Curql Closes Largest Credit Union Fintech Fund at $360M
August 7, 20257 min
Curql’s $360M Fund II ranks among the top 25 U.S. venture capital fundraises in early 2025, signaling credit unions’ growing power in fintech innovation
Zest AI Debuts AI-Powered Fraud Detection for Lenders
August 7, 20244 min
Zest Protect helps lenders decision loans more confidently with accurate, holistic application fraud detection
Lendica and CSG Forte usher in new era of embedded business lending
January 30, 20244 min
Lendica, an embedded AI lending company, and CSG Forte, a CSG® company and a leader in complete and customizable digital payments, announce a strategic partnership to deliver an embedded business credit solution to small and medium sized US companies. Lendica and CSG Forte’s offering, called the iBranch, is an embedded financing service that enables SMBs to borrow money from their software vendors instead of traditional financial institutions. Embedded lending, popularized by software companies such as Amazon, Shopify, and Square,...