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,...
Finexio and RipplePoint have formed a strategic partnership to offer hospitality operators an integrated accounts payable (AP) automation and expense analytics platform, the companies announced Tuesday (Dec. 2). The move aims to help hotels, resorts and restaurant groups cut operating costs and unlock new AP-driven...
Global data and technology company Experian and United Kingdom RegTech firm CleverChain partnered to provide artificial intelligence-powered global due diligence intelligence to businesses that operate internationally. These due diligence reports, which are now available to Experian clients, deliver contextual intelligence on ethical, reputational, operational and...
Direct-to-consumer furniture brand Cozey has added Klarna’s buy now, pay later (BNPL) solutions to its online stores in the United States and Canada. Cozey’s eCommerce site now enables shoppers to pay using Klarna’s Pay in Full, Pay in 4 or Financing for larger purchases, according...
Tonkean has acquired Cinch to grow its procurement and finance offerings as well as its presence in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The transaction brings together Tonkean’s process and agentic orchestration platform and Cinch’s artificial intelligence-powered finance and logistics intelligence platform, the companies said...
Crypto exchange Kraken is set to acquire tokenized assets platform Backed Finance. The deal, announced in a news release Tuesday (Dec. 2), follows a collaboration between the companies called xStocks, their tokenized equities effort. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “xStocks has seen exceptional...
Nuvei’s global processing capabilities can now support 10,000 transactions per second and more than $1 trillion in annual payment volume. These capabilities were expanded by the company’s expanded strategic partnership with Microsoft, which enables Nuvei’s core payment processing application programming interfaces (APIs) to run on...
OpenAI is teaming with Thrive Holdings, an investment vehicle created by longtime investor Thrive Capital, to boost enterprise artificial intelligence adoption. Their initial focus will be on accounting and IT services, where OpenAI’s platform can drive immediate benefits, according to a Monday (Dec. 1) announcement....