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WealthKernel API-first digital investment infrastructure provider taps Griffin to launch embedded savings accounts

WealthKernel, an API-first digital investment…

Bad actors are changing the Gmail user’s password, phone number, and even security keys, locking the legitimate user out of their account

Gmail users are facing an…

Higher instant payment limits could take B2B share from ACH,  offering the choice to move away from batch processes to settlement in seconds

With new, higher limits on…

FullCircl onboarding platform for companies and their directors intuitively proceeds through individual identification screening and email risk checking, before finally automating client outreach

FullCircl, a B2B SaaS company…

SurePath AI provides rapid visibility into employee use of public AI services, classifying AI use by intent and identifying sensitive data violations

Gen AI governance startup SurePath…

Digital wallets are a big picture shift that goes beyond money, and “are about organizing identity, not money”

Digital identity wallets are gaining…

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Chrome for Android has doubled its Speedometer score “measures how quickly Chrome can complete interactions with web pages”

To track browser performance, Google…

FinCEN and other agencies suggest practices, effective governance and oversight to combat elder financial exploitation

Financial institutions play an important…

MLCommons releases new benchmark for measuring LLM safety – works by supplying an LLM with over 24,000 prompts and harmful content created for safety evaluation purposes

MLCommons released AILuminate, a new…

Nordstrom apps’ integration of generative AI allows it to suggest the latest trends based on customer interactions; interactive features like Style Swipes further enhance the app’s ability to recommend relevant products

Nordstrom is simplifying the shopping…

Jellyfish launches ‘share of model’ platform, to track how LLMs perceive brands, products & services

Jellyfish, a subsidiary of the…

Amazon’s Q Business AI agents get smarter- now businesses will be able to take the data they have stored in databases, data warehouses, and data lakes and combine it with the rest of their business data

