Visa Moves Beyond Payments With New Travel Companion Platform
Visa does not want to be remembered only at checkout anymore. The payments giant has launched Visa Destinations, a mobile-first…
Coinbase UK MiFID Licence Opens Door to Investment Services
Coinbase is getting a bigger licence in the UK, and this one moves it closer to traditional finance. The US…
HSBC Qatar Expands Corporate Merchant Payments Through Noqoody Partnership
HSBC Qatar is moving deeper into digital payments with a new merchant acquiring service for its corporate banking clients, built…
Equifax to Acquire Círculo de Crédito in $750M Deal
Equifax is making a bigger move into Mexico’s credit data market. The consumer credit reporting giant has agreed to acquire…
FCA Pushes UK Banks to Fix Basic Account Access for Vulnerable Customers
The UK’s biggest banks have been told to do better on basic bank accounts. Not later. Not vaguely. Now. The…
Flutterwave Secures Circle Ventures Investment as Stablecoin Payments Get More Serious
Flutterwave has secured a strategic investment from Circle Ventures, giving the African payments company a stronger push into stablecoin-based settlement…
UK Savings Fintech Stoa Raises £1.8 Million to Rethink Idle Cash
UK savings fintech Stoa has raised £1.8 million in pre-seed funding, giving the startup fresh capital to build what it…
JPMorgan and BofA Reportedly Explore Deal for Fiserv Debit Network
Big Banks Are Looking Closer at Debit Rails JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America are reportedly among the major U.S.…
Satispay Partners Mastercard as Italian Fintech Moves Closer to Banking
Satispay is taking another step away from being “just” a payments app. The Italian fintech has partnered with Mastercard to…
Klarna’s Bank Charter Bid Shows Fintech Wants More Than Bank Partnerships
Klarna is no longer just trying to sit beside the banking system. It wants a bigger seat inside it. The…
US FinTech Investment Rises in Q2 2026 as Bigger Deals Come Back Into Focus
US FinTech investment had a stronger second quarter than many may have expected. Not because dealmaking suddenly exploded everywhere. It…
Tilt Acquires Blipay as Brazil Becomes Its Next Credit Market Bet
Tilt is moving deeper into international consumer credit, and Brazil is now the next stop. The US-based fintech has acquired…
Stripe’s Bridge Wins EU MiCA Approval and E-Money Licence
Stripe’s stablecoin infrastructure firm Bridge has cleared a major regulatory step in Europe, securing both EU MiCA authorisation and an…
Crédit Agricole Takes Full Ownership of Cawl After Buying Out Worldline
Crédit Agricole is taking full control of Cawl, the merchant payments joint venture it created with Worldline in 2023. The…
LemFi Buys Wealth8 as Immigrant Fintech Pushes Beyond Remittances
LemFi is moving deeper into wealth management after receiving approval from UK regulators to acquire Wealth8, an investment platform built…
Major UK Banks Adopt Swift Consumer Payments Framework for Cross-Border Transfers
Major UK banks are moving early on Swift’s new consumer payments framework, and this could change how everyday customers receive…
Visa Launches Threat Intelligence Platform as Agentic Payments Move Into Europe
Visa is pushing deeper into two areas banks can no longer treat as side projects: cyber threat intelligence and AI-driven…
Crossmint Secures EU Regulatory Stack for Stablecoin Payments
Crossmint has taken a bigger step into regulated stablecoin infrastructure in Europe after securing Payment Institution authorization under PSD2 and…
BBVA Joins Global Push to Launch Dollar-Backed Stablecoin Open USD
BBVA is moving deeper into the stablecoin race, this time through a global project that looks much bigger than a…
Sudan Central Bank Tightens Fintech Rules as Payment Sector Scrutiny Grows
The Central Bank of Sudan has ordered banks and licensed financial technology companies to obtain prior approval before entering into…