Berlin-based corporate card fintech Pliant has gone live in the United States, naming Coastal Community Bank as the sponsor bank behind its entry into the world's largest commercial card market. The arrangement, announced July 14, gives Pliant a regulated banking partner to issue cards nationwide and marks the operational milestone the company set when it raised its $40 million Series B in April 2025 explicitly to fund U.S. expansion. What Does the Coastal Partnership Actuall

Tide has opened a dedicated investment account for small businesses, becoming the first UK SME-focused finance platform to build one directly into the app where more than 900,000 British firms already bank. The Tide Investment Account (TIA), live in-app from 30 June 2026, lets business owners move surplus cash into diversified funds without leaving the platform, targeting a long-standing gap between low-yield business savings and the wider capital markets. The product arrives

By Dr. Manuel Thomet, Head Embedded Finance & BaaS at Synpulse Not long ago, accessing a financial product or service meant visiting a branch. Or navigating a standalone app. Today, that is changing fast. Financial services are becoming invisible, woven into the platforms, marketplaces, and everyday tools that consumers and businesses already use. From 2026, a new frontier is emerging: financial services are increasingly accessible through AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perpl

By Jeroen Dossche, Partner and Nick Paulussen, Executive Director Global Strategy - Capco Payments gave embedded finance its headline moment. Apple Pay reduced friction at checkout. Klarna made point-of-sale credit feel mainstream. That same logic is visible beyond payments: IKEA embeds financing directly into the home furnishing-buying journey without the customer ever “going to a bank”, while Tesla’s insurance model showed how protection can be embedded around the underlyin