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GroundTruth announced the launch of Dynamic Intent Prediction, the first large-scale commercial deployment of ZeroToOne.AI's Large Behavior Model (LBM). Developed by AI researchers recruited from Carnegie Mellon University, the model refreshes predictions daily, covering purchase windows from 24 hours to 30 days, and has already achieved significant results with global restaurant and automotive brands.
CloudZero announced the launch of an AI financial control plane, helping finance, IT, and engineering teams link every AI expenditure to business outcomes in real time. The platform extends CloudZero's capabilities beyond cloud cost management, tackling the core challenge of the AI era—what returns AI investments actually generate.
Papaya Global has been named to FXC Intelligence's 2026 Top 100 Cross-Border Payment Companies list. The ranking is based on rigorous analysis of payment volume, geographic coverage, product capabilities, and market influence. Papaya processes workforce payments for over 2,500 enterprise clients across more than 180 countries, with its payment infrastructure embedded within a complete workforce compliance and payroll engine.
TFY (Transformify Ltd) announced on June 1, 2026, the expansion of its partnership with Paysend, significantly increasing the card scheme network supported for contractor payroll and supplier payments, including Visa, Mastercard, Uzcard, Humo, Elcart, and UnionPay, aiming to help businesses eliminate SWIFT intermediary fees and achieve faster, more secure cross-border payments.
Raindrop Systems announced on June 3, 2026, that Lloyd's Register (LR) has selected its AI-native Source-to-Pay platform to upgrade sourcing and contract management processes. LR valued Raindrop's overall performance in procurement scenario fit, ease of use, service quality, and AI capabilities to support its cross-regional, multilingual contract governance and strategic procurement transformation.
Personiv's latest annual report shows that finance and accounting teams are accelerating their transition to a hybrid model, with AI and automation significantly improving efficiency and reducing staffing needs, while outsourcing has become the mainstream way to fill talent gaps.
Equitas Strategic Partners, headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, has acquired McBride Accounting, a tax, accounting, and business advisory firm serving the Atlanta metro area. The deal merges day-to-day accounting, tax strategy, and forward-looking financial advisory under one roof, with McBride's brand retired and its founder Veronique McBride remaining active. The acquisition adds in-house tax planning for Equitas clients and broader advisory capabilities for former McBride clients.
Financial forecasting has long relied on experience and guesswork. While AI brings potential, a lack of trust hinders adoption. Farseer's AI suite runs calculations on governed financial models, ensuring every output is traceable to close the trust gap.
ExpenseOnDemand and Pliant announced a strategic partnership to integrate expense management, corporate cards, and spend control. Through API integration, Pliant card transactions can be automatically synced to the ExpenseOnDemand platform, supporting receipt matching, policy controls, approval routing, and accounting system synchronization, helping businesses manage spend from a single source of data. The integration is available immediately to existing and new customers.
Ordway, a monetization platform for innovative business models, announced on August 5, 2026, that it has secured $20 million in new equity and debt financing to accelerate AI product development and company growth. The round was led by Harbert Growth Partners, with debt financing provided by Western Alliance Bank's Innovation Banking Group. The company's recurring revenue has doubled over the past two years, and it remains profitable. The funds will be used to double its R&D budget, with a focus on products such as AI agents and AI cash flow forecasting.