Embedded bill pay brings flexible, instant payment capabilities and real-time cashflow visibility to small businesses and their advisors, targeting $29B US payments market
MyChoice, a Canadian insurtech improving submission quality and underwriting confidence in the broker and carrier channels, announced that the company has joined the Guidewire Insurtech Vanguards program, an initiative led by property and casualty (P&C) cloud platform provider, Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE), to help insurers learn about the newest insurtechs and how to best leverage them. “Brokers and carriers lose time and margin when submissions are complete on paper but unreliable in reality. We built MyChoice to reconcile...
Unit21, the leading AI Risk Infrastructure for fraud prevention and AML monitoring, today announced a partnership with Helix by Q2, an award-winning, cloud-native core purpose-built for modern banking, to support AI-powered AML monitoring and investigations for Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) and embedded finance programs. The partnership enables sponsor banks and fintechs using Helix to ingest first and third-party data into Unit21’s platform, where it can be operationalized through configurable, AI-driven workflows. Through the integration, joint customers can enable Helix data to...
Horizon Technology Finance Corporation, an affiliate of Monroe Capital, announced today the formation of a new joint venture with CR Financial Holdings, Inc. (“CRFH”), the holding company for Roth Capital Partners, LLC (“Roth”). The joint venture will provide growth capital financing solutions to small- and micro-cap public companies based primarily in the U.S. Horizon and CRFH will make initial capital commitments totaling $100 million. The joint venture intends to leverage its initial capital by entering...
New monitoring service delivers early-warning intelligence on vendor payment status, filling a critical gap in structured finance oversight
Moody’s Corporation that Moody’s Ratings has launched its network-agnostic Token Integration Engine™ (TIE), becoming the first credit rating agency to ingest analytical data and share credit insights on-chain. As an inaugural step, it is the first rating agency to operate a node on the Canton Network. The milestone marks a significant step in Moody’s commitment to digital innovation, intending to enable secure, compliant, and efficient ingestion of data and dissemination of ratings enabled by technology...
Circle Internet Group, Inc., one of the world’s leading internet financial platform companies, today announced the appointment of Kirk Koenigsbauer to its Board of Directors. Mr. Koenigsbauer will serve on the Board’s Compensation and Risk Committees. Mr. Koenigsbauer brings more than 30 years of experience building and scaling global enterprise software and commercial cloud software services. He currently serves as President & Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft’s Experiences and Devices Group, focused on Microsoft 365...
Elliptic, the leader in digital asset decisioning, today announced full blockchain coverage for Tempo, the payments-first Layer-1 blockchain incubated by Stripe and Paradigm. With this integration, compliance and investigation teams gain full visibility into one of the most significant expansions of real-world financial activity onto blockchain infrastructure. “We’re excited to have Elliptic providing compliance infrastructure on Tempo from day one. As payments move onchain at scale, builders and their customers need real-time tools to meet...
Payments industry veteran and former Verifone CEO Mike Pulli joins the Board of Managers as company expands leadership team to support next phase of growth.
Global leader recognized for AI innovation in harmonized transaction monitoring, sanctions screening, customer risk scoring and agentic investigations.