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Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments

Primer, a London-based payment startup, has announced a €86.2 million Series C funding round to expand its AI payments and finance platform. The capital will also support its market development in the US, where the company plans to grow revenue to more than a third of total revenue by 2028, supported by plans to hire […]

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RemotePass raises $17.4m Series B from EBRD as global employment meets fintech

The Dubai-founded global employment and payroll platform reached profitability in early 2025 before taking the round. EBRD Venture Capital led; 500 Global is the new strategic name alongside. RemotePass, the global employment, payroll, and spend platform co-founded by Kamal Reggad and Karim Nadi, has raised $17.4m in Series B funding led by EBRD Venture Capital, […]

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Google wants to own your entire shopping journey with Universal Cart and agent-led payments

Google has unveiled Universal Cart, an AI-powered shopping hub announced at I/O 2026 that lets users add products from across its ecosystem, Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail, into a single persistent cart. The feature, rolling out in the US today, represents the company’s most ambitious bid yet to become the default middleman in online commerce. Universal Cart […]

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Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain

Most AI products in financial services are, if you strip away the marketing, large language models bolted onto data feeds. They retrieve information. They do not understand it. And when the stakes involve real money, that distinction matters enormously. motif, an AI wealth advisory company headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, is betting it can do better. […]

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Stripe’s John Collison says agentic commerce will completely transform online shopping

John Collison thinks keyword search is a “ridiculous” way to find things to buy. The Stripe co-founder told Bloomberg that agentic commerce, in which AI agents shop on behalf of consumers, will completely transform the online shopping experience, reshaping not just how people purchase but how retailers sell. The argument is structural. For more than […]

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China’s tech giants are replacing the search bar with AI agents that shop for you

  For years, buying something online in China meant typing keywords into a search bar and scrolling through an endless grid of listings. That ritual is being dismantled. On Monday, Alibaba Group integrated its Qwen artificial intelligence assistant with Taobao, its largest marketplace, giving the chatbot access to a catalogue of more than four billion products. […]

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Revolut is offering every employee GBP1,000 to sell business banking. The real prize is a $200 billion IPO.

  Revolut’s chief executive, Nik Storonsky, has told employees across the company that business banking is now its top priority, and is offering each of them £1,000 to prove he means it. In a memo sent to staff on Friday, Storonsky asked everyone, regardless of department, to help bring in new business customers, send pitches […]

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How Coinspaid became one of fintech’s top remote-first employers

  Fintech is a sector known for speed and pressure. Employment is usually described in the language of momentum: rapid growth, market disruption, fast-paced decisions. However, this language has stopped resonating with strong candidates. Millennials and Gen Z in particular tend to seek a sense of purpose at work, with roughly 9 out of 10 […]

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Adfin raises $18m Series A from Index Ventures for agentic business finance

Visionaries Club returns; Stéphane Kurgan (ex-King COO) and Miro founder Andrey Khusid join. Total funding now over $30m in less than two years. The London fintech says its customers see late-payment rates 7x lower than the UK SME average. Adfin, the London-based fintech building an agentic money-movement platform, has raised $18m in a Series A […]

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Paymentology raises $175m co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners

Paymentology, the London-based global issuer-processor, has raised $175m in a round co-led by Apis Partners and Aspirity Partners, the company said on Tuesday. Apis invested through its Apis Growth Fund III vehicle, which the firm said takes its total payments-sector investment count to 16. For Aspirity, a pan-European private-equity firm focused on financial technology and […]

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