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HL Hunt Financial sponsored this Company Spotlight on Business Credit Builder, a membership product that opens a business revolving account, restricts purchases to HL Hunt’s marketplace, and reports monthly payment history in Metro 2 format.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 15, 2026
The partnership combines Stifel’s venture-banking capabilities with Meow’s treasury platform, with the new banking product expected to debut in early 2027.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 15, 2026
The payments company said it will bring Parafin’s lending infrastructure into Stripe Capital, giving platforms a broader way to offer financing to merchants without a separate integration.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 15, 2026
HL Hunt Financial sponsored this Company Spotlight on HLX Trading, its waitlist-only AI brokerage concept with Sentinel, Momentum and Apex agents, advertised backtested returns up to 91.2%, and a prominent simulated-performance disclosure.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 14, 2026
The Bangkok-based financial-health platform says its Series A will support its Malaysian operation and regional on-demand pay services, alongside an expanded $10 million credit facility.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 14, 2026
The consortium-backed venture can now move toward issuing a euro-denominated electronic-money token under MiCA, but it has not launched the stablecoin and still needs to complete additional requirements.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 14, 2026
The conditional acquisition of an SEC-registered broker-dealer would give Plus500 a route to launch a U.S. trading super-app spanning stocks, options and ETFs alongside its existing futures and prediction-market products.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 13, 2026
Insight Partners led the Series B for the AI platform, which handles order management, credit, collections, payments, cash application and disputes for large enterprises.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 13, 2026
The startup says its platform maps autonomous-agent risks to frameworks including NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act, blocks unauthorized decisions and helps financial institutions insure residual exposure.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 13, 2026
The bank's DIFC branch will custody RLUSD on the XRP Ledger, while a planned collateral-mirroring integration with Ripple and LMAX remains subject to documentation, testing and approvals.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 12, 2026
The Bulgarian bank announced a partnership to bring Bitpanda's digital-asset services into its mobile-banking app, with the crypto service expected to go live in early 2027 — not today.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 12, 2026
The fintech will integrate Finia AI's machine-learning underwriting capabilities for Mexican micro-businesses and offer eligible Finia customers access to PayJoy products.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 12, 2026
HL Hunt Financial sponsored this Company Spotlight on AI Debt Collection, a platform that selects outreach channels, negotiates payment plans and reports a commission that declines from 26% to 3% as account volume grows.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 12, 2026
The fintech submitted applications to Nevada regulators and the FDIC for Upgrade Bank, a proposed wholly owned subsidiary that would bring its lending and payments products under a direct bank charter if approved.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 12, 2026
The Nigeria-focused digital financial platform filed to list American depositary shares on the New York Stock Exchange, while Stanbic Africa Holdings agreed to a private placement capped at 4.99% of OPay.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 12, 2026
HL Hunt Financial sponsored this Company Spotlight on Personal Credit Builder, a membership product that reports a revolving account monthly to Equifax, Experian and TransUnion while offering tiered limits from $1,000 to $10,000.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 11, 2026
The London- and Paris-based platform says it manages $2.7 billion in assets and will use the Series B to launch products and expand its tokenized cash infrastructure into additional European markets.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 11, 2026
The Berlin-based company will use the Series A extension to grow white-label lending and asset-finance products offered through software platforms to their business customers.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 11, 2026
HL Hunt Financial sponsored this Company Spotlight on its business-funding line, which offers merchant cash advances, invoice factoring, revolving credit and equipment financing through a single application, with advertised funding of $10,000 to $5 million.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 10, 2026
The San Jose-based fintech will use the new capital to expand Monibyte, its software for corporate card controls, payment management and automated fraud prevention, across Central and South American markets.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 10, 2026
