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Celero Commerce Acquires Petroleum Processing Solutions
Celero Commerce, a financial technology company focused on optimized payment solutions for small to mid-sized businesses and strategic partners, today announced the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Petroleum Processing Solutions, a Massachusetts-based payments provider specializing in pay-at-the-pump and multi-lane retail solutions for independent fuel and convenience merchants nationwide. This acquisition marks a strategic entry into the fuel sector, building directly on Celero’s 2024 acquisition of Precision Payments, a recognized leader in grocery and convenience store processing. Together, these moves establish Celero as a formidable competitor and preferred provider across fuel, convenience, and grocery retail verticals which represent high-growth, operationally complex segments where specialized technology,
Capital Markets Tech / WealthTech
TMX Snaps Up Cboe’s Australian and Canadian Units for $300M
TMX Group’s, operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, $300 million acquisition of Cboe’s Canadian and Australian equities trading businesses expands its CAPITAL MARKETS TECH
Chart Of The Week
OpenAI Acquires Two Fintech Startups in Six Months — Here’s What It Means
OpenAI has recently made two tactical acquisitions in the personal finance management (PFM) space: Roi (October 2025) and Hiro Finance (April 2026). Both were
Blockchain
Payward: $550 Million Acquisition of Bitnomial Builds Fully CFTC-Licensed U.S. Crypto Derivatives Platform
Payward’s $550 million acquisition of Bitnomial strengthens its CRYPTO / BLOCKCHAIN infrastructure by giving Kraken and NinjaTrader access to a fully CFTC-licensed U.S. crypto
E-commerce
Visa and TikTok Launch Creator Card to Support Entrepreneurs
Visa and TikTok’s creator card expands E-COMMERCE by giving creators faster access to income and better cash-flow tools. The card helps UK creators access
Embedded Finance
Firenze Secures £6M to Accelerate Vision of Building Global Credit Infrastructure for Wealth Management
Firenze, the two-year-old Lombard lending fintech, has raised £6 million to support its EMBEDDED FINANCE vision of building credit infrastructure that can be integrated
Fintech AI
American Express to Acquire Hyper, Adding to Its AI Expertise and Expense Management Capabilities
American Express’s acquisition of Hypercard (Hyper) demonstrates FINTECH AI moving from experimentation into business workflows, especially around expense management and commercial services. Hyper’s AI agents
IDV / AML / KYB / Biometrics
Palm Secures Amex Ventures Investment for Business Identity
Palm, a portable business identity infrastructure platform serving 35 million businesses across the United States, has received a strategic investment from Amex Ventures, which demonstrates
Stablecoins
Morgan Stanley Launches Reserves Portfolio for Stablecoin Issuers
Morgan Stanley’s Stablecoin Reserves Portfolio positions the firm to serve issuers that need compliant, liquid reserve management under evolving U.S. stablecoin rules. The STABLECOIN product
Open Banking
Perplexity Upgrades Finance Capabilities
Perplexity’s finance upgrades aim to make AI a more interactive financial analysis tool by integrating live market data with users’ brokerage information through Plaid. This
Payments
Fintech Monk Raises $25M to Automate Receivables
Monk, an AI-native automated platform built to automate the entire accounts receivable (AR) process, raised $25 million. This highlights how the PAYMENTS infrastructure is
PropTech
QSource Group Acquires AOE Software and Unveils QTREN: A Unified Commercial Real Estate Technology Platform
QSource Group, a Houston-based enterprise tech firm backed by experts with more than 20 years of global IT operations, has acquired AOE, a vertical
AML
Palm Secures Amex Ventures Investment for Business Identity
Palm, a portable business identity infrastructure platform serving 35 million businesses across the United States, has received a strategic investment from Amex Ventures, which demonstrates
Specialty Finance / LendTech
Horizon Technology Finance Backs Stellar Cyber With $25M Facility
Horizon Technology Finance, a Monroe Capital affiliate and specialty lender to venture-backed technology businesses, has provided a $25 million senior credit facility to Stellar
