Visa announced a major advancement for Fleet Operators. With the addition of Google Pay tokenization and push-to-wallet, Visa addresses the long-standing challenge of fleet data tags being tied solely to the plastic card chip. Now, fleet data tags can be configured by the issuer, fintech or processor, allowing custom data tags to be dynamically provisioned during the tokenization process. Once loaded into Google Pay with these fleet data tags, Visa’s contactless specification helps ensure that token payment data and fleet data tags are transmitted to the point of sale (POS) and actioned upon seamlessly. Visa’s tokenization capabilities, now available for Google Pay, quickly enables spend through digital credential push-to-wallet, card-on-file merchants and Click to Pay. This streamlined digital experience reduces time to market dramatically, from 7-14 days with a physical card to just a matter of hours for digital wallet provisioning. With Apple Pay and Google Pay enabled for Visa Fleet Tokenization, approximately 92% of smartphones globally are compatible, based on global market share and NFC capability. As one of the initial pilot partners selected by Visa to bring tokenization and mobile wallet support to fleet cards, Highnote, a modern card issuing and embedded finance platform, continues to collaborate closely with Visa to modernize fleet payments through embedded, digital-first experiences.
Scalenut’s AI-powered SEO platform tracks how often and where a brand is cited in AI-generated answers across AI platforms and provides visibility into citation trends, topic coverage, and competitor benchmarking
Scalenut, an AI-powered SEO and content marketing platform, announced the launch of two powerful new tools: GEO Watchtower and Social Upreach, to help marketers stay visible, relevant, and cited across AI-driven search ecosystems. Scalenut’s latest release tackles three urgent challenges for marketing teams in the age of AI search. First, it helps brands track how and where they show up in AI-generated content. Second, it supports authority-building by making it easier to earn citations that matter to both Google and generative engines. Third, it improves engagement by tapping into high-signal conversations on platforms like Reddit — a key source of data for large language models. Instead of juggling multiple tools, teams can now manage AI visibility, content strategy, and user-generated content from a single platform.The new tools are designed specifically for AI-first search environments: GEO Watchtower: Tracks how often and where a brand is cited in AI-generated answers across AI platforms with GEO Watchtower. It provides visibility into citation trends, topic coverage, and competitor benchmarking. These are insights that traditional SEO dashboards don’t offer. Social Upreach: Reddit and other open platforms feed directly into large language model training data. Social Upreach helps brands identify high-signal conversations and engage in them strategically, improving their presence in both social spaces and AI-generated outputs. These tools work together to give marketers the visibility, control, and strategic direction they need in a fast-changing AI search landscape. They help bridge the gap between traditional SEO and the new era of generative discovery.
FTC data reveals the number of older adults (60 and above) who said they lost $10,000 or more to impersonation scams quadrupled between 2020 and 2024, while the number who lost more than $100,000 increased eightfold
A growing number of older adults are losing large sums of money to impersonation scams, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The number of people 60 and over who said they lost $10,000 or more to this form of fraud quadrupled between 2020 and 2024, while the number who lost more than $100,000 increased eightfold, the FTC said. In this form of fraud, scammers impersonate government agencies or businesses, contact consumers to alert them to a fake problem involving their accounts or their identity, and try to persuade them to transfer money to “keep it safe.” The scammers try to create a sense of urgency by telling consumers that their accounts are being used by someone else, that their Social Security number or other information is being used to commit crimes, or that their online accounts have been hacked. After persuading consumers to transfer their money, deposit cash into bitcoin ATMs, or hand cash or gold to couriers, the scammers steal those assets. “While younger people report losing money to these imposters too, reports of losses in the tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars are much more likely to be filed by older adults, and those numbers have soared,” the FTC said in a Consumer Protection Data Spotlight.
