September 19, 2026
Azure Payment HSM v2 is live in public preview from Microsoft, Marvell and Utimaco. Strong product, but banks will want a named reference first.
September 18, 2026
Icon Solutions MongoDB benchmark results landed on Tuesday, September 8, 2026. The two companies said the Icon Payments Framework (IPF), running on MongoDB Atlas, processed 6,000 SEPA Instant-style payments per second end to end. Mean latency was 0.51 seconds, well inside the roughly 10-second window instant schemes typically allow. Banks including Citi, NatWest and BNP
September 18, 2026
Navan Engine partnership news arrived on Tuesday, September 8, 2026, a day before Navan's second-quarter earnings. Navan will plug Engine's travel and spend technology into its platform. The goal is broader hotel content and more flexibility for group bookings, extended stays and itinerary changes. The mechanism is Omni, Engine's partner-facing API for hotel search, availability,
September 18, 2026
Checkout.com Best Buy news landed on Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Checkout.com said it will support the next phase of Best Buy's Marketplace payments infrastructure as the retailer expands third-party selling on BestBuy.com and the Best Buy app. Specifically, it will handle card acquiring plus pinless and debit routing. That is essentially the whole announcement: a
September 18, 2026
Visa onchain lending took a concrete step on Tuesday, September 8, 2026. Visa said it will pair VisaNet settlement data with blockchain lending infrastructure so stablecoin-linked card programs and fintechs can raise working capital. With customer authorization, lenders can see real settlement history running through Visa's network. As a result, they can underwrite against payment
September 18, 2026
Fifth Third Comerica integration reached its biggest milestone on September 8, 2026. Fifth Third Bancorp said it had finished converting roughly 600,000 Comerica customer accounts and 293 banking centers onto its own technology platform. The work completes an integration that began when the two banks merged on February 1. The conversion covered Arizona, California, Florida,
September 17, 2026
Robinhood Crypto.com ties deepened on September 8, 2026. Robinhood began routing a slate of football prediction-market contracts to the CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse now held by OG.com, just ahead of NFL kickoff. Inside the Crypto.com app, that venue is branded Crypto.com Derivatives North America. Separately, OG.com runs it as a trader-focused app following its spin-off
September 17, 2026
Klarna StockX checkout went live in the U.S. and Canada on September 8, 2026. The launch extends a partnership already running in ten European markets and Australia into two of StockX's largest markets. The integration runs through Adyen. North American shoppers now get Klarna's interest-free Pay in 4 plan and longer-term financing for sneakers, apparel,
September 17, 2026
Stripe Link Muse checkout went live on September 8, 2026. Stripe announced that Meta has integrated Link's wallet for agents into Muse, Meta's new personal AI agent. As a result, US consumers can connect Link and let Muse buy from businesses across the internet. It is Stripe's clearest bet yet that agents, not humans, will
September 17, 2026
Block Builders Bank is the name behind a new federal filing. On September 8, 2026, Block applied to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to charter Builders Bank & Trust, N.A. The proposed national trust bank would hold bitcoin and stablecoins in custody under direct federal supervision. It would not take deposits
September 16, 2026
Chime Stride Bank news broke on September 8, 2026, when Chime Financial agreed to buy Stride Bank, N.A. for $590 million in cash. Stride, an Oklahoma national bank, has been Chime's bank partner for more than seven years. The deal runs through Stride's parent, Central Service Corporation. As a result, Chime's most important vendor relationship
September 16, 2026
Navan Q2 earnings landed after market close on September 9, 2026. Revenue rose 35% year over year to $233 million for the quarter ended July 31. Meanwhile, non-GAAP income from operations more than doubled to $17 million, and gross booking volume grew 45% to roughly $3.0 billion. The corporate travel and expense platform, which listed
