Merit Financial Advisors, a Georgia-based financial advisory firm, has announced the acquisition of Safeguard Wealth Management. This strategic move enhances Merit’s digital marketing capabilities, particularly through Safeguard’s successful YouTube platform, and adds $597 million in assets to Merit’s portfolio.
Ashland Place Finance LLC, a commercial aviation financing platform, has successfully completed two new financing facilities for Sirius Aviation Capital Holdings Limited. These facilities cover two A320-200 aircraft currently leased to Peach Aviation in Japan and Volaris in Mexico.
Pearl Diver Credit Company Inc. reported its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025. The quarter reflected a mix of increased investment income and higher expenses, along with market-driven unrealized losses affecting CLO equity valuations.
Vine Financial, a commercial lending accelerator for banks and credit unions, is giving lenders a sharper, faster way to assess borrowers. The company has expanded its AI-powered document reading platform to process audited and interim financial statements, in addition to tax returns — a move designed to streamline underwriting, reduce manual data entry, and improve the accuracy of credit decisions.
Visa and Transcard are joining forces to modernize the freight industry’s financial backbone. The two companies have launched a next-generation embedded finance platform that combines Visa’s virtual card infrastructure with Transcard’s payment orchestration technology—delivering digital credit, faster reconciliation, and intelligent cash-flow management to freight forwarders and airlines.
The world of on-chain finance is about to get a lot more autonomous. Kuvi.ai, the platform pioneering what it calls Agentic Finance, has officially announced the launch of its native utility token, $KUVI, with a Token Generation Event (TGE) slated for November 6, 2025 and an immediate exchange listing on MEXC.
In Hong Kong’s fast-evolving digital-asset market, the bar for compliance just got higher. YAX, a wholly owned subsidiary of UP Fintech Holding Ltd (Nasdaq: TIGR), has partnered with Solidus Labs to strengthen its crypto-native transaction monitoring framework—part of its push to meet the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (HKSFC) standards for licensed Virtual Asset Trading Platforms (VATPs).
The convergence of artificial intelligence and digital payments just got a serious upgrade. Pay3, a stablecoin payments platform built for enterprises, has unveiled its Agentic Payments Platform—a system that lets AI agents autonomously execute, optimize, and settle financial transactions in real time.
What payment innovations such as embedded finance, BNPL, blockchain, or biometric authentication do you see having the most impact on the ecosystem? With the explosion of AI leading to a significant surge in identity theft and deepfake scams online, tools that help ensure stability during periods of rapid growth will likely be considered the innovators….
Strategy Inc (Nasdaq: STRF/STRC/STRK/STRD/MSTR) is making a splash in the crypto-finance space with plans to launch an initial public offering of 3.5 million shares of 10% Series A Perpetual Stream Preferred Stock (STRE Stock). The IPO, registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, aims to bolster corporate coffers for general purposes—including acquiring bitcoin—and support ongoing working capital needs.
In a move that could shake up the co-branded credit card landscape, Fidem Financial has teamed up with Transformco and Shop Your Way® (SYW) to launch the Shop Your Way® 5321 Visa® Credit Card—a card that puts real-life spending at the center of its value proposition.
At Hong Kong FinTech Week 2025, Tencent Cloud made it clear that the future of financial services will be powered by the convergence of AI and cloud technologies. The cloud division of tech giant Tencent used the event to unveil its expanding portfolio of fintech innovations—tools already reshaping how banks, insurers, and digital lenders modernize their operations.
Yiren Digital (NYSE: YRD) is doubling down on artificial intelligence to define the next era of fintech. At Hong Kong Fintech Week 2025, the company’s Chief Financial Officer, William Hui, unveiled an ambitious AI transformation strategy built around two proprietary technologies—Zhiyu LLM, a large language model optimized for financial services, and Magicube, an agentic AI platform that enables autonomous collaboration among specialized AI agents.
