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Fifth Third Comerica conversion rebranding former Comerica branches after Labor Day weekend
Fifth Third Moves 600,000 Comerica Accounts Over Labor Day Weekend

September 18, 2026

Fifth Third Comerica integration reached its biggest milestone on September 8, 2026. Fifth Third Bancorp said it had finished converting roughly 600,000 Comerica customer accounts and 293 banking centers onto its own technology platform. The work completes an integration that began when the two banks merged on February 1. The conversion covered Arizona, California, Florida,

Robinhood Crypto.com partnership routing football prediction market contracts to OG.com
FintechSeptember 17, 2026
Robinhood Routes Football Prediction Markets to Crypto.com, Takes Equity Stake

Robinhood Crypto.com ties deepened on September 8, 2026. Robinhood began routing a slate of football prediction-market contracts to the CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse now held by OG.com, just ahead of NFL kickoff. Inside the Crypto.com app, that venue is branded Crypto.com Derivatives North America. Separately, OG.com runs it as a trader-focused app following its spin-off

Klarna StockX checkout offering Pay in 4 to resale shoppers in the U.S. and Canada
FintechSeptember 17, 2026
Klarna Expands StockX Partnership to the U.S. and Canada

Klarna StockX checkout went live in the U.S. and Canada on September 8, 2026. The launch extends a partnership already running in ten European markets and Australia into two of StockX's largest markets. The integration runs through Adyen. North American shoppers now get Klarna's interest-free Pay in 4 plan and longer-term financing for sneakers, apparel,

Stripe Link Muse integration letting Meta personal AI agent check out on behalf of consumers
FintechSeptember 17, 2026
Stripe Link Becomes a Payment Rail for the New Meta AI Shopping Agent

Stripe Link Muse checkout went live on September 8, 2026. Stripe announced that Meta has integrated Link's wallet for agents into Muse, Meta's new personal AI agent. As a result, US consumers can connect Link and let Muse buy from businesses across the internet. It is Stripe's clearest bet yet that agents, not humans, will

Block Builders Bank national trust charter application for bitcoin and stablecoin custody
FintechSeptember 17, 2026
Block Applies for a National Trust Charter to Custody Bitcoin and Stablecoins

Block Builders Bank is the name behind a new federal filing. On September 8, 2026, Block applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to charter Builders Bank & Trust, N.A. The proposed national trust bank would hold bitcoin and stablecoins in custody under direct federal supervision. It would not take deposits

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Stripe PayPal bid abandoned by the Advent consortium after a sharp recovery in the target share price
FintechAugust 30, 2026
Stripe and Advent Walk Away From Their $53 Billion Run at PayPal

Stripe PayPal bid talks are over. The consortium of Stripe and private equity firm Advent International has abandoned its pursuit of PayPal, according to Bloomberg, ending months of speculation over what would have been one of the largest leveraged buyouts on record. PayPal shares fell as much as 16% in premarket trading Friday, after closing

Feathery AI decisioning platform for insurers and wealth firms
AI in FinanceJuly 17, 2026
Feathery Raise Gets Insurers to Put Money Behind AI Underwriting

Feathery AI decisioning just got funded by the people it automates. Feathery, which builds an AI operating and decisioning system for insurance and wealth management firms, has raised $30 million in total funding including a recently closed Series A led by Portage Ventures. The round drew Index Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, and Bain Capital Ventures, alongside

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Market RumorsMarch 14, 2026
Gilead Snaps Up Arcellx in $7.8B Most cancers Drug Deal

Whoa, speak about a blockbuster transfer within the biotech world! Gilead Sciences simply dropped the information that’s acquired everybody buzzing: they’re shopping for out Arcellx for a whopping $7.8 billion. This isn’t simply any deal—it’s all about dashing up a promising new remedy for a number of myeloma, a tricky type of blood most cancers.

Tilly's Q4 earnings beat showing TLYS stock pop after fiscal 2025 fourth quarter results
Market RumorsMarch 14, 2026
Tilly’s Q4 Earnings Beat: 5 Powerful Signals

Tilly's Q4 Earnings Beat sent TLYS stock up more than 60% in after-hours trading on March 11, 2026. The youth-focused retailer posted total net sales of $155.1 million for fiscal 2025 Q4. That figure came in comfortably ahead of the $148.7 million Wall Street consensus. Net sales rose 5.3% year-over-year despite the company operating with

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AI Fraud Detection Is Standard Now, and So Is AI-Powered Fraud

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AI fraud detection just had a busy few weeks. Three fraud-detection deals landed inside a few weeks of each other this quarter: Visa folded Featurespace's models into Enhanced A2A Protect for bank-to-bank transfers, Flagright joined Nacha's preferred partner list for ACH fraud monitoring, and Navan bolted DataVisor onto its travel-and-expense platform. None of the three

Agentic payments architecture separating the agent that proposes a payment from the executor holding the credential
Fintech is about to relearn what DeFi already learned about approvals

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Author: Nick Sawinyh, Head of Product & GTM, Veodyn Agentic payments look like an open question, and they are not one. The question worth asking is not whether autonomous software will be given authority to move money. In one corner of finance it has had that authority for years, and the results are already on the

Socure Aeropay onboarding identity verification
Socure and Aeropay Cut Onboarding to a Phone Number and Two Clicks

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Socure and Aeropay, identity and bank-linking integration, announced September 3. The Socure Aeropay onboarding integration lets a consumer verify who they are and connect a bank account using only a phone number and two clicks. The integration runs inside Socure's RiskOS platform and inverts the usual sequence in fintech onboarding, where open banking data is