Quinn, an AI-powered financial planning platform, has launched publicly after raising $11 million in Seed funding. The round was led by Viola Fintech, with participation from existing backers, and it signals a serious bet on the future of embedded, scalable wealth advice—delivered by AI, not armies of human advisors.
In the ever-evolving world of finance automation, Medius just dropped what could be a game-changer for accounts payable teams. The company has launched Medius Payments, an embedded payment solution designed to eliminate the clunky handoffs and third-party tools that often slow down or complicate B2B payment workflows.
Global brokers just got a payment power-up. B2BROKER has integrated three new payment service providers—AlfredPay, TopChange Pay, and JetaPay—into its flagship B2CORE platform. The move streamlines deposit and withdrawal processes and arms brokers with a more versatile, compliant, and globally accessible payments infrastructure.
Xero Limited has entered a binding agreement to acquire 100% of Melio, a U.S.-based small business payments platform, in a transformative deal valued at US$2.5 billion in upfront consideration, plus up to $0.5 billion in contingent payments. This landmark acquisition brings together Melio’s innovative accounts payable (A/P) technology with Xero’s cloud-based accounting platform to deliver a seamless, unified solution for U.S. small businesses, bookkeepers, and accountants.
Jump, a leading AI platform for financial advisors, today announced a strategic integration with RightCapital, the fastest-growing financial planning software in the industry. The partnership enables financial advisors to seamlessly sync insights from client meetings—captured by Jump’s AI—directly into the RightCapital platform, eliminating manual data entry and keeping financial plans consistently accurate and up-to-date.
In a space long dominated by spreadsheets, memory, and manual research, Claira is bringing modern AI to private credit and deal analysis. Today, the company announced it has closed a $7 million seed round co-led by Barclays, Citi, and Reimagine Tech Ventures, with participation from Activant Capital, KDX, and OPCO Ventures.
In the increasingly high-stakes game of customer retention, Payway just launched a secret weapon for subscription-driven businesses. Announced today at the 2025 ADMA Annual Conference, Payway Censalytics™ is a new business intelligence platform designed to give media companies and card-not-present businesses real-time insight into payment performance—and the tools to do something about it.
In a notable move aimed at reshaping the future of global payment processing, Visa and RS2 are teaming up to deliver a full-stack acceptance platform that blends Visa’s real-time authorization muscle with RS2’s powerful back-end capabilities. The partnership is already rolling out across Europe and Latin America, with a broader global push on the horizon.
In a major move to modernize its compliance infrastructure, I&M Group PLC—a leading financial services provider in East Africa—has partnered with ThetaRay, the AI-first firm making waves in financial crime detection. The result? A unified, cognitive AI-powered AML (Anti-Money Laundering) platform now set to roll out across I&M’s operations in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, and Mauritius.
Bluefin, best known for its encryption-first approach to payment security, just made it easier for businesses to get paid—by embedding payment directly into text messages. The company announced a partnership with Authvia, the conversational commerce firm behind TXT2PAY®, bringing secure, app-free payments to messaging platforms like SMS, RCS, and email via Bluefin’s flagship PayConex™ platform.
