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Open banking
Flutterwave acquires African open banking infrastructure firm Mono.
Credit score and analytics
Experian declares availability of its business information by way of its Ascend platform.
Investing and wealth administration
Common Alternate (UEX) Bitget opens its TradFi buying and selling suite to all customers.
Crypto and DeFi
Telcoin, a digital asset financial institution that simply gained last constitution approval from the Nebraska Division of Banking and Finance, launches its eUSD stablecoin.
Kast, a monetary platform constructed on stablecoin rails, expands world payouts to 11 new native currencies together with GBP, EUR, and CAD, in addition to a a number of currencies within the Asia Pacific area.
Insurtech
Zurich North America companions with modularized AI underwriting, information, and clever doc automation workbench firm Convr.
Insurance coverage dealer and threat administration agency M3 Insurance coverage turns to SimplePin to modernize its finance and accounting operations.
Agentic commerce
Fiserv and Mastercard lengthen their partnership to advance agentic commerce for retailers, leveraging Mastercard’s Agent Pay Acceptance Framework at scale.
Lending
India-based digital lender Knight Fintech raises $23.6 million in Collection A funding.
Digital banking
Egypt’s Financial institution NXT companions with IBM and encourage for Options Growth.
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