One Inc, the leading digital payments network for the insurance industry, today announced new AI-driven capabilities designed to accelerate how insurance carriers integrate with One Inc and securely analyze and manage payments data. Central to this innovation is Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open protocol that leverages a client’s own corporate LLM-based AI assistants, including Claude, ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot, and others, to speed integration and elevate service standards.

Building on the success of its inaugural cohort, Bitso Business, the  B2B arm of Bitso that provides infrastructure for efficient and transparent local and cross-border  payments, today announced the launch of the second edition of The Push, its global stablecoin-focused  startup accelerator designed to support founders building the next generation of financial infrastructure for  Latin America. 

dLocal, the leading cross-border payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, has partnered with DHL Express Brazil, the leading international express shipping provide

Fingerprint, a leader in device intelligence for fraud prevention, today announced the launch of Authorized AI Agent Detection, its new ecosystem of signed AI agents, including OpenAI, AWS AgentCore, Browserbase, Manus and Anchor Browser. The ecosystem enables enterprises to detect authorized agentic AI traffic with 100% certainty, allowing organizations to distinguish trusted, permissioned automation from malicious bots and scrapers.

Orbital, a global payment orchestration platform across stablecoins and traditional payment rails, today released its Q4 Stablecoin Retail Payments Index Snapshot. With data sourced from Artemis, the Index reveals that stablecoin use for smaller, retail-sized transactions under $10,000, has increased more than tenfold across 2025. 

Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, is joining Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard designed to help AI agents and commerce systems work together across the full shopping lifecycle, from discovery and purchase through post-purchase support. UCP enables consumers to shop seamlessly in AI conversations while giving agents, merchant systems, and payment providers a standardized way to interact across multiple AI platforms.

Varo Bank, the first all-digital nationally chartered bank in the U.S., today announced that it raised a growth investment of $123.9 million. Varo’s Series G round led by existing investor Warburg Pincus and new investor Coliseum Capital Management, LLC. Existing investors, including Northview, further increased their investment in the company.

Oracle Financial Services Summit -- Oracle Financial Services is transforming banking with an enterprise-class suite of AI-infused applications, design tools, frameworks and pre-built AI agents. With these advancements, banks can benefit from intelligent, conversational interfaces and autonomous AI agents. These capabilities allow financial institutions to better understand and anticipate customers' evolving needs and deliver hyper-personalized service whether the customer is banking online, using a mobile device or in a physical branch.