The UAE payments company will combine its acquiring infrastructure with noon payments’ e-commerce gateway across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, subject to regulatory and antitrust approval.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 10, 2026
HL Hunt Financial sponsored this Company Spotlight on AI Payment Processing, its API-first payments product, which lists 0.8-second authorizations, same-day settlement, 150-plus payment methods and machine-learning fraud screening across more than 500 transaction signals.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 9, 2026
The new service uses GoCardless’s open-banking connections to reach more than 2,500 banks, giving Mollie merchants a direct-account payment option for one-off and recurring checkout flows.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 9, 2026
The acquisition brings Routable’s fiat-native payout distribution layer into Anchorage’s regulated stablecoin and tokenized-deposit infrastructure, with the combined platform aimed at corporate treasurers managing both kinds of money.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 9, 2026
SellFi’s pitch is that anyone can originate consumer financing without a bank. But seller-financing and retail-installment laws vary sharply by state, and the product page’s own numbers come with a notice that they are projections, not results from live customers.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 8, 2026
The capital markets infrastructure company closed a $120 million Series E at a $1.9 billion valuation, plus roughly $100 million in debt, to fund its all-cash acquisition of eSecLending — a deal still awaiting regulatory approval.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 8, 2026
The bank is migrating settlement for its debit and credit cards onto SoFiUSD, a stablecoin it issues itself, projecting more than $25 billion in annualized volume. Merchants will not notice anything — their money still lands in dollars.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 8, 2026
The South African digital-first bank's results for the six months ended Aug. 31 point to continued growth in its banking app base, up 18% year over year, as the lender credits digital adoption for the earnings increase.
By Nomvula Dlamini · Oct. 7, 2026
The deal combines Treezor's banking-as-a-service infrastructure — accounts, cards and payments — with Shares' investment and savings technology, forming a group the companies say will offer integrated financial infrastructure to European businesses and institutions. Treezor will keep operating under its own brand.
By Lukas Verbeek · Oct. 7, 2026
Change Catalyst Fund II, which has a $50 million target, provides non-dilutive growth capital to service-based small businesses generating $500,000 to $10 million in annual revenue, aiming to replace merchant cash advance debt with structured private credit.
By Camille Herrera · Oct. 7, 2026
Effective immediately, eligibility for UWM's Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, VA and USDA loans will be determined by automated underwriting system findings rather than a fixed credit score floor — though scores still factor into pricing.
By Daniel Oyelaran · Oct. 7, 2026
The AI-native RIA platform, which gives independent financial advisors a vertically integrated technology and operations stack without requiring them to give up ownership of their practices, says the round was oversubscribed and brings total funding past $200 million.
By Priya Nandakumar · Oct. 7, 2026
New York Life Investment Management arranged the facility and led alongside MetLife Investment Management and Equitable, with Pacific Life and Victory Park Capital joining as new partners, to fund fixed-rate installment loans for motorcycles, ATVs and outdoor power equipment.
By Marcus Reilly · Oct. 7, 2026
The deal, still subject to South Dakota regulatory approval, would merge Alto's self-directed IRA technology with Forge Trust's decades of custody experience, creating a combined platform the companies say will oversee more than $20 billion in assets across over 60,000 accounts.
By Priya Nair · Oct. 7, 2026
Allianz X and Rockefeller Capital Management co-led the Series D round for the managing general underwriter, which builds its own pricing and risk models for commercial specialty lines rather than relying on traditional carrier underwriting desks.
By Priya Nair · Oct. 7, 2026
The crypto-linked card company filed with the OCC to create Rain National Trust Bank, which would hold stablecoin reserves and provide digital-asset custody but would not accept deposits or carry FDIC insurance.
By Elena Vasquez · Oct. 7, 2026
First National Bank partnered with local exchange VALR to let customers buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana and USDT through its existing share-trading products, with a R10 minimum and no transfers to outside wallets.
By Thandiwe Okafor · Oct. 7, 2026
HL Hunt Financial sponsored this feature on its Business Credit Builder product, which has expanded from a single membership option to seven priced tiers — all of them restricted to spending inside HL Hunt's own marketplace.
