SUNRATE, a global payment and treasury management platform, announced that it has signed an agreement with Hong Kong’s Office for Attracting Strategic Enterprises (OASES), becoming a strategic enterprise in the city.
Visa has launched a new “Creator Card” in the UK so that TikTok LIVE earnings reach the online entrepreneurs faster and more simply.
Alipay has launched a new AI Pay service that lets AI agents make purchases and complete payments based on user instructions.
Autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) agents need trusted verification mechanisms to interact with payment systems in agentic commerce scenarios. FACT (Framework for Agentic Commerce Trust) by Fime strives to provide that.
The global fintech investment landscape is firmly back in growth mode heading into mid-2026, and a string of fresh funding rounds this month underscores just how much momentum has returned to the sector and where smart money is flowing.
The country that is next in line to develop a comprehensive nationwide instant payment system in LatAm, Colombia has a range of promising fintech startups striving to transform the way money flows nationwide.
In France, the CB network is reportedly striving to become the next payment sovereignty frontier as officials warn against overreliance on foreign payment methods, such as Visa and Mastercard.
Higher-value transactions have always been the ones to face limited netbanking experiences, but Banking Connect through Decentro offers to eliminate most of those limitations, creating smooth money flows and a simplified integration experience.
Colombia’s real-time payment system Bre-B is rewriting the regional playbook and the numbers are hard to ignore.
This week’s essential reads: India tightens data rules for fintechs, Airwallex takes on Stripe in the physical world, Senator Warren questions X Money’s stablecoin ambitions, Monzo opens up in Ireland, and dLocal plugs emerging-market remittance gaps.
U.S. wealth manager Corient adds over $10B AUM and expands European presence with the acquisition of Geneva-rooted Bedrock Group. Allong with late 2025 acquisitions to be approved, the firm’s combined client asset base will near $470B.
The global banking industry has navigated financial crises, regulatory upheaval, and digital transformation, but 2026 may mark its most turbulent year yet. Three distinct and compounding banking threats are converging simultaneously in 2026: a new class of AI capable of autonomous cyberattacks, a structural revenue exodus toward fintech and digital finance, and a surge in […]
The inaugural edition of Online Trading Expo arrives at AsiaWorld-Expo, Hong Kong on 27–28 May 2026.
Payments firm EBANX adds five markets and targets fast-growing, mobile-first economies with high cross-border e-commerce activity
Your Friday news briefing on the most consequential fintech and startup funding moves — April 17, 2026
Britain’s CFOs are waking up to a payments crisis hiding in plain sight. New research from global corporate payments company Corpay has exposed a striking contradiction at the heart of UK finance: the people responsible for managing billions in corporate spend know their processes are broken and they know rivals are already pulling ahead.
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