09/19/2026
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) on 2026/09/18 16:29 -0400
- Plaid and ID.me are teaming up to help US government agencies verify both benefit recipients’ identities and ownership of the financial accounts receiving payments.
- The partnership combines identity and account verification into a single flow, helping agencies reduce manual processes, duplicate payments, and the risk of funds being diverted.
- Connecting identity with payment destination could help modernize government benefits, enabling legitimate recipients to receive funds...
By Julie Muhn (@julieschicktanz) on 2026/09/17 20:54 -0400
- Coinbase and Stablecore are teaming up to help community and regional banks and credit unions offer digital asset services, including trading, custody, and stablecoin payments.
- The partnership reflects the broader rebundling of financial services, bringing capabilities that once required separate crypto platforms back inside customers’ existing banking relationships.
- Coinbase is positioning itself to benefit either way; it can either own the customer relationship, or it can...
By David Penn on 2026/09/17 13:54 -0400
- AI-powered insurance decisioning firm Earnix launched its Agent Hub this week.
- Integrated within the company's AI Orchestration System, Earnix AIOS, the Agent Hub enables insurance-specific agents to directly access Earnix pricing, underwriting, and customer decision solutions to automate workflows and enhance business performance.
- Headquartered in Boston, Earnix made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2016.
Insurance decisioning firm Earnix unveiled its Agent Hub this...
By David Penn on 2026/09/17 08:09 -0400
Did FinovateFall 2026 reflect a “coming of age” moment for AI?
It is probably too much and too soon to say that the current discourse around AI represents a milestone in–or, much less, a reckoning with–all the challenges and opportunities that AI technology presents. But the split-screen of last week's conference was difficult to ignore: four days (including our Leaders+ pre-conference event) of sober, sophisticated discussion on what needs to be done to take our use of AI to the...
By David Penn on 2026/09/16 14:46 -0400
- Business identity and risk intelligence firm Baselayer has partnered with agentic payments infrastructure company Nevermined.
- The partnership will bring identity verification to agentic payments, enabling agents to obtain the authority they need to make transactions on behalf of users.
- Baselayer was founded in 2023 and made its Finovate debut at FinovateSpring 2026 in San Diego.
A new partnership between Baselayer and Nevermined is helping give AI agents the authority they...
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