By Staff · Oct. 7, 2026
HL Hunt's banking-as-a-service product has published tiered pricing and a feature set that looks like a finished business-banking app — corporate cards, same-day ACH, a yield-bearing reserve account — but the product itself remains unlaunched, open only to a waitlist.
By Sponsored Content · Oct. 6, 2026
Shinhan Bank, KB Kookmin Bank and several other South Korean financial institutions were breached in late September using a publicly available AI penetration-testing tool, though investigators say its open-source availability complicates attributing the attack to any specific actor.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 6, 2026
The bank has rebranded the unit it built from its 2023 acquisition of SVB's assets as First Citizens Innovation Banking, folding another legacy brand into its own name three years after the deal.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 6, 2026
HL Hunt's payment processor markets itself against Stripe and Square partly on a single differentiator — it won't freeze funds or terminate merchants the way it says legacy processors do. The claim is central to the pitch, and currently unverifiable either way.
By Sponsored Content · Oct. 5, 2026
The joint venture, OKXICE, notified the SEC it intends to use a temporary regulatory exemption to trade tokenized versions of more than 60 U.S.-listed stocks without registering as a traditional exchange — and at least one company has already objected.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 5, 2026
FILQ gives institutional and accredited investors 24/7 onchain access to yield-bearing government securities with near-instant settlement — but retail investors are locked out, and the underlying structure first launched quietly in Zurich back in May.
By MFN Staff · Oct. 5, 2026
HL Hunt's commission-based pricing undercuts traditional collection agencies at higher volume tiers, but the free and entry tiers that most new creditors would start on sit well above what many contingency agencies already charge.
By Sponsored Content · Oct. 4, 2026
The open-banking payments company said the equity commitments will fund new products that turn payment data into real-time financial intelligence, with the raise expected to close in November and other existing shareholders invited to join.
By Staff Reporter · Oct. 4, 2026
The Independent Community Bankers of America argues the agency exceeded its authority under the National Bank Act by chartering firms that perform largely non-fiduciary activities, and wants a March 2026 rule and a specific conditional approval vacated.
By Staff Reporter · Oct. 4, 2026
HL Hunt's AI-powered Metro 2 reporting tool converts loan data to bureau-ready files in under five seconds and checks it against 200-plus formatting rules. That validation step catches formatting errors — it does not confirm the underlying loan data being reported is itself accurate.
By Sponsored Content · Oct. 3, 2026
The planned platform would embed anti-money-laundering and investor-protection rules directly into Uniswap v4 liquidity pools, aiming for a mid-2027 launch while the group stays in ongoing talks with Japan's Financial Services Agency.
By Staff Reporter · Oct. 3, 2026
The cash flow management platform for product businesses said the facility, provided by an international financial institution and a New York-based asset manager, will let it serve larger customers and expand financing options beyond what traditional lenders typically offer.
By Staff Reporter · Oct. 3, 2026
HL Hunt's Business Funding line underwrites against real-time revenue and cash flow instead of personal credit scores, promising approval in as little as 24 to 48 hours across five product types. Speed and accessibility come with the same cost structure as the rest of the alternative-lending market.
By Sponsored Content · Oct. 2, 2026
The San Francisco startup, which builds simulated environments where AI models practice tasks like private equity due diligence, closed a Series A led by Oak HC/FT on October 1. The company says it is already profitable with a mid-eight-figure revenue run rate.
By Staff Reporter · Oct. 2, 2026
Roughrider Coin went live October 1 as the first transaction on Fiserv's Digital Asset Platform, built to move dollars between North Dakota community banks and credit unions on Solana, with VersaBank as issuer and custodian and Fireblocks providing the security layer.
By Staff Reporter · Oct. 2, 2026
HL Hunt Pay ships seven named AI agents — covering disputes, fraud, recovery, reconciliation, billing, insights, and support — plus a chat-based assistant. The dispute workflow is the most fully described; several others are described only in broad, unverified terms.
By Sponsored Content · Oct. 1, 2026
The partnership, announced Sept. 28, lets banks add USDC minting, redemption, and wallet-to-wallet transfers to Volante's existing AI-powered payments platform without standing up a separate digital-asset system.
