August 22, 2026
Bank of America and JPMorgan are among the first banks on Swift's retail transfer framework, which promises the full amount arrives and fees and rates are shown up front.
August 22, 2026
FusionIQ and its affiliated adviser IQvestment are putting an investing layer inside Regen's sports gaming app, an embedded wealth idea that raises obvious questions about the audience.
August 22, 2026
Agibank's Agi+ subscription plans add recurring everyday services to its credit and transaction relationship with customers. Parent Agi Inc trades on the NYSE and reported results the same day.
August 21, 2026
Card issuers on Marqeta can now use Riskified's pre-authorisation risk intelligence to cut false declines, a quiet partnership aimed at an expensive problem.
August 21, 2026
Lightspark's Visa card program, issued through Lead Bank on Lithic's platform, settles in USDC instead of fiat. The mechanics matter more than the scale.
August 21, 2026
SC Ventures, Standard Chartered's investment arm, joined Sony Innovation Fund, Polychain and Blockchain Capital in Yellow Card's $40 million round for African stablecoin infrastructure.
August 20, 2026
SoFi's three new funds with CAZ Investments and AngelList may hold companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Anduril, and are sold to its 13.7 million members through SoFi Securities.
August 20, 2026
Corpay posted record cash EPS of $7.00 on revenue up 21% to $1.34 billion, and on the same day agreed to sell its UK fleet business epyx and two sister companies.
August 20, 2026
Block's consumer lending originations rose 59% to $18.9 billion in the second quarter, and Financial Solutions gross profit climbed about 43%. Lending, not bitcoin, is now the growth engine.
August 20, 2026
Circle's revenue and reserve income rose 7% to $701 million, short of forecasts. A $530 million swing in net income mostly reflects lower stock-based compensation.
August 20, 2026
Chime's revenue rose 27% to $670 million for a second straight profitable quarter, and chief financial officer Matthew Newcomb stepped down two days later.
August 19, 2026
Payward, Kraken's parent, has joined Anthropic's Project Glasswing and will use a restricted Claude model to find and fix vulnerabilities in its own code. Deployment has not started yet.
