Fintech Kapital becomes Mexico’s latest unicorn with $1.3 billion valuation
Mexican financial technology firm Kapital reached coveted “unicorn” status on Tuesday after its valuation topped $1 billion with a fresh funding…
UK FinTechs Eye US Bank Purchases Amid Easing Regulations
U.K.-based FinTech firms are ramping up plans to acquire American banks to boost lending abilities. As the Financial Times noted…
Zopa buys Rvvup payments platform to expand retail finance offering
Zopa Group has acquired embedded payments provider Rvvup in an effort to further unify the checkout payment experience for merchant…
Revolut’s valuation reportedly hits $75bn in latest employee share sale
UK challenger Revolut has initiated a process allowing employees to sell portions of their shares at a reported valuation of…
N26 names supervisory board chairman Marcus Mosen as co-CEO
German digital bank N26 has appointed Marcus Mosen, chairman of its supervisory board, as co-CEO after co-founder Valentin Stalf stepped down…
First Northern Credit Union taps Appli for financial calculator tech
First Northern Credit Union in Chicago, US, has partnered with Appli, a Utah-based fintech founded by POPi/o co-founder Tim Pranger…
Tella acquires majority stake in Newpark Home Loans from Share
New Zealand-based financial adviser network Share has sold a controlling stake in Newpark Home Loans, which operates a mortgage aggregation…
Zimbabwe’s ZBFH modernises core infrastructure with Finastra’s Essence
Zimbabwe’s ZB Financial Holdings (ZBFH) has modernised its core banking infrastructure with the implementation of Finastra’s Essence solution deployed on…
Michel Jacobs appointed as new chief strategy officer at CSI
Banking technology provider CSI has appointed Michel Jacobs as its new chief strategy officer (CSO). Jacobs, who possesses nearly four…
Stablecoin infrastructure platform Rain raises $58m Series B
Rain, a stablecoin infrastructure platform founded in 2021, has raised $58 million in a Series B funding round led by…
London as the New Epicenter of Global FinTech Investment
London’s emergence as the global FinTech hub is no longer a speculative narrative but a data-driven reality. In 2025, the…
CBN, Brazilian Central Bank explore remittance, fintech opportunities
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Banco Central do Brasil (Brazilian Central Bank) have opened fresh talks aimed at strengthening…
TransBnk raises $25m Series B funding round
TransBnk, a transaction banking platform headquartered in Mumbai, India, has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round led…
Swedbank buys Barclays’ stake in Entercard for £200m
Barclays has reached an agreement to sell its entire ownership stake in Stockholm-based fintech Entercard to joint venture partner Swedbank. The all-cash…
Sabeer Nelli: A Thought Leader Shaping the Future of Fintech
When people talk about the leaders of fintech, the conversation often centers on founders who raised massive funding rounds or…
Finastra and Circle: Global Stablecoin Cross-Border Payments
A collaboration between Finastra and Circle has enabled USDC stablecoin to be integrated by banks into cross-border payment flows Clients…
Mastercard and Infosys join forces on cross-border payments
Mastercard has teamed up with Infosys to strengthen cross-border payments, announcing a strategic collaboration that integrates Mastercard Move into Infosys Finacle. Mastercard Move,…
FinTech Intel partners Asia Int’l Digital Economy & AI in Finance Summit 2025
Asia International Digital Economy and AI in Finance Summit 2025 Convenor Rajkumar Kanagasingam and UK-based Barker Brooks (owner of FinTech…
Ant International, Swift, and Standard Chartered team up to trial new bank-to-wallet payment solution
Ant International, Swift, and Standard Chartered have partnered up to trial a new bank-to-wallet payment solution. Initial production trials have demonstrated…
FundBank adopts Temenos SaaS to help drive US expansion
FundBank, a Cayman Islands-based company specialising in banking services for the asset management industry, has gone live with Temenos Software-as-a-Service…