In the ever-crowded world of fintech innovation, Metafide just planted a bold flag—blending competitive gaming, collective intelligence, and cutting-edge AI into a single platform designed to tackle one of the industry’s toughest problems: predicting volatile market movements.
AuditBoard just made a high-stakes move—and it could pay off big. The risk and compliance tech heavyweight has appointed Raul Villar Jr., the former CEO of Paycor, as its new chief executive. The timing couldn’t be more strategic.
As smartphone penetration in the Philippines surges toward 80 million users by 2029, Smart Communications has announced a partnership with U.S.-based fintech PayJoy to make smartphone ownership more accessible—especially for consumers without access to traditional credit.
NIC Premium Finance has partnered with ePayPolicy to launch Finance Connect, a feature that lets insureds finance premiums right at checkout—mirroring the convenience that e-commerce shoppers have come to expect from fintechs like Klarna and Affirm.
The AI arms race in fintech just got a serious contender. Today, Alltius unveiled its Agentic AI Suite, an end-to-end platform promising to take financial services far beyond scripted bots and basic automation. The suite—tailored for banks, insurers, lenders, wealth managers, and fintechs—aims to bring intelligent agents into daily operations, with capabilities ranging from underwriting and fraud detection to customer service and compliance.
Bolt, the checkout and payments platform best known for simplifying e-commerce experiences, has launched Bolt Connect, a new infrastructure product aimed squarely at marketplaces. The goal? Give operators a turnkey way to onboard sellers quickly, automate compliance, and handle payouts—without ballooning technical debt.
In a bold step to bring bitcoin into the everyday toolkit of small business owners, Castle has raised a $1 million pre-seed round to fuel its mission: helping SMBs defend their balance sheets with automated bitcoin treasury management.
In a move designed to trim the fat from month-end financial closes, automation platform Numeric has announced a strategic partnership with Uniqus Consultech, a global consultancy staffed with Big 4 alumni and focused on finance transformation. The duo promises to bring speed, accuracy, and sanity to overworked finance teams—especially those scaling toward IPO or navigating public-company compliance.
Singapore Retail Investors Double Down on Local Stocks for Stability, Moomoo Survey Shows Amid persistent global uncertainty and macroeconomic turbulence, Singapore retail investors are leaning into local equities as a core pillar of portfolio resilience, according to the latest 2H2025 Retail Investor Sentiment Survey by Moomoo Singapore. The survey, conducted in April 2025 with nearly…
Norwegian fintech Optio Incentives has snapped up the share plan administration platform from Investec Wealth & Investment International, a move that significantly boosts its presence in both the UK and South Africa—and signals its intent to become a global leader in the employee equity software space.
