2025 Roundup

🗞️ Orion & iCapital Team Up | FCA–MAS AI Pact | Middesk Revamps KYB | Qonto Files for Bank License | Stripe Expands Pay-by-Bank

🗞️ Meta Seeks $29B | Revolut Buys BNP Argentina | BlackRock Joins CAIS | Claude AI Stumbles | BBVA Debuts Digital Bank in Germany

🗞️ Chime IPO Targets $11B | Rillet Raises $25M | Mastercard & Habito Support SMEs | MPowered Launches Broker Tracker | Velocity Eyes Stablecoin Rails

🧠 AI-First Fintech Leads the Way in Q2 2025 — but WealthTech, RegTech & SaaS Stay Hot

Special Edition

🗞️ Klarna Q1 Earnings | Meta Unveils Llama Startups | Visa Pushes Embedded Pay | Airwallex Raises $300M | NatWest x MuchBetter

🗞️ Anthropic Secures $2.5B Credit | Acorns Buys EarlyBird | Citi Backs CrediLinq | Lloyds Taps Moneyhub | Stash Raises $146M

🗞️ Murati's AI Startup Eyes $2B | Revolut Valued at $48B | Google Launches Agent Kit | Affirm x Shopify | Hawk Raises $56M to Combat Financial Crime

🗞️ OpenAI Raises $40B | Klarna Pauses IPO | Trump Tariffs Rattle Markets | Chime Launches Instant Loans | Djamo Expands in Africa

🗞️ xAI Acquires X | Google Unveils Gemini 2.5 | SC Debuts SC GPT | Shopify, Pipe17 Team Up | ECB Expands DLT Settlement

🗞️ Perplexity Targets $18B | Chime Adds Instant Loans | Tink Surges in Pay by Bank | Hugging Face Pushes Open AI | Javice Trial Unfolds

🗞️ Klarna Files $1B IPO | Finbourne Raises $70M for AI Finance | Rocket Buys Redfin | Google Unveils Gemma 3 | BlackRock Expands Alternatives

🗞️ OpenAI’s $20K AI Agents | Revolut & Visa Challenge Fees | HSBC Expands B2B | UniCredit Concludes Aion & Vodeno Deal | Plaid Eyes Commercial Data