
BitGo's institutional self-custody wallets can now trade on Decibel, a spot and perpetuals exchange on Aptos, through WalletConnect while assets stay in BitGo-linked wallets.
Marvin Evans·September 4, 2026

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.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 4, 2026

Fiserv's index held at 145 in August with sales up 1.3% year on year, while foot traffic fell for a tenth straight month across roughly 2 million small businesses.
Marvin Evans·September 4, 2026

Payward, Kraken's parent, will join the SoFi Exchange Network for round-the-clock institutional USD clearing and settlement, linking a US bank's rails to a major crypto exchange.
Marvin Evans·September 4, 2026

Checkout.com becomes global acquirer for Minor Hotels, which runs more than 640 hotels in 67 countries, as the group consolidates payments across its resort properties.
Marvin Evans·September 4, 2026

FIS's platform lets banks, not fintech middlemen, put accounts, cards, receivables, payables and expense tools inside the business software their customers already use.
Marvin Evans·September 4, 2026

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.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 3, 2026

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.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 3, 2026

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.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 3, 2026

BlackRock, Fidelity and Vanguard now sit alongside five other strategists in Orion's program, which pairs third-party model portfolios with custom indexing.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 3, 2026

Alpaca and IDX have agreed to explore cross-border trading access, which commits both sides to less than the headlines suggested.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 3, 2026

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.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 2, 2026