September 14, 2026 @ 11:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hungary’s CIB Bank has teamed up with Visa (NYSE: V) to put contactless payment rings into everyday banking, turning a once-niche wearable into a mainstream account perk. Under a joint initiative, eligible customers who open selected CIB ECO current accounts and add a Visa Inspire… Read More

 Tagged cib, contactless, hungary, payments, ringpay

September 14, 2026 @ 7:08 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sage Capital Management has chosen OpenPayd to widen the fiat payment options available to its institutional digital-asset clients. The live connection, announced on 9 September 2026, adds dollar, euro and sterling rails so firms can move funds into and out of crypto markets through a… Read More

 Tagged digital asseets, openpayd, payments, sage capital management

September 14, 2026 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut is facing a public extortion campaign after criminals began publishing identity files taken from a recent customer-data incident, just as the company presses ahead with plans to enter Israel. The firm has confirmed that an unauthorized party obtained sensitive records after submitting… Read More

 Tagged digital bank, hack, israel, revolut, security breach

September 14, 2026 @ 8:29 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Plenty of heavy hitters came out of the Labor Day weekend with product releases and partnerships, including Visa, Mastercard, Ant, Nu, and Marqeta. Visa, Mastercard and Ant to develop agent trust framework The trio hopes to build a trust framework that will help agentic commerce… Read More

 Tagged agentic commerce, Ant, banking, bvnk, concryt, marqeta, nu, okx, paystand, Ualett

September 14, 2026 @ 6:26 am By Michael Wong  |  

AI-powered senior living technology company Inspiren has raised $70 million in a Series C funding round at a valuation of more than $500 million, as it looks to expand the use of artificial intelligence to help care teams monitor residents and identify potential emergencies. The… Read More

 Tagged funding round, Inspiren, newview capital

September 14, 2026 @ 2:22 am By Michael Wong  |  

Luminary, an artificial intelligence (AI) platform aimed at helping financial and legal professionals manage wealth transfers, has raised $22 million in a Series A funding round led by Ten Coves Capital as demand grows for technology to handle increasingly complex estate planning. The financing brings… Read More

 Tagged 8vc, Artficial intelligence, bny, Luminary, wealthtech

September 14, 2026 @ 1:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Mexican fintech company Kapital has secured $125 million in additional equity and debt financing, positioning the firm to enlarge its artificial intelligence tools and push further into markets at home and overseas. The Mexico City–based lender, which describes itself as one of Latin America’s largest… Read More

 Tagged funding round, kapital, latam, mexico

September 13, 2026 @ 9:04 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Stablecoins, in one way or another, dominate this edition of Web3 thoughts of the week. Lawyers speak out on the CLARITY Act, too. Stablecoins “The number of issuers is expanding quickly. A consortium of 21 financial institutions plans to launch a dollar stablecoin in 2027,… Read More

 Tagged bitcoin golden cross, coinmarketcap, DonaFiQuote.Trade, LitVM, michael terpin, Public Investors Advocate Bar Association, stablecoins, Stoltmann Law Offices, t54, the clarity act, Transform Ventures, visa, XPlace

September 13, 2026 @ 5:35 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Chime hits its Stride in $590M deal Chime has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Stride Bank, N.A. for $590 million in cash. Stride is a nationally chartered bank that has been Chime’s bank partner for more than seven years. Upon closing, Stride will… Read More

 Tagged amazon, chime, circle, Cymphony, fundcraft, funding round, stride, tazapay

September 13, 2026 @ 4:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut customers have been told that a subset of their most sensitive records was released after the company treated a fraudulent information demand as a genuine government inquiry. The episode became public on 11–12 September 2026 after affected users received notices and investigators circulated excerpts…. Read More

 Tagged banking, breach, data, digital bank, hack, revolut, zachxbt