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Chime to Buy Its Sponsor Bank, Stride, for $590 Million in Cash
Navan revenue jumps 35% but GAAP operating losses widen even as guidance goes up
Circle pairs an AI agent marketplace API with a faster USDC funding rail
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Bitpanda BW-Bank crypto trading inside an existing German securities account
Bitpanda Enterprise brings crypto trading into BW-Bank retail accounts in Germany

September 16, 2026

Bitpanda BW-Bank crypto trading is now open to all self-directed retail customers of the LBBW Group unit. Since 9 September they can buy and sell ten crypto assets through their existing securities account. Access runs via BW Nextbroker. Bitpanda Enterprise supplies the trading and custody infrastructure behind it. Inside the Bitpanda BW-Bank crypto rollout The

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DNA Payments iwoca embedded lending inside a merchant portal for UK small businesses
DNA Payments merchants get instant access to iwoca loans

September 15, 2026

DNA Payments iwoca integration lets UK merchants apply for a Flexi Loan of between £1,000 and £1 million without leaving the Merchant Portal or app. The application is fully digital, and approvals typically come back within minutes. Inside the DNA Payments iwoca deal The DNA Payments iwoca mechanics are familiar. DNA's payment processing already gives

Bluefin AES encryption replacing Triple-DES on payment terminals at merchant point of sale
FintechSeptember 15, 2026
Bluefin moves to AES encryption before PCI forces the issue

Bluefin AES encryption is replacing Triple-DES and DUKPT underneath the company's point-to-point encryption stack. The rollout begins with PAX A series and IM series terminals plus ID TECH card readers. Meanwhile the rest of its PCI-validated device lineup follows later. Inside the Bluefin AES encryption rollout Bluefin says it protects more than $350 billion in

Latitude stablecoin payouts connecting digital dollars to local currency rails worldwide
FintechSeptember 14, 2026
Latitude raises $35 million Series A for stablecoin-to-local-currency payouts

Latitude stablecoin payouts just attracted $35 million. Oak HC/FT led the Series A, with NEA, Coinbase Ventures, Lightspeed Faction, OpenFX and Wilson Sonsini participating. The round follows an $8 million seed earlier this year and takes total funding to $43 million. Inside the Latitude stablecoin payouts round Latitude stablecoin payouts run through licensed on and

Edelman Financial Engines bundled retirement plan services distributed through ADP payroll
FintechSeptember 14, 2026
Edelman Financial Engines bundles fiduciary retirement advice into ADP distribution

Edelman Financial Engines has launched Retirement & Employee Planning Solutions. It is a bundled offering for small and mid-size employers sold through ADP. The package combines institutional-grade investment management, 3(38) fiduciary oversight, plan consulting and personalised participant advice under a single fee. It extends a distribution relationship that dates to 2018. Inside the Edelman Financial

Insurity Ratio rating engine converting bureau content into commercial P&C policy logic
FintechSeptember 14, 2026
Gradient AI adds a group-termination risk model to its health renewal platform

Gradient AI renewal analytics just gained five capabilities. The Boston company expanded its Group Health platform with IBNR adjustments, peer benchmarking and member-level risk scoring. Beyond that, it added client-ready PDF reporting. Then there is a machine-learning model flagging which employer groups may cancel at renewal. Inside the Gradient AI renewal upgrade The termination model

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Stripe PayPal bid abandoned by the Advent consortium after a sharp recovery in the target share price
FintechAugust 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 FinanceJuly 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 RumorsMarch 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 RumorsMarch 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

Agentic payments architecture separating the agent that proposes a payment from the executor holding the credential
Fintech is about to relearn what DeFi already learned about approvals

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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

Socure Aeropay onboarding identity verification
Socure and Aeropay Cut Onboarding to a Phone Number and Two Clicks

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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