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

September 15, 2026

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

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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

Xapien compliance analyst reviewing an audit checklist, representing AI due diligence
FintechSeptember 13, 2026
Xapien Raises $56M to Take AI Due Diligence Further Into the US

Xapien has raised a $56 million growth round led by Spectrum Equity, with existing backer YFM Equity Partners also putting in money. The company builds an AI system that scans the open web, corporate filings, sanctions lists, and media coverage across languages to produce due-diligence reports on counterparties for banks, law firms, and compliance teams,

FICO Score 10T credit score gauge illustration with credit cards, representing FHA mortgage scoring
BankingSeptember 13, 2026
FICO Fires Back With Its Own FHA Approval, Same Day as VantageScore’s

FICO announced that FHA-approved lenders will be able to use FICO Score 10T for mortgage underwriting starting January 1, 2027, the exact same effective date VantageScore 4.0 got for its own FHA approval, announced within hours of FICO's release on the same morning. That is not a coincidence. It is two competing credit-scoring companies racing

Plume FACTOR Vault tokenizing private credit receivables for on-chain investors
FintechSeptember 13, 2026
The new Plume FACTOR Vault brings tokenized private credit to on-chain investors

The Plume FACTOR Vault launched on 9 September with $15 million in committed capital. Demand exceeded the initial allocation before launch, so the vault opened oversubscribed and remains capped. Inside the Plume FACTOR Vault Deep Ocean Partners originates the underlying positions. Tradable handles tokenization, and Plume wraps the result in its vault infrastructure. The portfolio

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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