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September 2026

  1. The Volante Circle Deal Drops USDC Into Bank Payment Engines
  2. AEGIS Markets Passes 3 Million Contracts and Plans a Dealer-to-Dealer Venue
  3. Swift Pay by Alias Would Let Pix and PayID Users Send Money Abroad
  4. The DTCC iCapital Tie-Up Wires Private Markets Into Post-Trade Plumbing
  5. Citi Token Services Reaches Seven Markets With Japan and UAE
  6. The Citi Coinbase Deal Puts a Bank Behind Stablecoin Checkout
  7. The Latency Tax: Why Western Fintech Rails Are Bleeding Your Emerging Market Margins
  8. The Exit Illusion: Why Selling Often Costs More Control Than Another Down Round
  9. MVB Bank DingoBlu Partnership Preps a Neobank Launch
  10. Socure Arc Identity Verification Joins the Circle Blockchain
  11. Agentic AI Insurance Quoting Goes Live for Thimble
  12. Tekion Spend Embedded Banking Hits Car Dealerships in Q4
  13. Chase Data Security Center Puts Data Sharing in View
  14. Stakk ParaScript Acquisition Closes at $63 Million as Document Fraud Moves Up the Agenda
  15. LoanPro Payments Puts Processing, Card Disbursement and AI Agents Inside the Lending Core
  16. Cleverbridge Agentic Payment With Visa and Revolut Is a First for France
  17. Solaris SEPA Instant Payments Move to ACI Connetic as the Embedded Finance Bank Rebuilds
  18. Revolut Pay with Smile Brings Facial Recognition Checkout to London Cafes
  19. Revolut Argentina Clears Central Bank Approval to Buy Banco Cetelem
  20. Capgemini World Payments Report 2027 Puts $230 Billion of Bank Revenue in Play
  21. A Kentucky Community Bank Picks Its Digital Banking Vendor
  22. Clearwater Says Its AI Agents Are Now Just Part of the Job
  23. Nasdaq Ventures Buys Into the AI Governance Layer Banks Need
  24. Priority Commerce Buys Its Way Into Government Payments
  25. Affirm Follows Costco Across the Atlantic
  26. Revolut Adds Colombia to Its Banking License Collection
  27. Sola Ships EBT Chip Support as Magstripe Cards Start Switching Off
  28. Input 1 and OneShield Bet Insurance Carriers Are Tired of Bolting on Premium Finance
  29. Abrigo Automates the Accounting Standard Community Banks Complain About Most
  30. bunq Completes Wero Rollout Across Four Eurozone Markets
  31. Kinective Bought Six Companies, Now It Has to Make Them One Product
  32. Moov Money Turns Any Debit Card Into a P2P Payment Address
  33. GoCardless Runs UK's First Agentic Payment for Trussell
  34. Basic Capital Plugs Its 401(k) Straight Into Check Payroll Rails
  35. Equal Parts Buys ProSource, a Texas Transportation Insurance Broker
  36. The Latinia Pitch: Banks Automated the Payment, Not the Decision About What Happens Next
  37. Emburse Brings the AP Automation It Already Sells Down to Smaller Teams
  38. ACI Connetic Brings Swift Ledger Payments Into One Hub
  39. ACI Speedpay Pulse Finds 59% of US Adults Short of $1,000
  40. Binance USDC Pact Comes With a $100 Million Circle Stake
  41. SoFiUSD Takes Over SoFi's $25 Billion Mastercard Settlement
  42. Ualett Global Transfer Opens Remittances to 750,000 Gig Workers
  43. ICE Wants to Do for Private Credit What It Already Did for Bonds
  44. Square for Franchises Lands Ideal Nutrition as a Reference Customer
  45. Figment Wants to Be the Easy Button for Institutions That Do Not Want to Run Their Own Validator
  46. Mercury Wants to Kill the Export-Import-Reconcile Cycle Entirely
  47. Trading Central MCP Server Brings Licensed Research to Brokerage AI Agents
  48. FICO UK Credit Card Report Shows Record Balances as Spending Falls
  49. Angle Health Raises $600M at a $2.7 Billion Valuation
