Elliptic’s Decode Agent Bets That Auditable Answers Beat Fast Ones
Elliptic Decode answers on-chain risk questions in seconds and returns the evidence. Elliptic also wrote the standard its own agent passes.
Marvin EvansSeptember 20, 2026
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ACI Worldwide Adds Financial Messaging to Connetic, Which Is the Boring Part That Matters
ACI Connetic gains cloud-native financial messaging for Swift and ISO 20022. Less a new front than a gap closed to defend payments hub deals.
Marvin EvansSeptember 20, 2026
Intuit Holds Guidance Flat at Investor Day and Lets the Mix Do the Talking
Intuit FY27 guidance holds at $23.3bn to $23.5bn. QuickBooks and Credit Karma carry the company while Mailchimp is guided flat to negative.
Marvin EvansSeptember 19, 2026
Better Pays Coinbase One Members Up to $10,000 to Take Out a HELOC
The Better Coinbase HELOC rebate pays 1% up to $10,000 as Better home equity volume hits 18% of originations. A costly bet on a good channel.
Marvin EvansSeptember 19, 2026
WisdomTree Sends a Tokenized Money Market Fund Through MoonPay’s Retail Pipes
The WisdomTree MoonPay deal opens WTGXX to 35 million accounts, but the stablecoin reserve arrangement is what will actually move assets.
Marvin EvansSeptember 19, 2026
Affirm Puts a Transformer Model Behind Its Checkout Underwriting
Affirm underwriting has moved to a transformer model, lifting completed purchases 3.4%. The explainability claim is the part worth watching.
Marvin EvansSeptember 19, 2026
Microsoft, Marvell and Utimaco Put Payment HSMs Behind a Managed Azure Service
Azure Payment HSM v2 is live in public preview from Microsoft, Marvell and Utimaco. Strong product, but banks will want a named reference first.
Marvin EvansSeptember 19, 2026
Icon Solutions and MongoDB Say Their Payments Stack Hits 6,000 TPS With No Data Loss
Icon's payments framework on MongoDB Atlas handled 6,000 instant payments a second with mean latency of 0.51 seconds. Citi, NatWest and BNP Paribas already run the framework in production.
Charitarth SindhuSeptember 18, 2026
Navan Taps Engine for Hotel Inventory and Booking Flexibility
Navan will use Engine's Omni API for wider hotel content and more flexible group bookings, extended stays and itinerary changes. The deal landed a day before Navan's second-quarter results.
Charitarth SindhuSeptember 18, 2026
Checkout.com Signs On for the Next Phase of Best Buy Marketplace Payments
Checkout.com will handle card acquiring plus pinless and debit routing as Best Buy expands third-party selling. It is a narrow announcement from a processor joining a growing marketplace.
Charitarth SindhuSeptember 18, 2026
Visa Wants to Turn Its Settlement Data Into Onchain Credit
With customer permission, lenders can underwrite stablecoin-linked card programs against real VisaNet settlement history. The aim is working capital based on payment flows that provably happened.
Charitarth SindhuSeptember 18, 2026
Fifth Third Moves 600,000 Comerica Accounts Over Labor Day Weekend
Fifth Third converted roughly 600,000 Comerica accounts and 293 banking centres onto its own platform over Labor Day weekend, completing an integration that began with the February merger.
Charitarth SindhuSeptember 18, 2026