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September 4, 2026
Alpaca IDX agreement documents were signed in Jakarta on 1 September by Alpaca co-founder and chief executive Yoshi Yokokawa and IDX president director Jeffrey Hendrik. The two sides will explore expanding cross-border access between Indonesian and global capital markets using Penyaluran Amanat Luar Negeri, or PALN, the mechanism letting Indonesian brokers route customer orders to
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ACI Cranium acquisition terms went unpublished, but the strategic reason did not. ACI Worldwide agreed to buy Cranium Ventures, a privately held UK developer of cloud-native card payment switching, and will fold its SYNAP framework into ACI Connetic for Cards. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026. What the ACI
Fiserv, Small Business Index, August 2026 data, published September 3. The Fiserv Small Business Index held at a seasonally adjusted 145 in August, with overall small-business sales up 1.3 percent year over year but down 0.2 percent from July. The index draws on point-of-sale data from roughly 2 million US small businesses, including merchants on
SoFi Technologies and Payward, banking and crypto infrastructure partnership, announced September 3. SoFi and Payward, the company behind Kraken, announced the SoFi Payward partnership connecting SoFi's banking infrastructure to Payward's crypto trading and custody business. Payward will join the SoFi Exchange Network, SoFi's real-time settlement rail, for 24/7 institutional USD clearing and settlement, and will
Checkout.com and Minor Hotels, payments partnership, announced September 3, Singapore. The Checkout.com Minor Hotels deal makes Checkout.com the global acquiring and payment optimization provider for Minor Hotels, a hospitality group operating more than 640 hotels across 67 countries alongside food and beverage and luxury transport businesses. The deal covers Minor Hotels' resort properties as the
FIS, Embedded Banking Platform launch, announced September 3. FIS launched an FIS embedded banking platform built for banks rather than the fintechs that usually sit between banks and business software. The pitch: banks can offer accounts, card issuing, accounts receivable and payable tools, and expense management directly inside the accounting or operations software their business
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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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Rival Matrix integration news landed on Tuesday, August 11, from Chicago, where both firms are based. Rival Systems builds professional trading and enterprise risk management software. Meanwhile, Matrix Executions runs institutional electronic trading focused on advanced options algorithmic execution. The Rival Matrix integration places those execution algorithms inside Rival One, so traders reach them without
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NMI AXIUM SmartPOS launched on July 21, 2026 as what the company calls its first all-in-one card-present terminal line, aimed at ISOs, ISVs, SaaS platforms, and their merchants. The line runs on the Ingenico AXIUM Android platform and integrates with the NMI payment acceptance platform. Initial supported devices carry PCI PTS v6 certification through 2032.
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Mandela Dollar applications opened on July 18 for financial institutions, intergovernmental bodies and policy research groups, with Mandela Digital inviting institutional participation in a proposed dollar-backed stablecoin aimed at Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America and diaspora remittance corridors. The window opened on Nelson Mandela International Day and runs 67 days, one for each year of
