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AI Finance Platform Hyphenate, Formerly Maximor, Grows Revenue 86x as Customers Expand Across the Office of the CFO

The New York company, backed by Foundation Capital, says its average customer now runs six of its modules and 40% add more within the first year of their contract.

1 October 2026·1 min read

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Lloyds, NatWest and Barclays Complete First Remortgages Paid in Tokenised Sterling Deposits

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Tokenised Assets Can Now Settle in Central-Bank Money Across the Euro Area

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Stripe Is Becoming the Wallet Behind Competing AI Shopping Agents

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Agentic Commerce Tops the Agenda as Merchant Payments Conference MPE Turns Twenty

The News Desk

Breaking stories and in-depth coverage from across the globe.

Fraudulent Government Requests Led Revolut to Disclose Passports and Bitcoin Records

The requests arrived from a real government agency's own email domain and passed authentication, and neither Revolut nor the notice sent to affected customers on Friday names the agency or says how many people were involved.

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Syria Processes Its First International Card Payment in More Than 15 Years

Revolut Will Run Two Separate EU Banks Instead of One

European Businesses Can Now Accept Stablecoin Payments Through Stripe

Austria's Development Bank Wrote a Green Lending Quota Into Its First Paraguayan Loan

US Retail Investors Gain a FINRA-Regulated Route Into Tokenized Stocks

Opinion & Analysis

Perspectives and deep dives from our contributors.

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Consumers Are Using AI to Shop but Not Yet to Pay

The major card networks are racing to build rails that let software agents buy on their own, even as Visa keeps its own version in a limited pilot and shopper trust trails the technology.

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Fintech Is Pitching AI to Manage Everyday Money at the Kitchen Table

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Canada's Big Banks Are Handing Small-Business Payments to US Owners

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