New for FinovateSpring 2026, Finovate is bringing its Impact+ session to offer early-stage fintech founders a dedicated platform to pitch their ideas directly to an audience of investors, banks, and industry leaders.
The session, which debuted at FinovateEurope earlier this year, is designed to create a structured environment for founders and investors to connect, exchange insights, and explore partnerships at a stage when ideas are still forming and companies are actively shaping their...
- Versana has raised $43 million, bringing its total raised to $125 million, with backing from major banks and private credit players.
- The company is building a shared, standardized data layer for the $9 trillion syndicated loan and private credit markets that replaces manual, inconsistent workflows with a single source of truth.
- The new round brings on strategic investors like Fitch Ventures, MassMutual Ventures, Motive Partners, and Apollo.
- Agentic banking innovator nCino has teamed up with Austrian banking cooperative Raiffeisenbankengruppe Oesterreich.
- The financial institution will use nCino as its unified lending platform, supporting the complete financing lifecycle from initial application to final disbursement.
- Founded in 2012 and headquartered in North Carolina, nCino made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2017 in London. Sean Desmond is President and CEO.
Now that the nominations for the 2026 Finovate Awards are open and the judging teams are being assembled, we thought we'd take a look back at some of the winners of last year's competition.
The 2025 Finovate Awards featured a wide variety of companies from around the world, all competing for top industry honors in more than 25 different categories. Here, we present a seven-member sampling of that year's category-winning companies, from Best Anti-Fraud Platform to Best Wealth Management...
- bunq is launching a live BaaS use case, partnering with Blockrise to offer Bitcoin-friendly bank accounts with embedded banking services.
- Blockrise users will gain regulated banking benefits, including fiat deposit protection up to €100,000 under the Dutch Deposit Guarantee Scheme via bunq’s license.
- BaaS enables crypto–bank convergence in which banks provide compliant infrastructure while crypto platforms own the customer relationship.
European neobank bunq is going...
