This week's edition of Finovate Global is a hat tip to the companies from outside the US that are traveling to New York to demo their latest fintech innovations live on stage at FinovateFall 2026.
It is true that our European conference tends to feature the highest proportion of non-US companies. That said, FinovateFall is a popular destination for emerging and established fintechs looking to showcase their solutions to an audience of banking and financial services professionals and...
With FinovateFall 2026 less than a week away, there's not much time left to make your last-minute preparations before the conference begins on September 9 (September 8 for those lucky delegates attending one of our exclusive Leaders+ or Credit Union Spotlight pre-events!).
We're looking forward to hosting more than 2,000 senior-level decision-makers, including more than 1,000 from banks and financial institutions, and more than 300 from credit unions and community banks. Add to that our...
- EMVCo released a draft framework for card-based agentic payments designed to promote secure, interoperable, and scalable transactions involving AI agents.
- The framework introduces Intent Services, a shared layer that would help payment participants register, retrieve, reference, and update consumer-authorized intent as it changes over time.
- EMVCo is exploring additional agentic payment capabilities, including Know Your Agent (KYA) and Agentic Transaction Indicators, while seeking...
- Banking transformation company Finzly has launched its AI-powered security and assurance layer Assure.
- Assure provides banks and other financial institutions using Finzly's BankOS with AI-powered security, compliance monitoring, and operational resilience that is native to the infrastructure they rely on.
- Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Finzly is a two-time Best of Show winner. The company most recently demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2022.
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- Cross-border money transfer and top-up firm Félix Pago (Félix) has raised $200 million in combined equity and debt funding.
- The equity component, in the amount of $87 million, was led by Andreessen Horowitz. The General Catalyst Customer Value Fund provided a $113 million credit facility.
- Félix will use the funding to scale its existing remittance business and to support the expansion of its product suite to include lending and savings. The Miami, Florida-based company made its...
