Partnerships

Partnerships
Skyfire and Forter Team to Strengthen Agentic Commerce Decisioning
October 19, 2026

Skyfire, a financial stack for agentic commerce, has announced a partnership with fraud prevention company Forter. The integration expands on Forter’s fraud management for agentic commerce capabilities, which now uses Skyfire’s know your agent (KYA) protocol data to enhance decisioning on agentic purchases, the companies...

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Meta and Apple Bring Open-Weight Frontier Model to Desktops
October 15, 2026

Meta has introduced an open-weight model that can run on a user’s desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework, Meta said in a Thursday (Oct. 15) press release. The model, Muse Spark Open, is “the most capable U.S. open-weight model to date,” Meta said in the...

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Mastercard and BVNK Unite Fiat and Stablecoins in Global Money Platform
October 15, 2026

Mastercard and stablecoin-powered financial stack BVNK have launched a platform that brings together fiat and stablecoin capabilities to make it easier to move and manage any form of money, Mastercard said in a Thursday (Oct. 15) press release emailed to PYMNTS. The new Mastercard Global...

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Priority to Orchestrate NIL Payments for Notre Dame Athletes
October 13, 2026

Priority Commerce is teaming with Rally, a marketing and media group for Notre Dame student-athletes, according to a Tuesday (Oct. 13) news release. Priority will be the official name, image and likeness (NIL) orchestration partner of Rally, which serves Notre Dame’s student-athletes in the NIL...

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Mastercard and WEX Launch APAC-Focused Fleet Management Partnership
October 12, 2026

Mastercard and WEX launched a fleet management partnership focused on the Asia-Pacific region, according to a Monday (Oct. 12) press release. The collaboration is designed to combine universal fuel, vehicle fleet maintenance, tolling, parking and more into one payment experience, the release said. “For decades,...

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Google and Unity Team to Let Users Build Their Own Games
October 07, 2026

Google plans to launch an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered gaming platform in partnership with video game company Unity. The partnership is designed to “put game creation in the hands of millions of new creators, and bring new experiences to billions of players worldwide,” Google said in...

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Stripe to Power Small Business Underwriting With FedEx Supply Chain Data
October 06, 2026

FedEx Dataworks, the insights and intelligence subsidiary of FedEx Corp., and Stripe plan to leverage their respective platforms to expand access to financing for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the companies said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. This project, which they plan to...

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BNY and Kraken Parent Payward Eye Global Financial Infrastructure Partnership
October 02, 2026

BNY and Kraken parent company Payward are discussing a partnership that would span digital assets and financial market infrastructure, CoinDesk reported Friday (Oct. 2), citing unnamed sources. The agreement could include crypto products, custody, wealth management, trading, payments and infrastructure offerings that are provided by Payward’s B2B platform for banks, exchanges and asset...

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Meta and Intuit Team on Small Business Intelligence
September 29, 2026

Intuit says its small business-focused financial intelligence services are now part of Meta’s new AI assistant. The QuickBooks connector is now live in Meta’s Muse, and is designed to make it easier for businesses to link conversations to the financial tools, insights, and actions they...