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Crux Analytics Secures $2.2 Million in Seed Funding

By David Penn Posted on September 24, 2026
Categories: Crux Analytics, Funding

New York-based Crux Analytics has raised €1.9 million ($2.2 million) in seed funding.

The investment in the relationship intelligence platform was led by Castle Creek Launchpad and also involved three credit union investment funds, Chartway Ventures, One Washington Financial, and Curql.

Crux Analytics made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2025. The company was founded in 2023 by Jacob Bennett (CEO) and Nathan Bennett (CTO).

Relationship intelligence platform Crux Analytics has raised €1.9 million ($2.2 million) in seed funding, bringing the company's total capital raised to €2.8 million. The round was led by Castle Creek Launchpad, a joint venture fund with 35 community banks as limited partners. Chartway Ventures, One Washington Financial, and Curql, three credit union investment funds, also participated in the round. Crux said that it will use the additional capital to grow its team and accelerate product development.

Crux combines workflow automation and business-specific insight to enable bankers…

FinovateFall 2026 in Photos

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 24, 2026
Categories: FinovateFall 2026

Whether you missed out on FinovateFall in New York earlier this month or you were there in person, it's worth checking out the massive number of photos that came out of the three-plus day event.

The event was full of meaningful conversations, fast-paced demos, a reunion of familiar faces, and new connections. And while speakers and attendees were busy talking and learning about all things fintech and banking, Finovate’s photographer was capturing the event in more than 1,000 photos.

The photos are broken down into 31 categories, including demos, industry stage sessions, and networking drinks. New this year, you can search for photos that you appear in by uploading a selfie. Here is a sampling of a few photos to help summarize FinovateFall 2026.

Networking

Sessions

Demos

Book signing

The experience

You can view all of the photos on the FinovateFall gallery page.

Numeral Raises $100 Million for Sales Tax Solution

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

Numeral raised $100 million in Series C funding, bringing the tax compliance platform’s total funding to $157.5 million since its 2023 founding.

The company will use the capital to accelerate product development, expand into additional industries, and grow its team, while launching a new accounting partner program.

Numeral is using agentic AI to automate more of the tax compliance workload while keeping humans in the loop, as businesses face growing complexity across markets and jurisdictions.

Sales tax compliance platform Numeral has raised $100 million in Series C funding, boosting its total raised to $157.5 million since it was founded in 2023.

Insight Partners led the round, which saw participation from Salesforce Ventures, Geodesic, Benchmark, Mayfield, FCVC, Y Combinator, and Uncork.

San Francisco-based Numeral aims to simplify sales tax compliance details such as nexus tracking, registrations, filing, rate calculation, remittance, exemption certificate management, and virtual mailbox services. In addition to sales tax, the…

Baselayer Raises $35 Million for its Agentic Identity Technology

By David Penn Posted on September 23, 2026
Categories: Baselayer, Funding

Identity network and fraud intelligence platform Baselayer has secured $35 million in new funding. The Series A round was led by M13, and featured participation from Torch Capital, Picus Ventures, Afore Capital, and Matt Thompson of fellow Finovate alum Socure.

Along with the investment announcement, Baselayer unveiled its Agentic Identity Suite, an interoperable trust layer that helps institutions verify autonomous AI agents.

New York-based Baselayer made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2026.

Business identity network and fraud intelligence platform Baselayer has raised $35 million in Series A funding. The round was led by M13 with participation from Torch Capital, Picus Ventures, Afore Capital, and Matt Thompson of fellow Finovate alum Socure.

In addition to the investment, Baselayer announced the launch of its Agentic Identity Suite, an interoperable trust layer and agentic fraud consortium for the global agentic economy.

"Every era of commerce has required a new…

J.P. Morgan Payments Selects Thunes to Power Global Payout Solution

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 22, 2026
Categories: Daily news

J.P. Morgan Payments selected Thunes to expand Xpedite Remit, combining its payments infrastructure with Thunes’ Direct Global Network for faster, more transparent cross-border payments.

The partnership gives J.P. Morgan access to 12 billion bank accounts and mobile wallets across 100+ corridors, reducing the need to establish local connectivity market by market.

Chase’s 94 million consumer and small business customers will also benefit, including through faster, real-time inbound payments into the US.

J.P. Morgan Payments has selected Thunes to expand its cross-border capabilities through the bank's Xpedite Remit solutions suite.

The new suite of tools combines J.P. Morgan Payments’ connectivity with local, real-time payments rails and Thunes’ Direct Global Network to offer a reliable cross-border payments tool. The bank's Xpedite Remit tool offers protection, end-to-end traceability, and faster payouts, regardless of whether the payment takes place in the same currency or uses a foreign exchange conversion.

The cross-border capabilities offer access to…

Go.AI Secures $85 Million in Series A Funding

By David Penn Posted on September 22, 2026
Categories: Alumni News, Funding, Go.AI

AI infrastructure provider for regulated industries, Go.AI, has secured $85 million in Series A funding in a round led by Updata Partners. The investment takes the company's total funding to $90 million.

The capital will enable Go.AI to grow its engineering team, accelerate development of its key solutions, and scale go-to-market efforts beyond regulated industries.

