Waymo just raised $16 billion to accelerate its autonomous driving expansion and scale its robotaxi business internationally. This massive funding round, one of the largest ever in the autonomous vehicle sector, underscores growing investor confidence in the future of self-driving technology.
Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, has announced support for Google’s Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), a newly introduced open standard aimed at enabling agentic commerce across platforms.
AI and payments had been going their separate ways for a while, until their convergence made the concepts of agentic commerce and automated transactions tangible. Why do we expect to hear the words AI and payments increasingly used in the same context in 2026 and how do these two fintech sectors mutually enhance each other? […]
Investing today is full of completely distinct choices: stocks, ETFs, bonds, real estate, crypto, and more are available even to market amateurs. But which products are actually trending right now? Recent surveys and market research give us clear answers. Here’s a data-driven overview of what investors are choosing in 2026 and why.
Agibank’s planned U.S. IPO aims to raise up to $785 million at a valuation of about $3.3 billion, underscoring recent resurgence of global capital market interest in Brazilian fintechs.
Europe’s leading domestic mobile payment platforms and the European Payments Initiative (EPI) have taken a major step toward realizing a unified, sovereign pan‑European payments ecosystem that promises seamless cross‑border payments for consumers and merchants.
E-commerce merchants using BigCommerce platform can now unlock globally optimized checkout, local payment options, AI-powered fraud protection and agentic commerce tools through an expanded Stripe integration.
OpenAI is preparing for a potential initial public offering (IPO) in the fourth quarter of 2026, as it seeks to become one of the first major generative‑AI companies to tap public markets.
On March 3, 2026, Baltic Payment Forum will bring together 300+ C-level executives and payment leaders from 30+ countries — including regulators, central banks, banks, and fintech founders — for a senior-level conversation on the future of payments in Europe.
If payments, fintech, and the future of commerce are on your radar, Merchant Payments Ecosystem (MPE) 2026 is one of those events worth bookmarking.
Brazilian digital banking giant Nubank has received conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national bank in the United States.
Block has expanded its European footprint with the opening of a new office in Dublin, strengthening its presence in one of Europe’s key financial services hubs.
Standard Chartered’s new AI-powered platform acts as a central hub of banking insights, products, and market capabilities, helping staff answer customer questions and find tailored solutions quicker and more precisely.
While biometric authentication is now a common part of the payment process, confirming transactions with a palm screen is still a novelty. Though this experimental payment tech has been around for several years now, most people know little about it, not to mention using it in real life. So, what are those mysterious palm payments […]
Mastercard BIN Sponsor Plus accreditation programme aims to facilitate card launch for fintech companies in the UK by connecting them with trusted financial institutions that can help them bring card products to market seamlessly.
Data complexity and asset intricacy in insurance sector are outpacing system capabilities, creating operational gaps that could define competitive advantage, finds APAC CWAN study.
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