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LendAPI’s Timothy Li on Accelerating Lending Innovation with No-Code Technology

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 28, 2026
Categories: Finovate Awards, LendAPI

For banks, credit unions, and fintechs, launching a new lending product has traditionally required significant investments in technology, engineering resources, and time. Connecting credit bureaus, fraud detection tools, decisioning engines, and customer-facing applications often involves complex integrations that can take months or even years to complete. As competition intensifies and customer expectations evolve, these lengthy development cycles can put financial institutions at a disadvantage.

The emergence of no-code technology and orchestration platforms is changing that equation. Bringing disparate systems together and allowing business teams to configure workflows without extensive engineering support enables these tools to help lenders launch products faster, adapt underwriting strategies, and respond to changing market conditions. The shift is particularly important as financial institutions seek to balance operational efficiency with increasingly complex risk management requirements.

To learn more about this approach, we spoke with Timothy Li, CEO and co-founder of LendAPI. Founded in 2024, the company…

Hyphenate Raises $45 Million for Autonomous Finance

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 28, 2026
Categories: Daily news, Funding

Autonomous finance platform Hyphenate raised $45 million in Series A funding, bringing its total funding to $54 million.

Hyphenate uses AI agents to automate financial operations, including cash reconciliation, invoicing, and subledger management, helping businesses reduce repetitive work and audit exceptions.

The funding reflects growing investor interest in agentic AI that executes financial workflows, potentially shifting finance teams toward strategic oversight and creating new opportunities for banks and fintechs.

Autonomous finance platform Hyphenate (formerly known as Maximor) announced a $45 million Series A round. The investment was led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from B Capital and existing investors including Foundation Capital, BoldCap, and Gaia Ventures.

Today's funding brings Hyphenate's total funding to $54 million since it was founded in January of last year. The company will use the capital to scale faster and take its agents deeper across the finance function and into strategic finance.

"What makes Hyphenate…

NexBank Partners with MaxMyInterest for Intelligent Cash Management

By David Penn Posted on October 28, 2026
Categories: Alumni News, MaxMyInterest

NexBank has partnered with intelligent cash management service MaxMyInterest ("Max").

Via the partnership, NexBank customers can open NexBank MaxMyInterest Money Market Accounts and use Max to allocate cash across multiple accounts to maximize returns and secure broader aggregate FDIC insurance coverage.

Headquartered in New York and founded in 2013, Max made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2014.

NexBank, the banking subsidiary of NexBank Capital and the largest privately held bank in Texas, has teamed up with intelligent cash management service MaxMyInterest (Max).

Designed for individual investors and financial advisors, Max enables them to dynamically allocate their cash among multiple bank accounts in order to maximize returns and secure greater aggregate FDIC insurance coverage. Max users also benefit from one-click fund transfers and consolidated tax reporting. The partnership with NexBank means that consumers can open NexBank MaxMyInterest Money Market Accounts, high-yield accounts with competitive rates that are available exclusively through…

Talking Innovation, Inclusion, and Accountability in Banking with NBKC’s Melissa Eggleston

By David Penn Posted on October 27, 2026
Categories: Finovate Awards, Interview

What does it mean to be a leader in banking and financial services today? At a time of major technological change, increased regulatory scrutiny, and a customer base with ever-evolving needs, concerns, and expectations from financial institutions, what can leaders of banks, credit unions, fintechs, and other financial companies do to inspire and guide their teams to build, deploy, and support the kind of products and services that will delight customers and help grow businesses?

We talked with Melissa Eggleston, Chief Deposit and Operations Officer with nbkc bank. Earlier this year, Eggleston won "Executive of the Year" in the 2026 Finovate awards. One of only two individual awards in the Finovate Awards competition, Executive of the Year is given to an individual who holds an executive-level position at a bank, financial institution, or fintech firm whose leadership has pushed their team to accomplish great things.

In our conversation, Eggleston discussed…

Banks Structure $63 Billion Anthropic AI Financing, Deepening Exposure to AI Infrastructure

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 27, 2026
Categories: Bank of America, Citigroup, Daily news, Funding

Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Blackstone have committed $63 billion to finance Broadcom AI computing equipment that will be leased to Anthropic.

The arrangement highlights the growing role of banks and private credit investors in financing AI infrastructure, as demand for computing capacity continues to accelerate.

The deal presents new opportunities for financial institutions while raising concerns about equipment depreciation, uncertain future demand, and broader financial stability risks.

Four major financial institutions have agreed to a $63 billion financing arrangement that will fund the purchase of AI computing infrastructure for Anthropic. Under the agreement Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, and Blackstone will contribute to a newly formed a special-purpose vehicle (SPV) that will purchase Broadcom AI accelerators and networking equipment and lease them to Anthropic. The transaction is part of an existing Broadcom–Anthropic compute agreement.

The three banks will arrange the primary financing, while Blackstone will provide…

Lyzr and Ideas2IT Team Up to Boost Enterprise Agentic AI Adoption

By David Penn Posted on October 27, 2026
Categories: Alumni profile, Lyzr AI

AI-native software engineering company Ideas2IT has forged a strategic partnership with enterprise AI platform Lyzr to jointly build, sell, and deploy enterprise agentic systems for companies throughout North America. Lyzr will provide the enterprise platform for developing, orchestrating, and governing agents, with governance and guardrails built in and informed by implementations with Fortune 500 companies. Ideas2IT will provide experience in bringing agentic systems to production and scale in regulated industries, as well as forward-deployed engineers who work inside client environments to build and operate these systems.

