Finastra, a global leader in financial services software, today announced the launch of LaserPro Evaluate, a modern, cloud-native solution designed to streamline commercial loan workflows for banks and credit unions. Built to support institutions currently relying on non-banking solutions or manual tools such as spreadsheets, LaserPro Evaluate reimagines the origination and processing experience for today’s digital-first lending environment.

Intuit, the global financial technology platform that makes Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks, and Mailchimp, today announced a new, multi-year partnership with Affirm. Under the agreement, Affirm will become the exclusive pay-over-time solution built into QuickBooks Payments, further strengthening Intuit’s end-to-end financial management capabilities that help accelerate how businesses manage and grow their business.

Gr4vy, the cloud-based payment orchestration platform, today announced the release of Silent Mode for its anti-fraud connectors, a new feature that lets merchants deploy multiple fraud detection services in parallel, enabling evaluation, warming up, or migration of new providers without disrupting live payment decisions or slowing checkout.

Bain & Company today announced the acquisition of JJC FinTech, a London-based boutique financial services consulting and technology firm with deep industry experience in Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Anti-Financial Crime. The deal further enhances Bain’s ability to help global financial services clients improve and accelerate their Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-money laundering (AML) processes and deliver better customer experience.

Equifax®  today announced the launch of Credit Abuse Risk, a new predictive model that uses FCRA-regulated data and is designed to help protect lenders against first-party fraud and drive more confident lending decisions.

Mine, the personal finance company for young adults, today announced a $14 million Series A financing led by 359 Capital. The round includes participation from Kleiner Perkins and new investor FJ Labs. Existing investors Y Combinator and U.S. News & World Report also participated, bringing the company's total capital raised to $28 million.

Bleap has raised a $6 million seed round, led by Blossom Capital, to continue building a better foundation for how money should work. The round follows a $2.3 million pre-seed raised in late 2024 and marks an important step in scaling the platform.

in1bank has decided to discontinue its banking business. As part of this process, in1bank will be returning its customers deposits and will effectively hand back its ADI licence to the prudential regulator (APRA) once all deposits are returned to customers.