Octane® (Octane Lending, Inc.), the fintech company unlocking the power of financial products for retailers and consumers, announced today that it has executed a $350 million forward-flow agreement with Nuveen, the global investment leader managing $1.4 trillion in public and private assets for clients including TIAA, its parent company, and one of the world’s largest institutional investors. Guggenheim Securities, LLC acted as sole structuring advisor and arranger on the transaction.

Treasury Prime today announced the launch of Prime Cash (Powered by Green Dot Network®), a solution that enables fintechs to let customers deposit cash at more than 90,000 retail locations nationwide, including Walmart, CVS, Walgreens and 7-Eleven, without requiring a branch visit.

Pivot, the AI operating system for procurement, today announced that it has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round, taking the total amount raised since the company’s founding in 2023 to $70 million. The oversubscribed round was led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital, with participation from Greyhound and procurement industry veterans, including the former Global VP Sales at Ariba and the founder of EcoVadis, as well as existing investors including Hedosophia, Visionaries Club, and Emblem.

Visa, a world leader in digital payments today announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Trip.com Group, marking a strategic collaboration to power richer travel experiences for Asia Pacific consumers. The MoU will harness Visa’s global payments network and Trip.com Group’s extensive ecosystem, enabling travellers to discover personalised recommendations, access offers for dream destinations and transact seamlessly on their journeys.

SimplyGo Pte. Ltd., the exclusive system integrator and acquirer for Singapore’s public transport ticketing and payments ecosystem, and Embed Financial Group Holdings Pte Ltd (“EFGH”) have entered into a Strategic Partnership Agreement to explore the co-development of an embedded micro-insurance platform within the SimplyGo app.

Caseware, the leading AI platform for assurance and financial reporting software, today announced the launch of Verity, a new AI frontier intelligence and orchestration layer that operates directly inside assurance and financial reporting engagements, alongside a suite of workflow-native AI agents designed to automate and accelerate work across the full engagement lifecycle.

After more than a decade of scaling together, marked by sustained growth in transaction volumes, international reach, and member base, Vinted has decided to extend its partnership with Mangopay as its payment service provider across Europe.

Natech Banking Solutions, Southern Europe's leading banking technology platform, today announced that BMW Financial Services in Greece is using Natech solutions to support regulatory compliance processes. The partnership brings Natech's flagship regulatory solutions, Bancapp and e-Pothen, to the local operations of BMW Financial Services in Greece, enabling automated compliance and streamlined access to verified customer financial data.

eflow, a leading provider of regulatory technology solutions, announces a strategic partnership with Iress. The partnership will bring together Iress’ award-winning trading technology and global market infrastructure with eflow’s advanced trade surveillance capabilities, helping financial market participants keep pace with trade transparency, market abuse and best execution compliance obligations.

Paystack, one of Africa's leading payments technology companies, today announced the launch of a new Dashboard rebuilt from the ground up for the first time in 10 years. The redesigned product introduces an AI-native Command Centre that allows businesses to ask questions in plain language and receive answers grounded in their own Paystack data.

Armalytix, the multi-award-winning intelligence firm delivering precision client information for AML, affordability, and more, has today launched Armalytix Complete Compliance Bundles. These new solutions give the ability for firms to combine bundles of digital ID, Source of Funds, AML, fraud and affordability checks into a single, structured journey that meet the specific needs of home movers at different stages of the process. Designed to reduce friction, these bundles will streamline processes and strengthen trust across the full property transaction chain.

Columbia Lloyds Insurance Company, a Houston-based regional insurer serving homeowners across Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, has selected ZestyAI's Risk and Decision Intelligence platform to sharpen underwriting accuracy, strengthen portfolio management, and improve visibility into property condition and risk exposure across its book of business.

Equifax® (NYSE: EFX), a global data, analytics, and technology company, and GBG (LSE: GBG), a global identity and location technology business, are expanding their global partnership into the United States and strengthening the power of their identity and fraud protection offerings globally. As part of this expanded relationship, Equifax Identity and Fraud solutions will be integrated into GBG’s adaptive identity platform, GBG Go. This will allow more businesses to leverage proprietary Equifax data to protect themselves from the rising cost of fraud – critical when synthetic identity fraud alone is expected to generate at least $23 billion in losses by 20301.

Bitget, the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has launched the “Gold Fast or Go Home Challenge,” a global campaign built around faster access to gold CFD trading on the Bitget app. The campaign follows Bitget’s recent product update that moved TradFi products, including gold, forex, commodities, and indices, to a first-level homepage tab, reducing the number of steps required to access these markets directly from the homepage.

Equifax, the global data, analytics and technology company, has launched Authorized Payment Protection in the UK, a purpose-built solution designed to help prevent Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud in real-time, before funds leave a customer’s account.