FINQ’s AI-managed ETFs quietly outrun Wall Street in early 2026

Crypto exchanges promised users access to the SpaceX IPO. The tokenized shares never arrived.

Current’s $80M Series E values the neobank below its 2021 peak

Pleo unveils finance AI agents amid broader business transformation

Alibaba is offering $1.5 billion for China’s last big independent grocer. The bidding war with Meituan is on.

Coinbase launches an AI agent that can trade crypto and pay for research on your behalf

ShopAgentic raises €1.9M to build commerce infrastructure for AI shopping agents

Capsa AI raises $18M to build the ‘AI operating system’ for private equity

The ECB moved to rein in Revolut’s ‘self-guided missiles’, just as a share sale values it at $115bn

Vinted’s CEO says the US is an “enormous opportunity” as the $9B secondhand marketplace plots its Atlantic crossing

Klarna launches US savings accounts at 3.28% as the buy-now-pay-later company tries to become a bank

Why REAL Finance sees infrastructure as the next phase of tokenized finance

AI is choosing which online stores you see, and it’s ignoring most of them

JPMorgan poaches Nomura’s international AI strategy chief as Dimon doubles down on AI hiring

Tencent is letting PayPal users pay through WeChat’s merchant network, solving China’s tourist payment problem

Talkdesk wants its AI agents to call your customers before they call you

Capchase raises $200 million to replace the banks slowing down enterprise tech deals

Amazon is now selling its AI shopping technology to other retailers, and Kate Spade is the first customer

Robinhood is letting AI agents trade stocks and spend money on your credit card

Former Citadel quants raised $78M for the AI operating system Wall Street’s wealth managers didn’t have

Starling’s FY26 profit dips again as the neobank provisions for more credit losses

Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain

Stripe’s John Collison says agentic commerce will completely transform online shopping

China’s tech giants are replacing the search bar with AI agents that shop for you

Revolut is offering every employee GBP1,000 to sell business banking. The real prize is a $200 billion IPO.

How Coinspaid became one of fintech’s top remote-first employers

Adfin raises $18m Series A from Index Ventures for agentic business finance

Paymentology raises $175m co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners

Spektr raises $20M to replace the compliance analyst’s copy-paste workflow with AI agents

Round raises $6M to automate the finance workflows that still require a human to press a button

Meow Technologies launches the first agentic banking platform for AI agents

Revolut launches its new AI assistant AIR to UK customers

BILL lets enterprise suppliers collect from any SMB, even ones not on its platform

Monzo is shutting down its US operation, and its European banking licence explains why

Klarna just struck a $1.7 billion deal to free up capital for $40 billion in lending. Its stock is down 76 per cent from its IPO high.