Co-founded by Jake Antifaev and backed by Iggy Azalea and N3on, the Solana-based platform puts fans at the center of the creator economy

The next evolution of the attention economy is here. Today, Thrust, a new platform built on Solana, has launched with a mission to reimagine what celebrity-driven coins can be and usher in a fair, transparent, and sustainable fan economy.

Co-founded by entrepreneur Jake Antifaev, Thrust introduces a new model that lets fans share in the real success of the creators they support, completely shifting from speculation to genuine participation. By eliminating insider allocations, pump-and-dump launches, and opaque bonding-curve mechanics, Thrust sets a new standard for what creator economies should look like: authentic, equitable, and community-led.

Iggy Azalea joins Thrust as Creative Director and strategic partner, alongside N3on, one of the internet’s fastest-growing cultural personalities, who will serve as the platform’s first launch artist. In addition to her partnership, Iggy will help shape how artists, celebrities, and creators enter the Web3 space in a more sustainable and responsible way.

Global icon and acclaimed actor, Megan Fox, is confirmed to be the second artist to launch on Thrust, following N3on’s November 5 debut. Her upcoming release marks a defining moment for the platform, signaling Hollywood’s growing entry into Web3 and expanding Thrust’s reach across entertainment and technology. Iggy Azalea’s coin migration will follow at the end of the year, with more high-profile creators to be revealed in the coming weeks.

The announcement will be made live this afternoon at the Blockchain Futurist Conference in Miami, FL, where Iggy Azalea, N3on, and Thrust CEO Jake Antifaev will host a fireside discussion unveiling the platform to the public.

Unlike prior waves of memecoins and influencer coins, Thrust is designed to solve the systemic problems that have plagued the space. Each launch is vetted, enforceable by contract, and structured to protect both creators and fans. By replacing speculation-only coins with “culture coins” tied to real fandom, Thrust creates an ecosystem where ownership and culture evolve together. With fiat on-ramps, mobile-first design, and a seamless user experience, Thrust brings the world of digital ownership into the mainstream, making participation as simple as using Apple Pay.

“Celebrity coins got a bad reputation because they were never built on legitimacy or accountability. Anyone could launch one, and fans were left guessing what was real. Even well-intentioned creators got burned by shady developers and broken coin models,” said Jake Antifaev, Co-Founder and CEO of Thrust. “Culture coins are our way of rewriting that story. Every launch on Thrust is verified, contracted, and transparent so both creators and fans know exactly what they’re getting into – and it’s not another extraction event.”

A self-made entrepreneur who has built multiple nine-figure businesses without traditional venture capital, Antifaev has long rejected hype-driven models in favor of long-term value. Through Thrust, he’s aiming to turn celebrity fandom into a legitimate financial category, one that sits alongside stocks and crypto as a new asset class rooted in culture.

Built on Solana, Thrust merges the credibility of traditional finance with the creativity of modern fandom, creating a white-glove platform where celebrities and communities can thrive together.

For more information, visit https://thrust.com/ or follow @thrustdotcom on social media.

About Thrust

Thrust is a new platform built on Solana that powers the next generation of fan economies. Designed to make social money fair, transparent, and mainstream, Thrust gives creators and celebrities a trusted way to launch culture coins while giving fans a real stake in their success. Every launch on Thrust is vetted, contracted, and built for long-term community growth – not short-term hype. With no insider allocations, no bonding curves, and on-chain transparency, Thrust turns fandom into finance and culture into currency.

Built for investment bankers and valuation experts, ExelenceAI automates LBO, M&A, and DCF models, bringing generative AI precision to the core of financial analysis

GenerativeX today announced the U.S. launch of ExelenceAI , an AI-powered Excel add-in that brings generative intelligence directly into spreadsheets. Built by former investment bankers and consultants, ExelenceAI enables financial professionals to automate financial modeling, data analysis, and project management — all within the familiar Excel environment.

ExelenceAI operates as a native Excel add-in, allowing users to automate tasks, generate insights, and refine results simply through natural language instructions. From complex LBO and M&A models to DCF valuations, deal schedules, WBS charts, and performance dashboards, the AI agent handles advanced workflows seamlessly.

