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A Brazilian neobank tapped Brazil's fastest-growing debt structure to fuel its acquiring business, and the move matters because it shows how fintechs now scale lending without handing shares to venture funds.

Apple has edged past Nvidia with a US$4.88T valuation versus Nvidia’s US$4.86T, highlighting how investors are rebalancing their AI trade from pure chip exposure toward diversified tech platforms and ecosystem plays, and why this rotation matters for capital allocation over the next cycle.

An eight-figure exit for a Peruvian foodtech shows that in Latin America, the strategic buyer who already owns a piece of your cap table is often the only buyer who will pay a real price.

Uber is offering roughly US$15B to take over Delivery Hero while carving out 14 markets to SSW Partners, a deal that reshapes global food delivery scale and raises fresh strategic questions for investors.

Nvidia‑backed Fireworks AI has raised US$1.5B at a US$17.5B valuation to build a cloud platform for open‑source AI models, signaling how cost pressure and model diversity are reshaping the economics of enterprise AI infrastructure.

A new Pew Research Center study reveals a significant shift in global perceptions of major powers: China has surpassed the

Stripe and Advent International have reportedly tabled a US$53.4B joint bid for PayPal, a move that could redraw the global payments map and reset valuations across the fintech sector if it goes through.

Mexican fintech Aviva raised a US$18M Series A led by Valor Capital Group to scale a phygital credit network for the underbanked in Mexico, signaling how infrastructure plays will define the next wave of Latin American fintech.

TerraFirma has raised US$115M to scale its autonomous construction platform for extreme environments, signaling that infrastructure robotics is becoming a core theme in both industrial and space investing.

London‑based Valarian just raised US$50M to build a sovereign control layer on top of US hyperscaler clouds, reshaping how governments and enterprises think about AI, data governance, and geopolitical risk for their infrastructure.