Tony Zerucha

Finastra Debuts Intelligent Routing Module

Finastra, a financial services software provider, has unveiled its Intelligent Routing Module at Sibos 2025. The new solution seeks to bring intelligent, data-driven payment routing to banks and financial institutions, enabling them to process transactions faster, at lower cost, and with an upwards of 95%… Read More

UK SME Lender Love Finance Secures £45M Debt Financing Arrangement

Love Finance, a United Kingdom SME lender and broker, has secured £45 million in its first debt financing arrangement, enabling the company to expand its loan book. The funding package comprises a £35 million revolving credit facility (RCF) from FTSE 250 specialist lender, Paragon Bank,… Read More

Maximor $9M Seed to Drive AI Agent Growth

This week, Maximor announced a $9 million seed round to expand its finance automation platform — AI agents that plug into ERPs, payroll, billing, and bank systems to take on the repetitive accounting work and produce audit-ready outputs by default. The round was led by… Read More

Spacecoin Celebrates Space-Based Blockchain Transaction

This week, Spacecoin announced the successful execution of what it claims is the first blockchain transaction to leave Earth and come back intact via its CTC-0 satellite, marking a major milestone in the development of decentralized satellite internet infrastructure. The transaction, carried out on the Creditcoin… Read More

DTCC Digital Assets Names Sullivan Managing Director

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, this week announced the appointment of Thomas Sullivan as managing director of DTCC Digital Assets. Sullivan will report to Nadine Chakar, managing director and global head of DTCC… Read More

Signicat’s ReuseID Maintains Verified Identities

Signicat, an identity services provider, has introduced ReuseID, a digital identity solution that enables organizations to create, manage, and reuse verified identities across their entire ecosystem. This launch coincides with Europe’s advancement of the European Digital Identity Wallet (EUDI Wallet), the enactment of eIDAS 2.0, and an intensifying demand for… Read More

NordVPN Enhances Threat Protection for Crypto Wallets

NordVPN has added a crypto wallet address checker to its Threat Protection Pro suite. The new feature identifies potentially dangerous cryptocurrency wallet addresses encountered during web browsing, helping users avoid risky transactions and prevent costly mistakes when managing their digital assets. According to recent data, cybercriminals… Read More

ValidiFI Research Highlights Risk of Outdated Fraud Strategies

ValidiFI’s newest research reveals a critical gap in current fraud prevention strategies—and the financial consequences of relying on outdated account verification methods as real-time payment adoption accelerates. As payment infrastructure evolves with real-time rails like RTP, FedNow, and Zelle driving instant settlement, and faster ACH options modernizing… Read More

Akkuro, Backbase Tackle Legacy System AI Problems

Backbase, a provider of AI-powered banking technology, and Akkuro, a leading international core banking technology provider, have announced a strategic partnership that tackles legacy system limitations with AI. This collaboration is set to deliver an end-to-end modern banking technology stack across retail banking, business banking,… Read More

Stablecoin Payments Firm RedotPay Announces $47M Investment

RedotPay, a global stablecoin-based payment fintech, has closed a $47 million strategic investment. The round saw new participation from Coinbase Ventures and a global technology entrepreneur, with increased commitments from Galaxy Ventures and Vertex Ventures. “Our mission has always been to make digital finance accessible,… Read More

Exegy Research Quantifies Tech Costs, Compares In-House, Vendor Solutions

Capital markets data provider Exegy has launched a new whitepaper series quantifying the true cost of real-time market data infrastructure. Drawing on benchmarks from current and former executives at Tier 1 banks and hedge funds within their elite client community, Exegy details the full costs, time-to-market,… Read More

Biz2Credit, Columbia University, Announce SMB Partnership

Biz2Credit, the parent company of Biz2X, which is an AI-powered small business lending platform, announced a partnership with Columbia University to tackle automating and scaling funding access for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). The effort aims to apply artificial intelligence to transform SMB loan portfolios… Read More

Finastra Launches ACH Payment Solution

Finastra, a provider of financial services software, has launched an ACH payment solution,. With this release, Finastra becomes one of the major providers to support all US payment clearings— including ACH, wires, and real-time payments- within a unified payment hub, Finastra’s Global PAYplus. The Finastra… Read More

Digital Gift Cards Foster Relevancy, Expanded Use Cases: Tillo’s Alex Preece

Digital gift cards are upending traditional approaches to incentives and rewards, even creating exciting new use cases. And while Tillo isn’t a household name in the space, it powers many of these transformative experiences through a plug-and-go API that connects to more than 3,000 global… Read More

Tether at $20B? Tokenized Derivatives? Crypto Liquidation? Web3 Thoughts of the Week

Gold’s continued importance, a significant crypto liquidation, tokenized collateral in derivatives,  and Tether potentially at a $20B valuation had Web3 tongues wagging this week. The importance of holding stable assets in a turbulent market environment “Many investors feel calmer keeping a chunk of their savings… Read More

Chase Ergen’s Plan to Make America Wealthy Again (MAWA)

Chase Ergen is excited about the current state of decentralized finance and looks forward to even better things to come. An entrepreneur and strategic advisor, Ergen has two decades of experience in satellite and telecommunications, serves on the board of DeFi Technologies, and is the… Read More

Fraud Officially Crossed the Digital Divide in 2024: Entrust 2025 Identity Fraud Report

Fraud officially crossed the digital divide in 2024, as digital document forgery surpassed physical counterfeits for the first time. According to Entrust’s 2025 Identity Fraud Report, digital forgeries accounted for 57% of all document fraud. Digital document forgeries are growing at an annual clip of… Read More

Plume’s Nightfall Fosters Privacy-Focused Enterprise Solutions

Plume, a permissionless, full-stack blockchain built for real-world asset finance, has announced the deployment of Nightfall, a public-domain blockchain technology that will facilitate the adoption of privacy-focused enterprise solutions among institutions. EY will be assisting with the deployment onto the network. Nightfall’s expansion to Plume… Read More

MoneyGram to Debut Stablecoin-Based App in Colombia

MoneyGram has unveiled a mobile app, introducing a digital, USD-backed stored value account designed to work with both traditional fiat currencies and stablecoins.  Customers will receive funds instantly into a secure USD balance, store those funds and cash out or spend. It will first launch in Colombia…. Read More

BrightCheck Helps Sectors Hurt Most By Chargebacks

As socially focused apps and services race to adapt to lower thresholds under Visa’s VAMP, BrightCheck is helping them reduce chargebacks through a combination of social verification and payment security. Founder and CEO Scott Bright said it’s a combination that can help companies in many… Read More

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