Splitit and Ant International’s Antom have partnered to enable merchants to offer their customers a card-linked installment payment option. The companies will launch this offering in the United States and then expand it globally. This payment option is powered by Splitit’s embedded white-label platform that enables card-linked installment payments using consumers’ existing credit, and Antom’s payment processing platform and merchant network. For consumers, the card-linked installment payment option will provide purchasing flexibility, with no credit checks, no applications, no hidden fees and no change to their credit card relationship. For merchants, it will provide a way to offer flexible payments at scale, with less complexity and higher approval rates. This option will help improve conversion rates and increase average order value. Splitit and Antom will also simplify international payment processing for merchants who engage in cross-border commerce. “This collaboration supports our commitment to helping merchants achieve sustainable growth across international markets,” Gary Liu, general manager of Antom at Ant International, said
Deliverect’s integration of FreedomPay’s gateway technology to enable restaurants to streamline their payment systems through a single, unified platform and simplify reconciliation, reporting, and managing refunds across multiple processors
Deliverect, announces a strategic worldwide partnership with FreedomPay, an innovative leader in Next Level Commerce™. The new partnership will provide white-labeled payment orchestration capabilities to the Deliverect ecosystem, enabling multiple payment providers across various channels and locations with ease, a problem which many restaurant operators face today. By integrating FreedomPay’s gateway technology, Deliverect will offer restaurants a white-labeled solution that enhances both e-commerce and in-store payments, helping multi-location Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs) and enterprise restaurant chains worldwide streamline their payment systems through a single, unified platform. The partnership simplifies reconciliation, reporting, and managing refunds across multiple processors. Restaurant operators can now access valuable insights into guest purchasing history, shaping loyalty programs and cross-channel marketing promotions through better data consistency and visibility. Additional benefits for restaurant operators include: Provider Flexibility: Maintains the ability for restaurants to choose and work with their preferred payment processors (Fiserv, WorldPay, Chase, Elavon, Global Payments, Heartland, Amex, Tsys, Stripe, and more) Cost Optimization: Enables access to competitively negotiated payment rates while reducing operational overhead. “The integration with FreedomPay gives Deliverect the ability to unify siloed systems across their entire estate,” added Chris Kronenthal, President of FreedomPay.
Payoneer is positioning itself as critical platform for SMBs to transfer and manage funds through support for PayPal payments, real-time data syncing with NetSuite’s ERP system and smarter FX tools including real-time alerts and target rate conversions
Payoneer is increasingly integrating itself into the core operations of its users, particularly the fast-growing global SMBs and digital-first enterprises it serves. The company’s recent product updates demonstrate its ambitions, positioning itself as a critical platform for how global businesses transfer and manage funds. A key part of this update is Payoneer’s new integration with NetSuite. It allows for real-time data syncing between Payoneer and NetSuite’s ERP system, helping businesses cut down on manual uploads and reduce the typical end-of-month reconciliation workload. In addition, Payoneer now supports PayPal payments globally, giving businesses another option for how they get paid. Combined with features like unified payment requests and automated invoicing, these tools are meant to ease the operational burden, particularly for smaller teams managing payments with limited resources. The third product update enables local spending in Japanese Yen via Payoneer Card and smarter FX tools (including real-time alerts and target rate conversions). This hints at a broader strategy: helping businesses manage global money flows with the same ease they expect from domestic tools.
