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FICO announced that FHA-approved lenders will be able to use FICO Score 10T for mortgage underwriting starting January 1, 2027, the exact same effective date VantageScore 4.0 got for its own FHA approval, announced within hours of FICO's release on the same morning. That is not a coincidence. It is two competing credit-scoring companies racing
September 13, 2026
WealthStream is adding OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 voice model to Practice, the tool it built so financial advisors can rehearse client conversations before they have them for real. The upgrade launches next week at the Future Proof Festival in Huntington Beach, where the company will run it at its booth alongside the Advice Intelligence Platform it first
The Xinbi crypto freeze began at 8am UTC on September 8. Blockchain intelligence firm Elliptic confirmed the next day that its data powered a U.S. Secret Service action locking $52.8 million in cryptoassets connected to Xinbi Guarantee. Elliptic estimates Xinbi has processed at least $24 billion since 2022, with another $6 billion moving through a
Marqeta BVNK stablecoin cards are the product of a partnership announced Wednesday. It lets Marqeta card-issuing customers embed stablecoin-backed cards into their programmes. Marqeta processed nearly $400 billion in payments volume during 2025. Meanwhile BVNK runs more than $39 billion in annualised stablecoin volume. Inside the Marqeta BVNK stablecoin deal The Marqeta BVNK stablecoin integration
The Carputty Series B is now closed, with The Presidio Group acting as exclusive financial advisor. The Atlanta company builds embedded lending infrastructure for the auto industry. Now the round takes its total capital raised past $40 million. Carputty did not disclose how much it raised. Inside the Carputty Series B A new investor joined
Savvy Wealth has closed a $100 million Series C led by Halo Fund, the growth vehicle co-founded by Qualtrics founder Ryan Smith and longtime Accel partner Ryan Sweeney. The round values the company at $600 million and pushes total funding past $200 million. Inside the Savvy Wealth Series C Note who else is on the
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Visa A2A Protect is where the Featurespace acquisition finally shows up in a product. Visa announced an enhanced version of its account-to-account fraud tool built around a new unified fraud score, described as the company's first in-market integration of Featurespace technology. What the Visa A2A Protect Upgrade Adds The Visa A2A Protect pitch is speed
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 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
Every business owner has felt the pull of a low headline rate. We asked three industry leaders a blunt question. How can an owner judge whether fintech lending costs genuinely come in below a traditional bank line of credit? Every answer pointed past the advertised APR. Fintech lending costs live in the math behind the
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 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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OpenAI’s New ChatGPT for Financial Services Launches With Intapp and PitchBook as Data PartnersSeptember 11, 2026
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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
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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
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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
