More than half of European small businesses struggle with accessing financing. In response, the Swedish fintech company Froda expands its partnership with Visa, a world leader in digital payments, to scale embedded SMB lending across Europe. This enables other fintechs, banks, and neobanks to access Froda’s card-based embedded lending product to offer business loans to their customers.

Dwolla, a leading U.S.-based account-to-account payment solution, announced the launch of its groundbreaking Open Banking Services today. These built-in open banking integrations extend Dwolla's account-to-account (A2A) offering to include instant account verification, balance checks and fraud mitigation. Dwolla's Open Banking Services empower mid- to enterprise-sized businesses with the functionality they need to offer fast and secure A2A payments through Dwolla's single API.

Kraken, one of the longest-standing and most secure cryptocurrency exchanges, is delighted to announce the launch of Kraken Institutional, a new umbrella brand for a number of Kraken’s existing products and services aimed at institutions, asset managers, hedge funds, and high net-worth individuals. Kraken Institutional intends to provide a one-stop shop for innovative and bespoke solutions for the unique needs of Kraken’s institutional client base.

Klarna today announced its AI assistant powered by OpenAI.

Yapily, a leading provider of open banking solutions, is delighted to announce its partnership with Uncapped, a pioneering fintech providing working capital funding to scaling brands retailers and merchants across UK, EU and US. This collaboration significantly bolsters progress in the financial lending sector and democratises access to capital for online companies.

Rabobank, a leading global Money Market Dealer, has completed a series of groundbreaking pilots to execute more than €2 billion in commercial paper transactions on a first-of-its kind blockchain platform.

Feedzai, a global leader in fighting financial crime with AI, has partnered with UK Finance, the trade association representing the banking and financial services sector in the UK. 

Basware, a global leader in AP automation and invoice processing, has announced the appointments of Anssi Ruokonen as its Director of AI Research and Enablement, and Barrett Schiwitz as its new Chief Information Officer (CIO).  

Ruokonen will further enhance AI technology within Basware’s product and service offering, while Schiwitz will oversee Basware’s digital transformation projects to deliver an ever-improving customer experience.  

In a significant move for fintech, NayaOne announces a $4.7 million funding round led by EJF Capital, with Valley Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Valley Bank and Carthona Capital also on board. This investment is a testament to NayaOne's growth and potential to transform financial services with its innovative sandbox-as-a-service platform.