Audiense’s MCP connectors to offer users a no-code and customizable interface to interact with audience data directly within the generative AI tools and generate outputs like persona summaries, segment comparisons, content calendars
Audiense, the audience intelligence platform, unveiled its MCP (Model Context Protocol) connectors – seamless integrations that bring audience insights directly into AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT. The new MCP connectors act as real-time bridges between all Audiense consumer intelligence products (including Insights, SOPRISM, Demand, and Tweet Binder) and leading generative AI platforms. Instead of pulling data manually or scanning through insights, users can interact with audience data directly within the AI tools they’re already using and generate outputs like: Persona summaries, Segment comparisons, Full-funnel campaign strategies, Content calendars, White space opportunities , Creative concepts and briefs . Audiense’s MCP connectors are designed to support the way modern teams operate, helping them move faster, think deeper, and create better. For Marketers: Build campaign strategies, messaging frameworks, and creative briefs on the fly. For Analysts: Compare audience segments, spot trends, and test hypotheses without touching code. For Strategists: Uncover white space, surface opportunities, and turn audience insight into competitive advantage. For Content & Creative Teams: Generate content calendars, brainstorm ideas, and adapt tone of voice to each persona. What sets MCP apart: Fully customizable: Ask any question, your way Platform-neutral: Pull insights from across Audiense products No-code: Built for everyone, not just technical teams Outcome-driven: Get briefs, slides, summaries and strategies, not just data Secure by design: Authenticate through your existing credentials and navigate data just as you would, safely and seamlessly Interoperable: Connect with other MCP connectors to build smart workflows –like instantly turning a report summary into a Canva presentation
Intuit’s new payment feature allows users to connect their bank account to a pay now button on invoices, so that their customers can complete a direct payment in just a few clicks and auto-reconciles payments
Intuit has launched a series of new product innovations in Intuit QuickBooks, that deliver a more intelligent and automated accounting experience for businesses and their accountants across international markets. QuickBooks Payments, now available in beta, allows QuickBooks users to connect their bank account to a pay now button on invoices, so that their customers can complete a direct payment in just a few clicks. Payments are automatically reconciled, keeping books up to date with minimal manual effort. This new functionality is fully integrated with QuickBooks Online and works across all devices, supporting quicker settlement times, and with competitive transaction fees. Intuit’s new AI-powered bank feed in QuickBooks learns from users’ previous actions and suggesting categories based on historical patterns. Each suggestion is accompanied by a clear explanation, allowing users to review, approve, or amend with confidence—streamlining workflows and improving accuracy. This enhanced feed offers more accurate categorisation suggestions, allows for inline editing of fields (like category, supplier, class, location, and product/service), and provides payee suggestions with the ability to add new payees directly from the bank feed. This significantly boosts efficiency and provides full transparency on why each suggestion was made, allowing users to maintain control, whilst leveraging AI as much or as little as is needed. Out-of-the-box support for depreciation methods: Intuit has streamlined and automated how its customers track the depreciation of fixed assets in QuickBooks Online Advanced, which now supports reducing balance depreciation, expanding its fixed asset capabilities to better meet the needs of finance teams. Previously limited to straight-line depreciation, users can now apply the reducing balance method by entering a rate, with QuickBooks automatically handling the calculations and updating reports.
This approach provides a more accurate reflection of asset value over time. By automating this popular depreciation calculation and providing new filtering options of categories in the asset register, Intuit helps customers reduce manual errors, maintain compliance with accounting standards, and supports real-time reporting. Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) enhancements: QuickBooks Advanced, Plus, Essentials and Simple Start plans now allow users to automatically bulk-send monthly CIS statements to subcontractors directly after filing. This update cuts hours of repetitive work each month, helping users stay organised and audit-ready. To further support compliance, new CIS reminders enable users to schedule email alerts ahead of each month’s deadline. Admin users within QuickBooks can set up reminders and receive the alerts via email, making it easier to submit returns on time and avoid late filing penalties. Users can check subcontractor status within the platform, store Government Gateway credentials securely, and view the date of verification, to help users know when re-verification is due. By reducing manual steps and consolidating key CIS tasks, these features offer a more efficient, compliant way to manage construction industry obligations.
Walker Sands’s AI Domain Impact Index offers insight into how earned media influences GenAI search results by assigning a 0–100 score to any web domain based organic search, inclusion, on-page, real-time retrieval, and citation appearance in the Generative AI Era
Walker Sands has launched the AI Domain Impact Index to help B2B organizations maximize PR effectiveness in today’s GenAI-powered buyer journeys. The Index enables smarter earned media efforts to drive brand discoverability in GenAI-powered buyer journeys. As Google’s search dominance declines and GenAI platforms drive more traffic, the channels for reaching B2B audiences are shifting rapidly. Strategic media placements play a critical role in shaping brand visibility and trust in AI-assisted buyer journeys. The AI Domain Impact Index offers insight into how earned media influences GenAI search results and how brands appear in AI-driven decision-making workflows. The Index assigns a 0–100 score to any web domain based on five weighted criteria: organic search, inclusion, on-page, real-time retrieval, and citation appearance. The scores within the Impact Index evolve over time, as GenAI models continually adjust how they prioritize sources and media publications to optimize for Long-Long Media Moments (LLMs). The results are encouraging: 51% of placements were categorized as high impact, meaning they are highly likely to influence GenAI search responses; 44% were moderately impactful, and only 4% fell into the low-impact tier.
