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Arrangements in which licensed banks let third parties offer accounts and payments under the bank's charter and supervision.
Cross River Bank will let fintech clients send Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin through the same connection as ACH and wires, in a limited number of US states. The speed claims come from the companies' own release.
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KOHO will move billing, servicing and reporting for its upcoming products onto LoanPro's platform and keep product design and the app. Neither source says what LoanPro charges, so the build KOHO avoids cannot yet be priced against the fee.
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SaaScada and Zumo now offer UK banks and wealth managers regulated digital asset services, ahead of a regime expected in October 2027. The pitch is to win back client activity that now sits on outside exchanges.
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Kraken parent Payward is buying Saldo Finance, owner of a Lithuanian bank, at an undisclosed price, with closing expected in 2027. Closing needs regulatory approvals, and one deal is thin evidence that exchanges now buy banks.
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Valley National Bancorp is paying $340 million for Bluevine, whose small-business deposits cost 1.44% against Valley's 2.28% cost of funds. The bank is buying funding for loans that exceed its core deposits, and the price holds up only if Bluevine's balances grow as Valley forecasts.
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Citi took its token service to Japan and the UAE and widened its Coinbase stablecoin deal, chasing what Jane Fraser says is over 70% of client pain points. The Coinbase features start in the US, so what treasurers in Japan and the UAE gain for now is Citi's own token service.
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Chime's proposed purchase of Stride Bank cost its sponsor bank $13.55 a share, even though the Chime contract runs to mid-2028. Valley Bank and Hatch Bank are already sponsoring a different kind of client.
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Nu Global advertises about 3.50% on USDC and 2.20% on EURC, and Sygnum's Swiss bank supplies the conversion, custody and rails behind it. Nubank is buying the licensed layer.
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Chime, Circle and PayTabs agreed to $1.09 billion of acquisitions in a single week, the largest of them Chime buying the bank that has partnered with it for more than seven years. Investors funded the opposite approach the same week.
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CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction co-led a $10 million Series A into a company that reports more than $10 billion of payments processed this year. The volume figure is self-reported, with no client breakdown.
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