Once close enough for an acquisition, Stripe and Airwallex are now going after each other

For most of its life, Airwallex and Stripe have mostly operated in different geographies, selling to different buyers. That’s changing.

Slash, a Ramp competitor founded by teenagers, raises $100M at $1.4B valuation

Five years later the founders, now 24 years old, say their startup has achieved $300 million in annualized revenue.

spektr raises $20M Series A to streamline financial compliance

Copenhagen-based spektr, a company building AI infrastructure for compliancein financial services, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. The roundwas led by NEA, with participation from existing…

Outcraft AI raises €2M to support autonomous sales and revenue agents

Outcraft AI, an agentic AI platformfocused on autonomous revenue execution, has raised €2 million in pre-seedfunding from Practica Capital. The company also received early backing fromventure builder …

Audrey AI secures $1.8M to develop AI platform for financial auditors

Audrey AI, aDublin-based startup developing AI solutions purpose-built for financialauditors, has raised $1.8 million in pre-seed funding. The round was led bySure Valley Ventures (SVV) and Delta Part…

Airwallex is about to take on Stripe and the rest of the payments industry — in the physical world

Airwallex, valued at $8 billion, is launching a point-of-sale product that lets businesses accept in-person payments in multiple countries via a single platform.

Trade Republic axes customer service chatbots, replaces them with over 1,000 humans

In a world of finance, where automation, AI and chatbots are becoming more commonplace, Germany’s most valuable startup is taking the opposite path. Trade Republic, which is valued at €12.5 billion, …

Brix raises $5.5M to support the tokenisation of emerging market assets

Brix, a fintech platformfocused on bringing emerging market financial assets on-chain, has raised $5.5 million in a funding round. The round included participation from global financialinstitutions an…

Allica and ClearBank’s UK businesses report third year of profits

UK SME lender Allica Bank today reported its third consecutive year of profit, while the UK business of another UK fintech, ClearBank, also reported its third consecutive year of profit. Pre-tax profi…

Wamo closes €10M Series A to power European SMEs

Wamo, a financial operating platform for small andmedium-sized enterprises (SMEs), has raised €10 million in a Series A funding round tosupport its expansion in Italy and the Nordic region, enhance pr…