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Visa onchain lending took a concrete step on Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Visa said it will pair VisaNet settlement data with blockchain lending infrastructure so stablecoin-linked card programs and fintechs can raise working capital. With customer authorization, lenders can see real settlement history running through Visa's network. As a result, they can underwrite against payment
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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
Circle Tazapay deal terms emerged on September 8, 2026, when Circle Internet Group agreed to acquire Tazapay, a Singapore-based B2B cross-border payments company. The transaction is expected to close in 2027, pending approvals that include the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Circle's press release left out the price. However, its Form 8-K filing sets base
Chime Stride Bank news broke on September 8, 2026, when Chime Financial agreed to buy Stride Bank, N.A. for $590 million in cash. Stride, an Oklahoma national bank, has been Chime's bank partner for more than seven years. The deal runs through Stride's parent, Central Service Corporation. As a result, Chime's most important vendor relationship
Navan Q2 earnings landed after market close on September 9, 2026. Revenue rose 35% year over year to $233 million for the quarter ended July 31. Meanwhile, non-GAAP income from operations more than doubled to $17 million, and gross booking volume grew 45% to roughly $3.0 billion. The corporate travel and expense platform, which listed
Circle Discovery API access went public on September 9, 2026. It was one of two infrastructure updates Circle shipped on its developer blog that day. One is speculative, and the other is immediately practical. The first opens a public, keyless endpoint that lets AI agents find and pay for x402 services across multiple blockchains. The
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September 18, 2026
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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
