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News•Feb 26, 2026
DriveWealth to Integrate Kalshi’s Event Contracts Into Its Brokerage Platform
DriveWealth is integrating Kalshi’s regulated prediction‑market event contracts into its brokerage‑as‑a‑service platform, allowing fintech clients to offer these contracts alongside stocks and ETFs. Kalshi processes more than $100 billion in annualized volume and sees the partnership as a way to broaden distribution. The move positions prediction markets as a mainstream, tradable asset class, echoing the adoption paths of options and crypto. Both firms view the integration as a step toward future‑proofing their product stacks and attracting new retail users.
By Finovate
News•Feb 25, 2026
Mambu Expands Its Payments Hub Beyond Europe Into Asia and Latin America
Mambu is rolling its API‑first payments hub out of Europe into additional EMEA markets, Latin America and Asia‑Pacific. The move responds to rising demand from banks and fintechs that need unified access to diverse payment schemes and jurisdictions. Built on...
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News•Feb 23, 2026
What Do Community Bankers Want? What Do Community Banks Need?
The 2025 CSBS Annual Survey reveals community banks are feeling heightened pressure from non‑bank competitors, especially in payments and wealth‑management services, while deposit‑rate volatility forces more aggressive pricing. Cybercrime emerges as the top internal risk, with card and identity fraud...
By Finovate
News•Feb 23, 2026
Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News
Finovate’s weekly roundup highlights a flurry of fintech activity as Flywire names a new CTO, MoneyHash teams with Wayl to enter Iraq, and Payabli partners with Huntington Bank to embed payments in digital banking. Worldline launches One Commerce for omnichannel...
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Deals•Feb 20, 2026
Zambian Digital Bank Lupiya Raises $11.25M Series A Led by Alitheia IDF Fund
Zambian neobank Lupiya secured $11.25 million in Series A funding to expand its digital banking services across Southern and East Africa. The round was led by IDF Capital’s Alitheia IDF Fund with participation from INOKS Capital and KfW DEG. The...
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News•Feb 19, 2026
Metropolitan Commercial Bank Forges Partnership with Finzly
Metropolitan Commercial Bank (MCB) has partnered with Finzly to replace its legacy ACH mainframe with a cloud‑native, API‑first payment platform that consolidates ACH, wires and real‑time payments on a single system. The bank is the first to adopt Finzly’s unified...
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News•Feb 18, 2026
TreviPay Leverages AI to Help Businesses Anticipate Buyer Behavior
TreviPay unveiled its AI‑powered Growth Center, a module inside the client portal that flags early signs of buyer dormancy and suggests targeted incentives. In a pilot with a U.S. retailer, the system identified 60 previously inactive buyers who generated $103,946...
By Finovate
News•Feb 18, 2026
Successfully Implementing AI in Banking: Insights From Allica Bank CEO Richard Davies
Allica Bank CEO Richard Davies outlined how the UK fintech is scaling AI across its organization, emphasizing company‑wide adoption, engineering productivity, and cultural change. He highlighted that AI tools have delivered productivity improvements of two to ten times for engineers...
By Finovate
News•Feb 17, 2026
FinovateEurope 2026: From AI Hype to Operational Reality
FinovateEurope 2026 highlighted fintech’s transition from AI experimentation to real‑world deployment, emphasizing governed, trustworthy agentic AI. Banks are shifting from product‑centric models to embedded, predictive experiences, with personalization and frictionless onboarding now expected. Over 70% of new fintech products involve...
By Finovate
News•Feb 17, 2026
Bluefin and Basis Theory Offer Unified Token Strategy Across Digital and In-Person Payments
Bluefin and Basis Theory have formed a strategic partnership to deliver a unified token strategy that bridges digital and in‑person payment channels. By integrating Bluefin’s PointConex platform with Basis Theory’s API‑driven tokenization and vaulting, merchants can capture, tokenize, and reuse...
By Finovate
News•Feb 2, 2026
Equifax Unveils Credit Abuse Risk to Combat First-Party Fraud
Equifax introduced Credit Abuse Risk, a machine‑learning model that flags first‑party fraud tactics such as loan stacking and credit washing. The solution uses FCRA‑regulated data to deliver real‑time, behavior‑based risk scores during pre‑qualification, origination, and portfolio review. It complements the...
By Finovate
Deals•Jan 22, 2026
Airwallex Acquires Paynuri to Expand Into South Korea
Singapore‑based payments platform Airwallex announced it is acquiring South Korean payment gateway Paynuri, securing local payment, prepaid and foreign‑exchange licences. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition aims to accelerate Airwallex’s entry into the Korean market and strengthen its APAC...
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Deals•Dec 29, 2025
Ping Identity Acquires Keyless, Expanding Biometric Authentication Capabilities
Identity and access management leader Ping Identity announced the acquisition of Keyless, a privacy‑preserving biometric authentication startup. The deal integrates Keyless’s zero‑knowledge biometric technology into Ping Identity’s platform, enhancing secure, passwordless login for enterprise customers. Financial terms were not disclosed.
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Deals•Dec 23, 2025
Socure Acquires BNPL Consumer Credit Database Qlarifi
Identity verification platform Socure announced the acquisition of BNPL consumer credit database Qlarifi, creating a unified real-time credit infrastructure for BNPL lenders. The deal, announced on December 23, 2025, combines Socure's identity graph with Qlarifi's transaction data to improve fraud...
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