Angel City goalkeeper Angelina Anderson saved penalty kick from Guro Reiten to preserve a scoreless draw at home against Gotham FC on Sunday.
In other action in the National Women’s Soccer League, the Orlando Pride beat the Washington Spirit 1-0, the Chicago Stars edged Racing Louisville 3-2, and Bay FC topped the Houston Dash 1-0.
Initially ruled a clean block in the 82nd minute, video review reversed the call and a handball was called on Angel City defender Sarah Gorden. On the ensuing penalty kick attempt, Anderson denied Reiten, keeping the game scoreless.
Anderson made four saves for her sixth shutout for Angel City (7-7-5).
Ann-Katrin Berger had three saves for her 10th clean sheet of the season for Gotham (13-3-5), which is unbeaten in nine games.
Gotham midfielder Rose Lavelle landed hard with the back of her head hitting the ground in the 31st minute. Both teams had trainers evaluating the U.S. women’s national team star, who left the game six minutes later.
Haley McCutcheon scored her third goal of the season and the Orlando Pride snapped a three-match losing streak.
Following a breakaway, Barbra Banda found Haley McCutcheon at the top of the box for the first-time finish and 1-0 lead in the third minute.
Orlando goalkeeper Cosette Morché made her NWSL debut, and had three saves to earn her first clean sheet and the team’s seventh of the season.
Washington (11-6-4) has dropped three consecutive home games for the first time since moving to Audi Field.
The Pride (8-11-2) have won four straight games at Audi Field.
Jameese Joseph, Mallory Swanson, and Julia Grosso scored for the Stars (5-15-1), who snapped an eight-game winless streak.
Swanson received the long-ball, dribbled toward the middle of the box before laying it off to Joseph for the opening goal in the 34th minute. The goal broke a scoring drought of 314 minutes for Chicago.
Louisville midfielder Taylor Flint scored on a header in the 49th on a cross from Lauren Milliet.
The Stars took the lead again in the 62nd with Swanson’s pinpoint far-post strike to make it 2-1. Minutes later, Swanson the left the match early due to an unspecified injury.
After subbing on for Racing, Makenna Morris made an immediate impact. Her first touch in just 28 seconds led to a rebounded goal, evening it at 2 in the 68th minute.
Grosso was left wide-open and her low-driven shot far-post gave the Stars the 3-2 lead in the 83rd minute.
Chicago interim head coach Karina Báez picked up her first NWSL win.
Racing Louisville (7-12-2) had its four match winning streak halted.
Forward Cristiana Girelli scored her first NWSL goal for Bay (6-10-4), which ended a five-match winless streak.
After Keira Barry’s free kick attempt hit off the post, Girelli broke the deadlock in the 89th minute, finishing the rebound for the winner. It was the latest goal for Bay this season.
Bay goalkeeper Jordan Silkowitz made 10 saves for her sixth clean sheet of the season.
The loss halted a two-game winning streak for the Dash (7-9-5).
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FILE - Orlando Pride defender Haley McCutcheon (2) directs a play during an NWSL soccer match against Seattle Reign FC, on March 15, 2026 in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 24, 2026--
Fasset, the AI-powered stablecoin neobanking platform, today announced it has raised $68 million in Series C funding at a $1 billion valuation. The financing was led by SBI Group and follows Fasset’s $51 million Series B earlier this year, which brought Speedinvest onto the cap table alongside a group of strategic investors.
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The new capital will support the expansion of Own Network, Fasset’s regulated financial network that connects banks, telcos, payment and liquidity providers to enable settlement across international markets. Fasset will also increase investment in agentic AI-enabled systems supporting corridor banking, stablecoin settlement and tokenized asset infrastructure.
After raising Series B in May, Fasset has now raised a total of $119 million in 2026. The financing marks Fasset’s entry into the global fintech unicorn category.
