Inscope, the AI-powered financial reporting platform built for accounting firms and enterprises, today announced it has raised $14.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Norwest, with participation from Storm Ventures, existing investors Better Tomorrow Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners, and strategic operators across finance and enterprise software.

Green Banana, the pan-European BNPL orchestrator, and VR Payment, the payment  specialist of the cooperative financial group, now enable merchants to manage  various “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) solutions together with other payment methods  in one consolidated dashboard. The aim is to centralize payment data and simplify the  management of complex payment portfolios. 

Retail leaders are spending a full working month each year dealing with the ongoing fight against fraud, new research finds.

The appointment marks the latest addition to the team led by Jenny Edwards, ahead of the launch of NatWest Venture Banking this April — a new initiative designed to transform how the bank supports the UK’s most ambitious and innovative venture-backed scale-ups. With this new offering, NatWest is spearheading efforts to be the partner of choice for founders and investors, with a regional coverage model that offers tailored support to help founders access capital, scale and navigate the challenges that come with rapid growth.

New findings released by Visa from its Checkout Friction Report in Ukraine reveal that simplifying online checkout while maintaining robust security is key to accelerating ecommerce adoption.

A growing market narrative suggests that AI will “eat” specialist SaaS. But for vertical SaaS platforms that have already embraced payments, such as Shopify and Lightspeed, the opposite is more likely to be true.

New research from Finity reveals a growing gap between perceived confidence and operational capability among payroll professionals ahead of HMRC’s introduction of Joint and Several Liability (JSL) in April 2026.

Offa, the UK’s leading Islamic property finance fintech firm, has today launched a high street bank-beating Home Purchase Plan (HPP), the Islamic equivalent of a conventional residential mortgage, with offers being made within an hour depending upon credit rating and risk criteria – thanks to a modern, paperless and ultra-fast application process.

TerraPay, a global money movement company, has announced a strategic partnership with Banco Ganadero S.A., one of Bolivia’s leading financial institutions, to enable 24/7 real-time payments  processing across the country.