Financialtechnology

September 4, 2026

Checkout.com becomes global acquirer for Minor Hotels, which runs more than 640 hotels in 67 countries, as the group consolidates payments across its resort properties.

September 4, 2026

FIS's platform lets banks, not fintech middlemen, put accounts, cards, receivables, payables and expense tools inside the business software their customers already use.

September 3, 2026

Payward and the London Stock Exchange plan tokens backed one for one by shares in the 100 largest London-listed companies, able to move between platforms and self-custody wallets.

September 3, 2026

Visa's upgraded A2A Protect gives banks a real-time fraud score on account-to-account transfers before money leaves, its first in-market product built on Featurespace technology.

September 3, 2026

Principal now owns Beam Technologies, which sells dental, vision, life and disability cover to more than 25,000 small businesses across 46 states. The deal closed about eight weeks after signing.

September 3, 2026

Alpaca and IDX have agreed to explore cross-border trading access, which commits both sides to less than the headlines suggested.

September 2, 2026

KAST Business puts fiat accounts, stablecoin deposits, cards and payouts in more than 20 currencies on one platform, aiming to move stablecoins into corporate treasury.

September 2, 2026

Visa's new unified fraud score uses transfer learning so banks get usable risk signals on bank-to-bank transfers without waiting months to train on their own data.

September 2, 2026

Block will sell the Cash App Score, built from spending, saving, repayment and paycheck data, to outside lenders through Nova Credit's cash flow platform.

September 2, 2026

Developers building on Alpaca's API can now offer Kalshi's CFTC-regulated event contracts alongside stocks, options and crypto without a separate account or vendor.

September 1, 2026

Master Joe Phillips argues that AI agents spending money will do exactly what they are told, which is the problem. The fix is writing down what you actually want.

September 1, 2026

Jett Fu of Aetheri found a bank kept $193 of $23,500 in currency transfers that showed zero fees, a spread of 81 to 84 basis points hidden in the rate.