Robinhood is letting AI agents trade stocks and spend money on your credit card
Robinhood is letting AI agents trade stocks and spend money on your credit card

  Robinhood has launched a platform that lets users connect AI agents to their brokerage accounts to execute stock trades autonomously. The company is also introducing a virtual credit card designed specifically for AI agents, making it the first major…

Former Citadel quants raised $78M for the AI operating system Wall Street’s wealth managers didn’t have
Former Citadel quants raised $78M for the AI operating system Wall Street’s wealth managers didn’t have

Moment, the fintech company founded by a cohort of former Citadel Securities quantitative traders and researchers, has raised $78 million. The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz and Avra. The …

Starling’s FY26 profit dips again as the neobank provisions for more credit losses
Starling’s FY26 profit dips again as the neobank provisions for more credit losses

The Goldman-backed UK challenger has booked a second consecutive annual decline as it takes additional expected-credit-loss provisions, on top of the FY25 fallout from the BBLS Covid-loan compliance issue and the FCA’s £29m anti-money-laundering fine. …

Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments
Primer secures $100M Series C to fuel US expansion and autonomous AI payments

Primer, a London-based payment startup, has announced a €86.2 million Series C funding round to expand its AI payments and finance platform. The capital will also support its market development in the US, where the company plans to grow revenue to more…

RemotePass raises $17.4m Series B from EBRD as global employment meets fintech
RemotePass raises $17.4m Series B from EBRD as global employment meets fintech

The Dubai-founded global employment and payroll platform reached profitability in early 2025 before taking the round. EBRD Venture Capital led; 500 Global is the new strategic name alongside.\ RemotePass, the global employment, payroll, and spend platf…

Google wants to own your entire shopping journey with Universal Cart and agent-led payments
Google wants to own your entire shopping journey with Universal Cart and agent-led payments

Google has unveiled Universal Cart, an AI-powered shopping hub announced at I/O 2026 that lets users add products from across its ecosystem, Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail, into a single persistent cart. The feature, rolling out in the US today, re…

Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain
Temasek-backed motif launches Clarity, an AI system that wants to give wealth platforms a brain

Most AI products in financial services are, if you strip away the marketing, large language models bolted onto data feeds. They retrieve information. They do not understand it. And when the stakes involve real money, that distinction matters enormously…

Stripe’s John Collison says agentic commerce will completely transform online shopping
Stripe’s John Collison says agentic commerce will completely transform online shopping

John Collison thinks keyword search is a “ridiculous” way to find things to buy. The Stripe co-founder told Bloomberg that agentic commerce, in which AI agents shop on behalf of consumers, will completely transform the online shopping experience, resha…

China’s tech giants are replacing the search bar with AI agents that shop for you
China’s tech giants are replacing the search bar with AI agents that shop for you

  For years, buying something online in China meant typing keywords into a search bar and scrolling through an endless grid of listings. That ritual is being dismantled. On Monday, Alibaba Group integrated its Qwen artificial intelligence assistant wit…

Revolut is offering every employee GBP1,000 to sell business banking. The real prize is a $200 billion IPO.
Revolut is offering every employee GBP1,000 to sell business banking. The real prize is a $200 billion IPO.

  Revolut’s chief executive, Nik Storonsky, has told employees across the company that business banking is now its top priority, and is offering each of them £1,000 to prove he means it. In a memo sent to staff on Friday, Storonsky asked everyone, rega…