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Argentine fintech Rebill raised $5.4M in a pre Series A round, bringing total funding to more than $9M. Investors included Tiger Global, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Soma Capital, Guillermo Rauch and Arash Ferdowsi. The company will use funds to expand Rebill Treasury and Rebill Platforms services.
Brazilian corporate benefits provider iFood Benefícios announced the acquisition of Caju, a startup offering HR and expense solutions. The deal strengthens iFood's position in Brazil's market, which processes approximately $28 billion annually. iFood serves 65,000 corporate clients and 1.7 million users, while Caju has more than 70,000 corporate clients and 1.3 million users.
On October 20, 2026, a Google Cloud outage in europe-west2 disrupted Revolut, causing card payments and ATM withdrawals to fail. The incident began Monday at 23:08 PDT and impacted 36 products, affecting over 80 million personal users across the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Romania, and Germany. Banks Halifax, HSBC, and Lloyds also faced issues.
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