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Monzo turns down Nubank and now shops a stake to CVC and Advent

Monzo is in preliminary talks with CVC and Advent to sell a stake of up to 15% at a valuation…

Ant International Obtains Licences to Expand Its UAE Payment Services

Ant International has obtained two licenses from the Central Bank of the UAE following preliminary approval in August 2025. The…

Klarna & FreshBooks add BNPL to small business invoices

Klarna has partnered with FreshBooks to integrate buy now, pay later (BNPL) options into invoicing workflows without requiring any additional…

Kapital gets first green light to offer banking in Colombia, adds AI firepower with Woz deal

Colombian regulators have granted Kapital initial approvals to launch banking operations, bringing the company closer to offering deposit accounts after…

Kraken Parent Payward to Acquire European Bank

Payward (Kraken) has signed an agreement to acquire Saldo Finance Oy, the owner of the licensed Saldo Bank.The transaction is…

Huru Ties up with Paymentology and Bitpanda to Broaden UAE Ecosystem

Huru, a financial app licensed by the Central Bank of the UAE, has entered into two strategic partnerships at the…

Bank of America fined $1.2bn for anti-money laundering failures

The U.S. Department of the Treasury imposed a $1.2 billion fine on Bank of America for violations of anti-money laundering…

Era of cheap capital is over

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raised its interest rate by 25 basis points, signaling the end of the era…

Brazil gambling ban rewrites Pix core rules, blocking bets on three payment rails

On September 30, the Central Bank of Brazil issued three resolutions (BCB Nos. 597, 596, and 595) incorporating the gambling…

Robinhood Plans Up to $500 Million Credit Card Bond Sale, Fueling Services Expansion

Robinhood Credit is launching a $500 million asset-backed securities (ABS) transaction backed by Visa credit card receivables, with closing scheduled…

Digital bank vs digital banking: Competing to bank the unbanked

Bangladesh Bank has granted initial approval to five digital banks: bKash Digital Bank, Boost (backed by Robi Axiata), Nova (backed…

Mal Moves Toward AI-Native Islamic Banking After UAE Regulatory Approval

Abu Dhabi-based fintech Mal has raised $230 million in a seed funding round led by BlueFive Capital. In May, the…

PhonePe receives UAE approval for payment and card licences

PhonePe, India’s largest digital payments platform and controlled by Walmart, has received regulatory approval in the UAE to provide payment…

Pagaya launches its first revolving facility for $700 million

Pagaya has closed its first Variable Funding Note (VFN) transaction with ATLAS SP Partners, a warehouse finance and securitized products…

Moneyview IPO Closes With 98.46X Oversubscription

Indian digital lender Moneyview completed its ₹1,092 crore ($130 million) initial public offering on September 28, with the issue subscribed…

Revolut Wins Approval to Buy Banco Cetelem in Argentina

Argentina’s central bank has approved Revolut’s acquisition of Banco Cetelem Argentina S.A. from BNP Paribas Personal Finance.Following completion of the…

Some Brazilian voters are feeling burned by fintech revolution

Six major New York-listed Brazilian digital lenders and payments companies, including PicPay, PagBank, and Stone, came under broad selling pressure…

Kastle raises $24m to build AI agents for lending

Lending infrastructure platform Kastle has raised USD 24 million in a new funding round to develop and scale autonomous generative…

Fresh Off Reaching Profitability, FintechOS Secures €26.5M to Fuel US Expansion

Romanian-founded FintechOS has secured USD 28 million (€26.5 million) in equity funding and a senior debt facility from Santander CIB,…

GFH Bank Scores Strategic Partnership with AlNassr to Fuel Saudi Expansion

Bahrain-based Islamic investment institution GFH Bank has entered into a strategic multi-year partnership with Saudi football club Al Nassr.Through the…

Revolut considering dual listing in New York and London, founder says

Global fintech powerhouse Revolut is exploring an ambitious capital expansion strategy through a potential dual-listing IPO in New York and…

Nubank launches deposit account in the US

Latin American digital banking giant Nubank has expanded its US regulatory footprint with the launch of high-yield digital deposit accounts…

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Service

OpenAI has officially launched a specialized enterprise version of ChatGPT designed to meet the stringent security, compliance, and cross-market data…

Grab aims for ‘next level’ in financial services with purchase of buy-now pay-later platform Atome

Singapore-based technology giant Grab has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire an initial 60% controlling stake in Atome Financial,…

