Euka expands to Instagram after helping brands generate $4B in TikTok Shop sales
Euka expands to Instagram after helping brands generate $4B in TikTok Shop sales

Euka has built its business helping brands recruit and manage the creators who sell their products on TikTok Shop. Now, it wants to follow those brands onto other platforms. The creator economy startup is launching an Instagram integration alongside Sh…

Revolut gets its Colombian banking licence, its sixth worldwide
Revolut gets its Colombian banking licence, its sixth worldwide

Revolut has received its licence to operate from Colombia’s financial regulator, the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia (SFC). The company said the licence is the last regulatory step it needs before it launches in the country. Revolut announced t…

Some prop firms profit from failure
Some prop firms profit from failure

The appeal of prop trading starts with a genuine problem around access to capital. 45% of people who don’t invest said they simply did not have enough money to do so. Talented traders lack enough capital to turn skill into returns. Proprietary firms ar…

The best Web3 wallets in 2026: from crypto storage to onchain trading hubs
The best Web3 wallets in 2026: from crypto storage to onchain trading hubs

Choosing a crypto wallet used to come down to a few basic questions: Which networks does it support? Is it secure? And how easily can users send, receive and store assets? In 2026, the answer is becoming more complicated. Wallets are increasingly integ…

Visa, Mastercard and Ant International team up on ID checks for AI agents
Visa, Mastercard and Ant International team up on ID checks for AI agents

Ant International, Mastercard and Visa have begun working together on a shared Know-Your-Agent framework. It covers AI agents that make purchases on behalf of users. The three companies announced the collaboration on Thursday, Singapore time. Reuters a…

Ramp eyes $60bn valuation three months after $44bn, Bloomberg reports
Ramp eyes $60bn valuation three months after $44bn, Bloomberg reports

Ramp, the corporate card and spend management company, is in early talks to raise new funding at a valuation of roughly $60bn. That would put it $16bn above the valuation it reached just three months ago. Rebecca Torrence and Natasha Mascarenhas of Blo…

Instacart says AI-built carts beat its $115 average basket. Shipt shipped the same feature and called it relief from mental load.
Instacart says AI-built carts beat its $115 average basket. Shipt shipped the same feature and called it relief from mental load.

Shipt and Instacart both launched AI assistants that build a grocery cart from a prompt or a photo on 9 September. Instacart said orders placed through its assistant contain more items than a typical order and exceed its $115 average basket, while Ship…

How I learned to stop worrying and love the gamification of finance
How I learned to stop worrying and love the gamification of finance

Gamification has a bad name in finance, and rightfully so. Trading apps fired confetti when you bought options. Meme stocks turned rent money into casino chips. Say “gamified finance” today and people picture slot machines packaged as financial product…

Racing the clock: How Ashok Kumar turned milliseconds into millions in global ecommerce
Racing the clock: How Ashok Kumar turned milliseconds into millions in global ecommerce

Ashok Kumar, Staff Software Engineer at Walmart Global Tech, has built his career around making large-scale ecommerce systems faster, more reliable, and more economical. His work spans web performance, marketplace fulfillment, cloud cost optimization, …

Chime is paying $590m for its own sponsor bank
Chime is paying $590m for its own sponsor bank

Chime is buying the bank that has held its customers’ money for seven years. The company announced on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Stride Bank of Enid, Oklahoma, for $590m in cash. Stride will become Chime Bank and operate as a wholly owned su…