We’re halfway through October, and as the fall conference season ramps up, the fintech news cycle will be on a tear this week. Here’s a look at what fintechs are up to in this week’s list of the top fintech news. We’ll continue to update this post with news throughout the week.
Stablecoins & tokenized deposits
Euronet and Fireblocks extend their partnership to bring stablecoins into card issuing.
Jack Henry expands collaboration with Google Cloud to deliver tokenized deposits for banks and credit unions.
JPM Coin goes live on Ethereum, extending institutional finance reach on second public blockchain.
Marqeta and Coinbase collaborate to enable stablecoin-backed card payments.
Payments
Embedded finance orchestration platform AAZZUR named a winner of TechRound’s SaaS66 2026, ranking 50th in the annual Top 66 list.
Wildfire and Badge partner to bring personalized merchant offers and rewards to mobile wallets.
KORT Payments to acquire AptPay to expand real-time payments and payment orchestration across North America.
First Citizens Bank to collaborate with NCR Atleos to provide ATM access at Target stores.
Block selects Marqeta to enable Square credit card on the American Express Network.
Identity and fraud
Alternative data and predictive analytics provider ValidiFI unveils Compass, a decision intelligence layer that connects account validation with identity, ownership, fraud, relationship, and payment-risk signals.
Small business banking
Mercury crosses $1B in annualized revenue, 450K+ customers.
Bill.com launches new agentic capabilities designed to give finance teams greater control in how AI works for them.
AI and data
Omnisient wins Money20/20 Banking Grand Prix.