Fideo Intelligence Launches Fraud Fighting Solution Fideo Lens

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Fideo Intelligence
Fraud prevention and identity verification company Fideo Intelligence has launched its investigative intelligence platform Fideo Lens. Fideo Lens enables fraud and financial crime teams to discover hidden relationships between identities, accounts, devices, and behaviors at a time when fraud attacks increasingly involve multiple connected entities and organizations. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Fideo Intelligence made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2025 in New York. Financial crime prevention specialist Fideo Intelligence has unveiled its investigative intelligence platform Fideo Lens. The new offering helps fraud and financial crime teams uncover hidden relationships between identities, accounts, devices, and behaviors, enabling them to better address the increasingly coordinated nature of fraud attacks. Starting with a single identity signal, fraud investigators can use Fideo Lens to visualize and connect data associated with that identity and convert fragmented identity data into interactive investigative intelligence within minutes, reducing the time spent on manual searches across multiple systems. Fideo…

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Nayax Agrees to Acquire IPS Group

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Daily news, Mergers & Acquisitions
Nayax plans to acquire smart parking technology provider IPS Group to expand its presence in parking and curb management. The acquisition will combine IPS’ parking technology and 250,000-space footprint with Nayax’s payments infrastructure and global reach, creating new expansion and cross-sell opportunities. The deal reflects Nayax’s “land and expand” M&A strategy and the broader convergence of payments and vertical software as payment providers move beyond transaction processing. Global commerce, payments, and loyalty platform Nayax announced plans today to acquire smart parking technology provider IPS Group from Windjammer Capital Investors for an undisclosed amount. Founded in 2000, IPS offers payment-enabled smart parking technology that processes millions of consumer payment transactions each year. The platform operates using physical infrastructure such as meters, combined with mobile and text-based payments, enforcement and permitting software, vehicle detection tools, and curb data analytics. Nayax will tap IPS, which has two decades of experience building parking technology…

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Bluefin Teams with Visa for In-Person Payment Acceptance

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Alumni News, Alumni profile, Bluefin, Daily news, VISA
Digital payments and data security company Bluefin announced it has partnered with Visa on a new card-present acceptance tool. The new offering combines Bluefin's PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution with Visa Acceptance Solutions to bring increased security to in-person payment acceptance. The in-store payment acceptance tool offers merchants, software providers, and enterprises a unified approach to accepting payments by combining payment acceptance, PCI-validated security, tokenization, device lifecycle management, and enterprise payment infrastructure into a single solution. Bluefin will power the P2PE piece, while Visa's Visa Acceptance Solutions is taking on the payment processing, tokenization, and global payment services elements. "Enterprise organizations are no longer looking for individual payment technologies—they're looking for infrastructure that enables secure commerce across every channel," said Bluefin Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Ruston Miles. "Our collaboration with Visa Acceptance Solutions reflects a shared vision that secure payment acceptance should be delivered as an integrated platform rather than…

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Scalable Capital Enables Agentic Investing, Opening Platform to ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok

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Categories: Alumni News, Scalable Capital
German digital banking and investment company Scalable Capital has opened its platform to major AI assistants including OpenAI, Claude, and Grok. Clients of Scalable Capital will be able to connect their accounts to their preferred AI assistant via this new Agentic Investing capability, and have the assistants conduct a range of operations from developing savings plans to executing trades. Founded in 2014, Scalable Capital made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2016 in London. If you didn't get enough German fintech news with last week's edition of Finovate Global, then we've got another story for you! Munich-based digital banking and investment firm Scalable Capital has opened its platform to major AI assistants, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and X's Grok. Announced this week, the new Agentic Investing capability can be activated in clients' profile settings, allowing them to connect their account to their AI assistant of choice. "Agentic investing represents the…

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Is IMPACT for You? Funders & Founders Event Comes to FinovateFall

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2026
Running alongside FinovateFall on September 11 in New York City, IMPACT Funders & Founders is a special opportunity for innovative fintech startups and scale-ups to connect with venture capitalists, corporate investors, and industry leaders. For investors, IMPACT offers an early look at some of the best investment prospects in fintech, targeted one-on-one meetings with startups, and insights from experts on common challenges faced by fintech investors today. For founders and startups, IMPACT provides opportunities to network individually with top VCs, angel investors, and private equity firms, pitch directly to leading investors, and learn from veteran fintech executives on how to grow and scale. IMPACT is a one-of-a-kind event. But is IMPACT for you? Here's a look at our updated agenda, including a peek at our Pulse Roundtables, a special opportunity for candid, off-the-record conversations between funders, founders, and attendees. Remember that IMPACT Funders & Founders is its own event and…

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LendAPI Partners with EDGE to Integrate Cashflow Intelligence

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Categories: Alumni News, LendAPI
Loan origination and management platform LendAPI has partnered with cashflow bureau EDGE. The partnership will enable LendAPI to help lenders integrate cashflow intelligence into their lending workflows, giving them access to EDGE consumer reports, scores, and risk attributes. Founded in 2024, LendAPI won Best of Show in its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2025 in New York. Loan origination and management platform LendAPI has teamed up with cashflow bureau EDGE. The partnership will enable lenders to access EDGE consumer reports, cashflow scores, and risk attributes directly within LendAPI's decisioning and servicing workflows. EDGE aggregates bank account and transaction data, transforming it into explainable, machine-learning-derived scores and attributes for lending and rental screening. LendAPI is used by credit unions, community banks, and consumer and embedded finance lenders to configure products, automate decisioning, originate loans, and manage portfolios from a unified lending platform. The partnership will make EDGE cashflow bureau intelligence available to…

