At FinTech Futures, we know that it can be easy to let funding announcements slip you by in this fast-paced industry. That’s why we put together our weekly In Case You Missed It (ICYMI) funding round-up so you can get the latest funding news.

Seapoint raises €7.5m for USD accounts this year

Irish B2B paytech Seapoint has secured €7.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by 13books, with participation from Ventures Together, Portfolio Ventures, and more than 40 angels. 

Established in 2025 and made up of a team of over 20 engineers, Seapoint currently offers over 80 businesses an all-in-one payments management platform, automating payroll, expenses, invoicing, and reporting.

Founder and CEO Sean Mullaney confirms in a blog post announcing the seed round: “Cash flow forecasting, physical cards, foreign exchange, and US dollar accounts are all coming this year.”

Including a $3 million pre-seed round in September last year, Seapoint has now raised €10 million in total funding.

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Firenze to double team with £6m raise

UK lendtech Firenze received continued support from investors Outward VC and Form Ventures during its latest £6 million funding round, led by Albion VC. The fundraise follows a £2.5 million seed round in March last year. 

Firenze operates an embedded lending platform that enables wealth managers, advisers, and investment platforms to offer Lombard loans (loans secured against investment portfolios) to their clients, with loan sizes starting from £65,000.

With the fresh funds, Firenze plans to “accelerate the roll-out of its capabilities to more partners across a wider range of products, further enhance its SaaS offering for banks, including the role out of an agentic credit structurer, and launch into new jurisdictions”.

Its statement continues: “In support of this expansion, Firenze plans to more than double the size of its team to support increasing borrower requests and the growing population of wealth managers taking Lombard lending to their clients.”

e& capital joins MagicCube’s $10m funding round

The corporate venture capital arm of Abu Dhabi-based tech group e& has joined a MagicCube funding round which previously closed $10 million in January. The terms of the top-up provided by e& capital this month have not been disclosed. The firm joins existing backers  Verifone, Bold Capital Partners, and Mosaik Partners, among others. 

Founded in the US by CEO Sam Shawki and CTO Nancy Zayed in 2014, MagicCube is an internet-of-things (IoT) mobile security platform that turns mobile devices into point-of-sale (POS) devices through its downloadable software.  

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With the added support of e& capital, MagicCube plans to extend its flagship POS solution, i-Accept, and security infrastructure platform, Software Defined Trust (SDT), with biometric and identity verification services, according to a company statement. 

MagicCube also intends to “strengthen secure AI execution on edge devices, complementing cloud and data center security” and “expand global go-to-market efforts across the Americas, Europe, the Gulf, and Asia—partnering with sovereign funds, telcos, and financial institutions to support trusted AI and payments infrastructure”.

Kaspi.kz $6m share sale to Tencent

Baring Fintech Venture Funds has sold $6 million of its American Depositary Shares in Kazakhstan-based fintech Kaspi.kz to Chinese tech giant Tencent, Kaspi.kz’s CEO Mikheil Lomtadze, and senior management.

In a statement announcing the sale, Lomtadze adds that Spice Expeditions and the US university endowments of Washington University and WISIMCO, University of Wisconsin Foundation have also joined the company as long-term shareholders. 

Established in 2008 following the rebranding of Bank Caspian JSC, Kaspi.kz is a super-app enabling users to shop and pay for everyday goods through a range of funding options for purchases, manage their personal finances and bills, and make P2P payments, among other features. 

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Lomtadze’s statement confirms plans for the company to build out its presence in Kazakhstan and expand into Türkiye with the addition of the new investors.

Centrl lands minority investment from Broadridge

Centrl, a US-based due diligence-focused platform, has partnered with Broadridge Financial Solutions, securing a minority investment from the global fintech. The details of the deal have not been disclosed. 

Founded in 2015 by Sanjeev Dheer, Centrl provides an AI-powered due diligence and response platform that helps financial institutions automate diligence, research, and DDQ/RFP response processes.

In a joint statement announcing the partnership, the companies state that “Broadridge will integrate Centrl’s AI-powered workflow and automation capabilities across solutions serving asset managers, retirement recordkeepers, and retirement advisors”. Specifically, the statement notes that Broadridge’s Fi360 RFP Director will be modernised, in addition to “embedding Broadridge data into Centrl’s workflows, and expanding access to AI-driven tools that automate due diligence, RFP responses, and counterparty oversight processes”.

HQLAx secures backing from Broadridge and Digital Asset

Broadridge has made a minority investment in digital collateral mobility solutions provider HQLAx, taking part in the company’s Series C-1 funding round alongside Digital Asset. The terms of the stake have not been disclosed. 

Founded in Luxembourg in 2017, HQLAx is a fintech company that uses distributed ledger technology to improve collateral mobility in the securities finance and repo markets. The platform enables banks and asset managers to transfer securities ownership without physically moving securities through the custody chain.

In a statement announcing the funds, HQLAx says the new capital will support its next phase of growth, “including the continued evolution of its technology platform, collaboration with Broadridge’s Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform, and a planned migration to the Canton Network”.