Newswire Summaries
O’Melveny advises Alation on acquisition of Numbers Station AI
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 20:59:05 (UTC)
SILICON VALLEY—May 21, 2025—O’Melveny advised Alation Inc., the leader in enterprise data intelligence, on its acquisition of Numbers Station AI, a pioneer in building AI agents for data workflows. The transaction was announced on May 20. Alation is the data intelligence company. Nearly 600 global enterprises — including 40% of the Fortune 100 — rely on Alation to realize value from their data and AI initiatives. The O’Melveny team advising Alation was led by partner and Sil...
NCC: Ransomware attacks decline in April, but threats remain high
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 20:57:16 (UTC)
Manchester, UK, May 21, 2025—Global ransomware attacks decreased by 31% in April, with 416 attacks Akira was the most active threat group, responsible for 16% of attacks Industrials remains the most targeted sector with 32% of attacks 78% of all cases globally took place in North America and Europe April 2025 – Ransomware attacks fell by 31% in April, with 416 cases. This was the second consecutive month where ransomware attacks dropped, following a record-breaking start to the y...
Sift announces ActivityIQ,, other innovations to strengthen ID trust
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 16:42:29 (UTC)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sift, the AI-powered fraud platform securing identity trust for leading global businesses, today announced several new capabilities that provide fraud and risk teams with actionable intelligence they need to make more confident risk decisions and strengthen identity trust. One of the latest capabilities, ActivityIQ, leverages generative AI to better identify and surface account takeover (ATO) fraud patterns that might otherwise go undetected. Bu...
BlueStar signs distribution agreement with NoviSign
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 16:39:23 (UTC)
May 21, 2025—Hebron, KY—BlueStar, Inc., the leading distributor of solutions-based Digital Identification, Mobility, Point-of-Sale, RFID, Digital Signage, Network Infrastructure, and Security technology, has signed an agreement with NoviSign Digital Signage, a top-rated cloud-based digital signage software provider. The agreement enables BlueStar’s extensive reseller network to offer NoviSign’s all-in-one digital signage software and hardware solutions to customers across various ...
Alkami, MANTL on American Banker's 2025 'Best Places to Work in Fintech' list
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 16:37:43 (UTC)
Plano, Texas, May 21, 2025—Alkami Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALKT) ("Alkami"), a leading cloud-based digital banking solutions provider for financial institutions in the U.S., and its newly acquired subsidiary MANTL, a provider of account origination technology, today announced they have both been named to American Banker's 2025 list of the Best Places to Work in Fintech. This annual survey and awards program is designed to identify, recognize and honor the best employers in the financial te...
AU10TIX Q1 2025 Global Identity Fraud Report reveals new attack mode
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 16:33:13 (UTC)
NEW YORK – May 21, 2025 – AU10TIX, a global leader in identity verification and fraud prevention, today released its Q1 2025 Global Identity Fraud Report. This quarter, the report identifies a new fraud technique that AU10TIX has coined “Repeaters“. These are minor variations of a single digital asset (face picture, image background, document number, etc.) that bad actors deploy in small numbers to test detection systems before launching cross-industry mega-attacks. Fueled by Fraud-as-...
Nordic Initiative, nexo standards partner to Improve Nordic payment systems
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 16:31:38 (UTC)
Stockholm, May 21, 2025—The Nordic Initiative has established a strategic partnership with nexo standards to transform payment systems across the Nordic Tier 1 consumer-facing industries. This collaboration aims to develop standardized payment solutions to benefit businesses and consumers throughout the region. The partnership unites major Tier 1 members of The Nordic Initiative, across industries and Nordic borders, to create payment solutions that enhance merchant flexibility while im...
Flywire surpasses $320 million in past-due tuition collected
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 16:29:10 (UTC)
Boston, MA - May 21, 2025 – In the United States, more than 100 colleges and universities that use Flywire’s Student Financial Software (SFS) collected more than $320 million in past-due tuition to keep more than 161,000 at-risk students enrolled. These results are part of the ongoing commitment that Flywire Corporation (Flywire) (Nasdaq: FLYW) - a global payments enablement and software company - is making to its higher education clients in the U.S. to help them accelerate revenue, while op...
Check strengthens market leadership as demand for embedded payroll accelerates
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 16:25:14 (UTC)
NEW YORK – [May 21, 2025] — Check, the leading embedded payroll infrastructure platform, today announced continued momentum into the first half of 2025, building on a year of significant customer growth, deepened strategic partnerships, and rising industry influence across the payroll and small businesses ecosystems. In Q1 alone, Check helped partners move nearly $1 billion in payroll volume, representing a 3x increase over January 2024, and supported the filing of hundreds of thousands of W...
Trade wars, inflation, uncertainty push UK consumers to 'weaponize' chargebacks
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 16:21:56 (UTC)
LONDON, United Kingdom — May 21, 2025 – Chargebacks911, a global leader in dispute resolution and chargeback prevention, is warning UK merchants that inflationary pressures, trade disruption, and weakening consumer confidence are creating the perfect conditions for a sharp rise in chargeback abuse. As household budgets shrink and financial anxiety grows, more consumers are turning to chargebacks—both intentionally and unintentionally—as a way to reclaim funds from legitimate purchas...
