- Payments profitability intelligence platform Torus and international advisory company SRM have partnered to help acquirers recover billions of dollars by improving fee transparency.
- The partnership comes as a white paper from Torus highlights the challenges faced by acquirers due to growing fee scheme complexity and increased regulatory scrutiny.
- Torus most recently demoed its technology at FinovateEurope 2025 in London. SRM made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2023 in New...
- American Express launched a 2.95% APY Business Savings account with no minimum balance or monthly maintenance fee.
- Amex is deepening its business banking offering with card-rewards deposits and a forthcoming Gusto-powered payroll solution with AI-driven insights.
- Amex is positioning itself to compete with fintechs like Mercury, Brex, and Bluevine as a more complete financial operating system for businesses.
American Express is bolstering its offerings today with the launch...
With PayNearMe's acquisition of Marr Labs and Envestnet's acquisition of Vestmark, we continue to see evidence that fintechs are conducting M&A at a faster pace than banks in 2026.
Payment experience management company PayNearMe has acquired Marr Labs' technology and hired its 'key employees.' Founded in 2023 and headquartered in San Francisco, Marr Labs builds AI agents that provide compliant voice automation, document intelligence, intelligent workflow orchestration, and real-time...
This is a sponsored blog post by AI software company ElevenLabs.
The first generation of automation in financial services was a cost decision, and customers could tell.
Decision tree chatbots and IVR menus reduced volume by deflecting it, and the experience taught a generation of policyholders and account holders to say “agent” and wait for the queue.
Institutions are adopting AI agents for a different reason:a better category of customer experience: every contact resolved on...
- Agentic AI company Arva AI has launched its Research Lab, a new division dedicated to building models and infrastructure to enable financial institutions to automate high-risk decisions.
- The Lab has produced proprietary models for data enrichment, transaction analysis, and evidence-based reasoning, and infrastructure—AgentCore—that turns analyst insights into backtested, versioned system improvements.
- Founded in 2024, Arva AI made its Finovate debut at FinovateEurope 2026 in...
