emerchantpay and LoopingOne Enable Digital Transactions for Motorhome Depot in the UK

• 1 week 2 days ago
• Payments

PPRO Partners with Damisa for Stablecoin-Powered Treasury and Cross-Border Settlement

• 1 week 2 days ago
• Payments

Damisa, the regulated stablecoin-native settlement platform for cross-border business payments, today announced that PPRO, the local payments platform behind global payment service providers and merchants, has partnered with Damisa. What began as a focused deployment in the Latin American region is now scaling with PPRO’s global expansion.

Spanish Banks Report 150% Spike in Fraud Conducted from Stolen Devices

• 1 week 2 days ago
• Cybersecurity

Over the last 12 months, Spanish financial institutions have seen increases in attempted fraud sessions, attempted scam sessions, the average value of those fraud and scam attempts, and the number of digital banking sessions conducted from stolen devices. Stolen device fraud allows its perpetrators to profit twice: once by draining the victim’s bank account and a second time by selling the stolen device.

Fragment Raises $12 Million Series A to Turn Agents into Financial Operators

• 1 week 2 days ago
• Fundraising News

Fragment, an AI-enabled financial infrastructure startup, raised $12 million to help vertical AI businesses automate their customers' financial operations. Firstmark led the financing with participation from BoxGroup. "Fragment is automating commerce. Our approach is to build the financial system of the future: a new super-material that agents can build, run, and adapt to any way of doing business,” said Thomas Neckel, co-founder and CEO of...

Interledger Foundation Takes Its First Steps to Bring Instant Payments to Community Lenders

• 1 week 2 days ago
• Payments

 The Interledger Foundation (ILF) is working with five community development financial institutions (CDFIs) and fintech organizations to lay the groundwork for instant payments adoption across community lending, where most institutions still run on rails that take days to settle. Large financial institutions have leveraged instant payments for years, accessing and deploying funds faster. Community-based lenders, though, have lagged, held back by...

Chargebacks911 Taps Kount Founding CEO Brad Wiskirchen to Accelerate M&A and Global Expansion

• 1 week 2 days ago
• People Moves

Chargebacks911, the global leader in chargeback processing and dispute management technology, today announced the appointment of Brad Wiskirchen, Founding CEO of Kount, as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Chargebacks911 and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of its financial institution-focused sister brand, Fi911.

Continent 8 and FuturePath AI Launch Future8 Accountable AI for Regulated Industries

• 1 week 2 days ago
• Artificial Intelligence

Continent 8 Technologies and FuturePath AI today launched Future8, an AI-native operating company built for regulated operators, formed as a joint venture between the two companies.  Announced at SBC Summit Lisbon, Future8 combines FuturePath’s enterprise AI applications platform with Continent 8’s licensed global operating footprint, enabling the iGaming industry to deploy auditable AI without compromising compliance, data sovereignty and...

TransUnion and Bankrate Expand Partnership to Power More Personalized Credit Offers for Millions of Consumers

• 1 week 2 days ago
• Infrastructure

TransUnion announced today that it is making it easier for millions of Americans to find personalized credit offers that meet their needs. The company's new innovation delivers smarter matching by combining Bankrate's lender marketplace with TransUnion's credit data and Monevo offers technology.

Mollie Recruits Founding Team for AI Financial Layer

• 1 week 2 days ago
• Artificial Intelligence

Mollie today announced a new venture model to build a dedicated intelligence platform and banking layer for AI agents. The platform will give customers the ability to run their own AI agents directly against Mollie's payment and banking rails. Rather than staffing an internal product department, Mollie is actively recruiting a founding team, or considering early-stage startup acquihires, to build this platform from the ground up.

SEON Partners with Yuno to Expand Global Fraud Prevention and Identity Verification

• 1 week 3 days ago
• Fraud Detection

SEON, the AI Command Center for Fraud Prevention and AML Compliance, today announced a global partnership with Yuno, the AI-native intelligence system of global payments and financial services, powering the financial infrastructure of enterprise merchants, banks and wallets.

PayJoy to Acquire Strategic Assets of Finia AI, Advancing AI Underwriting and Financial Product Innovation

• 1 week 3 days ago
• Artificial Intelligence

PayJoy, a leading financial services provider for underserved consumers across emerging markets, today announced the acquisition of select strategic assets of Finia AI, Inc., a fintech company that developed AI-powered underwriting and financial products for micro-businesses in Mexico.

Crédit Agricole Announces the Launch of Crédit Agricole Deutschland

• 1 week 3 days ago
• Banking

This launch is part of Crédit Agricole S.A.’s ACT 2028 medium-term plan, which aims to accelerate the Group’s growth, expand its reach in Europe and deploy its universal banking model. Germany, as Europe’s largest economy and one of the continent’s largest savings markets, is a priority market for the Group.

DBS Group Research: The Next AI Race Moves Beyond Intelligence to Outcomes

• 1 week 3 days ago
• Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence is becoming more capable, more accessible and more widely deployed. In a new report “Intentional AI: Connecting Intelligence, Capital and Outcomes”, DBS Group Research argues that as AI capabilities become more widely available, access to intelligence alone will become a less durable source of competitive advantage.

British Business Bank Backs TSP Ventures with £3m Commitment

• 1 week 3 days ago
• Infrastructure

The British Business Bank today announces a £3 million commitment from its Regional Angels Programme, delivered via its partner Haatch, to TSP Ventures – an early-stage venture firm. TSP Ventures invest in hard science and breakthrough technologies that can deliver sustainable, cost-effective and geo-secure supplies of critical resources like energy, food, water and metals.

Vivid Selects Wise Platform for International Payments for SMEs

• 1 week 3 days ago
• Payments

As demand for cross-border payments surges among its European small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs), Vivid, one of Europe's fastest-growing digital business financial platforms, has selected Wise Platform, Wise’s global payments infrastructure for banks and enterprises, to launch fast, transparent and seamless international payments for its business customers.