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Block Builders Bank national trust charter application for bitcoin and stablecoin custody
Block Applies for a National Trust Charter to Custody Bitcoin and Stablecoins

September 17, 2026

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

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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

Checkout.com MALPB charter enabling direct card network access for US enterprise merchants
FintechSeptember 16, 2026
Checkout.com goes live with direct US card acquiring under its Georgia bank charter

The Checkout.com MALPB charter is now live and processing volume. Granted by the Georgia Department of Banking and Finance, it gives the company direct access to Visa and Mastercard for its US enterprise merchants. That removes the third-party acquiring bank most processors route through. Inside the Checkout.com MALPB charter launch The Checkout.com MALPB charter timeline

Ant Group Ling financial AI model building valuation models inside spreadsheet workflows
FintechSeptember 15, 2026
Ant Group open-sources a financial AI model built for valuation work

Ant Group Ling-3.0-flash-Fin is a Mixture-of-Experts model aimed at four financial jobs. Those are information retrieval, research reasoning, valuation modelling and report generation. It carries 124 billion total parameters, activates 5.1 billion per token, and runs a 256K context window. Inside the Ant Group Ling release The Ant Group Ling licensing is more generous than

Valley Foundry innovation unit evaluating AI and cybersecurity technology for a regional bank
FintechSeptember 15, 2026
Valley Bank stands up an innovation unit and hires a quantum-computing veteran to run it

Valley Foundry is Valley National Bank's new technology and innovation capability. It evaluates and adopts emerging technology through partnerships with startups, fintechs, venture capital firms and technology providers. Michael Rappaport leads it. The initial focus covers artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data and analytics, plus process improvement and operational efficiency. Inside the Valley Foundry launch None of

FinXP Thredd partnership connecting issuer processing with European BIN sponsorship
FintechSeptember 15, 2026
FinXP taps Thredd for card processing, offers Europe access in return

FinXP Thredd is a two-way deal. The Malta-licensed electronic money institution and Mastercard principal member is moving its debit card programmes onto Thredd's issuer-processing platform. In return, FinXP will act as a European BIN sponsor for Thredd's global client base. Inside the FinXP Thredd deal The FinXP Thredd stack supplies tokenisation, provisioning, risk and fraud

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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

1 mins read

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