Majesco, the insurance industry’s foremost innovator in cloud-native, AI-driven software, today announced the launch of the Majesco P&C CoreConnect’s MGA Model Office, an innovative, fully pre-configured MGA system that is production-ready, available on demand, and packed with leading third-party integrations and pre-built lines of business products for instant deployment.

IBM and Groq today announced a strategic go-to-market and technology partnership designed to give clients immediate access to Groq's inference technology, GroqCloud, on watsonx Orchestrate – providing clients high-speed AI inference capabilities at a cost that helps accelerate agentic AI deployment. As part of the partnership, Groq and IBM plan to integrate and enhance Red Hat open source vLLM technology with Groq's LPU architecture. IBM Granite models are also planned to be supported on GroqCloud for IBM clients.

Treasury Prime, the leading embedded banking operating system, announced today it has joined the U.S. Bank Connected Partnership Network. 

The U.S. Bank Connected Partnership Network is an award-winning online marketplace of fintech and other third-party payment and treasury solutions that are fully integrated with U.S. Bank systems. The Network helps corporate treasury teams easily identify and integrate technology already connected with the bank.

Clerq, the next-generation payments platform for high-ticket transactions, today announced that it has secured $21 million in capital to power the future of payments. The funding includes a $12 million Series A round led by 645 Ventures, with participation from existing investors FirstMark Capital, Fika Ventures, Commerce Ventures, and Dash Fund. The Series A also included new strategic participation from Friedkin and Yossi Levi, founder of Car Dealership Guy.

Affirm , the payment network that empowers consumers and helps businesses grow, today announced an expanded partnership with Worldpay, a global industry leading payment services provider. The new deal will integrate Affirm into the company’s embedded payments offering for software platforms.

CardFlight, Inc., and Worldpay®, a global leader in payment technology, today announced Tap to Pay on iPhone is now available to all SwipeSimple® merchants. Tap to Pay on iPhone is an easy, private, and secure way to ensure a SwipeSimple Worldpay merchant will always have the tools needed to accept a payment right on their iPhone — no additional hardware or payment terminal needed.

The financial system is moving onchain. Payments, trading, and transfers are becoming programmable, running on global, always-on rails that move value as easily as data.

Thunes, the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world, has launched real-time cross-border payments to and from Colombia through Bre-B, the country’s new national instant payment system from Banco de la República, the Central Bank of Colombia.

Proof, the trusted platform for securing the digital economy, announced a collaboration with Visa, a world leader in payments, to enable verified identities to help secure transactions across high value or high-risk payments, digital commerce, agreements, and banking.