By Market Finance News Staff · Oct. 1, 2026
Jeeves will use the equity round to expand its USDC and USDT wallet infrastructure, add accounts-receivable tools, and grow stablecoin corporate card coverage across the roughly 190 countries it operates in.
By Market Finance News Staff · Oct. 1, 2026
HL Hunt Financial's homepage leads with a $25,000 combined limit and "instant approval, no credit check" for its personal and business credit-builder tradelines. The number is a ceiling across two separate products, not a starting limit on either one.
By Sponsored Content · Sept. 30, 2026
The bank confirmed the branding for its forthcoming HKD-pegged stablecoin, which it plans to roll out through its PayMe and HSBC HK mobile apps for peer-to-peer payments, merchant transactions and tokenized investment subscriptions.
By Priya Nair · Sept. 30, 2026
The brokerage unveiled Robinhood Agents at its HOOD Summit, letting customers assemble AI agents inside the app to research markets, develop strategies and execute trades using models from either OpenAI or Anthropic.
By Danielle Osei · Sept. 30, 2026
Torsten Sløk argues that AI agents capable of automatically moving household cash out of low-yield checking accounts and into higher-yielding fintech accounts could drain the cheap deposits banks rely on to fund lending — a systemic risk he frames as forward-looking rather than active today.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 28, 2026
Prior coverage of HL Hunt Business Funding looked at its MCA and factoring mechanics and its funding estimator. Less examined is what "one application, every option" actually means — and what a merchant factoring in the real cost of a 1.24 factor rate would find.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 28, 2026
Sunwest Bank has assumed substantially all of the failed lender's deposits after the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation closed Nano Banc over inadequate capital and regulatory violations. Customers saw no interruption in access to their funds.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 28, 2026
Pete Cooling's new company doesn't issue currency, run a blockchain, or hold customer funds. It positions itself as routing and authorization plumbing that payment companies plug into instead of building themselves.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 27, 2026
Prior coverage of HL Hunt's AI payment processing product looked at its pricing, its dispute-handling agents, and its chat-based assistant. Less examined is the actual checkout mechanics: a hosted page, an embedded snippet, or a full custom build on the API — each shifting compliance responsibility differently.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 27, 2026
The new market on Aave V4 pools seven tokenized shares — including Apple, Amazon, Nvidia and Tesla equivalents — into a single USDC reserve. The stocks are collateral-only at launch and the feature is unavailable to U.S. users.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 27, 2026
An earlier look at Hunt Score covered the 1,000-data-point pitch behind HL Hunt's AI underwriting engine. The product page now includes a self-authored scorecard against bureau scoring and manual review, plus three pricing tiers where the jump from Starter to Enterprise cuts the per-assignment rate by more than half.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 26, 2026
The two proposed rules would require one-to-one reserve backing in cash and short-term Treasuries, plus a graduated operational-risk capital charge starting at 2% of outstanding stablecoins and stepping down as issuance scales. Regulators say issuers that fall short of the standards could face mandatory liquidation and redemption.
By Marcus Reilly · Sept. 26, 2026
The consortium — which also includes Bank of America and Deutsche Bank — plans to stand up a new, separately owned entity in the second half of 2026 and target a market launch for its dollar-backed stablecoin in the first half of 2027, with a euro-denominated version to follow.
