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Charitarth Sindhu

Chief Operating Officer, Fintechbits

Charitarth Sindhu holds an MBA from Amity University and a professional certificate in applied corporate finance from the University of Cambridge, which shape how he reads company financials, funding and unit economics. He is Chief Operating Officer at FintechBits, where he oversees editorial operations and writes on fintech, payments and financial technology, with more than 600 articles published this year. Earlier, he spent four years in enterprise partnerships at Gramener, working on government and public sector accounts with Microsoft. He is based in Tokyo.

Lending

Block Opens Cash App Credit Score to Outside Lenders

Outside lenders can now use the Cash App Score, built from paycheck and spending signals, through Nova Credit with customer consent managed in the Cash App Money tab.

September 4, 2026

Fintech

ACI Worldwide Buys a UK Card-Switching Startup to Speed Up Its Own Cloud Rebuild

ACI is buying UK card-switching developer Cranium Ventures and will fold its SYNAP framework into ACI Connetic for Cards. The deal should close in the third quarter.

September 4, 2026

Fintech

Kraken Owner Payward and the London Stock Exchange Will Try Tokenizing the Biggest UK Stocks

Payward and the London Stock Exchange plan tokens backed one for one by shares in the 100 largest London-listed companies, able to move between platforms and self-custody wallets.

September 3, 2026

Payments

Visa Bets Its Featurespace Deal Can Slow Down Bank Transfer Fraud

Visa's upgraded A2A Protect gives banks a real-time fraud score on account-to-account transfers before money leaves, its first in-market product built on Featurespace technology.

September 3, 2026

Fintech

Principal Closes Beam Benefits Acquisition, Adding AI-Driven Insurtech to Its Book

Principal now owns Beam Technologies, which sells dental, vision, life and disability cover to more than 25,000 small businesses across 46 states. The deal closed about eight weeks after signing.

September 3, 2026

Wealthtech

Orion Adds BlackRock, Fidelity and Vanguard to Its Tailored Allocation Portfolios

BlackRock, Fidelity and Vanguard now sit alongside five other strategists in Orion's program, which pairs third-party model portfolios with custom indexing.

September 3, 2026

Wealthtech

Alpaca Signs Deal With Indonesia Stock Exchange to Open Cross-Border Trading Access

Alpaca and IDX have agreed to explore cross-border trading access, which commits both sides to less than the headlines suggested.

September 3, 2026

Stablecoins

Stablecoin Startup KAST Launches 24/7 Business Banking Platform After $80 Million Raise

KAST Business puts fiat accounts, stablecoin deposits, cards and payouts in more than 20 currencies on one platform, aiming to move stablecoins into corporate treasury.

September 2, 2026

Fraud and Identity

Visa Enhanced A2A Protect Brings Featurespace Fraud Detection to Bank-to-Bank Transfers

Visa's new unified fraud score uses transfer learning so banks get usable risk signals on bank-to-bank transfers without waiting months to train on their own data.

September 2, 2026

Lending

Block Opens Cash App Score to Outside Lenders Through New Nova Credit Partnership

Block will sell the Cash App Score, built from spending, saving, repayment and paycheck data, to outside lenders through Nova Credit's cash flow platform.

September 2, 2026

Fintech

Better Home & Finance Dealt Court Setback as Vishal Garg Proxy Fight Advances

A New York federal judge let Vishal Garg keep soliciting consents, while Delaware's Chancery Court left Better's poison pill and special committee in place. Both sides keep fighting.

September 2, 2026

Wealthtech

Alpaca Partners With Kalshi to Bring Prediction Markets to Its Global Brokerage Platform

Developers building on Alpaca's API can now offer Kalshi's CFTC-regulated event contracts alongside stocks, options and crypto without a separate account or vendor.

September 2, 2026