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The Consensys MetaMask split turns one company into two by the end of 2026. The existing legal entity rebrands entirely as MetaMask. That consumer self-custodial wallet has passed 100 million downloads across roughly 190 countries. Meanwhile a newly formed company keeps the Consensys name. It takes the Protocols Group, the institutional infrastructure business built around
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Trading Central officially launched its Model Context Protocol server on September 21, 2026, after a six-month soft launch. The market research provider is based in Ottawa and Paris. The Trading Central MCP Server lets brokerages and financial institutions pull the firm's proprietary, licensed research into AI agents and chatbots. It arrives in a structured, machine-ready
FICO's UK credit card data for July 2026 shows the average active balance rising 0.4% to £1,980. That is a record high for the second consecutive month and 4.7% above a year earlier. Average monthly spending fell 2% to £815 over the same month. FICO (NYSE: FICO) draws the figures from client reports generated by
Bill Harris launched Evergreen.ai on September 21, 2026. He is the former chief executive of PayPal and Intuit and the founding chief executive of Personal Capital. The app runs on mobile and desktop browsers and answers questions on planning, retirement, equity compensation and tax. Consumers who register during the beta get it at no cost
Angle Health raised $600 million at a $2.7 billion valuation, but two thirds is a tender offer. Only $200 million is primary capital for the business.
Vishal Garg says more than 46% of Better Home & Finance voting power now backs his campaign to remove five directors. Garg, the founder and former chief executive of the Nasdaq-listed digital mortgage lender, made the claim on September 21, 2026. The Better consent solicitation is working toward a target date of October 2. It
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Visa A2A Protect is where the Featurespace acquisition finally shows up in a product. Visa announced an enhanced version of its account-to-account fraud tool built around a new unified fraud score, described as the company's first in-market integration of Featurespace technology. What the Visa A2A Protect Upgrade Adds The Visa A2A Protect pitch is speed
Stripe PayPal bid talks are over. The consortium of Stripe and private equity firm Advent International has abandoned its pursuit of PayPal, according to Bloomberg, ending months of speculation over what would have been one of the largest leveraged buyouts on record. PayPal shares fell as much as 16% in premarket trading Friday, after closing
Feathery AI decisioning just got funded by the people it automates. Feathery, which builds an AI operating and decisioning system for insurance and wealth management firms, has raised $30 million in total funding including a recently closed Series A led by Portage Ventures. The round drew Index Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, and Bain Capital Ventures, alongside
Every business owner has felt the pull of a low headline rate. We asked three industry leaders a blunt question. How can an owner judge whether fintech lending costs genuinely come in below a traditional bank line of credit? Every answer pointed past the advertised APR. Fintech lending costs live in the math behind the
Whoa, speak about a blockbuster transfer within the biotech world! Gilead Sciences simply dropped the information that’s acquired everybody buzzing: they’re shopping for out Arcellx for a whopping $7.8 billion. This isn’t simply any deal—it’s all about dashing up a promising new remedy for a number of myeloma, a tricky type of blood most cancers.
Tilly's Q4 Earnings Beat sent TLYS stock up more than 60% in after-hours trading on March 11, 2026. The youth-focused retailer posted total net sales of $155.1 million for fiscal 2025 Q4. That figure came in comfortably ahead of the $148.7 million Wall Street consensus. Net sales rose 5.3% year-over-year despite the company operating with
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OpenAI’s New ChatGPT for Financial Services Launches With Intapp and PitchBook as Data PartnersSeptember 11, 2026
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AI fraud detection just had a busy few weeks. Three fraud-detection deals landed inside a few weeks of each other this quarter: Visa folded Featurespace's models into Enhanced A2A Protect for bank-to-bank transfers, Flagright joined Nacha's preferred partner list for ACH fraud monitoring, and Navan bolted DataVisor onto its travel-and-expense platform. None of the three
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Author: Nick Sawinyh, Head of Product & GTM, Veodyn Agentic payments look like an open question, and they are not one. The question worth asking is not whether autonomous software will be given authority to move money. In one corner of finance it has had that authority for years, and the results are already on the
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Socure and Aeropay, identity and bank-linking integration, announced September 3. The Socure Aeropay onboarding integration lets a consumer verify who they are and connect a bank account using only a phone number and two clicks. The integration runs inside Socure's RiskOS platform and inverts the usual sequence in fintech onboarding, where open banking data is