By Priya Raghunathan · Sept. 26, 2026
HLX's marketing page pairs a self-custody slogan with a description of segregated, company-held accounts and a tiered pricing structure that charges for the AI signals the product is built around — a combination worth reading closely before joining the waitlist.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 25, 2026
Cathie Wood's ARK Invest is partnering with tokenization platform Securitize to issue blockchain-based representations of investor interests in the ARK Venture Fund, extending the growing push to bring private and semi-liquid fund structures on-chain.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 25, 2026
The bank-owned payments utility behind RTP and CHIPS has selected blockchain infrastructure firm Quant to power its On-Chain Money Initiative, aiming to let major U.S. banks clear and settle tokenized deposits across a shared network by the first half of 2027.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 25, 2026
Beyond the "be your own lender" framing covered when SellFi first appeared on this site, the platform's own product page details flat-fee tiered pricing, AI-generated legal contracts, and an optional handoff to HL Hunt's AI debt-collection product when buyers fall behind.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 24, 2026
The Great British Tokenised Deposit pilot moved blockchain-based commercial bank money between separate institutions for the first time, testing mortgage-related transfers and a simulated online marketplace payment.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 24, 2026
HIFI, which offers a single API for money movement, compliance and settlement across bank rails and stablecoins, says it now processes more than $7 billion in annualized volume and has recently worked with DTCC and Visa.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 24, 2026
Beyond its dashboard and API, HL Hunt Pay markets an "AI Assistant" that sends invoices, issues refunds and pulls revenue reports from plain-English chat commands — a genuinely different interface layer than the dispute agents or pricing table covered in HL Hunt's earlier product pages.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 23, 2026
The non-binding agreement commits the three companies to jointly study digital-asset distribution frameworks for the South Korean market, with no stablecoin, launch date, or investment figure announced yet.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 23, 2026
Absa Corporate and Investment Banking went live with a regulated custody service for digital assets on Sept. 21, built on Ripple's institutional custody technology, targeting corporate and institutional clients rather than retail traders.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 23, 2026
HL Hunt's payments page runs its own comparison chart against Stripe and Square on rate, settlement speed and account-shutdown policy — and while the line items are drawn straight from published pricing, a self-authored scorecard is a different thing than an independent one.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 22, 2026
Anchorage Digital Bank, N.A. has selected LayerZero's cross-chain messaging standard as the interoperability layer for stablecoins it issues, starting with Tether's USAT, with Western Union's USDPT, OSL Group's USDGO and Falcon Finance's fUSD expected to gain the same capability over time.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 22, 2026
ShredPay is now part of Jack Henry's Fintech Integration Network, letting Jack Henry-integrated banks connect to its stablecoin and digital-asset services through the jXchange and SymXchange APIs — though adoption is opt-in, not automatic, for the network's member institutions.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 22, 2026
The preliminary approval would let Agora issue dollar-backed stablecoins and offer custody, payment, settlement and fiduciary investment services under a single federal charter. Agora still has to clear capital, liquidity and governance conditions, and any stablecoin activity must conform to the GENIUS Act, before it can open for business.
By Marcus Reilly · Sept. 21, 2026
The company's own site frames early cancellation as a way to "erase the investment," walking through a month-by-month timeline that ties its highest advertised outcomes — a 90 to 100 Paydex score and access to prime lending — to members staying subscribed for the full twelve months.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 21, 2026
TOYOSA, Toyota's official distributor in Bolivia, added Bitcoin as a vehicle-purchase payment option at the Expocruz 2026 trade fair, using BitGo Bank & Trust for wallet infrastructure and Towerbank for transaction processing — an expansion of a program that began accepting USDT in 2025.
By Priya Raghunathan · Sept. 21, 2026
Beyond the SMS and email automation this publication reviewed for its compliance claims, HL Hunt's collection product includes an AI voice agent with metered monthly minutes and a payment-plan negotiator that surfaces a company-labeled "AI Pick" among the options it offers debtors.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 20, 2026
Bastion Platforms Trust Company would convert into Bastion Platforms National Trust Company, consolidating stablecoin issuance, custody and conversion services under one federal charter. The new bank cannot take deposits, isn't FDIC-insured, and still has to clear capital and liquidity conditions before it can open.
By Elena Furst · Sept. 20, 2026
Sony Bank and Fujitsu have run Anthropic's Claude and Claude Code on Amazon Bedrock across design, coding and testing of Sony Bank's core system since last September. The companies report a 30% cut in development time and a 40% cut in labor hours, with human engineers still reviewing the output.
