Category : Banking

Banking Investment Services News

Halo Fund leads $70M investment into AI-Native Private Banking Platform Flex to accelerate the launch of Flex Global

GlobeNewswire
by GlobeNewswire0
The pre-emptive $70 million equity funding comes just six months after the last round as Flex expands its AI-native private banking platform to 100+ countries on stablecoin rails, banking and moving owners’ money globally in minutes, not days. Flex today announced a $70 million Series B1, led by Ryan Smith and......
Digital Payments News

HoodDomains Launches .hood: The Identity Layer Turning Wallet Addresses Into Names, Agents, and Payment Rails on Robinhood Chain

GlobeNewswire
by GlobeNewswire0
One name now replaces the wallet address, the trader profile, and the AI agent — HoodDomains brings on-chain identity, x402 payments, and autonomous agents together under a single .hood domain.  HoodDomains, the naming protocol built for Robinhood Chain, has officially launched .hood domains  permanent, self-custodied on-chain identities designed to replace......
Digital Payments Finance News

Catalis Appoints Joost Rutten as Chief Financial Officer

EIN Presswire
by EIN Presswire0
Experienced Enterprise Software CFO to Guide Financial Strategy Catalis, a leading provider of SaaS and integrated payment solutions for government, today announced that Joost Rutten has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Joost’s experience and financial leadership will help Catalis build a strong foundation for continued growth, operational excellence,......
Digital Payments Fintech News

CSI Acquires Qolo to Strengthen and Expand its Commercial Banking and Embedded Finance Capabilities

Business Wire
by Business Wire0
Acquisition helps community banks, fintechs, and B2B payments providers deliver more modern financial experiences through enhanced deposits, payments, and card solutions. CSI, a leading provider of end-to-end financial software and technology, has acquired Qolo, a leading fintech provider of modern treasury solutions and payments infrastructure. The acquisition strengthens CSI’s commercial banking......
Digital Payments Finance News

Conta Azul Taps Oscilar to Manage Fraud Risk as Payments Business Scales

Business Wire
by Business Wire0
The cloud ERP provider will use Oscilar’s agentic risk platform to unify fraud prevention, onboarding, and case management as it expands into payments for Brazilian SMBs Oscilar, the agentic risk platform for financial institutions, announced a partnership with Conta Azul, part of Visma and one of Brazil’s leading cloud-based financial......
Artificial Intelligence Digital Payments News

Thredd Joins The Visa Agentic Ready Programme, Bringing Agent Network Readiness To Issuers Across Europe, Starting With Zilch

Business Wire
by Business Wire0
Thredd, the AI-first issuer processing platform, announced it has joined the Visa Agentic Ready programme, enabling issuers across Europe to participate in agent-initiated payments without rebuilding their payments infrastructure. Consumer payments platform Zilch will be among the first issuers on the platform to enable agent-initiated payments for its cardholders. Read More on......
Banking Finance News

Zelus Automation Platform and Woodforest National Bank Sign Agreement for SNAP Platform

PR Newswire
by PR Newswire0
Partnership brings Zelus’s SNAP automation platform to one of the nation’s largest community banks. Zelus Automation Platform and Woodforest National Bank announced an agreement for Zelus’s SNAP platform. The partnership will deliver next-generation automation capabilities across Woodforest’s retail banking operations, supporting the bank’s nearly 740 branches in 17 states nationwide.......
Digital Payments Finance News

Pittsburgh Steelers Select Priority Commerce for Ticketing Payments and Treasury Orchestration

Business Wire
by Business Wire0
Priority Commerce announced a new multi-year partnership with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Under the agreement, Priority Commerce was chosen to provide ticketing payment processing and deploy its Passport treasury orchestration solution to help the organization optimize payment costs, monitor daily transaction and interchange activity, and improve visibility into cash flow and......
Credit Bureaus Digital Payments News

Payfinia and Member Access Processing (MAP) Announce Strategic Partnership to Expand Embedded Payments for Credit Unions

Business Wire
by Business Wire0
~ Strategic alliance delivers instant payments, digital wallet services and embedded payment innovation to more than 100 credit unions nationwide ~ Payfinia, a Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO) delivering embedded instant payment and digital wallet services to credit unions, announced a strategic partnership with Member Access Processing (MAP), a CUSO and......
Digital Payments Fintech News

RS2 Financial Services GmbH Selected to Participate in ECB Digital Euro Pilot

Business Wire
by Business Wire0
German-regulated e-money institution will contribute acquiring expertise to practical testing of a possible future digital euro RS2 Financial Services GmbH, an electronic money institution supervised by BaFin and part of the RS2 Group, operating under its innovation brand Beyond by RS2, has been selected to participate as an acquiring payment......
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