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Game Changer or Overhyped? 🤔
Welcome to Fintech Wire — your quick guide to what’s shaping finance and tech today.
What we’ll cover today:
🔹 Ramp’s $13B valuation—what’s behind the surge?
🔹 Savvy Wealth’s big CTO move—game-changer or hype?
🔹 Fintech leaders' hottest takes on the industry’s next wave
🔹 Upcoming events you can’t afford to miss!
Behavox, a UK-based AI company, has acquired Mosaic Smart Data to enhance its financial analytics and trade surveillance offerings.
🚨 Breaking News:
Behavox’s acquisition of Mosaic Smart Data will supercharge its AI-driven insights, with a new trade surveillance system coming in 2025.
⚡ Wire Simplified:
Behavox specializes in AI-powered compliance and security solutions.
Mosaic Smart Data provides advanced analytics for financial markets, especially FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies, and Commodities).
The acquisition was finalized in December 2024 and is ahead of schedule.
Integration will boost Behavox’s AI capabilities in financial data monitoring.
A new trade surveillance system launches in late 2025 to detect suspicious activities.
✔️ Straight to the Point:
Behavox is stepping up its AI game, aiming to make financial market surveillance sharper, smarter, and more efficient with this acquisition.
Do you think AI-powered surveillance will make financial markets safer? |
Lenkie, a UK-based financing platform, has raised £49 million to help small businesses access cash flow solutions and scale faster.
🚨 Breaking News:
Lenkie’s fresh funding will help bridge the UK’s £22 billion SME financing gap, offering smarter, flexible financial solutions for businesses.
⚡ Wire Simplified:
Lenkie provides transaction-based financing to SMEs.
Funding breakdown: £4 million equity + £45 million debt facility.
Has already funded £70 million for over 2,000 suppliers across 40+ countries.
Plans to expand its AI-driven financing models and partnerships.
Aims to support more SMEs and explore new markets in 2025.
✔️ Straight to the Point:
Lenkie is tackling the SME funding gap head-on, making cash flow management more accessible and scalable for small businesses.
No one becomes a clinician to do paperwork, but it's becoming a bigger and bigger administrative burden, taking time and attention away from actually treating and supporting patients.
That’s why we’re introducing Microsoft Dragon Copilot, the industry’s first AI assistant for… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella)
3:22 PM • Mar 3, 2025
Our Compute Agent (Operator) Got Much Faster!!
It's about 3- 4x faster. In this example, it finds the cheapest flights from London to NYC and emails you the details.
In all fairness, we are still 2x slower than OpenAI.
We will continue to make it faster and more agentic. The… x.com/i/web/status/1…
— Bindu Reddy (@bindureddy)
11:50 PM • Mar 4, 2025
FinovateFall 2025
FinovateFall is a leading FinTech conference that showcases cutting-edge banking and financial technology through short-form demos and expert insights. The event also includes the Finovate Awards, recognizing companies driving FinTech innovation forward.
Date: September 8–10, 2025 | Location: New York, NY, USA
Fintech Talents North America 2025
Fintech Talents North America is the ultimate FinTech event for credit unions, community banks, financial institutions, and FinTechs from across North America. The event offers networking opportunities, workshops, and discussions on the latest trends in FinTech.
Date: September 2–3, 2025 Location: New York, NY, USA
24 Fintech 2025
24 Fintech is a global FinTech movement that sets the stage for the next chapter in financial technology. The event brings together industry leaders to discuss the future of FinTech, including topics like digital currencies, AI, and open banking.
Date: September 2025 Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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