September 4, 2026
FNZ equity raise number three in under two years landed on 1 September. The global wealth-management platform secured $450 million in new equity entirely from existing institutional shareholders: La Caisse, CPP Investments, Generation Investment Management and Motive Partners. No new investors joined. What the FNZ Equity Raise Delivers FNZ says the equity raise funds its
September 4, 2026
Block Nova Credit distribution begins now. Block is opening its proprietary Cash App Score to external lenders for the first time, routing it through Nova Credit so lenders can plug the score into underwriting workflows they already run. Customers need no new credentials, and consent lives in the Cash App Money Tab. What the Block
September 4, 2026
ACI Cranium acquisition terms went unpublished, but the strategic reason did not. ACI Worldwide agreed to buy Cranium Ventures, a privately held UK developer of cloud-native card payment switching, and will fold its SYNAP framework into ACI Connetic for Cards. The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026. What the ACI
September 3, 2026
LSE xStocks arrived as an announcement on 1 September, when Payward, the company behind Kraken, and the London Stock Exchange said they would bring the 100 largest London-listed companies onchain through Payward's tokenized equity framework. What the LSE xStocks Announcement Commits To LSE xStocks would be tokens backed 1:1 by an underlying share, designed to
September 3, 2026
Visa fraud prevention took a notable step on Tuesday with an enhanced version of A2A Protect, giving banks real-time risk signals on account-to-account transfers before money leaves a customer account. The headline feature is a unified fraud score that Visa calls its first in-market product built on Featurespace technology. What the Visa Fraud Prevention Launch
September 3, 2026
Beam Benefits acquisition paperwork is done. Principal Financial Group completed the purchase effective 1 September, taking ownership of Beam Technologies and its subsidiaries around eight weeks after announcing the agreement on 7 July. What the Beam Benefits Acquisition Brings The Beam Benefits acquisition brings a company serving more than 25,000 small businesses across 46 states
September 3, 2026
Alpaca Indonesia ambitions took a formal step on 1 September, when the brokerage infrastructure company signed an agreement with the Indonesia Stock Exchange at the IDX Main Hall in Jakarta. Yoshi Yokokawa, Alpaca co-founder and chief executive, signed alongside IDX President Director Jeffrey Hendrik. What the Alpaca Indonesia Agreement Really Commits To Read the Alpaca
September 2, 2026
KAST Business is the company's attempt to move stablecoin rails from personal spending into corporate treasury. The platform combines fiat virtual accounts, stablecoin and crypto deposits, virtual cards and payouts in more than 20 currencies across over 170 countries. What KAST Business Puts in One Account KAST Business holds fiat balances and stablecoin deposits side
September 2, 2026
Visa A2A Protect is where the Featurespace acquisition finally shows up in a product. Visa announced an enhanced version of its account-to-account fraud tool built around a new unified fraud score, described as the company's first in-market integration of Featurespace technology. What the Visa A2A Protect Upgrade Adds The Visa A2A Protect pitch is speed
September 2, 2026
Cash App Score is going on the market. Block announced on 1 September that it will open the proprietary credit signal it built from Cash App transaction data to external lenders for the first time, with Nova Credit distributing it through the Cash Flow Intelligence Platform. How the Cash App Score Deal Works Cash App
September 2, 2026
Better poison pill defences and the board that adopted them went before two courts in two states within days, and the outcome split. A federal judge in New York declined to block founder Vishal Garg from soliciting shareholder consents. Delaware's Court of Chancery, hearing Garg's own challenge, declined to suspend the rights plan or the
September 2, 2026
Alpaca Kalshi partnership terms went public on August 31, adding prediction markets to Alpaca's brokerage infrastructure through the exchange that built the category. The deal lets developers and financial platforms already running on Alpaca's API offer CFTC-regulated event contracts alongside the stocks, options, fixed income and crypto they support, without a separate account or vendor
