October 11, 2025 @ 11:25 am By Omar Faridi  |  

OnePay, a financial technology company that is owned by Walmart, is introducing Bitcoin and Ethereum trading services to its mobile app, according sources familiar with the matter and as cited by CNBC. The Fintech company is said to be working cooperatively with stablecoin and crypto… Read More

 Tagged Crypto Transactions, mobile apps, onepay, walmart

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

 Tagged Anthony Gudgeon, ARIC Risk Hub, featurespace, Jason Blackhurst, thredd

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

 Tagged Amy Sahm, Booshan Rengachari, Finzly, FX STAR, iso 20022, SWIFT MX

October 10, 2025 @ 3:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Navro, the UK Fintech that aims to simplify international payments for businesses, announces an expansion of its real-time, pay-to-bank capability – that is, the ability for businesses to send funds instantly to someone’s bank account at any time of day, “irrespective of banking hours,” with… Read More

 Tagged fintech, global payments, navro, real-time transactions

October 10, 2025 @ 3:32 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Fintech firm Splitit, the embedded card-linked installments service provider, has recently announced the launch of an invite-only partner program intended to make pay-later capabilities native to Agentic AI, which may enable the so-called next generation of AI-driven commerce. The Splitit Agentic Commerce Partner Program will… Read More

 Tagged bnpl, online lending, payments, splitit

October 10, 2025 @ 8:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The way that AI is being used by the investment management sector is shifting from a focus on operational efficiency to allowing for more sophisticated investment-centric applications. According to a Citi report, this is being driven by AI’s ability to handle very large amounts of… Read More

 Tagged ai, citi, investment management, research

October 10, 2025 @ 8:00 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilch, the consumer payments platform powering commerce, unveiled product developments marking the next phase of its growth. Recently, the company has introduced Zilch Intelligent Commerce – an AI powered data intelligence platform for retailers and brands to potentially increase their return on ad spend when… Read More

 Tagged ai, fintech, payments, zilch

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

 Tagged Deepgram, Flo Crivello, flux, Jordan Dearsley, real-time voice agents, Scott Stephenson, voice ai

October 9, 2025 @ 10:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), in collaboration with the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP), announced the launch of the IADS Developer Hackathon and held the Kick-off Ceremony, marking the beginning of a journey to foster tech breakthroughs and advancements for the… Read More

 Tagged banking, digitalization, hkma, hong kong

October 9, 2025 @ 10:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Research from global small business platform Xero reveals a significant problem facing small business owners: many acknowledge the potential of targeted promotional strategies, but are being held back from taking part in these initiatives primarily due to lack of adequate financial resources. A Xero research… Read More

 Tagged financial stress, research, small businesses, survey, xero