October 15, 2025 @ 10:41 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

RedotPay, a stablecoin payments firm, this week announced an expansion of its integration with Circle Payments Network. RedotPay introduces “Send Crypto, Receive MXN”, designed to provide a nearly instant and more cost-effective payment solution for Mexico, one of the world’s largest payment corridors. This new… Read More

October 15, 2025 @ 8:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

EXL [NASDAQ: EXLS] is unlocking the data foundation to make AI real for enterprises with its newly unveiled agentic AI suite of data solutions, EXLdata.ai. In partnership with Databricks, this suite of data solutions tackles a top barrier to AI adoption by making enterprise data usable for… Read More

October 14, 2025 @ 11:39 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Toku, a stablecoin payroll platform, has announced a partnership with Lagrange, a provider of verifiable AI. Over the past four years, Toku has built the first global system for token compensation, solving for taxes and compliance across more than 100 jurisdictions. With the 2025 stablecoin… Read More

October 12, 2025 @ 4:20 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Waterlily, which uses AI to predict long-term care (LTC) needs up to decades before they happen, announced today the launch of Quote-and-Apply. This new offering is said to utilize AI and computation across hundreds of thousands of insurance policy configurations to identify the mathematically optimal… Read More

October 12, 2025 @ 8:30 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

NoFraud, an e-commerce fraud prevention provider, has acquired Yofi AI, a return fraud and policy abuse detection platform for e-commerce retailers backed by Nyca Partners, Point72 Ventures, and eBay Ventures. With Yofi AI, NoFraud is expanding beyond payment fraud to stop policy abuse at scale… Read More

October 12, 2025 @ 7:26 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Shoppers are strategically shifting toward more gift card purchases to maintain holiday gifting traditions amid economic pressures, according to new research from Blackhawk Network (BHN), a global provider of branded payment solutions. BHN’s annual holiday forecast, which surveyed more than 2,100 U.S. consumers, reveals that… Read More

October 11, 2025 @ 10:18 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Rakuten has unveiled new research conducted by Harris Poll highlighting a sharply divided outlook for holiday shopping this year. Just 28% plan to spend less, while 26% expect to spend more. This divide is even more pronounced among households with children, which are gearing up… Read More

October 11, 2025 @ 9:16 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new study by Maclear shows that the P2P lending sector in Europe is gaining momentum as investors look for higher yields and stronger safeguards, while small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) turn to crowdlending for more flexible access to capital. According to the study, European… Read More

October 11, 2025 @ 6:55 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Yendo, the company behind a vehicle-secured credit card, this week announced a $50 million Series B funding round. It includes investors Spice Expeditions, Autotech Ventures, FPV Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, Mark Cuban, and Clocktower Technology Ventures. The funding will accelerate Yendo’s expansion beyond secured lending… Read More

October 11, 2025 @ 5:22 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Block Street, a startup building an execution and lending layer for tokenized equities, has raised $11.5 million in strategic funding to deploy its intent/RFQ-based trading infrastructure on Monad and major EVM networks. The round was led by Hack VC with participation from Generative Venture, DWF… Read More

October 11, 2025 @ 3:12 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Jiko, a platform built on U.S. T-bills, this week announced strategic backing by Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN) and Blockstream Capital Partners. Alongside this investment, Jiko is entering new strategic partnerships with Crypto.com, Blockstream Capital Partners, Bitso, and Coinbase. These strategic partners will join other institutions adopting… Read More

October 11, 2025 @ 10:24 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Payment processor Thredd this week announced the introduction of One View, a fraud solution developed in collaboration with global fraud and financial crime detection firm Featurespace (a Visa solution). The solution enables card transactions and non-card payments to be intelligently monitored under one network-agnostic interface… Read More

October 11, 2025 @ 9:12 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Finzly, a provider of modern payment infrastructure for financial institutions, announced that its customers are ISO 20022-ready on FX STAR, the company’s foreign exchange and cross-border payments platform. By adopting SWIFT MX messages, Finzly’s customers join the first wave of financial institutions embracing the… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 1:47 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Agio Ratings, a source of risk insights in digital assets, has closed a $6 million funding round led by AlbionVC, bringing the total raised to north of $11 million. The round, which also saw participation from Portage Ventures, MS&AD and Gaingels, enables Agio Ratings to expand… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 12:16 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Deepgram, a real-time Voice AI platform, has launched Flux, a conversational speech recognition (CSR) model designed specifically for real-time voice agents. Unlike traditional automatic speech recognition (ASR), which was built for transcription use cases like captions or meeting notes, Flux is trained to understand the… Read More

October 9, 2025 @ 8:54 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

New research from CodeSignal and Legit finds that consumers grossly underestimate the frequency with which Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used to create the apps and tools they use daily. CodeSignal found that 81% of the developers it surveyed reported using AI-powered coding assistants; 49% used… Read More

October 7, 2025 @ 10:09 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Akemona, a digital infrastructure provider, this week released Tokenization Cloud, an infrastructure platform that enables financial institutions and businesses to adopt digital assets at scale. The launch comes at a pivotal moment in U.S. financial regulation. The SEC’s recently announced Project Crypto aims to modernize custody rules and integrate decentralized finance (DeFi)… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 8:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

SUI Group (NASDAQ: SUIG), in partnership with Ethena, a DeFi synthetic dollar protocol, and the Sui Foundation, this week announced the launch of suiUSDe, a Sui-native synthetic dollar token, and USDi, a stablecoin backed by the BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL) tokenized money… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 6:11 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Baselane, the banking and financial platform for real estate investors, has raised $34.4 million in new funding, including a recently closed $20 million Series B led by Thomvest Ventures and a previously unannounced $14.4 million Series A led by Matrix Partners. The funding milestone coincides… Read More

October 6, 2025 @ 1:11 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Mastercard has extended its strategic commercial partnership with Smile ID, an identity verification provider in Africa, to accelerate the rollout of secure digital identity solutions across the continent. This partnership will enable banks, fintechs, mobile money operators and other enterprises to onboard new customers faster,… Read More