Kraft Heinz partners music entertainment company Live Nation to promote its products at music festivals and concerts by integrating them into menu offerings at 80 select venues
Kraft Heinz has entered into a multi-year agreement with music entertainment company Live Nation to bring its products to concertgoers across the country. As part of the deal, the CPG heavyweight will be the Official Condiment and Official Mac & Cheese of 80 select venues in the Live Nation portfolio. Products including Heinz Ketchup, Mustard and Relish, along with Kraft Deluxe Mac & Cheese, will be integrated into menu offerings at the Live Nation venues. The partnership will kick off at the Lollapalooza music festival from July 31 to August 3. “By partnering with Live Nation, we’re able to create unforgettable experiences that bring fans together through food, live music, and entertainment,” said Peter Hall, president of elevation, North America at Kraft Heinz. “As part of our company strategy, we continue to look for ways to engage with consumers anywhere they’re eating outside of the kitchen – including at music festivals, concerts, and more. Our partnership with Live Nation is a great example of this in action, helping us turn up the flavor and highlight our beloved sauce portfolio to music fans nationwide.”
LendingClub’s account feature that offers customers 2% cash back for on-time loan payments made from checking account and 1% cash back when using the associated debit card for qualifying purchases drives 6X jump in daily account openings
LendingClub said that two recent additions to its mobile-first platform are driving more account openings and more visits to the company’s app. CEO Scott Sanborn said the company’s latest innovation, LevelUp Checking, has increased the number of checking accounts opened each day by six times since its launch in June. LevelUp Checking offers customers 2% cash back for on-time loan payments made from this checking account and 1% cash back when using the associated debit card for qualifying purchases. “We’re rewarding borrowers for their financial discipline while allowing us to benefit from a stickier relationship,” Sanborn said. “While it’s still early, the initial results are encouraging.” The target customer for LevelUp Checking and its rewards program has a high FICO score and a high individual income.
Trulioo suggests “digital agent passport” to keep bots honest at checkout- a tamper-proof credential showing who built the agent, who it represents, and what permissions it has
Trulioo and PayOS recently published a white paper that advances the concept of Know Your Agent (KYA). At its core is the “Digital Agent Passport,” a tamper-proof credential showing who built the agent, who it represents, and what permissions it has. The passport includes five checkpoints: provenance, user binding, permission scope, real-time behavior telemetry, and continuous risk scoring—creating a verifiable chain of trust at machine speed. The white paper proposes independent Digital Passport Authorities to issue, sign, and revoke passports, much like SSL certificate authorities. A federated directory would ensure interoperability across borders and marketplaces, with real-time revocation lists. KYA would combine Trulioo’s identity graph and fraud detection with agent behavior monitoring. If an agent exceeds its permissions or behaves suspiciously, its passport could be flagged or revoked instantly. For merchants, KYA offers tighter audit trails and fewer manual exceptions. For FinTechs and retailers, it enables higher straight-through processing while guarding against fraud. Trulioo urges support for a federated directory of “white list agents,” ensuring payloads are signed and trusted. Each passport includes cryptographic proof of the developer’s identity and a hash of the latest code commit, giving merchants real-time visibility into agent behavior.
Revolut has extended access to its retail account for 16-17 year olds, leaving them free from adult supervision as they become financially independent
Revolut has extended access to its retail account for 16-17 year olds, leaving them free from adult supervision in kids accounts as they become financially independent. Graduating from the youngest offering, aimed at 6-15 year olds, older teens will be granted access to most of Revolut’s key features, Users will be able to get their salaries paid into their account, budget with pockets and enjoy the same foreign exchange benefits when spending abroad. Certain services including investing and crypto trading will not be accessible. Carlo Spada, head of youth products at Revolut says: “Whether they’re earning their first payslip, heading out without their parents for the first time, or saving for something important, we believe 16-17 year olds deserve access to some of the same powerful tools our adult customers rely on. Each feature is designed to help customers of all ages grow in money confidence and we’re now empowering our younger customers even further as they prepare to head into adulthood.” At the same time, Revolut’s youth account — previously known as Revolut <18 — will now be labelled ‘Kids & Teens’ in the Revolut app. This account continues to service users aged 6-15 under parental supervision.