InsurTech
Acrisure Acquires MGA Vave From Canopius
Acrisure’s acquisition of Vave from Canopius enhances its U.S. insurance platform by adding a technology-driven MGA with advanced data-led underwriting, particularly for catastrophe-exposed excess
WealthTech
Wealth.com Raises $65 Million Series B to Power AI Future of Wealth Management
Wealth.com, an AI-powered platform transforming estate and tax planning for wealth management firms, has raised $65 million in Series B funding. New investors include
Press
Fintech Investment Bank Wellesley Hills Financial Expands Capabilities with New Executive Advisors
Announces addition of two recognized fintech and payments leaders to the team NEWTON, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Wellesley Hills Financial, a global investment bank and strategic advisory
Week's Most Interesting
Capital Markets Tech
TMX Snaps Up Cboe’s Australian and Canadian Units for $300M
TMX Group’s, operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, $300 million acquisition of Cboe’s Canadian and Australian equities trading businesses expands its CAPITAL MARKETS TECH
Chart Of The Week
OpenAI Acquires Two Fintech Startups in Six Months — Here’s What It Means
OpenAI has recently made two tactical acquisitions in the personal finance management (PFM) space: Roi (October 2025) and Hiro Finance (April 2026). Both were acquihires,
Crypto
Payward: $550 Million Acquisition of Bitnomial Builds Fully CFTC-Licensed U.S. Crypto Derivatives Platform
Payward’s $550 million acquisition of Bitnomial strengthens its CRYPTO / BLOCKCHAIN infrastructure by giving Kraken and NinjaTrader access to a fully CFTC-licensed U.S. crypto derivatives
Embedded Finance
Firenze Secures £6M to Accelerate Vision of Building Global Credit Infrastructure for Wealth Management
Firenze, the two-year-old Lombard lending fintech, has raised £6 million to support its EMBEDDED FINANCE vision of building credit infrastructure that can be integrated into
E-commerce
Visa and TikTok Launch Creator Card to Support Entrepreneurs
Visa and TikTok’s creator card expands E-COMMERCE by giving creators faster access to income and better cash-flow tools. The card helps UK creators access TikTok
Fintech AI
American Express to Acquire Hyper, Adding to Its AI Expertise and Expense Management Capabilities
American Express’s acquisition of Hypercard (Hyper) demonstrates FINTECH AI moving from experimentation into business workflows, especially around expense management and commercial services. Hyper’s AI
IDV / AML / KYB / Bioemetrics
Palm Secures Amex Ventures Investment for Business Identity
Palm, a portable business identity infrastructure platform serving 35 million businesses across the United States, has received a strategic investment from Amex Ventures, which demonstrates
Wealthtech
Wealth.com Raises $65 Million Series B to Power AI Future of Wealth Management
Wealth.com, an AI-powered platform transforming estate and tax planning for wealth management firms, has raised $65 million in Series B funding. New investors include
Open Banking
Perplexity Upgrades Finance Capabilities
Perplexity’s finance upgrades aim to make AI a more interactive financial analysis tool by integrating live market data with users’ brokerage information through Plaid. This
Payments
Fintech Monk Raises $25M to Automate Receivables
Monk, an AI-native automated platform built to automate the entire accounts receivable (AR) process, raised $25 million. This highlights how the PAYMENTS infrastructure is
QSource Group Acquires AOE Software and Unveils QTREN: A Unified Commercial Real Estate Technology Platform
QSource Group, a Houston-based enterprise tech firm backed by experts with more than 20 years of global IT operations, has acquired AOE, a vertical software
Insurtech
Acrisure Acquires MGA Vave From Canopius
Acrisure’s acquisition of Vave from Canopius enhances its U.S. insurance platform by adding a technology-driven MGA with advanced data-led underwriting, particularly for catastrophe-exposed excess and
Specialty Finance / LendTech
Horizon Technology Finance Backs Stellar Cyber With $25M Facility
Horizon Technology Finance, a Monroe Capital affiliate and specialty lender to venture-backed technology businesses, has provided a $25 million senior credit facility to Stellar Cyber,