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Spendesk partners with Adyen to accelerate SMB innovation with embedded payments and financial services

Adyen, a financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, has announced its long-term strategic partnership with Spendesk, the complete spend management platform for medium-sized businesses. The partnership will support innovation in embedded...

PayPal PYUSD to bring speed and reduced costs to cross-border payments with Xoom 

PayPal has announced it will be enabling disbursement partners to use PayPal USD (PYUSD) to settle cross-border money transfers made with Xoom. Cebuana Lhuillier and Yellow Card will be the first Xoom disbursement partners to use PYUSD to settle...

Lack of upskilling and low regulatory preparedness is holding back deeper GenAI adoption within European financial services firms

According to the EY European Financial Services AI Survey, the majority (90%) of firms surveyed have adopted AI into operations to some degree, but most remain in the early stages and 8% have not integrated AI at all. Leaders across Europe’s financial s...

Global Blockchain Show

Join the Global Blockchain Show: The Ultimate Blockchain Season Finale! Welcome to the Global Blockchain Show, the Web3 Founders’ Festival set to unite industry leaders, developers, and blockchain enthusiasts from around the world. Taking place in the v...

Klarna to launch on Google Pay 

Klarna, the AI powered global payments network and shopping assistant, will soon be available on Google Pay. Starting next year, Google Pay users in the US can choose Klarna’s interest-free payment options at checkout.   Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO o...

Two-thirds of businesses believe ‘legacy banks’ are too slow to adapt to modern business needs 

Revolut Business, the global FinTech trusted by hundreds of thousands of businesses, has published a study, conducted in partnership with Dynata, showing that international businesses are turning away from ‘legacy banks’ to manage their financial needs, ech...

Chime submits comment to joint banking regulators’ request for information on bank-FinTech partnerships  

Chime, a global FinTech company, has recently submitted a comment letter in response to a Request for Information from federal banking regulators in the US on the topic of bank-FinTech partnerships. Sharing more about the business and how it is working on...

Goldman Sachs’ Digital Assets to spin-out technology platform, GS DAP

Goldman Sachs intends to explore strategic opportunities to spin-out its wholly owned technology platform, GS DAP from its Digital Assets business, to ultimately become an industry-owned distributed technology solution, subject to regulatory approvals. In...

1Password chooses Stripe Billing to power subscriptions 

Stripe, a financial infrastructure platform for businesses, has announced that it will power over a million subscriptions for 1Password. 1Password will use Stripe Billing to manage subscriptions across its consumer and business segments and Stripe Radar,...

Knowing is half the battle: How to defend against bank fraud

Jasie Fon, Regional VP Asia, Ping Identity, says there’s no way to ‘set and forget’ user security online. Bank fraud – like depositing a fake cheque – used to be more complicated. Today, though, sophisticated bank fraud can be executed simply throu...

Zilch expands securitisation to £150m with investment from major global credit funds with Deutsche Bank 

Zilch, the FinTech payments innovator of the world’s first ad-subsidised payments network (ASPN), has announced the successful expansion of its securitisation facility by an additional £50 million, bringing the total to £150 million. This latest round includes par...

Colombian fintech Addi secures $100m credit facility from Victory Park Capital

Addi, the Colombia-based fintech platform for integrated payments, shopping and banking, has secured a $100m credit facility from Victory Park Capital (VPC) – a leading global alternative investment firm specializing in private credit. The new facility w...