AWS’ Q Developer is getting…

Revolut says new savings plan attracted at least €100m in deposits in first two weeks
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Comun raises $21.5m for immigrant-focused neobank; has seen its active customer based increase by more than 50% month-over-monthComun, a Latino-founded neobank for immigrants in the US, has raised $21.5 million in a Series A funding round. The company, which works with a partner bank, stresses its effort to keep the price of services low, with no minimum balance requirements, monthly fees, overdraft charges, or membership fees. Since launch, it has seen its active customer based increase by more than 50% month-over-month. This year, growth has been spurred by the introduction of a remittance programme, the launch of the largest network of cash deposit locations in the US, and the doubling of its bilingual 24/7 support team.
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Comun raises $21.5m for immigrant-focused neobank; has seen its active customer based increase by more than 50% month-over-monthComun, a Latino-founded neobank for immigrants in the US, has raised $21.5 million in a Series A funding round. The company, which works with a partner bank, stresses its effort to keep the price of services low, with no minimum balance requirements, monthly fees, overdraft charges, or membership fees. Since launch, it has seen its active customer based increase by more than 50% month-over-month. This year, growth has been spurred by the introduction of a remittance programme, the launch of the largest network of cash deposit locations in the US, and the doubling of its bilingual 24/7 support team.
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FIS sees record sign-ups for core banking products with new sales growth of over 30% in the first half of 2024
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Blackhawk is supporting Mastercard in transitioning its network branded open-loop prepaid products, from plastic to paper-based materials
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Chintai launches innovative Net Zero-X Exchange using tokenisation to bridge sustainable investments and global projects
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World’s first sustainability-focused GenAI icro-Models are reducing Scope 3 carbon emissions.
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Google Ventures leads $18 million round in Climate X to model the future likelihood of 16 different climate hazards and determine the ROI of taking pre-emptive climate adaptation action
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TNS launches market data monitoring solution for banks and hedge funds together with TNS Market Data as a serviceNew
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New Imperva Data Security Fabric solution proactively addresses the risk of data wherever it residesNew
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AWS opens physical outlets that let customers upload their data delivering fast upload speeds (up to 400 Gbps)New
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Authorities catch ‘SMS blaster’ gang that drove around Bangkok sending thousands of phishing messages using technology that impersonates cellular base stations
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Colorado adds Samsung Wallet to digital ID options for driver’s licenses, state ID cards
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Google Authenticator changes how you copy 2FA codes- a simple tap replaces long-press
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Roblox updates its safety systems and parental controls under outside pressure- restricting communication options for users under 13, such as disabling direct messaging outside of games
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Audi owners will soon be able to use their Galaxy smartphones to lock, unlock and start their vehicles
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Digital wallets are a big picture shift that goes beyond money, and “are about organizing identity, not money”New
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Appriss Retail’s GenAI reduces retail losses, decrease return and claim fraud and abuse by democratizing access to complex transaction dataNew
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Kroger’s digital transformation continues to show promising results as digital sales surged by 11%New
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Walmart Marketplace records Black Friday-Cyber Monday sales; Marketplace sales increased 43%, inrecent quarterNew
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WealthKernel API-first digital investment infrastructure provider taps Griffin to launch embedded savings accountsNew
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Cardless offers a more efficient platform for creating co-branded cards- more customized card experiences to sign up and onboarding users within weeks
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BIAN’s new API Align tool will enable developers and architects to find the most appropriate API for their specific project, map internal APIs against BIAN’s APIs
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Traefik Labs launches API sandbox as a service to create, publish, and consume mock APIs with a production-like user experience
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Dynasty Financial Partners and Nasdaq Private Market partner offering access to industry-leading private wealth management and advisory services.New
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Voya Financial wealth platform offers new retail brokerage and advisory account opening processes and seamless integration of data; and easier tracking of client interaction teamsNew
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Nitrogen provides asset managers with unprecedented visibility into their distribution effectiveness through comprehensive analyticsNew
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Masttro launches next-gen platform for wealth management- with digital lending and account opening for financial institutionsNew
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Filigran secures $35M for its cybersecurity threat management suite providing a better overview of the potential risks
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BankSocial launched the first fully cloud native implementation to connect to the RTP® network from The Clearing House, combining Google Cloud, IBM MQ, and Hedera
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Solutions by Text is integrating real-time payments into text messaging channels
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Nacha rule changes to fight authorized payment scams bringing a collaborative approach—enlisting the sending and receiving financial institutions and their ACH customers
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Visa’s Flexible Credential goes live for two use cases- Affirm’s BNPL debit card and for switching between multiple currency accounts from one card
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Visa recognizes creators as small businesses
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Samsung debuts AI-powered ‘Next-generation Bixby,’ with the ability to add videos to text responses when asking for travel tips
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Mastercard expands Product Express program to more regions to help FinTechs launch card programs and other payment solutions
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Visa and Analytic Partners to bring powerful marketing spend optimization analytics to merchants
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Visa adds AI-powered reports and auto-fill to dispute processing platform
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PayPal teams with Will Ferrell in major omnichannel promotion
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PayPal could shake up EU wallet market with potential challenger to Apple Pay following Apple’s decision to grant third-party developers access
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Gmail Takeover Hack Attack—Google Warns You Have Just 7 Days To ActNew
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Apple wants faster RAM in the iPhone to help speed up Apple IntelligenceNew
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Amazon relaunches discount flights for younger Prime membersNew
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AWS makes its SageMaker HyperPod AI platform more efficient for training LLMs finding the best combination of capacity blocks, and create a planNew
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Chrome for Android has doubled its Speedometer score “measures how quickly Chrome can complete interactions with web pages”New
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Gemini Extensions for Messages, Phone, and WhatsApp are rolling outNew
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Google is readying some sort of “AI Mode” for the Search app on Android that appears to be a new conversational and visual (or multimodal) experienceNew
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Amazon’s Q Business AI agents get smarter- now businesses will be able to take the data they have stored in databases, data warehouses, and data lakes and combine it with the rest of their business data,New
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Amazon is fielding a whole new AI model family called Nova which allows users to generate text, images, and videosNew
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Pixel Recorder preps ‘Clear voice’ background noise reductionNew
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Amazon reportedly develops new multimodal language model capable of processing not only text but also images and videosNew
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iOS is expected to grow by 3.1% year-over-year, outpacing Android’s forecasted 1.7% growth over the same periodNew
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Google’s new “Page Annotations” feature now injects links on third-party websites that go back to Search
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Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic as part of AI, chip collaboration
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Apple aims to increase Siri’s capabilities with advanced LLMs to carry on back-and-forth conversations, handle more complex tasks and do so more quickly
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Apple is reportedly building a more conversational Siri powered by LLMs that might debut in iOS 19 in early 2026
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RTP Network raises individual transaction limit to $10 million supporting growth in areas like real estate, supply chain payments and B2B transactionsNew
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Retailer John Lewis unveils a Tamagotchi-style pet that helps young children learn about pocket moneyNew
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Uber is building a fleet of gig workers to label data for AI models
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Lloyds Bank adds Benefit Calculator to mobile app to help customers claim welfare and other government-sponsored payments they may be missing out on.
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