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The Financial Club
The Financial Club is the social network for financial services, fintech, and digital assets professionals.
About The Financial Club
The Financial Club is the social network for financial services, fintech, and digital assets professionals. 4,100+ verified members from 2,200+ organizations use TFC to talk shop with the people who actually get it — not the broader market, not their LinkedIn feed. The industry, talking to itself. We also run: Fintech Brief (140,000+ subscribers), Fintech Week London, Fintech Week SF, the Financial Club Retreat (FMR Fintech Retreat / DeFi Retreat), private summits around the world and an annual Fintech Gala at the UK House of Lords. app.financialclub.com
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Strategy & Corporate Development
The Financial Club reported that John Marshall Bancorp and Eagle Financial Services announced a strategic merger uniting two Virginia community banks for combined regional presence and enhanced capabilities.
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Strategy & Corporate Development
The Financial Club reported that EverBank and WaFd Bank agreed to a $3.9 billion reverse merger combining consumer online banking with commercial real estate and C&I lending, with expected 29% EPS accretion in 2027.
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Products & Services
The Financial Club reported that Visa introduced an onchain lending approach combining VisaNet settlement data with blockchain lending infrastructure for stablecoin-linked card programs providing working capital through Credit Coop facility.
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Partnerships
The Financial Club reported that Stanchion Payment Solutions Payments expanded Africa presence through payment modernization initiatives enabling regional financial institutions to upgrade legacy systems with tokenized and real-time payment capabilities.
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Partnerships
The Financial Club reported that Daribatech partnered with Gateley Middle East to support mandatory UAE e-invoicing compliance beginning January 1, 2027 combining tax technology with legal advisory for ASP readiness and implementation.
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Partnerships
The Financial Club reported that Celtic Bank selected Jack Henry core processing platform with Banno Business digital banking and Enterprise Workflow automation for business banking and BaaS scaling.
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Capital & Finance
The Financial Club reported that slice raised $100M led by Neo Wealth at $450M valuation for digital banking expansion across deposits lending and payments following a small finance bank merger.
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Capital & Finance
The Financial Club reported that Outline raised $3M seed funding led by Founders Future for AI-powered financial planning and analysis automating spreadsheet forecasting for mid-market companies.
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Products
The Financial Club announced that FinXP unveiled a refreshed positioning as payments infrastructure provider expanding into Banking-as-a-Service and card issuing with direct SEPA access.
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Partnerships
The Financial Club announced that Socure and Aeropay integrated identity verification with bank-linking enabling consumer account onboarding with phone number and two clicks achieving 50% straight-through funding rates.
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Partnerships
The Financial Club announced that PicPay announced integration with Claude enabling customers to check financial information through natural-language commands with facial biometric authentication.
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Partnerships
The Financial Club announced that PayTabs Global acquired Amazon Payment Services MENA operations for $100M+ consolidating the region's payments infrastructure with combined processing of SAR 150B annually.
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Partnerships
The Financial Club announced that First Citizens Bank acquired 138 BMO U.S. branches in substantial retail banking expansion strengthening community banking presence across 11 states.
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Partnerships
The Financial Club announced a strategic collaboration agreement with AWS for availability in AWS Marketplace providing an AI-enabled financial operations platform with corporate cards expense management and bill payments.
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Strategy & Corporate Development
The Financial Club reported that Nasdaq completed an acquisition of Dasseti integrating AI-powered due diligence and monitoring into Nasdaq eVestment for institutional asset manager research and selection.
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Products & Services
The Financial Club reported that KB Kookmin Bank 국민은행 launched blockchain-based cross-border import/export payments using JPMorgan's Kinexys across 10 countries.
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Products & Services
The Financial Club reported that FIS launched the Embedded Banking Platform enabling US banks to offer accounts and payments directly within business software corporate customers use daily.
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Products & Services
The Financial Club reported that Citi completed its first live transactions on Swift's blockchain ledger with FAB and OCBC for 24/7 cross-border USD payments outside traditional settlement windows.
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Products & Services
The Financial Club reported that Anthropic launched Claude commerce agent blueprints for shopping and merchant operations with Visa Mastercard payment integration and Shopify partnership.
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Legal & Regulatory
The Financial Club reported that Revolut received conditional OCC approval to establish a US national bank with banking and crypto services targeting a 2027 launch.
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Legal & Regulatory
The Financial Club reported that Ant International secured a Payment Institution license from the Central Bank of Brazil for local and cross-border payment operations.
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Partnerships
The Financial Club announced that Ripple partners with SettleMint to integrate custody and tokenized asset lifecycle management for Asia-Pacific financial institutions.
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Partnerships
The Financial Club announced that LSEG collaborates with Payward to tokenize 100 largest UK-listed stocks as xStocks for 24/7 onchain trading.
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M&A
The Financial Club announced that SBI Holdings acquires 20% stake in Indonesian trading platform Ajaib Group for $270M to expand digital assets in Southeast Asia.
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