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
Personetics and Plaid team up to help banks secure a broader view of customers’ financial lives and enhance personalization efforts.