August 26, 2026
Flagright Nacha Preferred Partner status was announced on Monday, August 24, from Reston, Virginia. Worth noting who issued it. Nacha put out the release from its own headquarters with its own media contact, so this is the network naming a vendor rather than the vendor announcing a win. The Flagright Nacha designation covers ACH compliance,
August 26, 2026
Fourthline QTSP status arrived on Monday, August 24. Fourthline Trust Services AB, the Swedish subsidiary, now appears on the EU Trusted List as a Qualified Trust Service Provider under eIDAS. Sweden's Post and Telecom Authority supervises it. The practical effect is narrower than the regulatory language and more useful than it sounds. As a qualified
August 25, 2026
Alfa Prime launched on Monday, August 24, announced from New York and Toronto. Boosted.ai describes it as a multi-model AI investment committee. Three pieces make it up: large-scale signal monitoring, purpose-built research agents, and structured debate between independent AI models. The workflow runs in sequence. The system monitors millions of market, fundamental and research signals.
August 25, 2026
Fasset Series C funding closed at $68 million on Monday, August 24, led by Japan's SBI Group at a $1 billion valuation. The announcement came from Los Angeles. It arrives three months after a $51 million Series B. That takes 2026 fundraising to $119 million and puts the company into the fintech unicorn column. The
August 25, 2026
Invoice factoring keeps getting written off as a relic of pre-fintech finance. Yet the numbers refuse to cooperate with that story. Global factoring turnover hit a record EUR 4.039 trillion in 2025, up 3.7 percent on the year, according to FCI. Meanwhile, the narrow band of US specialist firms has been shrinking for five years
August 24, 2026
AI in accounts receivable has moved well past the pilot stage at thousands of finance teams. Cash application, dunning sequences, credit scoring, collections triage. Every one of those functions now carries a vendor promise attached to it. So we asked three industry leaders a blunt question. Where does AI in accounts receivable genuinely earn its
August 22, 2026
By Vignesh Coumarane Agentic payments arrived in 2026, and artificial intelligence quietly crossed a critical line. It stopped just talking about money and started moving it. Almost overnight, the agentic payments infrastructure letting machines spend on our behalf went from experimental tech demos to active production. Stripe and OpenAI launched an agentic checkout protocol allowing
August 22, 2026
Swift retail transfers went live at two major US banks on August 5, announced from New York. Here Bank of America and J.P. Morgan rank among the first institutions globally to adopt the framework. Swift positions it as a new standard for international retail transfers. Three benefits define Swift retail transfers. The full amount arrives
August 22, 2026
Regen betting savings gained an investing layer on August 5, announced from Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. FusionIQ, a cloud-native digital wealth technology provider, partnered with its affiliated registered investment advisor IQvestment and with Regen. Together they call it a first-of-its-kind embedded wealth platform built into sports gaming. The stack is clean enough. FusionIQ supplies infrastructure, while
August 22, 2026
Agibank subscription bank ambitions took concrete form on Wednesday, August 5, with the launch of Agi+ from São Paulo. The product extends the customer relationship beyond credit and transactions into recurring services built around daily needs. Agibank is a subsidiary of Agi Inc, which trades on the NYSE as AGBK. Agi reported second-quarter results the
August 21, 2026
False declines are the target of a new partnership between Riskified, the ecommerce fraud and risk intelligence company, and Marqeta, the modern card issuing platform. The two announced on 5 August that card issuers on the Marqeta platform will gain access to Riskified pre-authorization risk intelligence. Nothing flashy attaches to this one. No funding round,
August 21, 2026
Lithic Lightspark card settlement now runs on USDC rather than traditional fiat rails, and the mechanics matter more than the scale of the announcement. Lithic, the card issuing and processing platform, and Lightspark, the payments infrastructure company led by former PayPal president David Marcus, announced a partnership to power Lightspark's card program on the Visa
