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Priority Commerce Buys Its Way Into Government Payments

September 26, 2026

Priority Technology Holdings, which trades as Priority Commerce, announced the IntelliPay acquisition on August 26, 2026, from its base in Alpharetta, Georgia. IntelliPay, based in Draper, Utah, makes software that lets government agencies, schools and healthcare organizations accept card and ACH payments. The deal creates a new unit called Priority Commerce Government. Priority expects it

Affirm buy now pay later option at Costco UK online checkout
Analysis—September 26, 2026
Affirm Follows Costco Across the Atlantic

Costco is extending its Affirm partnership to the UK, giving British members a buy now, pay later option at online checkout. The announcement came on September 15. Eligible members can split purchases into interest-free or interest-bearing monthly payments. This is a newer relationship than it looks. The US partnership launched in 2025, not years ago,

Revolut banking license approved in Colombia by the Superintendencia Financiera
Analysis—September 25, 2026
Revolut Adds Colombia to Its Banking License Collection

Revolut secured a banking license in Colombia on September 15, receiving its licencia de funcionamiento from the Superintendencia Financiera de Colombia. The regulator calls it the last requirement before the company can operate as a bank in the country. Around 200,000 Colombians have already joined a waitlist ahead of it. It is the sixth full

EBT chip card being inserted at a grocery checkout supported by Sola payments
Analysis—September 25, 2026
Sola Ships EBT Chip Support as Magstripe Cards Start Switching Off

Sola announced EBT chip support for eligible integrations on September 16, letting grocery software partners process the chip-enabled Electronic Benefits Transfer cards that states are now issuing. The Brooklyn company is a payments platform serving businesses and software partners, and it already processed EBT on magnetic stripe. This extends that to chip. The shift to

Input 1 payments and premium finance pre-integrated with the OneShield core platform
Analysis—September 25, 2026
Input 1 and OneShield Bet Insurance Carriers Are Tired of Bolting on Premium Finance

Input 1 and OneShield announced a partnership agreement on September 16 that makes Input 1 payments and premium finance a pre-integrated part of the OneShield platform. Input 1 sells billing, digital payments and premium finance technology to insurers. OneShield provides core systems for property and casualty carriers and managing general agents. Carriers, MGAs and program

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Stripe PayPal bid abandoned by the Advent consortium after a sharp recovery in the target share price
Fintech—August 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 Finance—July 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 Rumors—March 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 Rumors—March 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