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Brazil’s Inter Pag Selects ACI Worldwide for Payment Orchestration

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Daily news
Inter Pag has partnered with ACI Worldwide to modernize and scale its merchant acquiring infrastructure as Brazil’s payments market evolves. ACI’s acquiring platform will bring payments intelligence, AI-driven fraud prevention, analytics, ecommerce tools, and orchestration to Inter Pag, which serves more than 100,000 Brazilian businesses. The deal reflects a broader shift driven by real-time payments like Pix, as acquirers increasingly differentiate themselves through fraud prevention, intelligence, orchestration, and other value-added services. Inter Pag, the merchant acquiring business of Brazil's Banco Inter, has partnered with ACI Worldwide to modernize its payments infrastructure and support its next phase of growth. Specifically, ACI Worldwide's ACI Acquiring Platform will provide Inter Pag with cloud-enabled acquiring capabilities, payments intelligence, AI-driven fraud prevention, analytics, ecommerce tools, and payment orchestration. Inter Pag anticipates that tapping ACI's acquiring platform will help simplify operations and strengthen resiliency while supporting its efforts to scale, innovate, and bring new payment services…

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Fintech Rundown: A Rapid Review of Weekly News

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: Daily news, Fintech Rundown, Personetics, Plaid
It's Monday again, which means it's time for another look at the weekly fintech news. So far this week, there's a spike in business banking news. Here's a look at what else is trending. We’ll continue to add more announcements as the week progresses. Business banking Starling launches agentic AI assistant for business. Helcim closes $53 million CAD Series C funding round to power payments for small and mid-sized businesses across North America. Payload secures strategic investment from Fifth Third for its embedded business payments platform. Stablecoins and tokenized deposits Standard Chartered and HSBC execute first live tokenized deposit transaction on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger. Decentralized finance Binance launches Binance Agent OS, a developer platform built as part of Binance Intelligence. Credit union technology Member Driven Technologies (MDT) partners with AI development and consulting firm OnTrac AI to extend MDT's Transcormational Consulting capabilities with deeper AI readiness, strategy, and implementation expertise. Open finance…

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Finovate Global Germany: Spend Management, Embedded Finance, and Instant Payments

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Finovate Global
This week's edition of Finovate Global features the latest fintech headlines from Germany. Berlin-based spend management platform Moss raises capital Germany has a new fintech unicorn. Moss, a spend management platform based in Berlin, has raised €30 million ($35 million) in Series C funding. The round was led by Portage and Cherry Ventures. It brings the company's total funding to more than €200 million ($234 million) and gives the firm a valuation of more than €1 billion. The funding will enable Moss to develop additional AI agents to automate financial processes for small and medium-sized companies. "This round reflects the trust of customers and partners in shaping the future of finance," Moss CEO and Co-Founder Ante Spittler said in a LinkedIn post announcing the investment. "It allows us to expand beyond spend management and further build out our Finance AI product suite. Soon, Moss will allow customers to configure agents…

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17 Fintechs Innovating in Modern Banking Infrastructure, Payments, and Operations

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2026 Demo List Series
There may be no clearer use case for AI than leveraging the technology to transform manual processes and boost operational efficiency. From cross-border payments to document management to fraud investigation to underwriting, fintech innovators have embraced AI to empower banks, credit unions, lenders, and other financial institutions to become more efficient, analyze data better, cut costs, meet compliance obligations, and provide more personalized service to their customers and members. Beyond simply deploying AI, these fintechs in many cases represent an emerging generation of infrastructure providers that facilitate bank and credit union modernization without requiring them to "rip and replace" their existing core systems. By helping banks and credit unions meet emerging regulatory mandates, boost efficiency, and compete with rivals within and outside of financial services while keeping the cost of modernization low, these innovators are key partners for financial services firms that are eager to deploy new technologies but are…

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9 Fintechs Personalizing Customer Engagement and Financial Wellness

By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) Posted on
Categories: FinovateFall 2026 Demo List Series
For years, financial institutions have talked about delivering more personalized experiences. But personalization is evolving beyond simply putting a customer’s name in a message or recommending a product based on broad demographic segments. In the last few years, banks and fintechs have been using behavioral and transactional data, AI, incentives, and contextual insights to understand what customers need and deliver relevant experiences at the moments when they are most likely to act. At FinovateFall 2026, taking place September 9 through 11 in New York, a diverse group of companies will demonstrate new approaches to customer engagement and financial wellness. Their technologies range from hyper-personalized digital banking and transaction intelligence to financial education, community commerce, loan repayment incentives, and investing tools for the next generation. Below, we've highlighted nine companies that will take the stage at FinovateFall to illustrate how financial institutions can turn customer data and everyday financial interactions into…

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Conversational AI Platform for Financial Services OmniAI Rebrands as Monumint

By David Penn Posted on
Categories: Alumni profile, Monumint, OmniAI
OmniAI, an agentic AI firm that made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2025 last year in New York, has rebranded as Monumint. "This is more than a new name. It's the next chapter of our company," the firm began its LinkedIn post discussing the rebranding. "As financial services enters the era of AI, every customer should still receive a personal, high-touch experience," the post continued. "We believe conversational AI is the foundation that makes that possible. That's why we're becoming Monumint." The new name of the firm was inspired by the strength and endurance of monuments, "structures that have been built to last ... just like the relationships financial institutions build with their customers." Monumint offers a conversational AI platform for financial institutions. The company's technology leverages agentic AI to manage the entire borrower lifecycle across email, SMS, and voice. Monumint's AI agents support account opening, loan origination, servicing, and…

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