Tag: FinancialServices

London, March 23 2026 – The AI‑powered scheduling and payments solution for beauty and wellness providers, Fresha, has been listed among VivaTech’s Top 100 Rising European Startups. The accolade, compiled with the help of major venture capital firms—including Accel, Eurazeo, HV Capital, Northzone and Partech—recognises European companies that have demonstrated robust commercial performance, rapid growth and the capacity…

Valor PayTech, the cloud‑native payments platform that launched in 2020, announced a sweeping overhaul of its senior leadership team and a new addition to its Board of Managers. The changes come six months after the company was acquired by private‑equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners (LMP). The moves are being framed as a strategic response to the rapid…

Ubyx Inc., the New‑York‑based clearing and acceptance platform for tokenised deposits and regulated stablecoins, announced two linked developments that could reshape how banks handle digital money. First, the company secured a strategic equity infusion from BitGo Ecosystem Holdings LLC, an affiliate of the publicly listed BitGo Holdings, Inc. Second, BitGo Bank & Trust, N.A. (BitGo B&T), a…

As banks, asset managers, and fintech platforms accelerate the deployment of production‑grade AI applications, the bottleneck is shifting from model training to data reliability. In a move that could reshape the data‑infrastructure layer for financial AI, RavenPack announced a redistribution partnership with the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research arm of The Economist Group. The…

WorldQuant Foundry, the venture studio that builds companies around exponential technologies, announced today that Dr. Dmitry Green will join its advisory board as Senior Quantum Computing Advisor. Green, a physicist whose work underpins topological quantum computing, also brings two decades of experience at leading hedge funds. The appointment arrives as the firm accelerates a pipeline of startups…