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round was led by Dragonfly Capital with participation
from Paradigm, Moderne Ventures, Coinbase Ventures,
SBI Investment and Liberty City Ventures. Mesh pro-
vides a unified crypto payments network designed to
eliminate fragmentation across blockchains, wallets and
assets.
The funding is expected to support global expansion,
product development and partnerships, including
work with stablecoins and regional growth across Latin
America, Asia, Europe and India, as Mesh positions
itself as interoperable infrastructure for large-scale cryp-
to payments.
Newland NPT achieves TSYS certification

Newland Payment Technology reported that its
PayExplorer payment application achieved Level 3 cer-
ANNOUNCEMENTS tification for processing on the TSYS Sierra platform,
covering its attended Android terminal portfolio. The
certification confirms that PayExplorer and supported
Finseca applauds FSI's leadership devices meet TSYS technical and security requirements,
in financial security enabling Newland to manage payment application cer-
tification and compliance on behalf of ISVs. As a result,
Finseca recognized the Financial Services Institute for a Newland noted, ISVs can integrate via Newland’s SDKs,
decade of leadership that helped secure new regulatory remain out of PCI scope, reduce onboarding complexity
clarity for ensemble payments. Following years of advo- and accelerate time to market, adding that the milestone
cacy by FSI, the SEC issued a no-action letter allowing underscores Newland’s commitment to simplifying
firms to make payments to entities rather than individu- deployment for ISVs and payment partners as it expands
als, a change seen as strengthening the financial security across North America.
profession. Finseca said the guidance provides greater
certainty, supports professional growth and helps attract TSG simplifies payments benchmarking
new talent.
TSG (The Strawhecker Group) announced the launch
The SEC action, alongside newly introduced bipartisan of its Executive Dashboard, a major enhancement to its
legislation from Representatives Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, Acquiring Industry Metrics platform designed to give
payments leaders an immediate, executive-level view
and Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y., signals broad support for
clearer rules that benefit financial security professionals of portfolio performance. The dashboard consolidates
key KPIs into a visual, intuitive interface, enabling users
and the Americans they serve, Finseca noted.
to spot anomalies, benchmark against the market, and
Klarna backs Google’s Universal make data-driven decisions quickly.
Commerce Protocol
Used by organizations representing more than 75% of
Klarna is joining Google's Universal Commerce Protocol, U.S. payment volume, AIM now delivers streamlined
an open standard designed to enable AI agents, merchant insights from login onward. The launch reflects TSG’s
systems and payment providers to work together across continued investment in expanding AIM as a central
the full shopping lifecycle. Klarna said the move builds intelligence hub for payments executives and teams.
on its support for Google’s Agent Payments Protocol and
deepens a multiyear partnership spanning Google Pay, RESEARCH
Google Store, Google Play and Google Cloud.

Klarna says open, interoperable standards are critical as AI, real-time data redefining
AI-driven shopping grows, helping ensure trust, trans- lending confidence, Biz2X reports
parency and seamless payments within AI-powered Biz2X released a new report with Boston Consulting
commerce experiences across platforms.
Group examining how AI, real-time data, and embed-
Mesh secures $75M Series C, reaches $1B valuation ded finance are transforming small business lending.
Unveiled at the Biz2X Frontiers conference, the analysis
Mesh celebrated the close of a $75 million Series C fund- shows that improved visibility into cash flow, faster
ing round, valuing the company at $1 billion and bring- credit decisions, and earlier insight into liquidity needs
ing total capital raised to more than $200 million. The are transforming access to capital, often ahead of tra-
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