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September 4, 2026
ACI Cranium acquisition terms went unpublished, but the strategic reason did not.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
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LSE xStocks arrived as an announcement on 1 September, when Payward, the company behind Kraken, and the London Stock Exchange said they would bring the 100 largest London-listed companies onchain through Payward's tokenized equity framework. What the LSE xStocks Announcement Commits To LSE xStocks would be tokens backed 1:1 by an underlying share, designed to
Revolut US bank charter plans just cleared a major hurdle: conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to become a national bank in America, a step two of its European rivals failed to clear just weeks earlier. The proposed entity, Revolut Bank US, N.A., still needs sign-off from the FDIC on
Visa fraud prevention took a notable step on Tuesday with an enhanced version of A2A Protect, giving banks real-time risk signals on account-to-account transfers before money leaves a customer account. The headline feature is a unified fraud score that Visa calls its first in-market product built on Featurespace technology. What the Visa Fraud Prevention Launch
Beam Benefits acquisition paperwork is done. Principal Financial Group completed the purchase effective 1 September, taking ownership of Beam Technologies and its subsidiaries around eight weeks after announcing the agreement on 7 July. What the Beam Benefits Acquisition Brings The Beam Benefits acquisition brings a company serving more than 25,000 small businesses across 46 states
Orion Tailored Allocation Portfolios just picked up the three largest asset managers in the United States. The wealthtech platform added BlackRock, Fidelity Investments and Vanguard to the program, which pairs third-party model portfolios with Orion's Custom Indexing technology. What Orion Tailored Allocation Portfolios Now Hold Orion Tailored Allocation Portfolios now list the three alongside Brinker-Main
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September 4, 2026
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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