“ExelenceAI bridges the gap between traditional spreadsheets and generative AI,” said Rei Araki, CEO of GenerativeX. “We’re empowering investment bankers, private equity professionals, and finance teams to model deals, run valuations, and analyze outcomes smarter, faster, and with greater precision — without ever leaving Excel.”

Key Features

• Deal-Level Modeling AI Agent: Automates financial workflows across LBO, M&A, and DCF models, as well as business plans and complex transaction analyses.
• Natural Language Prompting : Describe your task in plain English — from formatting to complex model builds.
• Runs Directly Inside Excel: No upload, no download, no copy-paste. ExelenceAI operates natively with 100% Excel compatibility, maintaining your firm’s formulas, macros, and formatting.
• Advanced Data Functions: Extract and standardize data from web pages, PDFs, and documents into clean, model-ready Excel sheets.
• Dynamic Workflow: Generate, refine, and iterate on outputs in real time.
• Enterprise-Grade Security: All processing runs on Microsoft Azure with end-to-end encryption and zero data leakage.
• Full Audit Trail: Track every change, roll back instantly, and maintain transparent version history.

For Financial and Business Professionals

Designed for analysts, accountants, and consultants, ExelenceAI accelerates workflows such as LBO and DCF modeling, credit memo generation, and KPI dashboarding. Early adopters report reducing model build time by over 70%.

Quick Setup

1. Install the ExelenceAI add-in from Microsoft Office Add-ins Store.
2. Sign up and retrieve an access token from https://app.excelence.ai .
3. Connect via Excel ribbon and start typing commands.

GenerativeX builds AI agents that help financial institutions transform how they analyze, operate, and make decisions. With offices in New York and San Francisco, the company enables banks, investment firms, and insurers to harness generative AI across critical workflows, from modeling and valuation to reporting and risk management. With a proven record of delivering secure, enterprise-grade AI solutions, GenerativeX integrates AI agents into daily financial operations with precision, reliability, and measurable impact.

https://generativex.com

Bloomfilter, the award-winning provider of software development intelligence solutions, announced the launch of the Celonis Agent Miner by Bloomfilter app, a breakthrough that enables enterprises to govern, measure, and optimize how AI agents and humans work together. The company will debut the solution publicly at Celosphere 2025, the unmissable Process Intelligence event hosted by Celonis and taking place November 3–5 in Munich, Germany.

“We are thrilled to partner with Celonis in using process intelligence to turn agentic confusion into orchestrated collaboration between humans and machines,” remarked Erik Severinghaus, the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Bloomfilter.

Solving the Coordination Crisis of Agentic Development

Enterprises are rushing to deploy AI agents into their knowledge work, but according to a recent MIT study, 95% of AI pilots still fail to reach production. The primary reason is the difficulty of integrating agentic workers into their processes and the inability of agents to learn and improve over time.

The Celonis Agent Miner by Bloomfilter app solves this coordination breakdown by:

• Process-mining proprietary data behind the firewall, extracting the necessary process information to ensure agent activity aligns with business goals. 
• Combining process data from traditional system event logs and now agentic event logs into a unified view of how work happens in a hybrid environment. 
• Feeding process intelligence back into the AI stack to improve agent prompts through LLM fine-tuning, vocabulary through Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), and decision weighting through the use of Model Context Protocol (MCP).

“We understand the critical nature of governance and security to the AI transition,” said Aaron Fulkerson, CEO of Opaque and a Bloomfilter customer. “We are excited to leverage Bloomfilter s novel Agent Miner app to help govern our agents as we develop the Confidential Compute infrastructure necessary for trusted AI.”

“The future of software development, and business processes more broadly, lies at the intersection of the human and digital worker” remarked Choon Aun Quek, Chief Growth Officer of KMS Technologies, a Bloomfilter customer and partner. “Bloomfilter helps us be the best in the world at helping our customers transform and prepare for the agentic future.”

At Celosphere, Bloomfilter will demonstrate how the app enables process-aware agents across business processes including the software development lifecycle (SDLC). The new capabilities will show how teams can:

• Quantify the ROI of AI-enabled processes. 
• Govern autonomous agents alongside humans in hybrid processes.
• Leverage process intelligence to improve the effectiveness of agentic workers.

“We believe AI won’t achieve its enterprise potential without process intelligence. We’re excited to see our partner Bloomfilter use this intelligence to pioneer a new frontier—using our platform to understand and govern the behavior of AI agents.” said Eugenio Cassiano, SVP of the Strategy and Innovation Group at Celonis.

