CRX Trade launches Swiss prime brokerage
Switzerland-based CRX Trade lets institutions trade on Hyperliquid, ByBit, GateIO, Nasdaq, and CME from a single account. Trading algorithms and one collateral pool can be deployed on both crypto and traditional exchanges.
Ndax debuts reward program
The Canadian-owned and operated digital asset platform introduced Auto Earn, which lets Canadians earn rewards on crypto. Supported assets are automatically enrolled in staking. Rewards are distributed weekly.
UnionPay to issue Argentina card
UnionPay will work with Pagos Virtuales del Sur (PVS). Cards will link to Alipay, WeChat, and Huawei wallets.
dLocal, LinkedIn announce payments union
The scheme supports local-currency card payments in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Chile.
Ecuador’s Banco Pichincha launches Peruvian digital bank
Pibank is a fully digital direct bank whose savings account pays 5% a year. A dollar account is on its way.
Ethiopia introduces government payment platform
EthSwitch’s Unified Government Payment Platform targets public-sector payments fragmentation and a more interoperable digital payment network.
South Africa’s Mukuru unveils products
New are the Mukuru Account & Card. Bank Zero is a partner, with the tech powered by Paymentology and Mastercard. It adds to Mukuru’s remittance features.
Walletdoc adds biometric payment approval
South Africans can complete purchases with a phone biometric check through Visa Payment Passkeys.
Riskified debuts Agent Identity Risk Intelligence
The features are designed to identify the AI personal assistant behind an order or a customer service request, resolve it to a real consumer identity, and return a risk signal in real time.
SoFi, Mastercard and Orbi launch Mexican crypto-linked card
Orbi customers can use fiat or crypto at purchase. Conversion gives merchants fiat.
Velocity, CrissCross to expand African stablecoin access
Velocity contributes institutional network and stablecoin infrastructure, while CrissCross brings local market access. Velocity gets access to more than 30 new African markets.
Cardano debuts new token standard at TOKEN2049
CIP-0113 is live on Cardano mainnet. It enables issuers to build compliance rules like KYC and AML checks, sanctions screening, freeze and seize, and transfer restrictions directly into their tokens. Issued tokens under CIP-0113 remain native Cardano assets.
Plaid adds AI models
Instant Link lets consumers share financial insights with lenders, alongside an expanded LendScore suite of credit risk models, including LendScore 2 and LendScore Arc, its first transformer-based credit risk score. Plaid also introduced a new AI foundation model for fraud detection, now powering Plaid Protect, and extended its sequential foundation model to payment risk through Signal and Guaranteed Payments.
Ant brings Affirm to American merchants
Antom, Ant International’s global merchant payment and digitization platform, is bringing Affirm to its merchants in the US.
Customers selecting Affirm complete an eligibility check. Amounts range from $35 to $30,000 with terms from 30 days to 36 months. Antom merchants can offer consumers payment plans, including six-month interest-free options via Affirm.
Wayfair adds Klarna options
Eligible U.S. customers can access 0% APR financing up to six months across all Wayfair brands. The option is also available to Canadians.
Payroc launches AI platform
The payment-processing acquirer and technology platform said Payroc for Developers is an AI-native platform created to help software companies, independent software vendors, and development teams build, launch, and scale integrated payments.
Dual Entry, Expensify integrate
The native, two-way integration brings expenses, corporate card spend, reimbursements, and accounting data into one connected workflow. Finance teams using both platforms can now connect Expensify directly to DualEntry and keep data synced automatically, without exporting CSVs or manually re-entering transactions.