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BitGo NYDIG acquisition paperwork was signed and closed on the same day, 27 August, which tells you most of what you need to know about its size. BitGo Holdings (NYSE: BTGO) bought the institutional trading business of NYDIG, taking the derivatives, structured products and financing desk built for hedge funds, asset managers, corporates and family
September 8, 2026
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
Fintech bank charter rejections just got a second high-profile example: the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency rejected bunq's application for a US national bank charter on August 7, citing gaps in capital planning, credit risk modeling, management experience, profitability assumptions and familiarity with US banking rules. It is the second high-profile fintech charter
OpenPayd money transmitter coverage went from nothing to most of the United States in a single transaction. The London-based embedded finance provider is folding MSB USA Inc. into its group, and the regulatory approvals needed to close that integration are now finalized. Consequently, 43 state Money Transmitter Licenses sit under the OpenPayd umbrella without a
Premialab Parameta indices are the centerpiece of a partnership the two firms announced on September 8, plugging Parameta's index family directly into Premialab's quantitative analytics platform. The deal gives institutional investors using Premialab access to Parameta's benchmarks across swap rates, interest rate volatility, inflation swaps and global LNG basis, all inside the same environment where
Author: Nuwan Liyanage, Senior Manager - Corporate Banking, DFCC Bank PLC Emerging markets fintech loves a headline number. Mobile money moved more than $2 trillion in 2025, and registered accounts reached 2.3 billion. So investors read that as a land grab. Operators read it differently. In Lagos, Dakar, Jakarta and Sao Paulo, the companies that win
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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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BitGo and Decibel, custody connectivity, announced September 3. The new BitGo Decibel custody connection adds support linking BitGo's institutional multi-party-computation self-custody wallets to Decibel, a decentralized spot and perpetuals exchange built on the Aptos blockchain. The integration runs through WalletConnect and lets institutional clients trade on Decibel while their assets stay inside BitGo-connected wallets, preserving
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FIS, Embedded Banking Platform launch, announced September 3. FIS launched an FIS embedded banking platform built for banks rather than the fintechs that usually sit between banks and business software. The pitch: banks can offer accounts, card issuing, accounts receivable and payable tools, and expense management directly inside the accounting or operations software their business
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Rival Matrix integration news landed on Tuesday, August 11, from Chicago, where both firms are based. Rival Systems builds professional trading and enterprise risk management software. Meanwhile, Matrix Executions runs institutional electronic trading focused on advanced options algorithmic execution. The Rival Matrix integration places those execution algorithms inside Rival One, so traders reach them without