The Celonis Agent Miner by Bloomfilter app is the latest addition to the Celonis Platform Apps Program. The program provides pre-built, domain-specific solutions created by trusted partners with deep industry knowledge and built on the Celonis Process Intelligence Platform.

About Bloomfilter

Bloomfilter is the process intelligence platform for software development and other agentic workflows. The Bloomfilter platform process-mines humans and agents in complex business environments.

QNB Group, the largest financial institution in the Middle East and Africa, has announced a strategic partnership with TransferMate, the world’s leading provider of embedded B2B payments infrastructure as a service, to expand global receivables and local accounts solutions for QNB customers worldwide.

This partnership enables QNB to integrate TransferMate’s award-winning technology directly into its platform, providing corporate clients with access to a broader network of international multicurrency collections and local accounts capabilities.

Through this collaboration, QNB customers will now be able to invoice and receive cross border payments in multiple currencies, benefiting from reduced transaction times and fees, improved cash flow management and enhanced transparency and reconciliation.

QNB constantly strive to provide its customers with new and innovative solutions to support their business needs. This platform enables them to receive international payments in multiple currencies so seamlessly, which is considered is a game-changer for its clients.

This marks TransferMate’s first banking partnership in the Middle East, capitalizing on the strategic alliances the fintech has established with major financial institutions and global notable brands.

The partnership marks a major milestone in QNB’s ongoing digital transformation journey and reinforces its position as a leader in delivering future-ready banking services.

About QNB Group

QNB Group is one of the leading financial institutions in the MEA region and among the most valuable banking brands in the regional market. Present in over 28 countries across Asia, Europe, and Africa, it offers tailored products and services supported by innovation and backed by a team of over 31,000 professionals dedicated to driving banking excellence worldwide.

About TransferMate

TransferMate is a leading provider of embedded B2B payments technology, helping companies, software providers & financial institutions to streamline their global receivables, payments, & local account needs. TransferMate owns the largest E-Money / payment license network of any fintech, regulated in 92 jurisdictions and owning 99 licenses.

The stablecoin market is entering a new phase of transformation. In the landmark joint report by Alchemy Pay and Gate Research, “The New Era of Stablecoins: A Comprehensive Study on Compliance, Innovation, and Adoption”, the report dives deep into how stablecoins are reshaping the global financial infrastructure, from its exponential growth and regulatory evolution to the intensifying competition at the infrastructure layer.

Exponential Growth and Institutional Momentum

As of August 2025, the total capitalization of stablecoins has exceeded USD 280 billion, representing more than a 660-fold increase since early 2019. Annual on-chain settlement volumes have surpassed USD 30 trillion, placing stablecoins on par with traditional global payment systems such as SWIFT and Visa in terms of transaction throughput.

This growth reflects both technological maturity and regulatory acceleration. The implementation of key frameworks, such as the GENIUS Act, Stablecoin Ordinance, and MiCA, has initiated what the report identifies as the “Age of Compliance.”

The report also highlights the growing participation of major financial institutions including PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard, each embedding stablecoin functionality into retail, enterprise, and cross-border payment systems. These integrations signal the ongoing convergence between TradFi and DeFi, underscoring the transition of stablecoins from speculative instruments to operational assets within global payment and settlement ecosystems.

Meanwhile, innovation within the stablecoin sector continues to accelerate. While USDT and USDC remain dominant, emerging models such as yield-bearing stablecoins are rapidly gaining market share. The study identifies a structural evolution from single-purpose payment tools to a “Three-in-One Model”—Peg + Yield + Application—that extends stablecoin utility into yield generation, real-world asset integration, and enterprise use cases such as supply chain finance and payroll settlement.

From Tokens to Infrastructure: The New Battlefield

The narrative of competition is shifting. It’s no longer about which stablecoin dominates, it’s about who controls the rails. The report calls this the move from “token competition” to “infrastructure competition.” As stablecoins become integral to the global payments landscape, control over settlement infrastructure has emerged as the next competitive frontier. Leading players like Tether, Circle, Stripe, and Alchemy Pay are developing blockchain architectures to establish themselves as dominant settlement networks.

