Acquisitions
FinTech Land Grab Intensifies as Deal-Making Rewires Platforms
April 27, 2026

Recent FinTech dealmaking has been marked by firms pursuing acquisitions that extend control across payments, data, incentives and settlement. The strategies are arcing toward determining how transactions are created and how they are completed. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article...

Blockchain
Banking Circle Unveils Stablecoin Settlement After Landing Crypto License
April 27, 2026

Luxembourg-based financial services company Banking Circle said it has launched stablecoin settlement services. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today....

artificial intelligence
CFOs Suffer From Consumption as Tech Teams AI Tokenmaxx
April 27, 2026

Enterprise software helped redefine corporate billing and make it CFO-friendly. Annual licenses, multi-year agreements and seat-based pricing models created a stable cost structure that finance teams could forecast with reasonable accuracy. Even cloud computing, for all its variability, eventually settled into patterns that procurement and...

Real Estate
Real Moves to Buy RE/MAX to Supercharge Global Property Tech
April 27, 2026

The Real Brokerage plans to acquire the parent company of RE/MAX in an $880 million deal to create a technology-enabled global real estate platform. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content —...

artificial intelligence
DeepSeek Pitches Deep Discounts Amid Fierce AI Competition
April 27, 2026

DeepSeek has begun offering developers discounts amid increasing competition in China’s artificial intelligence (AI) space. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS...

Investments
Sereact Raises $110 Million to Scale AI Robotic Brain
April 27, 2026

German startup Sereact has raised $110 million to develop its AI robotics model. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter, PYMNTS Today. By completing...

Meta
Meta’s Purchase of AI Startup Manus Halted by China
April 27, 2026

The Chinese government has halted Meta’s $2 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence (AI) startup Manus. Get the Full Story Complete the form to unlock this article and enjoy unlimited free access to all PYMNTS content — no additional logins required. yesSubscribe to our daily newsletter,...

Payments Innovation
Agentic Commerce Forces a Rethink of Card Infrastructure
April 27, 2026

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Consumer Finance
Affirm: Agentic Credit Rewrites the Rules of Consumer Lending
April 27, 2026

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