Fintech

Mastercard partnered with regional FinTech Ottu to expand access to local and global payment methods across four Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, including Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman. The collaboration brings ...

Speed raised $8 million to accelerate the growth of its payments solutions built on the Bitcoin Lightning Network. The company will use the new funding to build capacity, expand to new ...

Monzo CEO TS Anil announced in October plans to hand the company over to new leadership. The company said the transition was happenstance. It had been seeking a new United Kingdom ...

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German digital bank N26 has chosen a chief executive amid new regulatory sanctions. Mike Dargan, currently group executive board member for UBS, will become N26’s new CEO starting in April 2026, ...

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Consumer payments platform Zilch has secured a payment services license in the U.K. The license, handed down by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), means that Zilch will no longer need to rely on third parties ...

Digital financial services firm SoFi has debuted its “all-in-one account” Smart Card. The new account, announced Wednesday (Dec. 10) for SoFi Plus members, is designed to offer better choice and control ...

Philippines-based embedded banking platform Netbank has tapped Thredd to launch its Cards-as-a-Service (CaaS) solution. This solution will allow FinTechs, banks and eWallets to “rapidly deploy modern, flexible card issuing across both consumer and commercial segments,” ...

FinTechs’ surge toward credit unions offers a clearer view of how technology firms are reshaping their growth strategies as competition from large banks intensifies. There’s a shift in place that is ...

Revolut has reportedly offered to repurchase shares from former employees at a 30% discount to its recent funding round. The U.K. FinTech is giving ex-staffers the opportunity to sell their shares back ...

Payments FinTech Airwallex has been valued at $8 billion after raising $330 million. The new funding, announced Monday (Dec. 8), will help finance the company’s ongoing growth in the U.S. and ...

Embedded capital FinTech Pipe is reportedly set to name a new chief executive. Luke Voiles, who became the company’s CEO in 2023, will be replaced by Pipe’s chief product officer Claurelle ...

Middle-market business-focused finance platform Flex raised $60 million in Series B funding. Flex’s annualized total payments volume has grown from $1 billion to $3 billion this year, according to a Thursday ...

Revolut opened a waitlist for what it called its first “ultra-premium” business card. Dubbed Titan, the card is designed for high-growth companies, the London-based FinTech’s Revolut Business arm said in a ...

Digital financial services platform Nubank said it intends to obtain a banking license in Brazil in 2026. Nubank is doing so to comply with a new rule issued by Brazil’s central ...

Cumbuca, a Y Combinator-backed FinTech, is betting that global payment players want into Brazil faster than the licensing process allows. In a Wednesday (Dec. 3) news release, the company said it ...

Colombian FinTech MOVii said Tuesday (Dec. 2) that it has begun its international expansion by establishing operations in Peru. The company aims to capture at least 8% of the payment processing ...

FinTech Propel Holdings received regulatory permission to launch its own bank. The approval came from the Office of the Commissioner of Financial Institutions (OCFI) of Puerto Rico and allows Propel Bank ...

Global FinTech company Unlimit launched a non-custodial stablecoin clearing house designed to simplify blockchain transactions for businesses and individuals. The Stable.com platform integrates non-custodial exchange with Unlimit’s global payments infrastructure so ...

Mexico’s banking sector is reportedly facing pressure from a wave of FinTech challengers. As Bloomberg News reported Friday (Nov. 28), companies like Revolut are expected to begin operating in that country ...

Lufthansa Group customers in several countries can now choose Klarna’s flexible payment options when booking travel experiences. The options allow the airline group’s travelers to pay in full, pay later or ...

The GENIUS Act, which aims to regulate stablecoins in the United States, was enacted on July 18. However, the policy hasn’t yet been implemented, leaving cryptocurrency firms, stablecoin issuers and would-be ...

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Traditionally, compliance has been shorthand for constraint. However, that’s never been the case across embedded finance, particularly across its promise to empower B2B platforms to offer payments, lending, insurance and treasury ...

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s latest board agenda reads like a preview of the next major regulatory issues looming for big banks, and by extension, their FinTech partners. The FDIC will ...

Banking FinTech Green Dot’s businesses now have new owners, according to a Monday (Nov. 24) news release. Smith Ventures, a private equity company, is set to acquire and privatize Green Dot’s ...

Model ML has raised $75 million for its financial-services-focused artificial intelligence (AI) workflow automation platform. The company says this new funding, announced in a Monday (Nov. 24) news release, is among the largest FinTech ...

U.K. FinTech Revolut has seen its valuation jump by $30 billion in the last year. The company announced Monday (Nov. 24) that it had completed a share sale that gave it ...

The tech stock doldrums that marked broader markets this week also swayed the FinTech IPO Index, to the downside, as our names lost 6.6% collectively. The past week was especially notable ...

Stuut Technologies raised $29.5 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the product development of its artificial intelligence platform that automates accounts receivable (AR) work. The company will use ...

FinTech Made Card announced a new Visa card along with $8 million in seed funding. With the announcement comes a national distribution partnership with Fairway Home Mortgage, one of the largest ...

United Kingdom-based Lloyds Banking Group acquired London-based digital wallet FinTech Curve. The deal will allow Lloyds to expand its digital footprint, according to a Wednesday (Nov. 19) press release. “This strategic acquisition ...

Chargeflow raised $35 million in a Series A funding round to fuel its global expansion and the launch of additional products related to its artificial intelligence-powered chargeback automation platform. The company’s ...

FinTech and digital bank Green Dot and financial services firm Amscot Financial launched a banking partnership. The collaboration will see Florida-based Amscot use Green Dot’s Arc embedded finance platform to offer ...

Digital asset banking refers to depository institutions offering services built around tokenized or blockchain-native assets, perhaps most notably with stablecoins. In a digital asset banking context, the bank might mint stablecoins, ...

U.K. FinTech giant Revolut has launched a payments partnership with Booking.com. With this collaboration, customers of the travel platform can pay using Revolut Pay, the company’s one-click checkout tool, the companies said in a ...

JPMorganChase has reportedly reached deals in which FinTech firms will pay the bank for access to customer data. The bank reached deals with Plaid, Yodlee, Morningstar and Akoya, which are among ...

For the FinTech IPO Index, it was all earnings, all the time. Even strong growth in lending and card issuance, all mainstays of digital upstarts, was not enough to buoy the ...

U.K.-based consumer payments platform Zilch has raised $175 million in debt and equity. The new funding will go towards marketing efforts, product development and improvement to Zilch’s platform, as well as ...

Even the most successful card issuers cannot rest on their laurels. Sustained excellence demands continuous innovation and an expanding array of offerings to keep end users engaged and loyal. The July 2025 ...

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In uncertain times, access to cash can make the difference between survival and shutdown. For small- to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the third-quarter earnings season revealed a growing dependence on working capital ...

Kamran Ansari has lived through nearly every major turn in FinTech, from the first digital wallets and mobile payments to the rise (and recalibration) of billion-dollar disruptors. With nearly 100 ...

Upward raised $8 million in a Series Seed+ round to grow its FinTech infrastructure platform that helps companies launch and scale digital financial products. The company will use the new funding ...