Checkout.com, a leading digital payments provider, today announced that the State of Georgia Department of Banking and Finance has officially accepted its application for a Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank (MALPB) charter. This reinforces the company’s commitment to deliver a powerful payments platform specifically designed for US enterprise merchants. 

 Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, today announced Snowflake Cortex AI for Financial Services, a comprehensive suite of AI capabilities and partnerships that empower financial services companies to unify their financial data ecosystem and securely deploy AI models, apps, and agents with that data — while offering rigorous security and compliance controls required in regulated industries.

Aeropay, a leading provider of pay by bank solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with MVB Bank, a trusted leader in financial services. Together, Aeropay and MVB are building solutions designed to power compliant bank to bank payments.

A new research report from global payments infrastructure platform Mercuryo and Web3 research firm Protocol Theory shows that while cryptowallet adoption is accelerating among affluent users, lower-income groups face costly access points and risk being excluded.

MAPFRE AM, the MAPFRE Group’s asset manager, has appointed Ismael García Puente as the new Deputy Director of Investment Strategy, a newly created position in which he will be involved in the development and communication of the MAPFRE Group’s investment strategy, overseeing the management of specialist funds, market analysis, and asset allocation. He will also continue to assume responsibility for managing the wealth manager networks and life insurance portfolios as well as liaising with customers.

SEI® today announced a strategic partnership between SEI Investments (Europe) Limited (SIEL) and Graphene, a U.K.-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, to power the growth of Graphene's offering for wealth managers, family offices, and independent financial advisers.

Almaviva, an Italian digital innovation Group, and Fabrick, a Sella Group company active in Open Finance at an international level, have been selected by the European Central Bank (ECB), as part of the Digital Euro project, to develop the mobile app and its technological infrastructure that will enable European citizens to use the European digital currency.

Kanastra, a financial technology company providing technology infrastructure and services for private credit funds and securitizations, today announced a $30 million Series B round led by F-Prime, with contributions from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank's investment arm, as well as follow-on investments from current investors Kaszek, Valor Capital, Quona Capital and Itaú, Latin America's largest bank.  The new capital will be used to accelerate product development, deepen automation across the