Philippines-based embedded banking platform Netbank has tapped Thredd to launch its Cards-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution. This solution will allow FinTechs, banks and eWallets to “rapidly deploy modern, flexible card issuing across both consumer and commercial segments,” Thredd said in a Wednesday (Dec. 9) news release. “The Philippines presents a dynamic growth...
Embedded banking provider ClearBank has launched a collaboration with foreign exchange (FX) and payments solutions company Finseta. The partnership, announced in a news release Tuesday (Dec. 9) is designed to deliver agency banking services supporting British pound (GBP) and multi-currency (MCCY) accounts. The partnership will...
Fifth Third Bank and Brex have partnered on a commercial card that will enable the bank’s commercial banking clients to access Brex’s intelligent finance platform. With access to the platform and the Fifth Third Commercial Card powered by Brex, these clients will be able to...
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IBM said on Monday (Dec. 8) it plans to acquire Confluent for about $11 billion in cash for the real-time data streaming company in one of its largest acquisitions in the recent years. The transaction is expected to close by mid-2026, pending shareholder and regulatory...
Mastercard Move, Mastercard’s money movement business, can now reach over 1.4 billion users of Weixin and WeChat. This capability is enabled by a collaboration of Mastercard Move with TenPay Global, Tencent’s cross-border payment platform, the companies said in a Monday (Dec. 8) press release. Together,...
Socure acquired Qlarifi to establish what it called “the industry’s first unified identity, anti-fraud and BNPL credit infrastructure.” The combination brings together Socure’s artificial intelligence-first platform for global identity, compliance and risk decisioning and Qlarifi’s real-time buy now, pay later (BNPL) consumer credit database, the...
Payments infrastructure FinTech Stripe signed a definitive agreement to acquire Metronome, a usage-based billing platform for software companies. Stripe CEO Patrick Collison announced the agreement in a Tuesday (Dec. 2) post on X, saying the company will integrate Metronome’s capabilities with the rest of the...
Anthropic has announced what it calls a “significant” expansion of its partnership with Snowflake. The artificial intelligence (AI) company has signed a $200 million agreement with Snowflake that will make its Claude model available via Snowflake’s cloud storage platform to more than 12,600 customers worldwide,...