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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
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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 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 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
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 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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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