  50. Bill Harris Launches Evergreen.ai Financial Advice App, Free Until 2028
  51. Better Consent Solicitation Claims 46% of Voting Power Ahead of October Target
  52. Vishal Garg Extends Better Consent Solicitation to October 2
  53. Priority Technology Take-Private Values the Payments Group at $1.6 Billion
  54. Circle Flips the Switch on Arc, Its Bet That Institutions Will Run a Public Blockchain
  55. Tunica-Biloxi Tribe Launches a Prediction Market App on Kalshi
  56. American Kids Are Sitting on $28-30 Billion, and Most Do Not Keep It in a Bank
  57. Datavault AI Launches Three Exchange Platforms and Reports a $100 Million Order
  58. Corpay FTC Settlement Ends the $100 Million Fuel Card Case
  59. Navar Capital Launches Two Funds, Claims 34% Annualized Returns, Names No Auditor
  60. Earnix Puts 25 AI Agents Inside Insurance Pricing and Underwriting Workflows
  61. Bolton Global Capital Picks SS&C Black Diamond to Run Its Portfolio Operations
  62. What the Klarna shareholder investigation covers, and what Q2 2026 actually showed
  63. Zinnia Builds a Whole Life Chassis for the Small Policies Carriers Cannot Process Fast Enough
  64. Focal AI Lets Its Software Fill Out Forms and Update CRMs on Its Own for Canadian Advisors
  65. Luzern Risk Raises $45M to Sell Captive Insurance to Companies That Are Not the Fortune 500
  66. Masttro and Truewind Team Up to Link Wealth Data With Family Office Accounting
  67. Wayflyer Adds a $50M Corporate Facility on Top of a Very Busy Year of Borrowing
  68. Elliptic’s Decode Agent Bets That Auditable Answers Beat Fast Ones
  69. &Partners Picks Wealth.com as Firmwide Estate Planning Platform
  70. ACI Worldwide Adds Financial Messaging to Connetic, Which Is the Boring Part That Matters
  71. Paymentus Study Finds $330 Billion in Service Revenue Exposed to Billing Friction
  72. DCPayments Adds Interac e-Transfer Business Request Money at Checkout
  73. US Bank Launches Tool to Automate Private Fund Profit-Split Calculations
  74. Intuit Holds Guidance Flat at Investor Day and Lets the Mix Do the Talking
  75. Better Pays Coinbase One Members Up to $10,000 to Take Out a HELOC
  76. WisdomTree Sends a Tokenized Money Market Fund Through MoonPay’s Retail Pipes
  77. Affirm Puts a Transformer Model Behind Its Checkout Underwriting
  78. Microsoft, Marvell and Utimaco Put Payment HSMs Behind a Managed Azure Service
  79. Icon Solutions and MongoDB Say Their Payments Stack Hits 6,000 TPS With No Data Loss
  80. Navan Taps Engine for Hotel Inventory and Booking Flexibility
  81. Checkout.com Signs On for the Next Phase of Best Buy Marketplace Payments
  82. Visa Wants to Turn Its Settlement Data Into Onchain Credit
  83. Fifth Third Moves 600,000 Comerica Accounts Over Labor Day Weekend
  84. Robinhood Routes Football Prediction Markets to Crypto.com, Takes Equity Stake
  85. Klarna Expands StockX Partnership to the U.S. and Canada
  86. Stripe Link Becomes a Payment Rail for the New Meta AI Shopping Agent
  87. Block Applies for a National Trust Charter to Custody Bitcoin and Stablecoins
  88. Circle to Acquire Cross-Border Payments Firm Tazapay
  89. Chime to Buy Its Sponsor Bank, Stride, for $590 Million in Cash
  90. Navan revenue jumps 35% but GAAP operating losses widen even as guidance goes up
  91. Circle pairs an AI agent marketplace API with a faster USDC funding rail
  92. Bitpanda Enterprise brings crypto trading into BW-Bank retail accounts in Germany
  93. Checkout.com goes live with direct US card acquiring under its Georgia bank charter
  94. Ant Group open-sources a financial AI model built for valuation work
