



Stripe + PayPal? The rumor is less about M&A—and more about what “payments” is becoming
On Feb. 24, 2026, a Bloomberg report (picked up by

Europe’s digital euro gets real: online and offline, by design
On paper, Europe still looks like a cash continent. In

PayPal’s CEO shake-up is really a checkout shake-up
PayPal is changing leaders after admitting it has not executed

Europe’s digital euro is a sovereignty project disguised as a payment product
On January 28, 2026 (Pacific Time), Valdis Dombrovskis, the EU’s

Capital One’s $5.15bn Brex bet: the bank wants the CFO’s dashboard
The US lender is buying a corporate card and spend

The UK just won the right to cap post-Brexit card fees — now the real fight begins
When a shopper in France clicks “pay” on a UK

Britain’s fast-track fintech licences: can speed alone save the UK’s edge?
The UK government wants to let start-ups operate under “provisional

AI agents, stablecoins and the quiet reset in fintech funding
Global investors aren’t walking away from fintech. They’re rotating into

When the Bot Says No: How Agentic AI Could Kill Junk-Fee Finance
When Max Levchin says the bots are coming for junk

Singapore Just Turned Itself Into the World’s Testnet for Tokenised Money
If you want to see what “money on-chain” actually looks

Why Wall Street just wrote Ripple a $500m check — and what it says about stablecoins in 2026
Citadel Securities and Fortress led a half-billion dollar investment that

PayPal plugs into ChatGPT: what “agentic checkout” really changes
On October 28, 2025 (Pacific Time), PayPal said it will

HTTP 402 is back: Coinbase’s “Payments MCP” gives AI agents wallets — and puts fintech on notice
Coinbase has shipped a developer tool that lets popular AI

Revolut comes to UPI. Can a foreign super-app really win on India’s domestic rails?
Standfirst: Revolut will roll out UPI payments and Visa prepaid

PhonePe’s IPO tests the economics of India’s ‘free’ payments rail
Walmart-backed PhonePe has filed confidentially for a domestic IPO of

After the U.S. Stablecoin Law: Who Issues First – Banks, Big Tech, or Merchants?
A New Era of Regulated Stablecoins In July 2025, the

How a 97-year-old Missouri bank became fintech’s $1.47bn “bank of record”
Lead Bank’s fresh $70m round isn’t just another fintech raise.

Licence, code, carry: inside Kapital’s $1.3bn push into regulated banking
The headline news is simple enough: Mexico City–based Kapital says

Corporate Bitcoin Treasuries Go Public: Amdax Bets on Euronext
Amsterdam’s Amdax wants to list a dedicated bitcoin treasury company

A Quiet Fix with Big Implications: How the FDIC’s Appeals Office Could Unblock Bank-Fintech Innovation
Banking regulators aren’t usually associated with innovation-friendly policies. But in

From Paper to Algorithm: How Conpend Is Rewiring Trade Finance Compliance
In the arcane world of trade finance, paperwork and compliance

Finmo’s FCA Green Light: How a UK EMI Licence Turbo-Charges the Embedded-Treasury Race
Finmo, a fintech startup offering a next-generation treasury management platform,

Circle vs Tether vs Wall Street: Inside the Stablecoin Race for Digital Dollars
Stablecoins – digital tokens pegged to fiat currency – have

Too Slow to Click: Why U.S. Open Banking Must Learn from the U.K.’s Pay by Bank Stall
When the United Kingdom launched its open banking initiative in
