This strategic evolution reflects a broader recognition: in the future of digital finance, the competitive advantage will lie not merely in token issuance, but in control of the infrastructure that enables liquidity, settlement, and compliance across markets and jurisdictions.

Alchemy Chain: Building the Stablecoin Settlement Hub for Global Fiat

Within this emerging infrastructure race, the report spotlights Alchemy Chain, a Layer 1 blockchain developed by Alchemy Pay. Drawing upon years of operational experience in the fiat-crypto payment sector, Alchemy Chain represents a practice-driven approach to infrastructure design.

The blockchain’s architecture centers on a clear, efficient flow—Fiat A → Stablecoin → Fiat B—positioning stablecoins as instant settlement bridges for global cross-border transactions. Key technical innovations include:

• FIFO (First-In-First-Out) transaction ordering, ensuring fairness and eliminating “pay-to-prioritize” congestion.
• On-chain real-time FX rates, with validator nodes directly integrating price feeds at the consensus layer to reduce oracle latency.
• Block-Wing hybrid storage system, combining on-chain recording of essential transaction data with decentralized off-chain storage for auxiliary files, ensuring scalability and cost efficiency.

Strategically, Alchemy Chain diverges from general-purpose blockchains. Rather than competing with ecosystems like Ethereum, it aims to redefine global settlement infrastructure, leveraging Web3 technology to rebuild payment systems traditionally represented by SWIFT. Backed by Alchemy Pay’s already built network of 3 million users across 173 countries, and supported by connections with Visa, Mastercard, local mobile wallets and global banking rails, Alchemy Chain is positioned to serve as a neutral, compliant settlement layer connecting stablecoins and fiat currencies worldwide.

The Future Trajectory: Compliance, Multipolarity, and Integration

The report concludes that stablecoins are transitioning through three structural shifts:

• From explosive growth to compliance establishment;
• From token-centric competition to infrastructure-centric competition;
• From U.S. dollar dominance to regional multipolarity.

Over the next three to five years, the report predicts that the institutions capable of creating a closed-loop ecosystem, integrating compliance frameworks, proprietary infrastructure, and scalable applications, will define the next generation of the global value network.

Read the Full Report

The “New Era of Stablecoins” report offers a data-driven, forward-looking roadmap for enterprises, regulators, and developers navigating the evolving stablecoin landscape.

Read the full report to explore how compliance, infrastructure, and innovation are converging to reshape the global payments ecosystem.

About Gate Research

Gate Research is a comprehensive blockchain and cryptocurrency research platform that provides deep content for readers, including technical analysis, market insights, industry research, trend forecasting, and macroeconomic policy analysis.

About Alchemy Pay

Founded in 2017, Alchemy Pay is a payment gateway that seamlessly connects crypto with traditional fiat currencies for businesses, developers, and end users. With its offerings including On & Off-Ramp, Web3 Digital Bank, NFT Checkout and its newly launched RWA platform, Alchemy Pay supports fiat payments in 173 countries.

The Ramp is a one-stop solution to buy and sell crypto and fiat, easily integrated by platforms and dApps according to requirements. The RWA platform allows global users to invest in tokenized real-world assets using local fiat currencies, lowering entry barriers and democratizing access to traditional financial instruments. Our Web3 Digital Bank supports Web3 enterprises by providing multi-fiat accounts and instant fiat-crypto conversion capabilities. Additionally, the NFT Checkout enables direct purchases of NFTs using fiat payment methods. ACH is the Alchemy Pay network token on the Ethereum blockchain.

In a bold step toward connecting the crypto economy with everyday payments, Simplify Labs has announced the launch of its Crypto Cards for Businesses, a flexible, privacy-focused solution that enables companies to offer prepaid debit cards linked directly to digital assets.

With these cards, users can spend cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum anywhere in the world via Visa and Mastercard networks, without the friction or limitations that have long slowed mainstream adoption.

The product is designed for crypto exchanges, OTC desks, wallet providers, and DApps that want to bring real-world usability to their platforms while increasing user loyalty and creating new revenue streams. By allowing people to spend directly from their crypto balances, these cards turn digital holdings into a practical payment method, instantly, securely, and globally.

“Our mission has always been to simplify blockchain adoption for businesses,” says Vadim Rozov, CEO of Simplify Labs. “With our Crypto Cards, we’re giving companies a fast and compliant way to unlock real-world spending for their users while opening new revenue opportunities.”