Go.AI made its Finovate debut earlier this year at FinovateSpring 2026 as Go Abacus. The Chicago-based company returned to the Finovate stage for FinovateFall 2026 in September.

Go.AI, an AI infrastructure provider for regulated industries, has raised $85 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Updata Partners with participation from existing investors GFT Ventures and LAUNCH. The investment takes Go.AI's total funding to $90 million. In a statement, the company said it will use the funding to grow its engineering team and accelerate development of both its operating system, Go.OS…

ACI Worldwide to Support Payments Orchestrated Through Swift

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 22, 2026
Categories: ACI Worldwide, Alumni News, Alumni profile

Payments expert ACI Worldwide announced it now offers intelligent payments routing for Swift ledger transactions. The capabilities are available using ACI Connetic, the company's cloud-native payments hub.

Swift's blockchain-based ledger was announced last year to help banks move tokenized deposits across borders beyond traditional operating hours. While the 17 banks involved stand to benefit from the infrastructure, many have not fit tokenized deposit payments into their day-to-day operations.

Using ACI Connetic, banks will be able to process tokenized deposit payments, as well as traditional payment types, into the same payments environment banks already use to route, monitor, control and reconcile payments at scale. Because banks can use the same operational controls, workflows, and infrastructure for tokenized payments as they do with traditional payments, it eliminates the need for separate digital-asset payment operations.

"Digital assets should extend a bank’s payment capabilities, not force it to build a second payment operation,"…

FintechOS Raises $28 Million in Combined Debt and Equity

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2026
Categories: FintechOS

FintechOS raised $28 million in combined debt and equity, bringing its total funding since 2017 to $178.9 million.

The capital will support US expansion, deeper European client relationships, and team growth as the company shifts from efficiency mode back toward faster expansion.

FintechOS enters that growth phase from a stronger financial base, having reached profitability while growing recurring revenue 40%, operational EBITDA more than 102%, and its U.S. business 130% in 2026.

Fintech enablement platform FintechOS has closed $28 million in combined debt and equity. The funding, when added to the company's previous rounds, boosts FintechOS's total funding to $178.9 million since it was founded in 2017.

Today's equity funds come from existing investors Bek Ventures, IFC, Cipio Partners, and Molten Ventures. The debt facility comes from Santander CIB. FintechOS will use the investment to fund its US expansion, deepen its European client relationships, and grow its team.

"Santander CIB’s…

Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 21, 2026
Categories: Equifax, Fintech Rundown, Jack Henry

It's the last full week of September, which means that the calendar is ready to flip to the final quarter of 2026. Check out what fintechs are up to in this week's look at the top fintech news. We'll continue to update this post with news throughout the week.

DeFi

Aracore and Teiza to work on institutional stablecoin settlement model between South Korea and Malaysia.

Prediction markets

Yahoo Finance and Polymarket end prediction market partnership.

Digital banking

Centreville Bank turns to Jack Henry for its core upgrade.

Avant files application with OCC to establish Avant Bank.

Aegis Trace and InterSystems partner to strengthen AI decision traceability for regulated organizations.

Mortgages

Sprive raises $10 million for mortgage prepayment tool.

Credit and analytics

Nationwide Building Society partners with Equifax UK to give customers free access to their credit score.

Agentic commerce

GoCardless announces that it has processed the UK's first agentic account-to-account…

Plaid Taps ID.me to Help Government Agencies Verify Financial Beneficiaries and their Accounts

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 18, 2026
Categories: Alumni News, ID.me, Plaid

Plaid and ID.me are teaming up to help US government agencies verify both benefit recipients’ identities and ownership of the financial accounts receiving payments.

The partnership combines identity and account verification into a single flow, helping agencies reduce manual processes, duplicate payments, and the risk of funds being diverted.

Connecting identity with payment destination could help modernize government benefits, enabling legitimate recipients to receive funds faster while strengthening fraud prevention and auditability.

Plaid has selected digital identity network ID.me to enable US government agencies to verify both the person requesting a benefit and the associated financial account receiving it.

Plaid is leveraging ID.me's digital identity wallet to solve the identity piece and is using its own financial account verification tools to help state and federal agencies verify that the account receiving a benefit payment belongs to the recipient before funds move.

"Identity verification tells an agency who is asking to be paid,…

Coinbase Partners with Stablecore to Help Banks Offer Digital Asset Services

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on September 17, 2026
Categories: Alumni News, Coinbase, Daily news

Coinbase and Stablecore are teaming up to help community and regional banks and credit unions offer digital asset services, including trading, custody, and stablecoin payments.

The partnership reflects the broader rebundling of financial services, bringing capabilities that once required separate crypto platforms back inside customers’ existing banking relationships.

Coinbase is positioning itself to benefit either way; it can either own the customer relationship, or it can provide the infrastructure that allows banks to retain it.

Crypto exchange platform Coinbase is teaming up with crypto and DeFi banking infrastructure company Stablecore to help banks and credit unions offer digital asset services through their existing banking platforms.

Under the agreement, Coinbase will tap Stablecore's expertise to bring digital asset services such as trading, custody, and stablecoin payments to Stablecore's 3,000+ bank and credit union partners. The goal of the solution is to help traditional financial institutions offer regulated digital asset products without…