Spain-based Didit just brought in an additional $6 million for its identity verification network, boosting its total Seed funding to $7. 5 million. Investors in today's round include Y Combinator,  Pioneer Fund,  Orange Collective,  Founders Future, ...
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05/26/2026

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) on 2026/05/26 17:41 -0400
  • Spain-based Didit raised an additional $6 million in Seed funding to expand its programmable identity and fraud infrastructure globally, bringing its total funding to $7.5 million.
  • Didit offers developers API-first tools to verify users, businesses, and online interactions, using AI to analyze more than 200 signals including biometric liveness, deepfakes, and behavioral activity.
  • The funding highlights growing demand for identity and fraud tools built for the AI era, as businesses...
By David Penn on 2026/05/26 17:09 -0400
  • Financial services company Zip announced a new partnership with international payments company InComm Payments.
  • The partnership will bring Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) functionality to the gift card category.
  • Founded in 1992, InComm made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2011 in New York. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Australia-based Zip was founded in 2013 and serves customers in New Zealand and the US, as well as Australia.

Digital financial services...

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) on 2026/05/26 11:15 -0400

If you're in the US, you may be pouring an extra cup of caffeine after an activity-filled long weekend. While you were away, however, the rest of the fintech world kept moving. This week, we’ll continue to add more announcements as the week progresses.


Payments

Marqeta expands account and money movement offering in Europe, building on strong regional momentum.

PlayHQ partners with Gr4vy to power payments across global markets.

Mastercard renews its partnership with CIB,...

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) on 2026/05/22 12:28 -0400

With new enabling technologies like stablecoins and AI moving quickly and classic fintechs like Mint.com and Dwolla making their exits, it feels like fintech is entering a new era. This is especially true in lending, where new capabilities are enabling faster, more efficient, and in many cases more customer friendly tools than we had five years ago.

Looking back at the dawn of the decade, most lending innovation focused on digitizing the application process, facilitating the onboarding...

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) on 2026/05/21 11:08 -0400

FinovateSpring 2026 may be over, but the demos are just getting started. All 54 videos from the demo stage are now available to watch for free on Finovate.com and the Finovate YouTube channel.

This year’s demos showcased how fintechs are rethinking everything from AI-powered banking and embedded finance to fraud prevention, lending, payments, customer experience, digital identity, and wealth management. Earlier this month in San Diego, fintechs took the stage to deliver Finovate’s...

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