Curve news and trends

Lloyds Shows Interest in Buying FinTech Curve
Partnerships // July 13, 2025

British banking giant Lloyds is in talks to acquire U.K. FinTech Curve. That’s according to a report Saturday (July 12) by Sky News, citing unnamed sources. Lloyds is looking to pay £120 million ($161.9 million) for the digital wallet provider, the report said, and that...

Digital Wallet Provider Curve Appoints CEO to Drive US Growth
Personnel // June 07, 2024

Digital wallet provider Curve has appointed Nancy Yaffa as its USA CEO and Reeta K. Holmes as its new board member. These appointments come at a time when Curve, which is active in 31 markets across the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area (EEA),...

Financial App Curve Selects Nuvei for Card Acquiring, Alternative Payments
Digital Payments // October 19, 2023

Curve, a fast-growing financial app, has selected Nuvei, a Canadian FinTech company, to provide card acquiring and alternative payment methods (APMs) for consumer fund transfers to and from their Curve digital wallet.  Nuvei’s payments technology allows Curve to accept Visa and Mastercard transactions, according to...

Curve Raises $163 Million to Improve Financial App
Investments // September 21, 2023

British FinTech Curve says it has raised more than $163 million in a Series C round. The super app provider, whose offering connects all of a user’s debit and credit cards into one single card and app, announced Thursday (Sept. 21) that it had raised an additional $71 million...

Interviews & Exclusives
Mastercard: Inside The Samsung Pay ‘Super Card’

August 20, 2020
Though the great consumer shift to digital is often seen as a side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, that’s not entirely accurate, Mike Cowen, Mastercard’s head of digital payments for the U.K., Ireland, Nordics and Baltics told PYMNTS in a recent conversation. For a certain segment of the consumer and merchant population, that digital shift was […]

Staying Ahead Of The All-In-One Card Curve

September 26, 2018
The graveyard of payments innovation is littered with would be all-In-one cards. Batteries? Plastic? Failed startups? Curve's CEO Shachar Bialick tells Karen Webster that the secret to consolidated card success lies with...

Quick Reads
Lloyds Acquires UK Digital Wallet FinTech Curve

November 19, 2025
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 of Curve marks another significant step forward in Lloyds Banking Group’s digital transformation journey,” Jas Singh, Lloyds CEO of customer relationships, said in […]

Lloyds Shows Interest in Buying FinTech Curve

July 13, 2025
British banking giant Lloyds is in talks to acquire U.K. FinTech Curve. That’s according to a report Saturday (July 12) by Sky News, citing unnamed sources. Lloyds is looking to...

Digital Wallet Provider Curve Appoints CEO to Drive US Growth

June 07, 2024
Digital wallet provider Curve has appointed Nancy Yaffa as its USA CEO and Reeta K. Holmes as its new board member. These appointments come at a time when Curve, which...

Financial App Curve Selects Nuvei for Card Acquiring, Alternative Payments

October 19, 2023
Curve, a fast-growing financial app, has selected Nuvei, a Canadian FinTech company, to provide card acquiring and alternative payment methods (APMs) for consumer fund transfers to and from their Curve...