By Kenji Watanabe · Sept. 20, 2026
The new PYUSDx platform, built with M0 and MoonPay, lets businesses configure and issue custom, branded tokens collateralized by PayPal USD — with MoonPay as legal issuer and Paxos still issuing the underlying PYUSD. Three launch partners have already processed more than $100 million combined.
By Dana Okonkwo · Sept. 19, 2026
The Chicago-based consumer lender has applied to the OCC and FDIC to charter Avant Bank, N.A., a move meant to cut its funding costs and replace state-by-state lending licenses with a single federal charter.
By Marcus Reilly · Sept. 19, 2026
HL Hunt's consumer tradeline product ties spending to its own marketplace and frames the full year as the point where score gains "compound" — with an average +142-point claim across all three bureaus. The company has not published independent verification of that figure.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 19, 2026
HL Hunt Business Funding's website now includes a slider-based estimator that turns a business's average monthly revenue into a projected advance size and repayment schedule, alongside a comparison table pitting the company's approval rate and funding speed against banks and online lenders.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 18, 2026
Alchemy's AgentCard now issues one-time-use, tokenized Mastercard credentials tied to a cardholder's existing account, part of a broader push by Mastercard to let AI agents complete purchases under spending limits and controls set by the card issuer.
By Priya Anand · Sept. 18, 2026
S&P Global agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, the smart-contract security firm whose open-source code libraries underpin much of the infrastructure behind major stablecoins and tokenized funds, as the ratings giant builds out risk-assessment tools for onchain markets.
By Marcus Reilly · Sept. 18, 2026
Beyond card processing, HL Hunt Pay ships with a set of task-specific AI agents the company says handle disputes, fraud monitoring, failed-payment recovery and invoice reminders automatically, alongside a chat-based assistant for running day-to-day payment operations.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 17, 2026
Oasis Pro Markets, a subsidiary of Ondo Finance, joined DTCC's Fund/SERV network, giving tokenized fund products a standardized connection into the infrastructure that already processes the bulk of U.S. mutual fund transactions.
By Marcus Reilly · Sept. 17, 2026
The bank said it will offer regulated custody for Bitcoin, Ether and select euro and dollar stablecoins to institutional and corporate clients, with the launch contingent on final approvals under the EU's MiCA framework.
By Priya Nataraj · Sept. 17, 2026
The banking-as-a-service offering routes checking and savings products through FDIC-insured partner banks, giving fintechs a white-label and API-level path into deposit accounts without holding a banking license themselves.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 16, 2026
The deal combines Relish's AI-driven vendor data validation and invoice processing with Eftsure's payment verification, aiming to catch supplier fraud and invalid bank details before money moves rather than after.
By Daniel Osei · Sept. 16, 2026
The New York-based startup, backed by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp's Expa and Coinbase Ventures, says it already routes cross-border payments across more than 40 currencies in over 30 countries.
By Priya Nair · Sept. 16, 2026
The processor-agnostic platform bundles interchange optimization, chargeback management, fraud prevention and 3D Secure routing into a single dashboard, alongside a dedicated WooCommerce plugin and integration with HL Hunt's broader business banking tools.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 15, 2026
The expanded collaboration will integrate Stripe's AI-driven payments tools directly into the bank's core operating systems, building on a relationship that already supports reconciliation for wealth subsidiary Davy, with a similar rollout planned for New Ireland Assurance.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 15, 2026
The pilot, running through December 2026, uses a shared ledger to orchestrate always-on cross-border transfers of tokenized deposits, with Citi, MUFG, DBS, HSBC and Standard Chartered among the participants that have already settled live transactions on it.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 15, 2026
The Series F round is led by Blue Pool Capital, the investment firm tied to Alibaba co-founder Joseph Tsai, with existing backers HSG, Wellington Management and Arbor Ventures also participating.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 14, 2026
The partnership lists SoFi’s bank-issued stablecoin on Kraken, adds Payward to SoFi’s settlement network for round-the-clock dollar clearing, and routes SoFi’s digital-asset order flow through Kraken Prime.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 14, 2026
The company says a third party used a legitimate government email domain to request account and identity records, and that customer funds and core systems were not compromised.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 14, 2026
The AI-powered tool converts raw loan data into Metro 2-formatted files for Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, checking each one against more than 200 validation rules before submission. Pricing starts at $99 a month for up to 500 tradelines.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 13, 2026
The partnership, announced Sept. 9, pairs BVNK’s stablecoin infrastructure with Marqeta’s card-issuing platform so businesses can let customers spend digital dollars anywhere Mastercard is accepted, without merchants changing anything on their end.
