Loyyal Announced the Launch of OfferPoint

Loyyal, an AI-first, blockchain-powered loyalty and payments ecosystem, today announced the launch of OfferPoint, a merchant-funded offer marketplace designed to help banks, digital wallets, and financial institutions increase card spend and customer engagement without funding the rewards themselves. As financial institutions face growing pressure to drive transaction volume while managing rising incentive costs, OfferPoint introduces a new approach—providing access to a ready supply of merchant-funded offers that can be deployed instantly to customers at scale. A Ready Marketplace of Merchant-Funded Offers...

Certa Earns Top Tech, Customer Value Honors in Risk Management

Certa, an AI-powered platform for third-party risk, compliance, and monitoring, announced today it has been named a badge winner in The Hackett Group® Spring 2026 SolutionMap in the category of Risk Management. The company received recognition in both “Top Tech – Risk Management” and “Customer Value – Risk Management” in addition to being recognized as a validated provider in the rigorous industry data-driven benchmark for procurement technology. SolutionMap is conducted by The Hackett Group’s Solution Intelligence analysts (formerly the Spend...

Options Technology Deploys Major Tier 1 Bank AI in Iceland

Options Technology, a global leader in financial technology managed services and IT infrastructure, today announced its PrivateMind solution has been selected by a Tier 1 bank for major AI deployment in its Iceland data center. PrivateMind is a fully governed AI platform, purpose-built for financial institutions that demand absolute data privacy, performance, and control. Deployed in strategic hubs, with direct connectivity to exchanges and liquidity providers, PrivateMind empowers teams to explore AI safely and at speed,...

“barq” Launches Global Cross-Border QR Payments via Alipay+

barq is the first Alipay+ payment partner in the Middle East to enable outbound cross-border QR payments for over 12 million users from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) across 220+ markets. Ant International deepens its commitment to KSA by promoting cross-border payment connectivity, bridging local payments to the global ecosystem. barq, the fastest-growing financial app in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and beyond, has launched global cross-border QR payments in partnership with Alipay+,...

Rival Systems Launches Rival One AI Skills

Rival Systems (“Rival”), a leading provider of multi-asset trading and risk management technology, today announced the release of Rival One AI Skills, enabling users to integrate Rival’s API knowledge directly into leading AI coding agents such as Cursor, Claude, and Codex. By embedding domain specific knowledge into AI agents, both technical and non-technical users can easily build, extend, and interact with trading applications powered by the Rival One WebSocket API. Rival One AI Skills are...

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