"Enterprise adoption depends on how well agents work within existing systems, processes and controls," Ideas2IT President Murali Vivekanandan said. "This partnership brings our engineering and implementation experience together with Lyzr's platform to address those requirements from development through production."

The partnership comes at a time of growing enterprise interest in AI agents and a transition from experimentation to systems that can actually run inside…

Zocks Partners with Founders Financial Securities

By David Penn Posted on October 26, 2026
Categories: Alumni News, Zocks

Zocks, an AI platform for financial services, announced a partnership with independent broker-dealer and RIA firm Founders Financial Securities, LLC.

The partnership will make Zocks' platform, which captures advisor-client conversations and turns them into structured data, part of the TRU Enterprise OS technology stack available to all Founders' Member Partners.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Zocks made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2026 in San Diego.

Privacy-first AI platform for financial services, Zocks, has partnered with Founders Financial Securities, LLC ("Founders"). The partnership with the privately-held independent broker-dealer and RIA firm makes Zocks part of the TRU Enterprise OS technology stack, which is available to all Founders' Member Partners throughout the US. Zocks' technology automates administrative processes such as meeting note-taking and manual data entry during onboarding, giving Founders' advisors the freedom to focus on serving clients and enhancing relationships.

Zocks' platform automatically captures details and context from client…

Happen Bank’s Mark Elliot on How Better Financial Habits Improve Banking Experiences

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 26, 2026
Categories: Finovate Awards, Happen Bank, Lending Club

For years, banks have competed for customers by offering attractive interest rates, cash back rewards, and convenient digital experiences. But as consumers gain access to an expanding range of financial services providers, attracting new customers is only part of the challenge. Increasingly, banks must find ways to encourage lasting engagement, build loyalty, and help customers make meaningful progress toward their financial goals.

One approach is to connect everyday banking products with incentives that reward positive financial behaviors. Rather than treating lending, checking, and savings as separate relationships, financial institutions have an opportunity to bring these services together to help customers manage debt, build savings, and strengthen their financial health. The result can be a more valuable banking relationship for both the institution and the customer.

To learn more about this approach, we spoke with Mark Elliot, Chief Customer Officer at Happen Bank, formerly LendingClub Bank. The company, which serves…

Tech Mahindra Acquires Finastra’s Cash Management Product Suite

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 26, 2026
Categories: Alumni News, Daily news, Finastra, Mergers & Acquisitions

Tech Mahindra has acquired Finastra’s Cash Management product suite, including its cash management, virtual accounts, and liquidity management solutions.

Tech Mahindra plans to continue supporting existing customers while investing in the products to expand its banking technology portfolio.

The deal strengthens Tech Mahindra’s position as a banking software provider while allowing Finastra to streamline its portfolio and focus on its core businesses.

India-based consulting services company Tech Mahindra announced it has acquired the Cash Management product suite of financial services software company Finastra.

Under the agreement, Finastra is offloading Fusion Cash Management (FCM), Fusion Virtual Accounts (FVA), and Fusion Liquidity Management (FLM). Specifically, Tech Mahindra has acquired the intellectual property associated with the FCM, FVA and FLM products along with IP and capabilities across CashPlus, Global CashPlus, APIs, payables, receivables, balance and transaction reporting, liquidity management, cash-flow forecasting, and virtual accounts. Tech Mahindra anticipates that adding these capabilities…

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

By David Penn Posted on October 26, 2026
Categories: Bankjoy, Fintech Rundown, MasterCard, Temenos

Welcome to the working week! As October draws to a close, fintechs are raising capital, launching new offerings in agentic commerce and digital assets, and partnering with credit unions to help them modernize their operations. Be sure to check back here at Finovate's Fintech Rundown all week long for the latest updates and announcements.

Payments

Tech Mahindra and Mastercard forge strategic partnership to help companies embed secure virtual payment capabilities into their platforms.

Paymentology expands its partnership with South African fintech Mukuru.

Argentina-based payment infrastructure company Rebill raises $5.4 million in pre-Series A funding.

US-based fintech Coast raises $35 million for its payment platform.

Credit unions

Nashville-based TEN Credit Union (18,400 members; $394 million in total assets) chooses Bankjoy as its digital banking platform.

Canadian credit union Vancity (588,000 members; CAD $42.4 billion in total assets) turns to Temenos to modernize its banking.

Agentic commerce

Dispute resolution and chargeback management…

Coast Raises $35 Million to Serve Trade and Service Businesses

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on October 23, 2026
Categories: Daily news, Funding

Business financial management platform Coast raised $35 million in growth equity funding, bringing its total funding to nearly $226 million.

Coast will use the funding to expand its financial platform for trade and service businesses, invest in AI-powered expense automation and accounts payable tools, and grow its customer base.

Coast's expansion reflects a broader trend among business fintechs, including Gusto and Ramp, to offer more comprehensive financial services and deepen customer relationships.

Business financial management platform Coast raised $35 million in new growth equity funding this week. The investment brings the company's total funding to just under $226 million. The round was led by Thomvest Ventures, with participation from new investors Intuit Ventures, Small World Capital, and Alpha Square Group, as well as existing investors including ICONIQ Growth, Accel, and Insight Partners.

"The physical economy has been underserved by financial software for decades, and Coast is changing that with a…