Apple Upgrade launches July 28 with Klarna behind it — a 36-month lease book that makes Klarna's US bank charter a funding necessity, not an optimisation.
Lloyds has lent PremFina £400m. In the week to July 17, credit facilities outraised equity two to one across fintech - much of it from bank balance sheets.
Fourthline and Veridas will merge into a 115m-check identity platform as fintech funding rises 22.7% but deal counts fall 25.7%, concentrating capital.
Alpaca's $435m raise is majority debt - a balance-sheet signal, not growth capital, as the brokerage API provider targets prime broking and hedge fund clients.
Visa, Mastercard and Amex are premier members of the Linux Foundation's x402 Foundation, the new open-governance body standardising AI agent payments over HTTP.
Nayax refused a ransom with the attacker's July 21 leak deadline live. Its shares fell 11% a day before the filing - the leak site beat the disclosure.
PayPal's board rejected the $53bn Stripe-Advent offer as inadequate. Why the Braintree antitrust remedy is cheap and price, not regulators, is the block.