Empowering Businesses with Seamless Crypto Spending

The Simplify Labs card platform stands out for its speed, reliability, and deep customization options. Businesses can go live within days instead of months, with flexible models that support both revenue sharing and tailored pricing. There are no spending limits, and cards integrate smoothly with Apple Pay and Google Pay, ensuring a true global reach.

For crypto exchanges, the cards add a completely new income channel and improve user retention by turning trading balances into spendable assets. OTC desks gain an effortless way for clients to transact instantly while generating consistent fee-based revenue. Meanwhile, wallet providers and DApps can boost user engagement and adoption by offering quick card activation and frictionless spending from within their apps.

“We built this platform to remove the friction between crypto and everyday life,” adds Rozov. “People shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to spend their own assets, and businesses shouldn’t need months of setup to offer that convenience.”

Simplify Labs’ compliance expertise ensures a smooth regulatory path, giving companies confidence in every transaction. A clear demonstration of this comes from MaxSwap, a project that leveraged Simplify Labs’ tools to launch a branded OTC trading platform and mobile apps that combined user-friendly access with strict adherence to legal standards.

With crypto cards, businesses can move beyond speculative value and give users tangible, real-world benefits, turning digital assets into something people can truly use every day.

About Simplify Labs

Simplify Labs helps businesses launch and scale in the cryptocurrency space with White Label blockchain solutions. From custom exchanges and OTC trading platforms to Telegram crypto bots, the company enables market entry in just days through its robust Liquidity Hub. With end-to-end support and industry-proven expertise, Simplify Labs lays the foundation for a smooth, compliant, and sustainable blockchain journey.

Preqin Private Markets Data now integrates with Juniper Square’s AI CRM for Investor Relations, offering GPs a comprehensive source of truth for investor data

Juniper Square, the fund operations partner to more than 2,000 private markets GPs, today announced a new collaboration with BlackRock Aladdin to integrate Preqin data into its AI CRM for Investor Relations. The integration will enable GPs to pull key Preqin data, a premier source of private markets data, directly into Juniper Square’s AI CRM for Investor Relations and make smarter, faster outreach to qualified LP prospects during fundraising.

“We’re excited to bring this powerful Preqin integration to Juniper Square’s AI CRM for Investor Relations – the only CRM purpose-built for the private markets,” said Brandon Rembe, Chief Solutions Officer at Juniper Square. “As investment in the private markets accelerates, it’s critical that fund managers have comprehensive datasets that work seamlessly with purpose-built AI solutions. This integration will give fund managers the enhanced visibility into investors needed to raise capital faster in a highly competitive fundraising environment.”

Juniper Square customers can integrate Preqin data in minutes to create a single source of truth for all their investor data. By enriching the AI CRM with Preqin data on LPs—including allocations, AUM, and investor contacts—GPs benefit from deeper insights that help them identify LPs that best match their target profile, expand their pipeline, and accelerate fundraising with greater precision.

“Bringing together market intelligence from our Preqin data sets and Juniper Square’s purpose-built AI-enhanced CRM for Investor Relations will empower GPs with the customized, near real-time investor insights that current and future capital raisers require,” said Piers MacWhannell, Global Head of Preqin Licensing, Feeds and Integrations at BlackRock Aladdin. “We’re thrilled to partner with Juniper Square and help drive their vision of modernizing private markets investor relations, while providing a platform that fosters stronger GP-LP relationships at scale.”

About Juniper Square

Juniper Square is the fund operations partner to more than 2,000 private markets GPs worldwide. Our unified platform connects software, data, and fund administration services to help firms scale faster, streamline operations, and enhance the investor experience. Juniper Square’s technology brings LPs and GPs together and powers everything from fundraising and onboarding to treasury, reporting, and business intelligence. Today, more than 40,000 funds, 650,000 LP accounts, and $1 trillion in LP capital are managed through Juniper Square.

iBusiness, a pioneer in banking and lending technology, today announced the launch of iBuild, a patent-pending AI-powered, code development platform that takes vibe coding to the next level.