  95. Valley Bank stands up an innovation unit and hires a quantum-computing veteran to run it
  96. FinXP taps Thredd for card processing, offers Europe access in return
  97. DNA Payments merchants get instant access to iwoca loans
  98. Bluefin moves to AES encryption before PCI forces the issue
  99. Latitude raises $35 million Series A for stablecoin-to-local-currency payouts
  100. Edelman Financial Engines bundles fiduciary retirement advice into ADP distribution
  101. Gradient AI adds a group-termination risk model to its health renewal platform
  102. Insurity launches Ratio, a rating engine built to speed up commercial P&C compliance
  103. Berkeley Payment Solutions to embed the Tetra CAD stablecoin across 500-plus business clients
  104. Xapien Raises $56M to Take AI Due Diligence Further Into the US
  105. FICO Fires Back With Its Own FHA Approval, Same Day as VantageScore's
  106. VantageScore 4.0 Gets the Last Government Holdout: FHA Will Accept It in 2027
  107. The new Plume FACTOR Vault brings tokenized private credit to on-chain investors
  108. The new Feathery Robin assistant lets financial firms rebuild workflows by typing plain English
  109. WealthStream Bolts a Voice Model Onto Its Advisor Rehearsal Tool
  110. Zebec taps MoneyGram to let stablecoin-paid workers cash out in local currency
  111. US Secret Service freezes $52.8 million tied to Xinbi using Elliptic data
  112. Marqeta and BVNK team up to put stablecoin rails behind card issuing
  113. Carputty closes Series B, tops $40 million raised, but will not say how much or who wrote the newest check
  114. Savvy Wealth raises $100 million Series C to fund its anti-roll-up pitch to advisors
  115. Consensys splits in two, separating the MetaMask consumer wallet from its institutional infrastructure business
  116. Visa and IFC launch $200 million risk-sharing facility for emerging-market card issuers
  117. U.S. Bancorp runs live cross-border pilot with its own USBDC stablecoin
  118. OpenAI's New ChatGPT for Financial Services Launches With Intapp and PitchBook as Data Partners
  119. Credit Unions Get a Self-Service Kiosk for Shared Branching, Courtesy of a Cash-Machine Maker
  120. FinTurk's Advisor CRM Starts Doing the Job Instead of Just Recording It
  121. Wolters Kluwer Adds Analytics to Its Decades-Old Bank Compliance Suite
  122. Binance.US Picks Socure, and Now Four of the Top Five U.S. Crypto Exchanges Run the Same Identity Stack
  123. Elliptic Wants to Write the Rulebook for AI Agents Moving Crypto
  124. Parafin Brings BNPL to Car Dealership Invoices, Underwritten on Cash Flow Instead of Credit Score
  125. Lumin Digital Ties Into MX to Get Banks Off Screen Scraping
  126. Coinbase Launches Crypto Futures for Canadian Traders, Undercutting a Market Regulators Have Kept Cautious
  127. Bunq Says It Is Now Cheaper to Live in Paris Than Bristol
  128. Mambu Folds Core Banking, Payments, and AI Agents Into a Single Platform
  129. Klarna Adds 0% Financing to Rare Carat Engagement Ring Checkout
  130. Vision Bank Launches Shariah-Compliant Trade Finance Line for SMEs Across GCC and Asia
  131. POSaBIT Refinances Cannabis Payments Loan, Buys Two More Years Before Maturity
  132. Accrual Buys Puzzle Accounting-Firm Business to Push Into Client Accounting Services
  133. Travelers Trust Their Phones to Pay Abroad, Not Yet to Decide for Them
  134. White Clay Brings Profitability-Based Pay Incentives to Small Banks and Credit Unions
  135. MyVest Adds Bond Order Automation and Compliance Rules to Its Wealth Platform