NEXA Mortgage partners with Tidalwave to bring Agentic AI platform to brokers including hallucination-free AI communication through mortgage contextualization technology and dual automated underwriting system (AUS) processing
NEXA Mortgage and Tidalwave announced a strategic partnership that will give NEXA’s 3,200 brokers access to Tidalwave’s agentic AI technology platform. Tidalwave’s SOLO platform offers comprehensive mortgage automation capabilities including intelligent lead qualification, automated document processing, real-time underwriting support, multilingual client communication, hallucination-free AI communication through patent-pending mortgage contextualization technology and dual automated underwriting system (AUS) processing, which simultaneously runs Fannie Mae’s DU and Freddie Mac’s LPA. Tidalwave integrates with Plaid, Argyle, Truv and ICE Mortgage Technology to automate income, employment and asset verification, reducing redundant paperwork and processes. As a result, Tidalwave said lenders have automated up to 70% of manual tasks, cut costs by as much as $1,500 per loan and freed loan officers from repetitive administrative work. “Our AI-powered platform allows brokers to perform one-touch underwriting checks, raising the bar for efficiency across the mortgage industry,” said Diane Yu, founder and CEO of Tidalwave. “NEXA’s forward thinking approach and dedication to innovation make them the ideal partner to pioneer this breakthrough technology.” The NEXA-Tidalwave partnership also enhances the borrower experience, Kortas said, with reduced application anxiety via agentic AI guidance, improved security through encrypted digital document storage, faster approval timelines through automated integration and a native mobile application providing real-time updates. NEXA is implementing Tidalwave’s SOLO through Bevri.ai, an independent AI solutions provider that partnered with Tidalwave to deliver comprehensive mortgage automation to the brokerage industry.
Orion and GiftingNetwork integrate to empower advisors with branded DAF platforms, facilitating multigenerational giving and tax-efficient philanthropic planning via modern, mobile-first technology
Orion, a premier provider of transformative wealthtech solutions powering the growth of financial advisors and the enterprise firms that serve them, and GiftingNetwork, provider of comprehensive philanthropic solutions, announced an integration partnership that empowers Orion advisors to offer personalized, white-labeled donor-advised fund (DAF) solutions that drive deeper family engagement, align wealth with values, and retain assets across generations. Unlike traditional DAF offerings, GiftingNetwork enables Orion advisors to create their own firm-branded DAF experience, backed by a growing network of DAF sponsors and charities and supported by cutting-edge, mobile-first technology. Advisors gain full control over the philanthropic journey, offering clients a values-based extension of their financial plan with potential tax benefits, such as donating appreciated assets without incurring capital gains taxes and securing immediate charitable deductions. Orion advisors can now launch white-labeled DAFs, facilitate multigenerational giving conversations, and serve nonprofit clients with tailored capabilities. These offerings further Orion’s commitment to delivering modern portfolio impact, combining behavioral finance, risk management, and personalized planning to align portfolios with each client’s goals, values, and emotional drivers. GiftingNetwork’s platform combines intuitive donor experiences with advisor-facing reporting dashboards, grant workflows, and philanthropic consulting. GiftingNetwork is part of Orion’s Premier Partnership Program, a strategic initiative to collaborate with select industry leaders to deliver cutting-edge solutions for advisors.
Deutsche Bank goes live with Swift’s new API-driven Instant Cash Reporting (ICR) tool that delivers corporates immediate, on-demand access to real-time account and balance information with a single, standardised connection using ISO 20022 data model
Deutsche Bank has gone live with Swift’s new API-driven Instant Cash Reporting (ICR) tool for accessing real-time account and balance information with a single, standardised connection. As part of Deutsche Bank’s expanding API capabilities, ICR delivers immediate, on-demand financial data access to corporate clients through the Swift infrastructure. Spain-based energy firm Iberdrola is first client to implement ICR in its treasury. Through ICR the bank’s clients can collect real-time account and balance data via a single access point using the ISO 20022 data model and secure JSON format. Swift acts as the central connector, routing API pull requests from corporates to Deutsche Bank. eutsche Bank responds with standardised account data in JSON format, tailored to the corporate’s selected accounts or full account set, based on the associated Swift BIC. Johnny Grimes, head, corporate ash product, Deutsche Bank, says: “ICR addresses the key demand of corporates for multi bank solutions and consistent standards in the API space to simplify adoption.” ICR is currently accessible to Swift-connected corporates and financial institutions. Deutsche Bank says it welcomes other banks and corporates joining initiative to support scaling up the usage of multi-bank API solutions.
Tapjacking and the TapTrap threat lets an app without any permissions at all can abuse screen animations to open another screen without the user knowing, turn it invisible, and get them to unknowingly click on a permission prompt
Philipp Beer, Marco Squarcina and Martina Lindorfer, researchers from the Security and Privacy Group at TU Wien Informatics in Austria, and Sebastian Roth from the University of Bayreuth in Germany, have revealed with their research into Tapjacking and the TapTrap threat. In developing TapTrap, the researchers have demonstrated how an app without any permissions at all can abuse screen animations to open another screen without the user knowing, turn it invisible, and get them to unknowingly click on a permission prompt. This method of executing a transparent action with an invisible malicious one underneath is new and dangerous. Whereas, ordinarily, when the screen changes in Android, you would expect to see an animation, maybe a sliding or fading effect at one screen changes to another, a TapTrap attack can make the new screen “fully transparent, keeping it hidden from you,” the researcher said. “Any taps you make during this animation go to the hidden screen,” they continued, “not the visible app.” The app could then get you to tap areas of the screen that “correspond to sensitive actions on the hidden screen,” the researchers explained, “allowing it to perform actions without your knowledge.” Actions like, for example, enabling the device administrator permission, which can let an app remotely wipe your phone.