"Fasset's vision of a world in which money moves across borders as easily as information does point in the same direction as the on-chain economic zone that the SBI Group seeks to realize through digital finance. Fasset has already built a strong business foundation and a robust regulatory framework in a number of emerging markets with significant long-term growth potential. It was therefore in the conviction that Fasset can serve as an important financial bridge connecting Japan with high-growth markets around the world that we decided to lead this round. Within the SBI Group's "SBI APAC Digital Economic Zone" concept as well, an international remittance and settlement infrastructure built on stablecoins is a core component. Together with Fasset, we will advance the development of the next generation of on-chain financial systems, extending from the Asia-Pacific region to the Middle East and Africa." said Yoshitaka Kitao, Representative Director, Chairman, President & CEO, SBI Holdings, Inc.
The investment expands Fasset’s relationship with SBI Group, one of Japan’s leading comprehensive financial groups, spanning banking, securities, asset management, and private equity, with investments in companies including Ripple, Circle, and Morpho, and in group companies including B2C2.
“The next phase is about any-to-any banking. Any person to any person. Any asset to any asset. Any rail to any rail, anywhere. We built Fasset to address a simple problem: access to financial opportunity still depends too heavily on where someone lives and the financial system available to them,” said Mohammad Raafi Hossain, Co-Founder and CEO of Fasset. “The banking system is broken. It’s not enough to build another financial front on current rails. We are investing deeper into the stack, from licenses in emerging markets to enabling agentic payments, to rebuild the way we do banking from the ground up.”
“Having SBI Group lead this round speeds up our ability to serve the world by having access to the wider SBI financial ecosystem and their partners, including our previously announced partnership with SBI Remit, enabling us to leverage an extensive network that supports bank account remittances to approximately 200 countries.”
“Fasset is building the regulated infrastructure that helps people and businesses in growth markets access stablecoins, global assets and cross-border rails. That access is still too often shaped by geography. Raafi, Daniel and the team are changing that, and we are proud to have continued backing Fasset as it scales globally,” said Stefan Klestil, General Partner at Speedinvest.
Building a Financial System Around Ownership
Fasset provides financial access that allows customers to receive, hold, move, spend and invest across currencies, markets and asset classes.
Underpinning those products is Own Network, Fasset’s financial infrastructure connecting local banking systems, payment providers, financial institutions, telcos, liquidity providers, custody partners and settlement networks across more than 100 banking corridors.
Stablecoins are used within parts of the network as settlement infrastructure, allowing value to move between markets more efficiently where appropriate. Customers interact with Fasset through financial products and accounts rather than needing to manage the underlying settlement infrastructure themselves.
The company uses AI to improve how transactions are routed across payment rails, currencies, liquidity providers, and settlement methods, based on factors including cost, speed, and availability.
Fasset is built around a simple conviction: where someone is born should not determine the quality of money they can hold, the markets they can access or the assets they can own. The company is not building another interface on top of the existing financial system. It is building the infrastructure intended to replace it.
Scaling Global Infrastructure: $40B Annualized Volume
Fasset now processes more than $40 billion in annualized transaction volume, serving more than 3 million wallets across 125 countries and over 1,000 enterprises globally.
Its consumer, business and institutional products are supported by a regulatory footprint across the GCC, Asia, Europe and other international markets.
The Series C will support Fasset’s continued development as a global, AI-powered stablecoin neobanking platform, combining regulated local infrastructure, modern settlement technology and access to global assets through a single financial account.
About Fasset
Fasset is an AI-powered stablecoin neobanking platform building a global financial system around ownership. Its financial account enables individuals, businesses and institutions to receive, hold, move, spend and invest across currencies, markets and asset classes from one place.
Founded in 2019 by Mohammad Raafi Hossain and Daniel Ahmed, Fasset has raised more than $150 million in funding and serves customers across more than 125 countries and operates through regulated entities and partnerships across the GCC, Asia, Europe and other international markets.
Fasset is powered by Own Network, its regulated financial infrastructure connecting banking, payments, liquidity, custody and settlement across markets. The company is building toward a financial system where access to stable money, global markets and ownership is no longer determined by geography.
Mohammad Raafi Hossain, Co-Founder and CEO, Fasset
