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

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

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

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

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

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

Wise left London for Nasdaq. It is also applying for a US banking charter. The migration is not just a listing change.
Wise left London for Nasdaq. It is also applying for a US banking charter. The migration is not just a listing change.

  Wise began trading on Nasdaq on Monday under the ticker WSE. Shares opened at 15.96 dollars. The London-founded fintech, which went public on the London Stock Exchange in July 2021 via a direct listing that valued it at 11 billion dollars, has moved …

Seapoint raises €7.5M and opens to all UK and Irish founders
Seapoint raises €7.5M and opens to all UK and Irish founders

The Dublin and London-based fintech, founded by ex-Stripe and ex-Tide engineers, has processed over 100,000 transactions and 40,000 invoices across 80+ early customers. Its €7.5M seed round, led by 13books, brings total funding to €10M and opens the pl…

The fintech that pivoted because of Kanye West just hit a $1.4B valuation with $100M from Khosla and Ribbit
The fintech that pivoted because of Kanye West just hit a $1.4B valuation with $100M from Khosla and Ribbit

Slash, the vertical banking platform built by two college dropouts, has raised a $100M Series C backed by Khosla Ventures and Ribbit Capital. The company’s valuation has nearly quadrupled since its May 2025 Series B, the latest leg of a comeback story …

Spektr raises $20M to replace the compliance analyst’s copy-paste workflow with AI agents
Spektr raises $20M to replace the compliance analyst’s copy-paste workflow with AI agents

The Copenhagen fintech has built a platform of specialised AI agents that handle KYC and KYB work, document reviews, ownership mapping, risk rationale, in minutes rather than hours. NEA led the Series A; Northzone, Seedcamp, and PSV Tech participated. …