By Daniel Osei · Sept. 13, 2026
The payments company filed with the OCC on Sept. 8 to create Builders Bank & Trust, N.A., an uninsured national trust bank meant to replace the patchwork of more than 50 state money-transmitter and trust licenses it currently holds for custody and stablecoin settlement.
By Priya Anand · Sept. 13, 2026
The seller-financing platform lets anyone offer installment payments on high-value items and manage the resulting loan like a portfolio — no bank required. Its demo dashboard is live; the product itself is still waitlist-only.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 12, 2026
The West Virginia bank’s pilot with Velocity funds push-to-card payouts using stablecoin liquidity behind the scenes, with licensed partners handling the digital-asset conversion so the underlying Visa Direct workflow looks unchanged to the businesses using it.
By Marcus Reilly · Sept. 12, 2026
The money-movement platform plans to acquire Denver-based Transact Bank, rename it TabaBank, and fold it into a new holding company, giving TabaPay a chartered, FDIC-insured bank of its own rather than relying entirely on third-party sponsor banks.
By Priya Raghunathan · Sept. 12, 2026
HLX is still waitlist-only, but its marketing page already advertises three risk-tiered AI trading agents with backtested annual returns up to 91.2% — figures the company itself labels simulated, not a guarantee.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 11, 2026
The partnership plugs Coinbase’s payments API and custodial wallet technology into Moov’s existing infrastructure, letting small banks and credit unions offer stablecoin settlement without building their own crypto stack. Neither company has disclosed a rollout date or named pilot participants.
By Marcus Reilly · Sept. 11, 2026
The bank moved funds between its North American and European entities using its own dollar-backed token, USBDC, testing minting, redemption, freezing and clawback controls. There is no announced date for a client-facing product.
By Marcus Reilly · Sept. 11, 2026
Nu Global converts deposits into Circle’s USDC and EURC and advertises daily yields of 3.50% and 2.20% APY on those balances. Nu is operating in the U.S. through FDIC-insured partner Lead Bank while it pursues its own national charter.
By Priya Raghunathan · Sept. 11, 2026
The three payment giants are aligning their separate AI-agent protocols into a shared “Know-Your-Agent” framework, coordinated through a Singapore fintech initiative, as autonomous shopping bots start making purchases on behalf of consumers.
By Priya Raghunathan · Sept. 11, 2026
The virtual card lets eligible users spend a USDC balance anywhere Visa is accepted, built on infrastructure from Rain and Crossmint and settled on the Stellar network. A physical card is planned for later this year.
By Priya Raghunathan · Sept. 11, 2026
The exchange operator’s venture arm is putting money behind Payward as they build shared infrastructure for Nasdaq Equity Tokens, which the companies aim to launch in the second quarter of 2027. A reported $21 billion valuation for Payward has not been confirmed by either company.
By Marcus Reilly · Sept. 10, 2026
The product replaces call-center agents with an AI system that picks the channel, writes the message and negotiates payment plans, charging a commission that scales down from 26% to 3% with volume. Its headline recovery and compliance statistics are self-reported.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 10, 2026
A deal for the Singapore-based buy-now-pay-later platform could value the fintech unit of Advance Intelligence Group at more than $2 billion. Both companies have declined to comment, and no final agreement has been reached.
