September 10, 2026
Klarna engagement ring financing is now live at one of retail's highest-ticket categories. The buy now, pay later company announced a partnership with Rare Carat, one of the largest online diamond and ring retailers in the US. Shoppers can pay in full or split the cost interest-free over four payments. Beyond that, they can finance
September 10, 2026
Vision Bank trade finance has a distribution model before it has a branch network. The Abu Dhabi Global Market lender has launched a Shariah-compliant financing line for small and mid-size exporters. It is the only homegrown Category 1 Islamic bank licensed by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority. It targets short-term trade finance and cross-border working
September 9, 2026
POSaBIT cannabis payments infrastructure just got cheaper to finance. The company has refinanced its $4.75 million loan with Perga Capital Partners LP. It will repay $2 million of principal over the next 18 months, push maturity from March 2028 to March 2030, and cut the interest rate from 12% to 10% immediately, with a further
September 9, 2026
Accrual Puzzle acquisition terms were not disclosed, and the deal has not closed yet. Accrual, the AI-native tax and accounting platform that launched in February 2026 with $75 million led by General Catalyst, has agreed to acquire Puzzle's accounting-firm technology and business. Completion is expected in the coming weeks, subject to customary conditions. The Accrual
September 9, 2026
AI travel payments have a permission problem. Alipay+ and S&P Global surveyed 6,000 consumers across nine markets in Asia, Europe and the US. They found a wide AI travel payments gap between how much travelers use AI to plan a trip and how far they will let it go. Inside the AI travel payments survey
September 9, 2026
White Clay incentive management is coming downmarket. The Louisville-based maker of relationship-profitability software for banks and credit unions said Tuesday it is extending the tool to community financial institutions for the first time. So the White Clay incentive engine can now automate staff plans at smaller institutions around five profitability measures. Those are relationship profitability,
September 9, 2026
MyVest fixed income tooling just caught up with the rest of its platform. The San Francisco wealthtech firm has been an independent subsidiary of TIAA since 2016. In an update on Tuesday, it expanded the fixed income capabilities inside its Strategic Portfolio System. Three MyVest fixed income capabilities arrived together. Those are security-level bond order
September 8, 2026
Lumin Digital merger work now has a brand name. The digital banking platform markets itself as a growth platform for banks and credit unions. Now it has launched a formal framework for handling technology through mergers and acquisitions. It calls the product the M&A Readiness Advantage. Moreover it claims the framework is the first end-to-end
September 8, 2026
Delfi CUSO has a third credit union investor. Delfi is a New York startup selling AI-driven balance-sheet management tools to banks and credit unions. Now Members 1st Federal Credit Union has taken a strategic stake in its credit union service organization. The Enola, Pennsylvania-based credit union has more than 630,000 members and $8 billion in
September 8, 2026
Citi Swift ledger transactions went live on September 2, making Citi the first U.S. bank to move client money across the network's new blockchain infrastructure. The payments ran in U.S. dollars alongside First Abu Dhabi Bank and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation. Those were the first ledger transactions from the Middle East and Southeast Asia respectively. Inside
September 8, 2026
Fintech bank charter rejections just got a second high-profile example: the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency rejected bunq's application for a US national bank charter on August 7, citing gaps in capital planning, credit risk modeling, management experience, profitability assumptions and familiarity with US banking rules. It is the second high-profile fintech charter
September 8, 2026
OpenPayd money transmitter coverage went from nothing to most of the United States in a single transaction. The London-based embedded finance provider is folding MSB USA Inc. into its group, and the regulatory approvals needed to close that integration are now finalized. Consequently, 43 state Money Transmitter Licenses sit under the OpenPayd umbrella without a
