Nephos Group Partners with Brinc to Support Tech and Innovation Founders Across the GCC

• 1 month 3 days ago
• Infrastructure

Nephos Group, the UK-founded professional services firm specialising in digital asset accounting and advisory, has partnered with Brinc, the global venture accelerator, to provide compliance, structuring and tokenisation advisory services to tech and innovation founders across the GCC. The partnership will see Brinc's portfolio companies gain access to Nephos's professional-grade financial infrastructure as part of the accelerator's founder...

Promenaut Launches Enterprise Agentic Workforce Platform; Announces HSBC Investment and Collaboration

• 1 month 3 days ago
• Artificial Intelligence

Promenaut, the enterprise platform that unites people and AI agents as one governed hybrid workforce, today announced its public launch, and confirmed that HSBC has joined Promenaut as a design partner and investor. Promenaut has raised $8.9M in total funding to date, including a strategic investment from HSBC. 

Kunfupay Sees 46% Revenue Uplift in Peru After Integrating One-Click Checkout Enabled by EBANX

• 1 month 3 days ago
• E-Commerce

Kunfupay, the financial operating system for digital creators and online businesses selling to global audiences, has partnered with EBANX, a global technology company specializing in emerging markets, to pioneer a new payment experience for content creators in Peru. Together, they launched Yape On-File, a tokenized, one-click checkout solution built on top of Yape, Peru’s leading digital wallet.

Allianz Commercial Appoints Stephen Morton as New Global Head of Captive Fronting and Captive Solutions

• 1 month 3 days ago
• Infrastructure

Allianz Commercial today announced that Stephen Morton will become its new Global Head of Captive Fronting and Captive Solutions, with effect from March 1, 2027. Stephen will be based in Paris and report directly to Lara Martiner, Global Head of Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) at Allianz Commercial. He succeeds Brian McNamara, who will retire at the end of September.  

near.com Partners with Ondo to Bring Tokenized U.S. Stocks and ETFs Alongside Crypto, Confidentially

• 1 month 3 days ago
• Cryptocurrencies

near.com, the app that brings crypto, tokenized assets, earning, trading, perps and payments into one connected experience, confidential by default, today announced a partnership with Ondo Finance, the largest tokenizer of stocks globally. Eligible users can buy, trade, and hold these assets confidentially through a single near.com account, without opening a separate brokerage account.

The Philippines’ BFSI Sector Accelerates into the Future as WFIS 2026 Unites 1,000+ Leaders Around AI, Innovation and Financial Transformation

• 1 month 3 days ago
• Infrastructure

The Philippines’ growing appetite for financial upgrades and tech innovation was very well evident at the fifth edition of the World Financial Innovation Series (WFIS) that took place on 25 – 26 August 2026. Boasting C-suite titles, technology trailblazers and remarkable BFSI diversity, the two-day event hosted 1,000+ leaders from a broad spectrum of banks, insurance companies, micro-finance institutions, regulatory bodies and fintech companies...

Adyen Launches First-to-Market Upgrade to Authenticate, Unlocking Double-Digit Conversion Gains for Global Merchants

• 1 month 3 days ago
• Payments

Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, today announced a major upgrade to its Authenticate offering, a part of its Adyen Uplift payment optimization suite. Authenticate now routes every transaction to the highest-performing authentication technology in real-time, while simultaneously optimizing the data issuers use to approve transactions.

LexisNexis Risk Solutions Launches Self-Calibrating AI Fraud Detection Solution

• 1 month 3 days ago
• Artificial Intelligence

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions’ latest self-calibrating, AI-powered risk scoring solution is helping identify more actual fraud and significantly reducing the volume of low-risk transactions being flagged as fraud. In testing, the fully AI-model based architecture analyzed email, IP, phone, address and other signals, capturing around 90% of frauds amongst the highest risk transactions while reducing false positives by more than 80%.

Global Banks Collaborate on Principles for Trusted Agentic Commerce

• 1 month 3 days ago
• Banking

NatWest Group, ASB Bank, Bank of America, Capital One, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and ING Group have today jointly published a shared set of principles to support the development of trusted agentic commerce, helping establish a framework for a future where AI agents could play a greater role in how people choose and pay for products and services. 

Akurateco Enables Apple Pay Payments in Chrome, Firefox and Edge for Its PSP and Acquiring Clients

• 1 month 3 days ago
• Payments

Akurateco, a white-label payment software provider for PSPs, acquiring banks and enterprise merchants, has rolled out support for Apple Pay in third-party browsers. The capability is now live on its platform, so shoppers can pay with Apple Pay in Chrome, Firefox, Edge and other non-Safari browsers, on a Mac or a Windows PC.

CellPoint Appoints New Leadership and Secures $34M from Toscafund to Launch Zenith, Its AI Decisioning Platform for Airline and Hospitality Payments

• 1 month 4 days ago
• Fundraising News

CellPoint today announces a new leadership team, a US$34 million investment from Toscafund, managed by its PE affiliate Penta Capital, and the launch of Zenith, its AI decisioning platform for airline and hospitality payments.

BVNK Expands Multi-Chain Stablecoin Infrastructure with Stellar Integration

• 1 month 4 days ago
• Blockchain

BVNK today announced the integration of the Stellar blockchain into its stablecoin payments platform, giving businesses access to another high-speed, low-cost payment rail through BVNK’s single platform and API.

VAST Data Introduces DataEnclave to Bring Leading AI Models and Enterprise Data Together on Trusted Infrastructure

• 1 month 4 days ago
• Artificial Intelligence

VAST Data, the AI Operating System company, today announced VAST DataEnclave, the confidential AI capability of the VAST DataEngine, built on NVIDIA Confidential Computing, with the support of ecosystem partners including top AI model builders, AI clouds, AI security and leading AI hardware providers.

GoCardless Processes the First Agentic Account-to-Account Payment in the UK

• 1 month 4 days ago
• Payments

ACI Worldwide Extends ACI Connetic to Support Payments Orchestrated Through Swift’s Ledger

• 1 month 4 days ago
• Payments

ACI Worldwide, an original innovator in global payments technology, today announced it is bringing intelligent routing for Swift ledger transactions to ACI Connetic, its cloud-native payments hub. The capability will allow banks to process tokenized deposit payments alongside traditional payment types using the same operational controls, workflows and infrastructure, eliminating the need for separate digital-asset payment operations.