  136. Lumin Digital Rolls Out an M&A Playbook for Bank and Credit Union Mergers
  137. Members 1st Federal Credit Union Takes a Stake in Balance-Sheet Software Maker Delfi
  138. Citi Becomes First U.S. Bank to Run Live Transactions on the New Swift Ledger
  139. AI Fraud Detection Is Standard Now, and So Is AI-Powered Fraud
  140. Bunq's Rejected Bank Charter Is a Warning Shot for Every Fintech Founder
  141. OpenPayd Picks Up 43 State Money Transmitter Licenses Ahead of Its Nasdaq Debut
  142. Premialab Partners With Parameta Solutions to Add Rates and Commodities Indices
  143. What Global Fintech Keeps Getting Wrong About Emerging Markets
  144. Fintech is about to relearn what DeFi already learned about approvals
  145. Cari Raises $32.5 Million, and Every Dollar Comes From Banks
  146. TabaPay Raises $155 Million, Moves to Buy Its Own Bank
  147. The Bunq Cost-of-Living Index Is Marketing Dressed Up as Research, and That Is Fine
  148. A Compliance Vendor and an AI Notetaker Team Up to Cover a Five-Year Retention Rule
  149. Hightower Picks a Data Plumbing Vendor as It Tries to Really Merge Its Advisors
  150. Scienaptic Notches Another Credit Union Customer, Same Script as the Last One
  151. Great Hill Partners Takes a Stake in an AI-Underwriting Insurance MGA
  152. OakNorth Backs a Scottish Developer Betting on Drive-Thru EV Charging
  153. Guidewire Posts 23% Revenue Growth and Record-Low Customer Attrition
  154. Upstart's Risk Gauge Holds Flat Even as August Originations Climb
  155. Nacha Names dhango a Preferred Partner for ACH Risk and Compliance
  156. Socure and Aeropay Cut Onboarding to a Phone Number and Two Clicks
  157. Orion Adds BlackRock, Fidelity and Vanguard to Its Custom-Indexing Menu
  158. Alpaca Signs Indonesia Stock Exchange as It Chases Global Retail Investors
  159. FNZ Raises $450 Million From the Same Investors Who Already Own It
  160. Grupo Salinas Taps Integral Digital to Power New Crypto Trading Desk
  161. BitGo Links Institutional Wallets to Aptos-Powered Decibel Exchange
  162. ACI Worldwide Buys a UK Card-Switching Startup to Speed Up Its Own Cloud Rebuild
  163. Fiserv Data Shows Small Business Foot Traffic Falling for 10th Month
  164. SoFi Ties Its Banking Rails to Kraken’s Parent Company
  165. Checkout.com Becomes Global Payments Provider for Minor Hotels
  166. FIS Launches Embedded Banking Platform for Business Software
  167. Kraken Owner Payward and the London Stock Exchange Will Try Tokenizing the Biggest UK Stocks
  168. Revolut Clears OCC Hurdle for a US Bank Charter, Weeks After Wise and Bunq Got Rejected
  169. Visa Bets Its Featurespace Deal Can Slow Down Bank Transfer Fraud
  170. Principal Closes Beam Benefits Acquisition, Adding AI-Driven Insurtech to Its Book
  171. Orion Adds BlackRock, Fidelity and Vanguard to Its Tailored Allocation Portfolios
  172. Alpaca Signs Deal With Indonesia Stock Exchange to Open Cross-Border Trading Access
  173. Fintech Funding in H1 2026: Fewer Deals, Much Bigger Cheques
  174. Stablecoin Startup KAST Launches 24/7 Business Banking Platform After $80 Million Raise
  175. Visa Enhanced A2A Protect Brings Featurespace Fraud Detection to Bank-to-Bank Transfers
  176. Block Opens Cash App Score to Outside Lenders Through New Nova Credit Partnership
  177. Better Home & Finance Dealt Court Setback as Vishal Garg Proxy Fight Advances
  178. Alpaca Partners With Kalshi to Bring Prediction Markets to Its Global Brokerage Platform
  179. When AI Agents Start Spending Your Money: The New Rules of Machine-Led Payments
  180. The Hidden FX Tax on Small Exporters, and What Finally Removes It