Visa and Airwallex are joining forces to develop embedded-finance solutions for freight and shipping platforms. The collaboration, announced Thursday (July 23) is designed to modernize the way businesses in these sectors manage payments working capital and cross-border commerce. “Freight and shipping are fundamental to the global economy, yet many businesses continue...
Business payments and financial platform Airwallex has raised $320 million in new funding. This Series H round brings Airwallex’s valuation to $11 billion, and will help it develop autonomous finance and agentic commerce and extend its infrastructure and regulatory presence into new markets, the company...
Airwallex has added a billing solution to its global payments and financial offerings. The new Airwallex Billing includes tools for invoicing, subscription management and usage-based billing, allowing users to adopt the ones that are relevant to them today and add other billing models as needed, the company said in a...
Global payments and financial platform Airwallex is investing $1.135 billion to fuel its expansion in the United Kingdom and the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region over the next five years. The company will use the new investment to open in new markets, launch...
May 03, 2024
A 3% gain in the FinTech IPO Index this past week was led by the platforms. And in many cases, those firms have yet to report earnings — so, perhaps, let’s call this an anticipatory rally. Katapult, the lease-to-own platform, saw its shares leap 49.7% through the past five sessions. The company filed its 10-K […]
September 29, 2023
The pandemic era ushered in many favorable trends for global eCommerce businesses, but times have changed, says Pranav Sood, EMEA executive GM at payments firm Airwallex, as international merchants grapple...
March 19, 2020
Getting U.S. companies to switch to electronic B2B payments is tough enough, but adoption problems only grow when you add in cross-border transactions. “It’s an area that’s ripe for disruption....
August 13, 2026
Airwallex is adding Affirm’s installment payment options to its checkout platform, giving merchants in 35 countries a way to offer pay-over-time financing to eligible customers in the United States. Under the partnership announced Thursday (Aug. 13), merchants using Airwallex can make Affirm available at checkout without completing a separate integration. U.S. shoppers who qualify can […]
July 23, 2026
Visa and Airwallex are joining forces to develop embedded-finance solutions for freight and shipping platforms. The collaboration, announced Thursday (July 23) is designed to modernize the way businesses in these sectors manage payments working capital...
June 25, 2026
Business payments and financial platform Airwallex has raised $320 million in new funding. This Series H round brings Airwallex’s valuation to $11 billion, and will help it develop autonomous finance...
May 29, 2026
Airwallex has added a billing solution to its global payments and financial offerings. The new Airwallex Billing includes tools for invoicing, subscription management and usage-based billing, allowing users to adopt the ones that are relevant...
