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Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

By David Penn Posted on March 2, 2026
Categories: 10x Banking, Fintech Rundown, MasterCard, Worldline

Welcome to March! Women's History Month, Holi (the Hindu "Festival of Colors"), the start of spring, St. Patrick's Day, Eid al-Fith, Cesar Chavez Day ... there's a lot to celebrate and look forward to over the next few weeks. Here on Finovate's Fintech Rundown, we're looking forward to the rush of industry news and announcements that typical comes with the seasonal thaw. Payments Private equity firm Incore Invest completes its acquisition of CoreOrchestration AB from Worldline. Apple is in conversation with banks in India to bring Apple Pay to the country later this year. Embedded finance Confido, an embedded financial infrastructure platform for law firms and legaltechs, raises $9 million in funding. Fraud prevention ThetaRay and Matrix USA team up to help financial institutions modernize their transaction monitoring programs. Stablecoins MoonPay builds infrastructure platform for PYUSD-backed stablecoins. Agentic AI Colt Technology Services announces proof of concept for an agentic AI…

Cash Handling Company Brink’s to Acquire NCR Atleos

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 27, 2026
Categories: Daily news, Mergers & Acquisitions

Virginia-based cash handling company The Brink's Company (Brink's), has agreed to acquire NCR Atleos in a deal valued at around $6.6 billion. The deal will combine Brink's global cash management expertise with NCR Atleos’ ATM management and services as well as its ATM network and ATM-as-a-Service (ATMaaS) solutions. Adding NCR Atleos' capabilities will allow Brink's to offer complementary products, services, and software that provide banks and retail customers with an even broader variety of cash management solutions. "This acquisition further supports Brink's ability to deliver enhanced customer solutions and accelerates our value creation strategy," said Brink's President and Chief Executive Officer Mark Eubanks. "NCR Atleos is a partner we know well, and our business cultures are closely aligned around customer success, continuous improvement, and managing the interface between physical to digital payments to enable ease of cash acceptance and use. By combining our organizations, we gain critical scale and complementary,…

DriveWealth to Integrate Kalshi’s Event Contracts into its Brokerage Platform

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 26, 2026
Categories: Alumni News, Daily news, DriveWealth

DriveWealth will integrate Kalshi's regulated prediction markets into its brokerage-as-a-service platform, enabling fintechs to offer event contracts alongside stocks and ETFs. Kalshi, which processes over $100 billion in annualized volume, is expanding distribution through DriveWealth's brokerage infrastructure. As prediction markets move into the financial mainstream, event contracts are emerging as a new tradable asset class that could follow the adoption path of options and crypto. Digital trading and brokerage company DriveWealth is teaming up with prediction market platform Kalshi in a move to capitalize on the growing interest in events contracts. The New Jersey-based company plans to integrate Kalshi's event contracts into its brokerage platform. The integration allows clients using DriveWealth's brokerage-as-a-service platform to offer event-driven markets alongside more traditional equities, ETFs, and other traditional asset classes within the same interface. Kalshi allows users to trade on the outcome of real-world events such as elections, economic indicators, weather, sports, and more in…

Mambu Expands its Payments Hub Beyond Europe into Asia and Latin America

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 25, 2026
Categories: Alumni News, Daily news, Mambu

Mambu is expanding its payments hub globally, launching in new markets across EMEA, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. The global move comes in response to growing demand from banks and fintechs operating across multiple payment schemes and jurisdictions. Mambu’s API-first payments hub extends the company's composable core banking offering to help institutions modernize and scale payments alongside lending and deposits. Cloud banking platform Mambu is expanding its payments hub into new global markets this year, with plans to launch in additional markets in EMEA, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. Mambu said demand from global banks and fintechs operating across multiple payment schemes and jurisdictions drove this week’s expansion. Mambu was founded in 2011 and emerged as one of the pioneering players to move banking software to the cloud. The company’s composable banking approach offers a plug-and-play approach to core banking that helps firms shift away from legacy platforms and build to scale.…

Regtech Copla Raises €6 Million in Series A Funding

By David Penn Posted on February 25, 2026
Categories: Alumni News, Copla, Funding

Lithuanian regtech Copla has raised €6 million ($7.1 million USD) in Series A funding for its AI-powered compliance automation platform. Iron Wolf Capital led the round, which featured participation from Operator Stack and existing investors Specialist VC, SuperHero Capital, FirstPick, NGL Ventures, and Loggerhead Partners. Founded in 2023, Copla made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2025 in London. Copla, a regtech headquartered in Lithuania that offers an AI-powered compliance automation platform, has secured €6 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Iron Wolf Capital. Operator Stack and existing investors Specialist VC, SuperHero Capital, FirstPick, NGL Ventures, and Loggerhead Partners also participated in the funding. Copla, which made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2025, will use the capital to further build out its product, add talent to its team, and expand into markets beyond the European Union. In a statement, the company noted that regulations are becoming increasingly complicated…

Finovate Celebrates Black and African-American History Month

By David Penn Posted on February 24, 2026
Categories: Alumni profile, Diversity in Fintech

