Flinks, a financial data connectivity and Open Banking solution provider, has announced a partnership with Trask Solutions. Trask helps data recipients build data-in infrastructure more efficiently, delivering business solutions that fully leverage Open Banking data. Data recipients can use Trask’s Data-In Connector that has been successfully deployed for numerous clients across Europe and that is now fully localized for use in Canada. The solution supports the FDX standard and comes pre-integrated with Flinks. Trask provides assets, accelerators, and platforms that use Open Banking data for digitizing banking products and services such as: online loans, transaction-based loan adjudication mechanisms, online account opening for retail and commercial clients, mortgage process automation, financial management and advisory, investment dashboards and multi-banking. With Trask’s technology stack, European financial institutions have already achieved significant benefits, including: Full rollout of data-in capabilities in just three months; Delivery of new digital banking products in as little as eight months; Loan approval time reduced from days to seconds; Increased the quality of new-to-bank loans to be on-par with the loans to existing clients; Processing cost of invoice factoring lowered to almost zero enabled factoring offerings to SMEs; Doubled conversion rates and increased sales by 30% by offering hyper-personalized offers to both existing and new clients, leveraging Open Banking data sources.
Cardless unveils embedded credit card platform, with Coinbase as first partner; offers a robust suite of APIs, rapid deployment capabilities, and pre-built flows
Cardless announced the launch of its embedded credit card platform, a breakthrough solution designed to help brands build their own credit card programs. Coinbase is the inaugural partner utilizing this infrastructure to build the Coinbase One Card, a premium consumer credit offering for Coinbase loyalty members integrated directly into the Coinbase digital experience. Cardless’ embedded credit card platform empowers brands to launch and manage customizable card programs with full control over the user experience. With a robust suite of APIs, rapid deployment capabilities, and pre-built flows, Cardless simplifies the complexities of card issuance, compliance, customer support, and capital markets. By ingesting customer data to personalize rewards and loyalty features, Cardless helps brands drive stronger engagement and performance—enabling higher application volumes, improved conversion rates, and increased customer retention compared to traditional programs. Coinbase launched the Coinbase One Card waitlist for Coinbase One subscribers, who will be able to earn up to 4% back in bitcoin on every purchase.
Salesforce expands MuleSoft AI capabilities to include MCP support, A2A support, and new generative AI tools built into IDE to enable building scalable AI agent orchestration by unifying APIs
Salesforce has announced new MuleSoft AI capabilities that enable organizations to build a foundation for secure, scalable AI agent orchestration. These capabilities deliver essential support for AI agent protocols, like Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent2Agent (A2A), by allowing customers to make any existing integration, API, and application accessible and understandable by AI agents and build multi-agent workflows with robust governance. MuleSoft’s new generative AI development tools for increased developer productivity help organizations accelerate their transformation into agent-driven enterprises. The recent launch of Salesforce Agentforce 3, which includes native MCP support, allows customers to use MuleSoft’s new features to turn APIs into MCP servers and extend Agentforce with new opportunities for agent interoperability without compromising control. For example, customers can automate IT issue resolution to enhance customer experiences while enabling IT teams to focus on more strategic, high-value work. MuleSoft’s new agent orchestration capabilities are critical in preparing customers for the autonomous enterprise. New agent orchestration capabilities include MCP support, A2A support, and new generative AI tools built into Anypoint Code Builder, MuleSoft’s Integrated Developer Environment (IDE). These tools allow developers to increase productivity by building APIs and integrations faster with natural language prompts and take those capabilities to any AI-first IDE. MuleSoft’s agent orchestration marks the next evolution in enterprise integration, enabling organizations to power intelligent, actionable interactions by unifying APIs, agent actions, governance, and multi-agent coordination. The partnership between Salesforce and MuleSoft is vital for their ambitious AI journey, as it seamlessly integrates data, allowing AI agents to access crucial information and rapidly unlock advisor and client value.
Embedded payroll startup Salsa to launch integrated offerings and tools that streamline worker onboarding, tax filings and tracking commissions, tips and overtime
Embedded payroll startup Salsa continues to gain momentum. With a newly secured $20 million in Series A funding, its total capital is $30 million since its founding in 2021. The round was led by Altos Ventures, with additional participation from Greycroft, SemperVirens, Definition and Better Tomorrow Ventures. Altos Ventures Partner Tae Yoon said, “Payroll is one of the clear next frontiers in embedded FinTech. … We are thrilled to partner with Salsa as it becomes the foundational layer for payroll across entire industries.” The new funding will support Salsa’s efforts to help software platform developers in all 50 U.S. states and Canada embed payroll features in their products that they didn’t previously have. This includes launching integrated payroll offerings and tools that streamline tasks like worker onboarding, tax filings and tracking commissions, tips, overtime and employees who work in multiple locations — all without the need to have in-house payroll expertise.
FDX standard APIs adoption hits 114m customer connections , a 50% increase from the comparable figure of 76 million a year ago helping companies to “improve interoperability when they integrate”
FDX has reported that approximately 114 million customer connections are now happening through APIs aligned to the FDX standard, as the use of standardized APIs to enable consumer-permission data sharing continues to grow. The growth in FDX API adoption to 114 million customer connections represents a 50% increase from the comparable figure of 76 million a year ago, while FDX called it “a sizable jump” from the 96 million reported six months ago. “Hitting 114 million customers connections reflects both the scale of FDX’s impact and the power of industry-led collaboration to drive interoperability,” said Kevin Feltes, chief executive officer of FDX. The organization stated that the FDX API standard “is solidly rooted as the leading method in North America for building APIs to enable safe, user-permissioned connections” and said that “industry-led standard-setting and collaboration” is helping companies to “improve interoperability when they integrate”. FDX noted that API adoption continued to grow “amid a shifting regulatory environment”, but pointed to the “work ahead”. According to FDX, “tens of millions of consumers and small businesses in North America are still sharing financial data through methods that require sharing login credentials with third parties and may offer less customer control”.