG. As part of the investment,CHAPTERS …

Former Netflix payments team raises €7.2M to date for payment performance platform Nopan

Nopan, the performance platform for account and wallet payments, today announced that it has raised €7.2 million to date, including a new funding round led by Newion, with follow-on investment from Cr…

Revolut to launch US bank in 2027, says US boss

Revolut plans to begin operating its US bank next year, says its new US boss, and is gearing up to offer customers FDIC-insured deposits, credit products, and access to cryptocurrencies. Revolut, Euro…

Don’t want to invest in Elon Musk? Two new ETFs explicitly exclude him

The new exchanged-traded funds exclude companies that are founded, controlled, or led by Elon Musk. That means no SpaceX or Tesla.

Lissi raises €3.5M to power Europe’s sovereign digital identity future

Lissi GmbH, a European provider of EUDI Walletconnectivity and verifiable credential technology, has closed a €3.5 millionfunding round to accelerate the development and deployment of digital identity…

Jack Dorsey’s Block To Pay $45 Million Fine As States Step In For Withering CFPB

The Trump Administration has gutted the CFPB, but states like Texas, Oregon and New York are targeting payments firms and filling in enforcement gaps.

Kord secures £6.4M to unify onboarding, compliance and payments

UK fintech Kord, theend-to-end platform making onboarding clients, identity verification and paymentprocessing simplerand more secure, has raised £6.4 million in a Series A funding round. The investme…