Now in its fifth year, the Finovate Sustainability & Inclusion Scholarship Program has helped bring dozens of innovative fintech startups to the attention of banks, credit unions, investors, and journalists. This year, for FinovateFall, the Finovate Scholarship Program is proud to support six fintechs that are innovating in fields such as lending, customer service, small business financial management, fraud prevention, and biometric-enabled commerce.
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- Basware has agreed to acquire payment fraud prevention company Trustpair, with the transaction expected to close later in 2026.
- The acquisition will extend Basware’s invoice lifecycle assurance through payment, combining its AP automation capabilities with Trustpair’s AI-driven account validation and payment fraud prevention.
- The deal reflects the convergence of AP automation, payments, and fraud prevention as AI-driven fraud increases demand for end-to-end transaction...
- Fraud prevention and identity verification company Fideo Intelligence has launched its investigative intelligence platform Fideo Lens.
- Fideo Lens enables fraud and financial crime teams to discover hidden relationships between identities, accounts, devices, and behaviors at a time when fraud attacks increasingly involve multiple connected entities and organizations.
- Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Fideo Intelligence made its Finovate debut at FinovateFall 2025 in New York.
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- Nayax plans to acquire smart parking technology provider IPS Group to expand its presence in parking and curb management.
- The acquisition will combine IPS’ parking technology and 250,000-space footprint with Nayax’s payments infrastructure and global reach, creating new expansion and cross-sell opportunities.
- The deal reflects Nayax’s “land and expand” M&A strategy and the broader convergence of payments and vertical software as payment providers move beyond transaction...
Digital payments and data security company Bluefin announced it has partnered with Visa on a new card-present acceptance tool. The new offering combines Bluefin's PCI-validated point-to-point encryption (P2PE) solution with Visa Acceptance Solutions to bring increased security to in-person payment acceptance.
The in-store payment acceptance tool offers merchants, software providers, and enterprises a unified approach to accepting payments by combining payment acceptance, PCI-validated...
