dLocal, the leading payment platform connecting global merchants to emerging markets, has announced a new strategic partnership with Convera, a global leader in commercial payments. With this partnership, dLocal and Convera will streamline and scale its local payout capabilities in key emerging markets starting with Colombia and expanding across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Viamericas, a leading provider of remittance and international money transfer services,has announced its 20th annual fundraising campaign in support of its charitable organization, Viamistad. The campaign is a joint effort with partner Grupo Financiero G&T Continental (Banco G&T Continental), the third largest financial organization in Guatemala.

Xceptor, a global leader in data automation for capital markets, today announced significant AI-powered enhancements to its solution delivery operations, designed to speed up deployment and minimise associated risk. The new capabilities include an enhanced upgrade toolkit for on-premises environments and ai-exceptions-bot, an AI agent for SaaS updates within the Xceptor Data Automation Platform. By streamlining solution delivery, Xceptor enables financial institutions to access innovation and reduce technical debt faster, while strengthening operational resilience, agility, and compliance across the trade lifecycle.

Tetra Digital Group, parent company of Tetra Unity and Tetra Trust, Canada’s first fully regulated digital asset custodian, today announced that CAD Digital successfully conducted a series of test transactions within its testnet environment for its fiat backed token, CADD. This marks a major step toward CADD’s expected Q1 2026 launch and demonstrates real-world progress in building a safe, compliant, and fully transparent form of digital money for Canadians that can be utilized for payments and transactions.

Diebold Nixdorf (NYSE: DBD), a world leader in transforming the way people bank and shop, and Autogrill, part of Avolta and the world's leading provider of food and beverage services for travelers, have expanded their partnership in Italy. Acting as a single point of contact for Autogrill's entire multivendor IT ecosystem in the country, Diebold Nixdorf will provide a powerful suite of managed services and new, flexible retail technology solutions, strengthening Autogrill's commitment to keeping the traveler at the center when creating outstanding restaurant experiences.

Sequence today announced a $20M Series A led by 645 Ventures, alongside a16z, Firstminute Capital, Passion Capital, Dig Ventures and Vor Capital. A group of world class founders and execs including the CFOs at Decagon, Klaviyo and Wise also joined the round. The new financing comes after a year of 10x ARR growth, driven by mid-market and enterprise companies like Cognition, Legora, Bridge, 11x, and Incident.io choosing Sequence to automate revenue operations. Sequence has raised $40M to date and will use the new capital to accelerate investment on their agent roadmap to eliminate manual finance work, expanding both the engineering and go to market teams.

Versana today announced that banking executive George Nunn has joined the company as its Chief Operating Officer, succeeding founding COO Bruce Manson. As planned, Manson will retire at year-end following a distinguished 35-year career in fixed income trading and across various data and technology businesses.

EDX Markets, a leading digital asset technology firm that combines an institutional-only trading venue with a central clearinghouse, today announced a strategic partnership with the Canton Network, the public, permissionless blockchain purpose-built for institutional finance. Both EDX and the Canton Network are backed and leveraged by leading blue-chip institutions in traditional finance.

Kpler, a global trade intelligence technology company that helps markets operate with greater transparency, today announced the acquisition of Bridgeton Research Group LLC, a company known for providing predictive insights into the behavior of Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) and systematic investment strategies across global commodities and financial markets.

MANTL, an Alkami solution team and a leading provider of loan and deposit account opening technology, today announced a strategic partnership with Method Financial (Method), a provider of consumer permissioned financial connectivity. Through this partnership, Method’s real-time liability data will be integrated directly into the MANTL Loan Origination platform, empowering financial institutions to streamline decisioning, improve prequalification accuracy, and deliver a faster, more transparent refinancing and debt consolidation experience across their physical and digital banking channels.

Open Banking Expo has announced the first set of trailblazers joining the speaker line-up at Open Banking Expo Canada on March 5, 2026, and confirmed that Symcor will return as headline partner for the second consecutive year.

Thunes today announces the promotion of Chloé Mayenobe to the role of Deputy Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Stripe has introduced the Agentic Commerce Suite, a new solution to help businesses get ready to sell through multiple AI agents

StashAway is offering UAE-based HNWIs greater opportunities to build long-term wealth through private markets

American Express surveyed 2,000 consumers and found that almost half (49%) say enhanced security would be the strongest incentive to use Open Banking payments.