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Latest edition 24 Oct 2026

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Business & growth· News

Figure Technology Solutions reports $135 million in Q3 small-business lending

Figure Technology Solutions says its partner-led channel funded $135 million in small-business loans in the third quarter of 2026, including more than $50 million in September. The loans draw on borrowers’ home equity; funded volume is not revenue or an SBA lender ranking.

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24 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Plinto announces €2.9 million pre-seed for financial checks

Plinto’s €2.9 million pre-seed backs software for checking business transactions. A Nordic9 listing dated April 30 had described a pre-seed involving the same named firms, without resolving its relationship to the October announcement. Tech.eu reports paying customers and pilots, but has not established customer counts or independently measured savings.

23 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

iFood Benefícios agrees to acquire Caju to add HR and expense tools to benefits business

iFood Benefícios signed an agreement to acquire Caju on October 20, 2026. The proposed purchase would connect its corporate-benefits offering with Caju’s expense and people-management tools, but requires Brazilian regulatory approvals. The purchase price was not disclosed.

23 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Mural raises $15 million led by Tether to expand payments infrastructure

Mural says it completed a $15 million Series A led by Tether to expand the accounts, payments and compliance infrastructure it sells to fintechs. The company names Deel, Opera and Axexo as customers, but its $2.1 billion payment-volume figure is company-reported, not independently verified.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Business & growth· News

NVIDIA says Revolut is scaling PRAGMA in production to serve an initial 80 million customers

NVIDIA’s October 21 disclosure states a production-service scope for Revolut’s transaction model. It does not say how many customers have received a PRAGMA-assisted decision, and earlier accounts had already described production-scale infrastructure.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

LemFi rebuilds app around transfers, UK savings and credit

LemFi announced a rebuilt app on October 21, bringing its cross-border transfers, UK savings and credit, and mobile-data eSIMs into one product experience. Earlier records show that savings, credit applications and eSIM instructions predate the announcement; the change is not a first launch of every service.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

Business & growth· News

Omise opens limited Mirai Flash signup as it expands into enterprise AI

Omise has opened signup for the first 100 users of its Mirai Flash desktop AI coworker and introduced an enterprise integration service. Its payment merchants are a prospective market, not evidence of Mirai Flash adoption.

22 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

Tala brings USDT credit to El Dorado’s wallet, starting in Bolivia

Tala announced an embedded-credit partnership with El Dorado on October 20, 2026. Tala says it will fund and underwrite loans offered through the wallet, initially in Bolivia. Neither Tala’s announcement nor El Dorado’s wallet page reports how many customers received or took up offers.

21 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Business & growth· News

Moovn Technologies and Mastercard sign five-year payments deal; Kenya gateway already launched

Mastercard says Moovn has launched its payment gateway in Kenya under a relationship now covered by a five-year East Africa agreement. The partners describe prepaid cards, broader merchant payments and eligible cross-border transfers as expansion plans, not a set of services confirmed live.

21 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

Tradeweb agrees to buy Trumid for $1.97 billion with $82 million management rollover

Tradeweb has agreed to acquire bond-trading platform Trumid for approximately $1.97 billion. The filed terms include $1.888 billion in adjustable cash consideration and $82 million in equity for interests held on behalf of certain Trumid managers; the purchase remains subject to regulatory and other closing conditions.

20 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

Checkout.com plans Samsung Pay for Flow as Samsung payments work expands

Checkout.com says it will extend payment processing for Samsung.com and Galaxy Store to additional EU and North American markets. Samsung Pay is scheduled to join its Flow checkout product on October 31, giving merchants another route to offer the wallet online and in apps.

19 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

Magnoli adds payroll processing to dry-cleaning software, plans limited rollout

Magnoli Technologies says its software will handle direct deposits, pay stubs and payroll-tax filing after dry-cleaning managers approve a pay period. The company plans to start with select customers in the fourth quarter of 2026; it has not given a date for broader availability.

19 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Startups & growth· News

Updation to add U.S. Bank payments to dealership accounting platform

Updation and U.S. Bank announced an integration intended to connect dealership invoice and vendor workflows with bank-managed payments. The announcement describes the proposed account structure but gives no launch date or adoption figures.

17 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Business automation· News

Alternative Payments says Alti finance assistant is broadly available to service businesses

Alternative Payments says its Alti assistant is broadly available after a limited rollout. It lets service-business teams question financial data and approve proposed actions, including invoice follow-ups. Reported efficiency figures concern the existing platform, not Alti specifically.

17 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Meow reports $31.6 million Series B as Stifel plans bank-branded treasury service

Meow reports a $31.6 million Series B led by Stifel, which separately confirms a minority investment and an agreement to offer Meow’s software through Stifel Bank. Stifel expects client onboarding to begin in early 2027; it has not disclosed the size of its own investment.

17 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Agents & tools· News

Proof adds an agent identity wallet and pay-per-claim checks to x401

Proof’s October 15 release adds its own agent identity wallet and a way for websites to buy individual verification claims. Proof had already announced x401 in June and said Superfluid Wallet implemented it in September.

17 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Ramp confirms $1.85 billion primary round at $60 billion valuation

Ramp confirmed a $1.85 billion primary financing at a stated $60 billion valuation on October 15, after the amount and valuation had been reported earlier. The company also reported more than $2 billion in annualized revenue and described products extending beyond corporate spending.

15 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

RevRag AI announces $2.5 million seed round for in-app banking agents

RevRag AI says a seed round led by Accion Ventures will fund product development, more enterprise deployments and U.S. expansion. Accion says RevRag works with more than 45 financial institutions, a figure MoneyMakers has not independently verified.

15 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Acquisitions & ownership· News

Kuunda completes $5 million secondary sale led by E4E Africa

Kuunda announced a completed $5 million sale of existing shares led by E4E Africa. Three other existing investors increased their positions. The transaction provides early shareholders with liquidity, not $5 million in new operating funding for Kuunda; seller identities and resulting stakes were not disclosed.

14 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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Funding & fundraising· News

Tether invests in EFY Finance seed round for institutional stablecoin payments

Tether announced an investment in EFY Finance's seed round to support institutional use of its stablecoins in Latin America. The amount and terms were not disclosed, and earlier seed backing listed by EFY's group cannot be treated as part of the same financing.

13 Oct 2026 · MoneyMakers

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