While most “vibe coding” platforms stop at writing code with AI, iBuild goes further—enabling banks, credit unions, and any financial services company to deploy that AI-generated code directly into a secure, compliant cloud environment. This breakthrough transforms AI-assisted coding from a sandbox experiment into a production-ready capability designed specifically for financial institutions. With the iBuild solution, financial institutions can overcome the innovation constraints caused by limited product and technology resources—empowering every business user to act as a product builder and drive continuous improvement.

“Vibe coding is an amazing development—seeing AI code and bring software to life in real time is a tremendous leap forward. But for non-developers, it often ends at the code stage—you still need engineers to fix bugs, harden security, and push it into production,” said Justin Levy, CEO and Founder of iBusiness. “With iBuild, you can go from idea to live deployment inside a secure infrastructure in minutes, with full banking level security built in.”

A New Era: From Code Generation to Code Deployment

iBuild allows both technical and non-technical users to describe an app, workflow, or automation in natural language—and then see it built, tested, and deployed securely within an already security-hardened SOC 2 Type II-compliant infrastructure.

Key Capabilities

• AI-Driven App Creation: Describe what you need—iBuild writes the code, builds the UI, and deploys to your own app store available for your organization.
• Bank-Grade Security: Deploy AI-generated applications directly into your enterprise-approved secure live cloud environment.
• Rapid Integration and Prototyping: Go back to any app or chat history to edit or expand previous ideas or code.
• Native Financial Applications: Integrate pre-built apps like OCR, e-sign, and financial spreading to design workflows for Lending, Payments, and beyond.
• Instant Time-to-Value: Move from idea to production in minutes instead of months all within an isolated runtime environment.

Since starting its AI development journey in 2022 with a patent filing for agentic AI, iBusiness’s launch of iBuild marks its second major AI-powered innovation in 2025. Earlier this year, the company launched Lendsey—a first-of-its-kind agentic lending AI solution—along with a $100 million commitment toward AI. iBusiness announced earlier this year integrations with large technology firms such as Intuit and BizBuySell, as well as deployments of its flagship LenderAI platform for many financial institutions, including several top 100 banks.

iBuild is now available to banks, lenders, and fintech organizations. Live demos will be available during Money20/20 2025 at the iBusiness booth.

To learn more about iBusiness and its solutions, visit www.iBusiness.ai or www.iBuild.ai

About iBusiness

iBusiness is a leading financial technology company transforming the way banks, credit unions, and lenders innovate. As a pioneer in secure AI, automation, and AI software development, iBusiness builds infrastructure and platforms that empower financial institutions to modernize faster—without sacrificing compliance or security. Its technology helps enable seamless digital transformation across lending, banking, and customer experience systems, giving institutions the tools to compete and innovate at enterprise scale.

iBusiness develops and operates several advanced platforms utilized by its sister brand iBusiness Funding, LLC, which focuses on empowering banks and lenders through specialized lending solutions. As one of the most experienced SMB technology and processing support providers in the country, iBusiness Funding has helped lenders process over $11 billion in SBA and conventional loans and assists with the handling of more than 1,200 applications daily, powering lenders of all sizes to scale their business lending operations with confidence and compliance.

impress.ai today announced the launch of Savos, a revolutionary AI-powered hiring ally designed to solve one of the most pressing challenges in modern recruitment: disconnected hiring. Savos is a sophisticated multi-agent system that seamlessly connects recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates, streamlining communication and improving two key metrics that matter most: time from application to interview and interview-to-hire ratio.

The Hidden Costs of Disconnected Hiring

Modern recruitment has become a tangle of tools, hand-offs, and guesswork. As AI-powered application bots flood inboxes, hiring teams spend more time managing noise than making decisions. Recruiters get buried under a mountain of resumes, chasing feedback that never comes, juggling a dozen tools that barely talk to each other. Hiring managers walk into interviews unprepared, while the candidates wait in silence.

The result? Slow decisions, wasted interviews, and missed talent.

“The hiring landscape has become an AI arms race as AI-powered assessment tools clash with AI-enhanced candidate submissions,” said Dr. Vaisagh Viswanathan, CEO & Co-Founder, impress.ai. “The answer isn’t full automation; it’s smarter augmentation, delivered through multi-agent AI systems that seamlessly embed into hiring workflows supporting every action. This approach elevates human judgment, ensuring we shift the focus back to what truly matters: people.”

