American Express today announces the introduction of Flexible Payment Option (FPO), a feature designed to offer businesses greater ability to manage and control their cashflow needs with an instant line of credit.

Kraken, one of the world’s longest-standing, most liquid and secure cryptocurrency platforms, today announced the availability of a bespoke yield solution, marking an important first step as Kraken Institutional expands access to professionally managed strategies within a secure, regulated framework.

Turnstile today launched its quote-to-cash platform for sales-led startups with $29 million in funding from First Round, OMERS Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and a number of prominent angel investors.

WealthReach, a prospecting and intent data platform purpose-built for registered investment advisors (RIAs) and wealth management firms, today announced the launch of InsuranceReach, a new lead generation solution for insurance professionals that proactively identifies ready-to-engage prospects. Designed for insurance professionals, including life and property & casualty (P&C) agents, producers, independent marketing organizations (IMOs) and field marketing organizations (FMOs), InsuranceReach helps teams uncover and engage prospects who are actively researching insurance solutions to reduce time spent chasing unqualified leads and drive new business.

BlackRock Aladdin has integrated Preqin’s extensive data and technology into its eFront® platform for private markets investors, creating a comprehensive, data-driven private asset management technology solution. In eFront, institutional clients can now manage their full investment lifecycle in one place, with detailed market context via Preqin data. The integration accelerates the firm’s strategy to unite investments, technology and proprietary data within one platform, increasing transparency and data-based insight for clients as they expand allocations to private markets.

Trading and investing platform eToro has partnered with Amundi, Europe’s leading asset manager, to unveil an investment portfolio that positions to capture opportunities in transformative megatrends set to shape the world over the long term, while maintaining broad exposure to global markets.

ZestyAI, the Risk and Decision Intelligence Platform for the insurance industry, today announced that Logic Underwriters has adopted ZestyAI’s Z-PROPERTY™, Z-HAIL™, and Z-WIND™solutions to improve underwriting and rating precision across its personal and commercial property portfolio in Texas.

Cytora, the digital risk processing platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Altitude Intelligence, a provider of specialized intelligence-as-a-service capabilities. This collaboration integrates Altitude Intelligence’s advanced geospatial (GEOINT) and multi-source fusion data directly into the Cytora platform, allowing commercial insurers to automatically enrich submissions with granular climate and location-based insights at the point of underwriting.

Qureos, an AI driven hiring platform founded in the Middle East, has closed a $5 […]

Fingerprint, a leader in device intelligence for fraud prevention, today announced the launch of Authorized AI Agent Detection, its new ecosystem of AI agents, including OpenAI, AWS AgentCore, Browserbase, Manus and Anchor Browser. The ecosystem enables enterprises to detect authorized agentic AI traffic with 100% certainty, allowing organizations to distinguish trusted, permissioned automation from malicious bots and scrapers. With the launch of Authorized AI Agent Detection, Fingerprint now detects the highest number of AI agents on the market.

Noah, the financial infrastructure company, has partnered with Sumsub, a global leader in identity verification and fraud prevention, to bring faster, borderless and scalable onboarding to thousands of financial firms worldwide.

In the countdown to this Sunday’s Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California, 51% of fans who’ll follow the football game in U.S. states and Canadian provinces with regulated sports-betting plan to bet online, according to research issued today by leading payments platform Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE). The company’s All the Ways Players Pay: Super Bowl report also indicates strong interest in legal betting from fans in this year’s host state, if California were to regulate sports-betting, as well as in Texas and Canada’s Alberta.

BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) has officially joined Qivalis, a consortium of leading European banks working to establish a MiCAR-compliant euro-stablecoin issuer, currently progressing towards authorisation by the Dutch Central Bank (DNB). The consortium now comprises twelve European banks: Banca Sella, BBVA, BNP Paribas, CaixaBank, Danske Bank, DekaBank, DZ BANK, ING, KBC, Raiffeisen Bank International, SEB, and UniCredit.

HuLoop Automation, a leader in AI-powered work optimization for financial institutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Ceto, a leader in providing data-driven insights and actionable intelligence for financial institutions. This partnership will combine HuLoop’s Unified Work Optimization platform with Ceto’s intelligence solutions and expert consulting capabilities to help financial institutions enhance operational efficiency, streamline execution and unlock actionable insights for growth.

The Republic of South Africa has today officially acceded to the Establishment Agreement of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Africa’s leading Multilateral Financial Institution, marking the formal entry of one of Africa’s largest economies into the Bank’s membership, heralding deeper financial sovereignty.