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Tetra CADD stablecoin embedded in Canadian business payment infrastructure
Berkeley Payment Solutions to embed the Tetra CAD stablecoin across 500-plus business clients

September 14, 2026

The Tetra CADD stablecoin has its first white-label partner. Berkeley Payment Solutions will build CADD into its B2B payment infrastructure. That gives more than 500 corporate, government and institutional clients access to a token pegged to the Canadian dollar. The rollout targets large domestic transfers, cross-border payments between Canada and the US, corporate disbursements and

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VantageScore mortgage house model with keys, representing FHA credit score approval
VantageScore 4.0 Gets the Last Government Holdout: FHA Will Accept It in 2027

September 13, 2026

The Federal Housing Administration will start accepting VantageScore 4.0 on mortgage applications beginning January 1, 2027, closing the last gap in a rollout that's been building since May. With FHA on board, VantageScore 4.0 is now cleared across every government-sponsored mortgage channel: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Federal Home Loan Banks, the FHA, and the

Zebec MoneyGram stablecoin off-ramp letting workers collect local cash without a bank account
FintechSeptember 13, 2026
Zebec taps MoneyGram to let stablecoin-paid workers cash out in local currency

Zebec MoneyGram stablecoin payouts are now live through MoneyGram Ramps, the first fiat off-ramp inside Zebec's enterprise payroll platform. Note who announced it. Zebec Network, the Stellar Development Foundation and MoneyGram put their names to it jointly. That tells you something about how the chain is structured. Inside the Zebec MoneyGram stablecoin off-ramp The payroll

WealthStream financial advisor voice AI rehearsal tool
AI in FinanceSeptember 13, 2026
WealthStream Bolts a Voice Model Onto Its Advisor Rehearsal Tool

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

Xinbi crypto freeze showing blockchain analytics tracing illicit marketplace flows
FintechSeptember 13, 2026
US Secret Service freezes $52.8 million tied to Xinbi using Elliptic data

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 letting issuers fund card spend from stablecoin balances
FintechSeptember 13, 2026
Marqeta and BVNK team up to put stablecoin rails behind card issuing

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

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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