September 28, 2025 @ 8:28 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

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

September 28, 2025 @ 5:26 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

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

September 28, 2025 @ 3:22 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

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

September 28, 2025 @ 1:40 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

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

September 27, 2025 @ 7:25 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

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

September 27, 2025 @ 9:18 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

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

September 26, 2025 @ 5:42 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

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

September 25, 2025 @ 9:01 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

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

September 24, 2025 @ 11:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

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

September 24, 2025 @ 11:02 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

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

September 23, 2025 @ 1:08 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

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

September 23, 2025 @ 10:25 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

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

September 23, 2025 @ 8:56 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Grvt, a decentralized exchange for on-chain financial privacy that is powered by zero-knowledge technology, has closed a $19 million Series A funding round. The Series A round was co-led by Grvt technology partner ZKsync; Further Ventures, a capital markets infrastructure investment firm based in Abu Dhabi; EigenCloud, a verifiable… Read More

September 23, 2025 @ 8:37 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

This past week, DeAgentAI, a decentralized AI agent infrastructure project, announced that its native token, AIA, is available for trading on Binance Alpha and Binance Futures. This marks the first-ever listing of AIA on Binance, underscoring growing demand for decentralized AI solutions and advancing DeAgentAI’s… Read More

September 23, 2025 @ 8:32 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

A new study conducted by MoneyThumb, a provider of automated document evaluation and fraud detection solutions, in partnership with deBanked, a merchant cash advance publication, reveals an alarming trend in the small business lending sector: fraud is not only on the rise but is significantly… Read More

September 23, 2025 @ 8:22 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

An analysis of financial behaviour from social finance app Frich’s community of more than one million Gen Zers reveals a generation with ambitious retirement dreams but a concerning financial reality. Retirement optimism vs. financial constraints Gen Z’s confidence about their financial future contrasts sharply with… Read More

September 22, 2025 @ 6:45 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Fraud prevention platform Ravelin urges merchants to take immediate action on Visa’s updated VAMP (Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program). It warns that failure to minimize fraud will mean incurring significant, recurring fees, and even losing the ability to accept Visa payments. VAMP enforcement begins on Oct. 1…. Read More

September 22, 2025 @ 6:41 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

While the Fed rate cuts dominated discussions this week, Web3 also looked at some new developments with ETFs Did the Fed cut enough? “Markets are on edge this week as investors await the outcome of the most important FOMC meeting of 2025. Some analysts expect… Read More

September 22, 2025 @ 2:44 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Arcanis has launched as an AI-powered “decision research” solution for growth and late-stage venture capital markets, adding a transparent AI trust layer through meeting standardized criteria for completeness, systematics, transparency, and clarity of output. Venture capital is often characterized by incomplete, fragmented, or incorrect data…. Read More

September 22, 2025 @ 10:58 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Last week, Scalekit launched an authentication stack purpose-built for agentic apps and announced a $5.5 million seed round led by Together Fund and Z47, with angel backing from Adam Frankl, Oliver Jay, Jagadeesh Kunda, and others. Gartner predicts that by 2028, 25% of enterprise breaches… Read More