Coastal Financial, which has added Pliant as a client to support the German fintech's U.S. ambitions, says there's still a need for partners to ease compliance and automation.

The company plans to use the funding to expand its global banking services, including using stablecoins for cross-border payments.

The New Jersey bank has attributed a 60% reduction in document-related task time over the past three months to an AI agent from fintech provider nCino.

The stablecoin issuer has received final approval from the federal agency to open a trust bank division for custody of digital assets.

Anthropic appoints Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke to its long-term benefit trust, JPMorganChase signs a multiyear agreement to be the official jersey patch and banking partner of the Dallas Mavericks, Brazil-based Nubank receives full regulatory approval to open Nu Mexico, and more in this week's banking news roundup.

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The fintech sponsor bank plans to offer digital asset services.

The Museum of American Finance opened a free, Smithsonian-affiliated home in Boston's Seaport on Friday, betting it can make money history stick.

The parent company for crypto exchange Kraken bought the stablecoin payments fintech as it awaits a response to its national trust bank charter application.

The fintech said that Senior Vice President of Group Finance Hwa Tsao would become the company's interim chief financial officer effective Sept. 1 following the departure of CFO Ethan Tandowsky at the end of August. Separately, Gayathri Rajan will assume the role of chief product officer, effective immediately.

Wise grew its net revenue 19% year over year to $2.5 billion in its fiscal 2026, aided by increased deposits, cross-border volume and spending on the Wise card. It's the latest sign that interest in cross-border payments and multicurrency accounts is heating up.

X Money includes rudimentary functions like deposits and P2P transfers. But it's also laying groundwork for a potential move into agentic commerce and broader financial services — which analysts say is necessary for the app to thrive in a crowded market.

Taktile's backers now include Goldman, Tiger Global and Index Ventures, lifting its total raised to $184 million since 2020.

The global payments platform, which recently expanded to the U.S., also plans to build new autonomous finance and agentic commerce products.

The $44 billion fintech also appointed a new CTO and head of engineering as it foregrounds artificial intelligence in strategic decision-making.

The Carefull tool integrated into Edward Jones accounts aggregates client accounts and monitors for fraud or mistakes.

The international bank software company divested the remainder of its bank core software after selling off its Phoenix core system earlier this month.

Kasisto developed one of the first conversational AI chatbots for banks, and the deal brings its technology to Backbase's new AI-based bank operating system.

As fintech firms rush to take advantage of a new regulatory attitude toward bank charter applications, their leaders are about to step into a very new compliance environment. They need to understand what they're getting themselves into.

Banks that don't embrace embedded payments now risk losing out to more nimble rivals in the near future.