Hello Fintech Friends,
Today’s newsletter is brought to you by our friends at Restive.
I wanted to share a couple great writeups from our team on fintech around the world this week.
First, this great summary from Marc Palet on Hong Kong's special status, and how it grew from a fishing village into a global commercial center – and how that growth affected its use of stablecoins.
"The use cases we see in Hong Kong look very different from what we see in other markets. Stablecoins don’t have one universal story. Adoption depends on local infrastructure, regulation, and political context."
Moving around the world to Europe, Matt Jones put together a great interview with Andrew Riabchuk, Founder of Akurateco Payments, on how Ukraine's payments and neobank infrastructure survived in the middle of the country's war.
Lastly, coming to LatAm, we wanted to share on behalf of our friends at Flourish Ventures their upcoming LatAm Builders and Backers networking event in San Francisco:
Please find another week of fintech financing events below.
Have feedback for us? Let us know. Find me at @nikmilanovic, @twifintech, and @ndm
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Stat of the Week
After three years of decline, global fintech investment turned a corner in 2025 — attracting $116 billion, up from $95.5 billion in 2024, per KPMG's Pulse of Fintech H2'25 report.
Venture Financing
Anchorage Digital raised $100 million from Tether, valuing the company at $4.2 billion to expand its regulated crypto platform.
Fieldguide raised $75 million in Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives to scale its agentic AI platform for audit and advisory firms.
Indigo raised $50 million in Series B to modernize medical malpractice insurance nationwide.
Artificial Labs raised $45 million in Series B to expand its AI-powered digital underwriting platform for specialty and commerce insurance markets.
RapidFort raised $42 million in Series A to power software supply chain security.
OneDome raised £25 million (~$34 million) in pre-Series C to expand its UK property and housing superapp.
Duna raised $30 million in Series A to expand its AI-native business identify platform.
Alinea Invest raised $22.5 million in user acquisition financing to grow its AI-powered personal investing platform.
Equal Parts raised $23 million in Series A led by Inspired Capital to expand its insurtech acquisition platform for independent insurance agencies.
Circit raised $22 million in growth equity to expand its audit confirmation and financial data verification platform.
Pasito raised $21 million in Series A to scale its AI-powered employee benefits platform.
Sifi raised $20 million in Series A to enhance its AI-driven finance tools and spend management platform for businesses.
Waffo raised $15 million in Series A to accelerate its unified global payments platform.
Bits raised €12 million (~$14.2 million) in Series A to simplify AML compliance for European fintechs.
Sidekick raised £7.8 million (~$10.6 million) in Series A to scale its wealthtech platform for high-income professionals.
Apexx Global raised $10 million to grow its payments orchestration platform for enterprise merchants.
Levl raised $7 million in seed funding to build its unified platform powering fiat and stablecoin global payments,
TaxNova raised $1 million in pre-seed funding after joining the a16z Speedrun accelerator to streamline R&D tax relief claims using AI.
AsiaVerify secured growth capital to scale its Asian business verification and RegTech platform.
Debt Financing
Cross River upsized its revolving credit facility to $250 million, deepening its multi-year partnership with Upgrade.
Momenta Finance landed a £125 million (~$170 million) forward flow facility to boost SME lending across the UK.
Solvento closed a $25 million credit facility with BBVA Spark to expand its logistics and freight financing platform in Mexico.
Exponent Financial secured a $20 million revolving credit facility from Jovian to scale its financial management and lending platform.
Venture Funds
Blue Dot Investors launched a fintech-focused secondaries investment firm, providing secondaries and strategic capital solutions for late-stage companies.
SPONSORED CONTENT
Go Restive is back on March 4th in San Francisco! This one-day summit brings together the best early stage tech founders with visionary leaders and investors for a day of connection and community.
Go Restive is designed for early stage founders and is free for founders to attend. We want to help you accelerate your network to build even faster.
