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Ramp, the corporate expense management platform, has closed a one point eight five billion dollar primary financing round led by Dragoneer Investment Group, pushing its valuation to sixty billion dollars. That figure, reached in a matter of months after a prior raise, signals that institutional capital still has an appetite for profitable fintech at scale.
Shifting to payments infrastructure, Mastercard has launched a unified platform combining its global payments network with stablecoin rails through its recently acquired BVNK unit, accessible through a single API. The move is a significant step toward bridging traditional fiat settlement with digital asset liquidity, and it positions Mastercard squarely at the center of that convergence.
Meanwhile in AI infrastructure, Nebius Group fell more than ten percent Wednesday, breaking below the two hundred dollar floor that chartists had flagged as critical support. The trigger was not a Nebius headline but deteriorating bond prices at rival CoreWeave, which rattled the entire GPU cloud sector. When credit markets speak, equity markets in adjacent names tend to listen, and Wednesday was a clean example of exactly that.
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