London-based payments firm Finsei has picked issuer processing platform Thredd to power its new Mastercard debit offering. “The partnership reflects a shared focus on simplifying an increasingly complex payments environment,” Thredd said in a Tuesday (Oct. 20) news release. “Businesses operating across markets often rely on multiple providers to manage accounts, payments,...
Visa has launched an agentic payments partnership with accounts payable and receivable solutions providers BILL and Billtrust. The collaboration is the first live pilot to allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents “to initiate and complete approved buyer invoice payments end-to-end through supplier portals,” Visa said in a news release provided...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...