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- 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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