Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments company, has announced a new partnership with Freenow by Lyft, the European taxi app, to deliver reliable and high-performing digital payments across all nine of its European markets.

tricount by bunq, a global go-to app that automates group expense tracking for nights out, holidays, and housemates, published its annual wrap-up, tallying British users’ shared expenses in 2025.

Intelligent Lending Group, the fintech group which includes TotallyMoney, CredAbility, and Ocean brands, has announced its partnership with AI-powered financial promotions platform, Adclear.

Adclear’s software will transform marketing and social media compliance across Intelligent Lending Group, speeding up reviews, and enhancing output to deliver transparent and impactful campaigns, more efficiently and effectively.

Benepass, a global benefits capital management platform, today announced it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Centana Growth Partners, with participation from FoW Partners and existing investors Portage Ventures and Threshold Ventures. The funding will support Benepass’ efforts to expand into larger, more complex employers with their pre- and post-tax benefit offerings.

ThetaRay, a global leader in Cognitive AI financial crime compliance, today announced the appointment of Brad Levy as Chief Executive Officer. Levy, a leading financial markets infrastructure executive and former CEO of Symphony, will lead ThetaRay’s next phase of growth as the company continues to scale its Cognitive AI platform, now emerging as the leading AI strategy and technology for transaction monitoring and transaction due diligence, across banks and fintechs worldwide. 

Volante Technologies, the global leader in Payments as a Service (PaaS), today announced the launch of its premium Multi-cloud Resiliency Service, engineered to keep financial institutions’ payment operations running seamlessly during major cloud provider outages. Built on Volante’s proven cloud-native payments platform, the service provides true cross-cloud continuity, eliminating single-cloud/provider dependency for the payments layer.

Humanity Mainnet is now supported by Fireblocks, an enterprise platform for secure digital asset custody, settlement, trading operations, and stablecoin payments, enabling more than 2,400 institutions using Fireblocks’ infrastructure to securely hold, manage, and interact with H and other assets native to the Humanity ecosystem.

Smarsh, the global leader in communications data and intelligence, today announced new additions to its executive leadership team to accelerate the delivery of AI-powered risk management and data intelligence solutions. By appointing proven expertise across product and finance functions, Smarsh is positioning its platform to help customers automate compliance and unlock actionable insights within increasingly complex regulatory environments.

Duetti Inc., the music-tech and financial services company that empowers independent music creators to unlock the value of their music catalogs, today announces it has secured $200 million in new funding to accelerate music catalog acquisitions and expand its technology and services globally.

With tighter budgets and rising admin demands, school finance teams face constant pressure to work smarter. In response, ParentPay Group has completely updated its trusted FMS platform – keeping everything schools know and rely on but redesigning it for clarity and speed within a secure cloud setting.