Visa and Revolut carry out passkey-based agentic payment in France

Visa and Revolut have successfully completed a live payment transaction in France carried out entirely by an autonomous AI agent.…

Ant International Expands Agentic Payments Across 10 Major Asian Wallets

Ant International has rolled out the initial phase of its Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) across 10 leading digital wallets in…

Tether Enters Private Credit Space With Fasanara Partnership

Tether has expanded into the private credit market through a strategic partnership with London-based asset manager Fasanara Capital. The two…

Experian Deploys Real-Time AI Decisioning Across Lending Marketplaces

Experian has integrated its new enterprise AI underwriting platform, Experian Activate, into its consumer marketplace. The technology is designed to…

Movemint Launches Embedded Personalization Technology to Scale Banking Loans and Deposits

Movemint is expanding its market reach by offering its embedded personalization platform to all financial institutions, moving beyond its historical…

DBS and Stripe partner to capture Asian cross-border payments

DBS and Stripe have announced a strategic partnership with the goal of accelerating agentic commerce growth and cross-border payments in…

Ant International’s R2 enters Brazil

R2 today announced its expansion into Brazil, marking the company’s entry into Latin America’s largest economy.With the support of Ant…

Britain plans new Bank of England objective to support payments innovation

The British government plans to give the Bank of England a new secondary objective to support innovation in payment systems…

India moves to give its instant payments network a business model

India is taking steps to reshape the business model behind its Unified Payments Interface (UPI), a widely used payments network…

PaysafeWallet Is Now Live in Poland: Your Money, Your Way

The UK cemented its place as the European FinTech hub as companies based in the country secured 35% of all…

Grupo Cibest acquires Colombian fintech Avista Colombia

Grupo Cibest has acquired 100% of Colombian fintech Avista Colombia after meeting all regulatory and closing conditions. Financial terms of…

US regulator rejects Bunq’s application for national bank charter

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the US federal regulator responsible for chartering and supervising national banks,…

Cashea raises US$100 million to continue believing in Venezuela

Cashea announced a US$100 million investment that will be entirely dedicated to Venezuela to expand access to responsible credit, develop…

UK cemented its place as the European FinTech hub attracting over a third of all deals in H1

The UK cemented its place as the European FinTech hub as companies based in the country secured 35% of all…

CFPB agenda, credit risk, supervision and insurer solvency – July 24, 2026

On July 23rd, Brian Johnson, the nominee to lead the CFPB on a permanent basis, had a confirmation hearing before…

Atome Financial hits second year of profit as revenue surges 80%

Atome Financial said that it achieved full-year profitability for the second consecutive year, with revenue rising 80% in 2025.Revenue is…

US companies dominated top global FinTech deals in Q2 as investments grew 34% YoY

Global FinTech investment in Q2 2026 reached $30.9bn across 872 deals, representing a 34% increase in funding compared to the…

37 Top Southeast Asian Fintechs Earn Spots in CNBC’s 2026 Global List

CNBC has recognised 37 regional firms among the top Southeast Asian fintechs of 2026 in its annual World’s Top Fintech…

CNBC Names PayJoy one of the World’s Top FinTech Companies of 2026

CNBC and Statista have named PayJoy to the “World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026,” which honors companies providing digital funding and…

European banks set for profit boost from lending, trading windfall

After a surge in revenue at U.S. banks, European lenders are expected to follow suit this week when they report…

Regulating Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL)

We started regulating Deferred Payment Credit (DPC), often known as Buy Now Pay Later, on 15 July 2026.Find out what…

Nu Mexico receives authorization to begin operations as a bank

Nu Mexico has received authorization from the National Banking and Securities Commission (CNBV) to begin operations as a bank.With more…

Stripe and Advent reportedly offered to buy PayPal for around $53.4B

Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have reportedly submitted a joint bid to acquire PayPal in a deal valued…

GXS Loan Portfolio Tops S$1 Billion as Business Lending Expands

GXS Group more than quadrupled its loan portfolio in 2025 as business lending became a major part of its digital…

BNPL Pushes Private Credit Deeper Into Consumer Risk

Trovy, a US consumer FinTech replacing high-cost consumer debt with home equity-backed financing, has announced it has closed a $15m…

Qonto and Pennylane: French fintech friends and foes

Qonto and Pennylane are two of France’s most well-known fintech disruptors.The Paris-based fintechs set out to disrupt particular areas of…

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