Bluefin’s P2PE Offering and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 1/31/25

Bluefin said it will offer point-to-point encryption capability for the event-management platforms Event Guru and Registration Guru.
AstroPay, a Brazil-based cross-border payments fintech, said it has been granted a payment-institution license by the Central Bank of Brazil.
Magwitch, a lending-as-a-service platform, has integrated real-time point-of-sale lending technology from U.S. Bank Avvance.
Real-estate developer Open House Group Co. Ltd. has begun accepting cryptocurrency for transactions in Japan, starting with Bitcoin and Ethereum.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has ordered the remittance platform Wise to pay close to $2.5 million as a penalty for actions that allegedly misled customers about fees and for alleged failures to properly disclose costs, including exchange rates.
Security-technology provider Fingerprint Cards AB said it is working with software house jNet Secure to develop technology aimed at easing adoption of strong digital-authentication technology for financial services and other applications.
The fintech Kindcard Inc. said its Deb Inc. unit will launch what the company calls a “payment marketplace,” including technology aimed at merchants, payments-technology providers, and independent sales organizations.
Cedar Money, whose services enable cross-border payments based on stablecoins, raised $9.9 million in a seed round led by QED Investors.

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