PPRO has collaborated with PayPal to enable 8.7 million Swish users to pay with their preferred payment method at thousands of online stores around the world

Sokin, the global business payments provider, has appointed Tom Steer as Chief Financial Officer

Finastra has launched OperatorAssist, an AI-powered solution that is available to add to its payment hub across the payments lifecycle

xStocks announced today the launch of xChange, a new onchain trading engine designed to power the seamless exchange of xStocks across Ethereum and Solana without relying on third-party intermediaries.

GradBridge, the fintech company focused exclusively on second-look private student lending, today announced the launch of its student lending program backed by Acorn Investment Partners, a portfolio company of funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management L.P. (“Oaktree”) and a sponsor-bank partnership with Hatch Bank. The fintech is now accepting applications for its private student loans program, offered through Hatch Bank, designed to help more students overcome financial barriers and continue their higher education. The launch follows the previously announced closing of a $20 million Series A funding round led by Acorn Investment Partners.

Hashgraph, an enterprise software firm building trusted distributed ledger solutions for regulated institutions, confirmed that HashSphere, its private, permissioned blockchain network built with Hedera technology, operated as part of the core infrastructure for Project Acacia.

BitGo Bank & Trust, N.A. (“BitGo Bank & Trust”), an OCC-regulated digital asset trust bank and subsidiary of BitGo Holdings, Inc. (“BitGo”) (NYSE: BTGO), today announces that they have been selected to provide stablecoin infrastructure services and support distribution for SoFiUSD, a U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by SoFi Bank, N.A. SoFiUSD is the first stablecoin issued by the U.S. nationally chartered and insured deposit bank on a public, permissionless blockchain.

Navan (NASDAQ: NAVN), the global AI-powered business travel and expense platform, today launched Expense Chat, a new AI agent designed to eliminate manual out-of-pocket expense submissions. The agent brings the ‘swipe and done’ simplicity of Navan’s corporate card transactions to the messiest part of the expense process: situations that require business travelers to manually submit transactions.

Standard Chartered has been appointed as the digital asset custodian and settlement agent for TP ICAP’s Fusion Digital Assets. This partnership will support the global markets infrastructure provider as it expands its matched principal trading activities.

Vivox AI, a UK-based technology company building regulator-ready, atomic AI agents for AML, KYB/KYC and financial crime, has raised £1.3 million ($1.6 million) in its first funding round to accelerate product development and scale its enterprise platform.

Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a world leader in transforming the way people bank and shop, today announced that Andy Zosel has joined the company as executive vice president, chief product and technology officer. In this newly created role, Zosel will lead the company's unified Product & Technology organization to bring together product management, engineering, R&D, software and hardware innovation across banking and retail to drive speed, consistency and long‑term growth.

YouLend, the leading global embedded financing platform for e-commerce, payment and technology platforms, today announces a multi-year financing partnership with Värde Partners, a global investment firm, to further expand its capital base in the United States. The financing is structured as a forward-flow agreement with potential for Värde to purchase up to $225 million in receivables originated by YouLend.

Addepar, a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence, today announced the launch of Addison, its new native AI experience embedded within the platform. The release marks a pivotal step in Addepar’s strategy to deploy native AI, intelligent agents, and intuitive workflows across the investment lifecycle, enabling clients to achieve new levels of operating leverage and deliver more consistent, trusted outcomes at scale.

iDenfy, a global RegTech company that specializes in identity verification and fraud prevention services, announced the AI Company Reviewer, its smart Know Your Business (KYB) automation tool that acts as a virtual Data Verification Officer by cross-referencing company documents, government registry reports, and fraud signals against custom, easily configurable rules, helpingto approve, deny, or flag companies more easily. This built-in feature helps reduce what once took compliance teams hours to check to a matter of seconds, making KYB compliance a less complex task in various regulated industries.

Carta, the world’s first fully interconnected system for private capital, today announced it has acquired ListAlpha, the AI-powered CRM and relationship intelligence platform. The acquisition marks the launch of Carta CRM, a major expansion of the Carta ERP that further unifies front-to-back office workflows for the private markets.