B2B checkout has a long-standing reputation for being clunky, slow, and a few decades behind consumer commerce. But Samsung’s latest collaboration could finally give business buyers something closer to the smooth, modern experience they’ve been asking for.
Month-end close is the accounting equivalent of pulling an all-nighter—necessary, stressful, and rarely pleasant. Truewind, an AI-powered digital accountant, wants to finally change that rhythm. The company has announced a new integration with Sage Intacct, now as an approved partner in the Sage Marketplace.
Tax operations may never be glamorous, but they’re about to get a long-overdue upgrade. Broadridge Financial Solutions and Xceptor have announced a strategic partnership that aims to automate the full global tax relief and tax reclaim lifecycle—an area notorious for fragmented workflows, inconsistent documentation, and regulatory whiplash.
The future of financial intelligence may not live in your banking app—it might sit inside ChatGPT. Intuit, the company behind TurboTax, QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp, has entered a multi-year strategic partnership with OpenAI, aiming to turn ChatGPT into a hands-on financial action hub for both consumers and businesses.
Artificial intelligence may be rushing into the finance back office at full speed, but trust isn’t exactly riding shotgun. A new Billtrust study surveying 500 finance leaders and C-suite executives paints a picture of a sector eager to automate—but increasingly nervous about what AI might enable in the wrong hands.
When most advisory firms talk about AI, they mean chatbot experiments, bolt-on automation, or an analytics upgrade that barely improves the Monday workflow. Intellectus Partners’ newly spun-out Intellebox.ai aims much higher: a full-stack AI “Operating System” built to rewire the advisory firm from the inside out.
Hong Kong’s regulated crypto market just gained a major new pillar—and this time, it isn’t a startup or exchange making waves, but an international banking group.
Wealth management platforms hit growth milestones all the time, but few do it with the kind of momentum Genesis Wealth is showing. The firm—an LPL Financial non-OSJ branch office and a rising name in advisor-focused independence—just crossed $2.5 billion in assets under management, beating its own 2025 targets well ahead of schedule.
Crypto exchanges don’t usually move quietly, but KuCoin’s latest expansion into Australia lands with unusually deliberate weight. The global trading platform—one of the largest by user count—has appointed James Pinch as its Australian Managing Director and opened a new headquarters in Sydney’s CBD, backed by a local leadership team dedicated to compliance, cybersecurity, operations, and product development.
Webull is doubling down on futures—and it wants enterprise-grade plumbing under the hood. The online brokerage’s Singapore arm has tapped CQG, a long-established trading-tech provider, to supply global order-routing and infrastructure for its new futures offering.