February is Black and African-American History Month. As the month draws to a close, we wanted to take a moment to recognize and celebrate the Black and African-American executives, founders, and analysts who have shared their ideas, insights, and experiences with Finovate audiences in 2025. From the keynote podium to the demo stage, these Black and African-American fintech, banking, and financial services professionals are a reflection of the growing diversity and inclusion that continues to shape and transform our industry today. Erin Estelle—SVP, Chief Marketing Officer—Valley Strong Credit Union Estelle participated in FinovateSpring 2025, sharing her insights as part of our Power Panel on the Customer Experience Revolution. Estelle brings more than 15 years of experience in strategic marketing and brand management, leveraging innovative data-driven strategies to drive growth, engagement, and retention. At Valley Strong Credit Union, Estelle oversees digital marketing, consumer insights, communications, public relations, field marketing, and community…

Experian Finalizes Acquisition of AtData

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 24, 2026
Categories: Alumni News, Daily news, Experian, Mergers & Acquisitions

Experian has acquired AtData, US data and intelligence company. The deal adds AtData's more than 10 billion global email addresses to strengthen Experian's identity and fraud capabilities. Experian expects that integrating AtData’s real-time email intelligence into its broader consumer data and analytics platforms will support its clients' AI-driven decisioning strategy. Data analytics and consumer credit reporting company Experian announced a key acquisition today. The Ireland-based firm has acquired US data and intelligence company AtData for an undisclosed amount. AtData was founded in 1999 as TowerData, then combined with FreshAddress in 2021, and rebranded to AtData a year later. The company offers email address technology that helps thousands of organizations take control of their first-party email data collection to fuel marketing and minimize fraud. Experian expects the acquisition to expand its existing data and identity assets by adding more than 10 billion email addresses of people across the globe. The company…

What Do Community Bankers Want? What Do Community Banks Need?

By David Penn Posted on February 23, 2026
Categories: Report series, Thought Leadership

What is the state of community banking in the US today? How are community banks evolving and transforming at a time of both potential opportunity and unprecedented challenge and competition? Success stories about how community banks across the country are taking advantage of new technologies like generative AI and embedded finance will be a major part of the conversation later this year at FinovateSpring, May 5 through May 7, in San Diego. With that in mind, today we're taking a look at the findings from the 2025 CSBS Annual Survey of Community Banks that was unveiled at the Community Banking Research Conference last fall. Rising competition from within and without the community The competitive challenge from nonbanks remains a major concern for community banks throughout the US. Especially in areas such as payment services and wealth management, these fintech competitors have effectively leveraged enabling technologies like AI and embedded finance…

Spreedly Taps Paysafe to Process Card Payments

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 23, 2026
Categories: Alumni News, Daily news, Spreedly

Spreedly is partnering with Paysafe to integrate Paysafe’s merchant acquiring capabilities into its global payments orchestration platform. The partnership gives merchants more flexibility by combining Paysafe’s gateway and acquiring tools with Spreedly’s open payments architecture. The move will help modernize payment stacks with a modular approach. Open payments platform Spreedly is partnering with payments processing fintech Paysafe, integrating Paysafe's merchant acquirer capabilities into its own global payments orchestration platform. Paysafe will process credit card and debit card payments for Spreedly's online merchant clients doing business across Europe, North America, and other geographies. Under the agreement, Paysafe is processing card payments for multiple online trading brokers and financial services companies and plans to onboard additional merchants launching before the end of 2026. From Paysafe’s perspective, the partnership expands the reach of its gateway technology into Spreedly’s global orchestration layer, particularly among online trading brokers and financial services companies operating across multiple markets. "With the…

Jump Raises $80 Million to Leverage AI to Automate Financial Advisory Workflows

By David Penn Posted on February 23, 2026
Categories: Alumni News, Funding, Jump

AI solutions provider for financial advisors Jump has raised $80 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Insight Partners. The investment will help Jump scale its technology, which automates a range of tasks for financial advisors, from an AI assistant to a comprehensive intelligence and AI orchestration layer for modern financial advisory firms. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Jump made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2025 in New York. Parker Ence is Founder and CEO. In a round led by Insight Partners, AI solutions provider for financial advisors Jump has secured $80 million in Series B funding. The round also included participation from new investors F-Prime, Allianz Life Ventures (the venture capital arm of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America), TIAA Ventures, and Peterson Partners. Also involved in the round were existing investors Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Pelion Venture Partners, and…

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on February 23, 2026
Categories: Fintech Rundown

It's the last week of February, which means we have one more month to wrap up any Q1 goals. Below, we’ve aggregated the top news in fintech for the week. We’ll continue to add more announcements as the week progresses. Payments Flywire appoints Patrick Blanc as Chief Technology Officer. MoneyHash partners with Wayl to support expansion into Iraq. Payabli and Huntington Bank partner to bring seamless payments to the digital banking experience. Worldline unveils One Commerce, powering the next generation of omnichannel retail. Jaris expands Paysafe partnership to bring instant payouts to US small businesses. Apple Federal Credit Union partners with Quavo to modernize dispute operations. Nuvei is selected by MediaMarktSaturn to support online marketplace payments across its European markets. Alkami's MANTL partners with MeridianLink to offer integrated Point-of-Sale (POS) solution. Credit and collections AKUVO partners with TransUnion to bring advanced scoring data into its collections platform. Wealth mangement Vestwell…