Infobip taps NumHub’s API-driven cloud-based SaaS tech to offer Branded Calling ID (BCID) solution that integrates Rich Call Data (RCD) and FCC-mandated auth by streamlining all aspects of BCID registration, onboarding, vetting, billing, and reporting
Infobip has expanded its partnership with NumHub, to offer Branded Calling ID™ (BCID) as part of their Voice product solution. Infobip has adopted NumHub’s API-driven cloud-based SaaS solution streamlining all aspects of BCID registration, onboarding, vetting, billing, and reporting. As a valued partner, Infobip will engage enterprise businesses, empowering them to own their brand identity through the platform’s simplified BCID adoption process. This development comes at a crucial time, aligning with the FCC’s Eighth Report and Order, which encourages the industry to proactively implement Rich Call Data display with branded calling solutions that are supported in the mandated STIR/SHAKEN framework. “Branded calling helps businesses to improve answer rates and ROI, while keeping customer satisfaction at the forefront of each interaction,” said Ivan Ostojić, Chief Business Officer at Infobip. Branded Calling ID (BCID) is an industry-adopted, CTIA-governed framework designed to restore trust in phone calls by enabling verified businesses to display their brand name, logo, call reason, and number directly on consumer devices. BCID integrates Rich Call Data (RCD) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) FCC-mandated STIR/SHAKEN authentication, ensuring that only legitimate, authenticated and vetted businesses can display branded caller ID information. By leveraging cryptographic signatures and industry-standard governance, BCID protects businesses from spoofing, enhances call answer rates, and ensures consumers can confidently identify and engage with trusted brands. Unlike traditional branded calling models that operate under vendor-controlled ecosystems, BCID is an open, standardized solution built to serve the entire telecom industry including enterprises, CSPs, OSPs, UCaaS/CCaaS providers, and consumers.
YELO Software’s AI-driven private markets intelligence platform delivers accurate, CRM-ready contact data across private equity and portfolio decision-makers and a dynamic map of firms, sectors, and interconnections to reveal hidden investment opportunities
YELO Software, has launched its full-service offerings alongside YELOsphere Connect the first module of its proprietary, AI-driven private markets intelligence platform designed to help teams identify and connect with key players across private equity and portfolio companies. Private equity teams work in high-stakes, low-visibility environments. YELOsphere is built to change that — delivering verified data, strategic insights, and AI-driven foresight in three stages: 1) YELOsphere Connect (Live) – Accurate, CRM-ready contact data on PE and portfolio decision-makers. 2) YELOsphere Insights (2025) – A dynamic map of firms, sectors, and interconnections to reveal hidden opportunities. 3) YELOsphere Analytics (In development) – Interactive dashboards and predictive strategy tools, powered by AI. YELOsphere Connect enables investment and marketing teams to move faster with cleaner, more actionable data, powered by smart automation and AI-driven data validation. Continuously validated contacts across PE firms and portco executive roles; Smart filters by firm, title, sector, and investment profile; Decision-grade contact intelligence across investors and operators; Built to move teams from research to outreach, faster.
With Perplexity’s new web browser a user can directly ask which website ships faster than others; it can also submit relevant responses to different types of questions after assessing multi-site information on its own
Perplexity recently announced the launch of Comet, a web browser built for the modern internet which, aims to be a more responsive and fluid option for modern internet users. Comet, serves to be an intelligent interface that works in tune with the user’s mind. It helps ease the challenges of switching between dozens of sites, applications and website to create a more seamless experience. The Comet intelligent assistant allows a user to focus on what really matters while taking care of actual browsing sessions. For instance, a user can directly ask Comet which website provides the ability to ship something they need faster than others. It can also connect the dots and submit relevant responses to different types of questions after assessing multi-site information on its own. Comet does away with complex workflows. Instead of simply searching for information, Comet allows users quick analysis at their fingertips and makes the internet an extension of their mind. One of the best things about Comet: accurate and trustworthy responses. Comet allows users to do a range of things at a faster pace than before, from compare insurance coverage plans to analyzing which technology is best to invest in for a business.