Day Air Credit Union has announced a strategic partnership with InvestiFi to deliver a fully embedded digital investing experience to its 54,000 members. Through the partnership, Day Air will integrate InvestiFi’s InvestTech platform directly into its online banking environment, enabling members to trade and invest directly from their deposit accounts. The rollout includes guided investing tools, self-directed trading capabilities and access to digital assets — all within the credit union’s secure ecosystem. Headquartered in Montgomery County, Day Air Credit Union serves businesses and residents across the Miami Valley in southwest Ohio. The not-for-profit financial cooperative manages more than $870 million…
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Institutional digital asset trading continues to evolve toward the operational standards long established in traditional capital markets — where execution, custody and settlement functions remain clearly separated yet seamlessly integrated. However, within the over-the-counter (OTC) crypto market, fragmented infrastructure and manual post-trade processes have historically constrained scalability and heightened counterparty risk. Now, Finery Markets has announced a strategic integration with Fireblocks, leveraging Fireblocks’ custody technology to automate off-exchange trading and settlement workflows for institutional clients. Bridging Execution and Custody The integration links Finery Markets’ Execution Management System (EMS) directly with Fireblocks’ custody and settlement layers, creating a vertically integrated workflow…
L&G’s Ignite platform has completed its first live product API integration with Lloyds Banking Group (LBG), marking a significant step forward in the digital transformation of the UK mortgage market. The integration enables brokers to access LBG’s latest mortgage product data in real time via Ignite, removing the need for manual or batch updates and significantly reducing the risk of advisers working with outdated information. By automating the direct transfer of product data from LBG’s Halifax Intermediaries and BM Solutions brands, the move addresses one of the most persistent friction points in the intermediary journey: data accuracy and speed. Real-time…
ABNB Federal Credit Union has launched a new AI-powered voice assistant, further advancing its digital transformation strategy in partnership with Eltropy, the agentic AI-driven conversations platform built for community financial institutions. The AI Voice solution, internally nicknamed “Digi” by ABNB staff, officially went live on December 16. The rollout follows earlier implementations of Eltropy’s chat and texting solutions earlier in the year. ABNB first selected Eltropy’s platform in March 2025 as part of a strategic initiative to consolidate seven to eight separate vendor systems into a single, unified communications platform. The launch was marked by a company-wide celebration at ABNB’s…
Tangible, a fintech platform enabling hardtech companies to access and manage debt financing, has raised $4.3 million in seed funding led by Pale Blue Dot. The round also saw participation from MMC, Future Positive Capital, Unruly, SDAC, Prototype Capital, and Aperture. The company is tackling a structural financing gap facing hardtech startups — businesses building in areas such as energy transition, compute infrastructure, transport, robotics, and reindustrialisation. While these sectors are central to addressing some of the defining macroeconomic challenges of this generation, their capital needs often fall outside the traditional venture capital playbook. BlackRock estimates that $68 trillion in…
Bede Kuwait, a subsidiary of Zain Group, has entered into a strategic partnership with Ottu, a regional payment orchestration platform operating across the Middle East and North Africa, to support enterprise businesses in Kuwait as they transition toward unified and scalable payment operations. The collaboration is designed to advance Kuwait’s broader digital transformation agenda while driving increased adoption of regulated digital wallets, including those issued by Bede and other providers. Through the partnership, Bede’s wallet and payment gateway services will be made available across Ottu’s enterprise merchant network in Kuwait. The integration enables businesses across retail, hospitality, education and digital…
Akbank AG, the Germany-based subsidiary of Istanbul-headquartered Akbank, has gone live with a new cloud-native core banking platform from Dutch core banking vendor Mambu, alongside a parallel transformation of its data warehouse and reporting architecture. The go-live marks a significant milestone in Akbank AG’s modernisation journey as EU-licensed banks increasingly look beyond replacing legacy cores to rebuilding the operational, data and control foundations required for regulatory compliance, real-time reporting and cross-border scalability. Operating under a German banking licence from BaFin, Akbank AG serves customers across Germany and the wider EU, supporting financial activity between Europe and Turkey. The new core…
Riyadh Air has entered into a strategic partnership with Mastercard to integrate payments, travel and technology, with the aim of enhancing both consumer and business travel experiences across Saudi Arabia’s rapidly evolving aviation sector. As a new airline without legacy infrastructure, Riyadh Air is uniquely positioned to design and deploy a fully integrated financial and payment ecosystem from the ground up. Through the collaboration, the airline will introduce a range of consumer payment solutions, premium airport services and B2B travel payment capabilities. A key element of the partnership is the launch of Riyadh Air-branded Mastercard credit and prepaid cards for…
Bank ABC has migrated its mobile-only digital bank, ila Bank, to Temenos’ cloud-native core banking platform hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), marking a key milestone in the Bahrain-based group’s broader core banking transformation programme. According to Temenos, the migration represents the first phase of Bank ABC’s multi-year initiative to modernise and consolidate its core banking infrastructure across geographies. The move covers ila Bank’s retail account and lending operations and includes Temenos Payments and Temenos Data Hub. The implementation was delivered by Systems Limited, a Temenos Delivery Partner, which will also provide end-to-end managed services for the platform. Launched in…
MANTL, an Alkami solution team and a leading provider of loan and deposit account opening technology, has announced a partnership with Amplify Credit Union to modernise its business and retail account opening experience across both physical and digital banking channels. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Amplify Credit Union will deploy MANTL’s omnichannel deposit origination technology to reduce friction in its onboarding process, enabling businesses and consumers to open deposit accounts anytime and anywhere — whether online, in-branch or in the field. As part of its broader growth strategy, Amplify will first roll out Business Deposit Origination by MANTL, followed by Retail…