Introducing Savos: The AI Hiring Ally that Connects People, Not Just Processes

At the heart of Savos is impress.ai’s proprietary technology, deploying a trio of specialized AI agents designed to understand and align the goals of recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates. Savos optimizes every stage of the hiring lifecycle – dramatically cutting the time from application to interview and improving the interview-to-hire ratio, ultimately resulting in faster, more informed, and more successful hires.

Three AI Agents. One Unified Hiring Experience.

For Hiring Managers: A real-time interview assistant ensures each interview is informed and impactful, empowering hiring managers to make confident decisions with tailored insights into candidates’ strengths and role fit.

For Candidates: A single AI-guided touchpoint creates a consistent, engaging experience, ensuring candidates feel valued and connected throughout the hiring process.

For Recruiters: Savos transforms recruiters into talent architects, equipping them to design smarter talent strategies and shape the future of recruitment.

Fast, Seamless Deployment: A Cohesive Hiring Journey

Savos can be deployed the same day, instantly creating a cohesive and efficient hiring journey that prioritizes human connection over rigid automation. By seamlessly integrating into existing workflows, Savos enables recruitment teams to make smarter decisions faster, improving both the speed and quality of their hiring outcomes.

For more information, visit www.impress.ai/savos.

About impress.ai

Headquartered in Singapore, impress.ai is a global leader in recruitment automation. Accredited under IMDA’s Accreditation@SG:D programme, impress.ai offers Agentic AI recruitment solutions across Singapore’s public sector, including key government agencies and ministries. The platform also serves as the backbone of talent acquisition at leading universities and financial institutions across the Asia-Pacific region.

• The Sendwave Wallet is a globally accessible, stablecoin-backed peer-to-peer cross border money solution.
• Built on trusted stablecoin infrastructure from Circle, Solana, and Portal, the wallet reduces challenges like currency devaluation and access.
• The wallet gives Sendwave customers more control over their money, enabling them to send money in seconds within the Sendwave network.

Zepz, the global payments group behind WorldRemit and Sendwave, has announced the launch of the Sendwave Wallet, a globally accessible stablecoin-backed peer-to-peer cross border money solution. This digital wallet empowers customers to seamlessly send, store, and spend funds across Africa and more than 100 countries worldwide, leveraging stablecoin technology to provide a stable value while offering near-instant, reliable, and affordable transfers within the Sendwave ecosystem.

Changing the game for customers

With the Sendwave Wallet, customers can quickly open a digital dollar balance in the Sendwave app and send, receive, or deposit funds. Their balance is held securely in the wallet in a digital currency, designed to maintain a stable value and pegged to the US dollar, giving them flexibility and the confidence to plan, support loved ones, and build financial stability over time.

“The financial lives of cross-border communities are far more complex and personal than traditional remittance transactions,” said Mark Lenhard, CEO of Zepz. “With Sendwave Wallet, we’re giving customers throughout the Global South a trusted, intuitive way to control their money. This is about stability, choice, and dignity for the communities we serve. Today, Sendwave is moving beyond remittances to more holistically support the financial lives of our customers”.

Combining the power of stablecoins with everyday money

At the core of the Sendwave Wallet are stablecoins, providing a secure way to hold value and move money in near real-time without the typical complexities of a “crypto” wallet . This helps customers avoid the currency swings that can erode their hard-earned money.

Backed by Zepz’s decade-long global payout network, customers can withdraw USDC funds through trusted partners into fiat currency to pay for everyday basic needs. In the future, customers will be able to use their USDC balances directly through cards and QR codes, a step beyond what most wallets offer.

Zepz has combined the expertise of leading web3 players to help bring this pioneering vision to life including: Circle the company behind USDC, Solana as the high-speed, low-cost, scalable blockchain network, and Portal as the provider of borderless wallet infrastructure.

Shaping what’s next

Zepz is continuing to build its customer offering beyond traditional remittances, with plans to enable customers to earn rewards on deposits, spend their balance with payment cards globally and pay bills, giving them practical ways to use digital dollars for daily needs.

About Zepz

Zepz powers two leading global remittance brands, WorldRemit and Sendwave, to build the next generation of cross-border payments. Serving over 9 million customers across 5,000 corridors, Zepz is transforming how money moves across borders by making it faster, safer and more convenient.