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Visa Completes Acquisition of Prisma and Newpay

BusinessWireMarch 2, 20263 min

Visa (NYSE: V) today announced it has completed its acquisition of Prisma Medios de Pago S.A.U. (“Prisma”) and Newpay S.A.U. (“Newpay”) in Argentina. This transaction strengthens Visa’s commitment to advancing payment innovation and modernizing financial infrastructure across the country. Prisma provides credit, debit and prepaid card issuer processing. Newpay is a multi-network infrastructure provider that operates real-time payments services, the Banelco ATM network and the bill payment platform PagoMisCuentas. Together, these companies provide compelling payments...

Platforms

DriveWealth, Kalshi Plan Global Prediction Push

BusinessWireFebruary 28, 20264 min

Collaboration integrates Kalshi’s event markets into its global Brokerage-as-a-Service platform

Compliance & Scoring

Bluprynt Announces Oversubscribed $4.25M Seed Round

BusinessWireFebruary 27, 20266 min

Round led by Valor Capital Group with participation from Cultivation Capital, Robinhood, Coinbase Ventures, Quona Capital, Flourish Ventures, Radical Investments, Kazea, and Selah Ventures; joined by notable strategic and individual investors across finance, banking, and compliance

Insurance

Openly, claimtouch Partner to Automate Personal Property Claims Valuation

BusinessWireFebruary 27, 20263 min

Integrated platform reduces settlement time and improves pricing consistency

Compliance & Scoring

HES FinTech Launches HES Collection Agent

BusinessWireFebruary 26, 20263 min

HES FinTech launched HES Collection Agent, an AI-driven platform designed for banks, digital lenders, BNPL providers, fintech institutions, and collection agencies seeking to modernize debt recovery through intelligent decisioning and automated execution across the full collection lifecycle. At its core is a proprietary machine learning engine built specifically for debtor scoring and collection decisioning. The platform analyzes historical, transactional, and behavioral data to assess repayment probability once a client enters delinquency. Where permitted by business policies and...

Platforms

Intellicheck Launches No-Integration Desktop Application

BusinessWireFebruary 26, 20264 min

Innovative Windows-based solution empowers companies of any size to deploy Intellicheck’s industry-leading ID verification instantly

Platforms

Cicada Raises US$13.5 Million Series A

BusinessWireFebruary 26, 20266 min

Citi leads funding for the U.S.-regulated, all-to-all platform, bringing institutional electronic trading to Latin American local-currency bond markets. Leading Wall Street market makers join Cicada’s strategic equity program to capture early-stage opportunity.