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Natural closed a $30 million Series A led by Forerunner to build payment rails built for autonomous AI agents rather than human checkout, positioning itself against Stripe.

Fintech Ramp closed a $750 million Series F at a $44 billion valuation, nearly tripling its worth in a year as it pitches tools to manage corporate AI token spending.

Bengaluru startup Scapia has closed a $63M Series C led by General Catalyst at a post-money valuation exceeding $500 million, more than doubling its $200 million valuation from April 2025.

The fintech platform for startups closed a TCV-led Series D valuing it at $5.2 billion, weeks after securing conditional OCC approval to become a national bank.

OpenAI launched a personal finance preview in ChatGPT on Friday for Pro subscribers in the US, using Plaid to pull read-only data from more than 12,000 financial institutions into a single dashboard.

TCV-led round more than doubles Corgi's valuation in four months and funds the AI-native startup insurance carrier's move into trucking, taking total funding past $268 million.

The New York AI startup, used by 35,000 finance professionals at firms like Rothschild and Jefferies, brought total funding past $300 million to scale Felix, its autonomous deal-workflow agent.

OpenAI has acquired Hiro, a five-month-old AI personal finance startup founded by Digit veteran Ethan Bloch, in an acqui-hire that will shut down the product on April 20.

The HKMA selected HSBC and Anchorpoint Financial from 36 applicants to issue Hong Kong dollar-pegged stablecoins under the city's new Stablecoins Ordinance, with launches expected by late 2026.

The CFPB's landmark open banking rule missed its April 1 compliance deadline after a court injunction and agency reconsideration, but major banks are forging private data-sharing deals that may shape the market before regulators act.

ByteDance has applied for two fintech licenses in Brazil that would let TikTok issue prepaid accounts and extend credit to its 131 million adult users, marking the platform's most ambitious push into financial services outside China.

The CFPB's April 1 compliance deadline for its landmark Personal Financial Data Rights rule passed without enforcement after a federal judge enjoined the regulation and the agency itself declared it unlawful, leaving the future of U.S. open banking to a market moving faster than its regulators.