March 8, 2026 @ 7:51 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) testified before Congress on legislative and regulatory recommendations to help community banks combat fraud and scams. Testifying before the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions, Gay G. Dempsey—the CEO of Bank of Lincoln County in Fayetteville, Tenn.—said the fraud problem is urgent and… Read More

March 7, 2026 @ 6:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Wirex unveiled Wirex Agents – a non-custodial infrastructure layer enabling AI agents to create stablecoin cards, open virtual accounts, and execute autonomous financial transactions directly onchain. AI is already managing workflows like subscription operations, payout routing, and cost settlement, but execution still often stops… Read More

March 7, 2026 @ 6:13 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

UQPAY, a Singapore-headquartered global fintech company, has launched a dual-rail full-stack payment platform, purpose-built to help businesses operate across traditional finance and stablecoin-based payment ecosystems. Supporting 200-plus markets and more than 140 currencies, the platform integrates global acquiring, global accounts, card issuing, and stablecoin accounts… Read More

March 7, 2026 @ 4:59 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fideo Intelligence, an AI-driven identity intelligence engine supporting fraud and identity platforms, has expanded its dark web monitoring and threat intelligence capabilities to help financial institutions, fintech companies, payment service providers (PSPs), and merchants detect fraud earlier and reduce payment risk. As payment credentials, identity data, and fraud… Read More

March 7, 2026 @ 4:28 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Crossover Markets this week announced a $31 million Series B financing round. The round values Crossover at $200 million and was led by Tradeweb Markets (Nasdaq: TW), a global provider of electronic trading across asset classes, with participation from DRW Venture Capital, Ripple, Virtu Financial,… Read More

March 7, 2026 @ 4:24 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Vivox AI, a UK-based technology company building regulator-ready, atomic AI agents for AML, KYB/KYC and financial crime, has raised £1.3 million (€1.5 million) to accelerate product development and scale its enterprise platform. The round includes backing from Axel Weber, former president of Germany’s central bank… Read More

March 7, 2026 @ 4:20 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Billtrust this week introduced Agentic Credit Lines, a new AI‑powered capability that helps finance teams proactively identify payment risk and make faster, more confident credit decisions. Agentic Credit Lines, embedded in the Billtrust Credit Review workflow, analyzes payment history, utilization patterns, and external credit data… Read More

March 7, 2026 @ 4:08 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Evervault has raised $25 million Series B financing led by Ribbit Capital with participation from Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Kleiner Perkins and Operator Partners. The round brings Evervault’s total funding to $46 million, and will be used to expand its encryption infrastructure, invest in product… Read More

March 7, 2026 @ 3:59 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

      Payfinia, providers of an open payments framework, has partnered with CU*SOUTH, a credit union-owned credit union service organization. This partnership will provide credit unions with opportunities to leverage advanced embedded payment solutions and unique digital wallet services. CU*SOUTH’s member credit unions now… Read More

March 7, 2026 @ 3:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  Consumers and small businesses receiving payments in a range of countries, including five of the world’s largest remittance markets, will be among the first to benefit as Swift and banks globally roll out a new framework for cross-border retail payments. Payments sent across popular… Read More

March 6, 2026 @ 7:55 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

DataVisor, an AI-powered fraud and risk management platform, released its 2026 Fraud & AML Executive Report, revealing an AI Readiness Gap between rising concern over AI-driven fraud and financial institutions’ ability to defend against it. The report found that 74% of surveyed senior fraud and… Read More

March 5, 2026 @ 3:48 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

If agentic commerce is to meet its potential, the industry must develop a solid trust foundation. That’s why Chandler Fang founded t54. Using his experience in quant trading at JPMorgan Chase and in cross-border payments at Ripple, Fang is building the trust layer this sector… Read More

March 1, 2026 @ 6:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

  Years of success and methodical design in Europe have Pliant well-prepared to compete in the United States. Co-founder and CEO Malte Rau believes Pliant’s genesis in a region with strict regulations prepares it for success in America. Pliant offers a comprehensive B2B payment solution…. Read More

March 1, 2026 @ 6:18 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Gambit Security this week emerged from stealth with $61 million in seed and Series A funding. Participants included Spark Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Cyberstarts. Gambit Security’s AI-native resilience platform connects to all environments, security solutions, and backup tools to autonomously map an organization’s infrastructure and… Read More

March 1, 2026 @ 1:29 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, MoonPay and M0 introduced PYUSDx, which enables the creation of application-specific stablecoins backed by PayPal USD (PYUSD). PYUSDx is designed to help builders launch and scale application-specific stablecoins while significantly lowering the technical and operational overhead to get started. The market is moving… Read More

March 1, 2026 @ 10:36 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

0x, a decentralized exchange (DEX) infrastructure provider, has launched its Cross-Chain API to private beta, a developer solution that helps applications execute token swaps across more than 15 blockchains through a single integration. The Cross-Chain API is designed to support programmatic trading and automated systems… Read More

March 1, 2026 @ 10:20 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Pesalink, Kenya’s de facto instant payment network, has partnered with the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System (PAPSS) to ease cross-border payment and speed up regional financial integration. The partnership enables instant 24/7 cross-border payments from Pan-African Payment and Settlement System participants into banks and mobile… Read More

March 1, 2026 @ 9:39 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Bloomberg and Kaiko this week announced a joint initiative to develop a pathway for Bloomberg’s trusted Data License offerings to be accessed on-chain via Kaiko’s infrastructure. The work is intended to focus initially on support for tokenized U.S. Treasuries and repo workflows on the Canton… Read More

March 1, 2026 @ 8:59 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Canton, a public blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance, and Chainlink, an oracle platform, this week announced the live deployment of the Chainlink data standard across the Canton ecosystem. Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) will also soon go live on Canton to enable secure cross-chain transfer of tokenized real-world… Read More

March 1, 2026 @ 8:40 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Rowspace, an AI platform that accelerates financial services firms’ decision making based on their proprietary data, launched this week with $50 million in funding across a Series A co-led by Sequoia and Emergence Capital and a seed round led by Sequoia. Stripe, Conviction, Basis Set,… Read More