By Priya Raghunathan · Sept. 10, 2026
The Mexico City-based fintech, which reached unicorn status a year ago, says the new financing will fund its AI platform and expansion into the U.S. and other markets. The company has not specified whether the round is equity or debt.
By Priya Raghunathan · Sept. 9, 2026
The company now offers merchant cash advances, invoice factoring, lines of credit and equipment financing alongside its credit-builder and underwriting products. Its advertised 90%-plus approval rate and $250 million funded figure are self-reported and unaudited.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 9, 2026
The USDC issuer says absorbing Tazapay’s bank and fintech partner network across more than 100 markets will help make its stablecoin a default settlement rail for cross-border B2B payments. The deal is not expected to close until 2027, pending regulatory approval in Singapore.
By Marcus Reilly · Sept. 8, 2026
HL Hunt markets an API-first, cloud-native processor spanning card networks and ACH, with AI fraud screening built in. The company publishes integration details; it has not published independent benchmarks for the AI claims.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 2, 2026
The buy-now-pay-later lender reported $1.17 billion in revenue and $14.1 billion in gross merchandise volume for its fiscal fourth quarter, its most profitable to date, even as the CEO pointed to pressure on consumer wallets.
By Marcus Reilly · Sept. 2, 2026
The consumer neobank reported net income of about $28 million for the June quarter, its second consecutive period of GAAP profitability as it settles into life as a public company.
By Priya Raghunathan · Sept. 2, 2026
The buy-now-pay-later lender posted its second straight profitable quarter and raised full-year margin guidance, even as it signaled volume growth is moderating from the pace it ran through 2025.
By Marcus Reilly · Sept. 1, 2026
The product is built around a savings-secured installment loan reported monthly to the three major credit bureaus. HL Hunt publishes example score outcomes on its site; it has not published independent verification of them.
By MFN Staff · Sept. 1, 2026
The Brazilian fintech’s adjusted net income more than doubled from a year earlier and beat its own guidance, helped by credit portfolio growth and a tax incentive that will not repeat indefinitely.
By Priya Raghunathan · Sept. 1, 2026
The share of credit card balances at least 90 days past due rose again last quarter, concentrated among borrowers who took on debt during the low-rate years and are now paying it down at double-digit rates.
By Dana Okonkwo · Aug. 28, 2026
HL Hunt says the model scores risk in real time using bureau, transaction and business data, and markets it on fairness and explainability. The company has not published an independent audit of either claim.
By MFN Staff · Aug. 28, 2026
The Dubai company’s Series C, led by Japan’s SBI Group, funds an Arbitrum-based settlement layer it says already reaches more than 100 banking corridors.
By Priya Raghunathan · Aug. 24, 2026
The unemployment rate slipped to 4.1% even as employers cut positions, a combination driven by workers leaving the labor force rather than by strength in hiring.
By Dana Okonkwo · Aug. 24, 2026
Long-term Treasury yields, not the policy rate, are doing most of the work in markets — pushed around by the Treasury’s larger buybacks of longer-dated debt.
By Marcus Reilly · Aug. 24, 2026
SC Ventures and Sony Innovation Fund joined a strategic round that takes the Atlanta company past $120 million in equity, with Latin America and Asia-Pacific next.
By Marcus Reilly · Aug. 24, 2026
Three proposals issued in March would simplify risk-weighted assets for the largest banks. Finalization may not come until early 2027.
By Hollis Grant · Aug. 24, 2026
Non-accruals are rising and retail BDCs face liquidity strain across a $2 trillion-to-$3 trillion market. Whether that is a healthy reset or the start of something worse divides the people who own it.
By Priya Raghunathan · Aug. 24, 2026
The company opens a revolving account in a business’s name, restricts spending to its own marketplace, and reports the payment history to commercial bureaus in Metro 2 format.
By MFN Staff · Aug. 24, 2026
Prosperity closed on Stellar in July and HomeTrust agreed to buy Blue Ridge last week. The 2026 pattern is steady mid-market pairing rather than transformative megadeals.
By Edward Marsh · Aug. 24, 2026