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Flourish to Acquire Sora Finance to Build Comprehensive Deposits and Lending Platform for RIAs

March 20, 2025

Payments & Fintech

Flourish, a technology platform for registered investment advisors (RIAs), entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sora Finance, an AI-driven liability optimization platform for advisors. The combined offering is intended to provide RIAs with integrated asset and liability management, including cash management plus lending capabilities.

Rapid Finance Acquires Digital Lending Platform Provider Thrive

October 3, 2022

Financial Services

Rapid Finance has acquired digital lending platform provider Thrive and folded the business into its new Rapid Finance Technology unit to accelerate digital lending capabilities. The Thrive platform provides end-to-end origination, underwriting, decisioning and servicing tools for banks, non-bank lenders and credit unions, and the acquisition supports Rapid Finance's effort to modernize and expand its technology-driven lending solutions.

Chime Acquires Salt Labs

June 26, 2024

Staffing & HR

Chime has acquired Salt Labs, an enterprise employee rewards and incentives platform founded in 2022, and will integrate the Salt team and products into a new business unit, Chime Enterprise. The acquisition gives Chime direct access to Salt Labs’ employer relationships across transportation, hospitality, call centers and other frontline-facing industries to accelerate primary account growth and expand Chime’s employer channel capabilities; financial terms were not disclosed.

PROG Holdings Acquires BNPL Provider Four Technologies

July 13, 2021

Payments & Fintech

PROG Holdings, the fintech holding company behind Progressive Leasing and Vive Financial, has acquired Four Technologies (Four), a Miami/Aventura-based Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) platform. The acquisition adds BNPL capabilities to PROG's suite of payment solutions to expand retailer payment options and diversify its consumer fintech offerings; terms were not disclosed.

U.S. Bank Acquires Bento Technologies (Bento for Business)

August 11, 2021

Payments & Fintech

U.S. Bank has agreed to acquire Bento Technologies (Bento for Business), a fintech company that provides card-based payments and automated expense management for small and mid-size businesses. The acquisition is intended to integrate Bento’s accounts-payable and expense management capabilities with U.S. Bank’s existing payments and receivables solutions to offer a more comprehensive cash-management experience for SMB clients.

Trust Science acquires Lenders API

February 10, 2026

Cybersecurity

Edmonton-based Trust Science acquired Toronto-based fraud prevention platform Lenders API to help lenders build an industry-wide defense against coordinated lending fraud. The deal closed last week and will be integrated into Trust Science’s AI-powered risk and decisioning infrastructure, while Lenders API’s consortium platform continues to support lenders collaboratively spotting fraud.