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Binance owns a slice of the company whose stablecoin it has agreed to promote for five years. The equity matters less than the distribution, and the distribution is aimed squarely at Tether's home turf.
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Intercontinental Exchange launched ICE Private Credit Reference Data on September 16. The service extracts key terms from loan documents and delivers them to clients in a consistent, structured format. It builds on the ICE IDs introduced in July, which the company calls the first foundational identifiers for private credit. Each ID is assigned when a
Ualett Global Transfer opens remittances to the Dominican Republic, Colombia and Mexico for 750,000 gig workers, but the release names no fee or spread.
Vishal Garg says more than 46% of Better Home & Finance voting power now backs his campaign to remove five directors. Garg, the founder and former chief executive of the Nasdaq-listed digital mortgage lender, made the claim on September 21, 2026. The Better consent solicitation is working toward a target date of October 2. It
While Circle lined up marquee names to secure Arc's base layer, Figment used the same September 16 launch for a quieter pitch. Institutions that want a validator seat on Arc can hand the infrastructure work to Figment instead of building it themselves. The company describes itself as a genesis validator on Arc since testnet. It
Square for Franchises signed Ideal Nutrition, a 17-store Florida meal brand, as Block targets multi-location sellers with a third franchise case study.
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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
