Global payments infrastructure provider TransFi has announced that Victor Lucena has been appointed as the company’s new chief executive officer for Latin America, as the company expands its cross-border payments and stablecoin capabilities in the region.
SoFi, a digital financial services provider, has acquired Peach Finance, a lending infrastructure startup. No financial details have been disclosed for this transaction.
Farther, a wealth management platform, has raised $150 million in a Series D funding round that was led by General Atlantic and joined by existing investors including CapitalG, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cota Capital and MassMutual Ventures.
PayJustNow, a South African payment solution for merchants that offers a “Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) service, is now fully integrated with Peach Payments’ Digit Pro point-of-sale (POS) terminal solutions.
Africa-focused fintech firm Paystack has introduced a redesigned version of its merchant Dashboard, driven by AI tech, which the company describes as its first full rebuild in approximately 10 years.
Skeptics often view Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) as a debt risk, but South African consumers use it as a sophisticated budgeting strategy. In the below article, Payflex CMO Tracey-Lee Zürcher-Campbell debunks 5 myths about how local consumers and merchants use BNPL.
Just as people, AI agents have much more possibilities to fulfil their potential if they have money to back their actions. Without the ability to transact, all the search and analysis agentic systems perform remain on theoretical level. To empower AI agents with more practical tasks, they need agentic payment mechanisms that are already emerging […]
Open Banking Expo UK & Europe returns to London on 13–14 October 2026, bringing together the organisations shaping the next phase of Open Banking, Open Finance and Smart Data.
Flexible payments provider Klarna facilitates e-commerce shopping experience for ChatGPT users, who can now instantly see visual search results with up-to-date prices, availability, and offers from multiple merchants, all within the same conversation with the chatbot.
AI adoption in online shopping is rapidly growing, but only 14% of e-commerce consumers blindly rely on the AI engine best choice, while the majority factors in price and brand integrity during the decision-making process.
There is a belief embedded in fintech and e-commerce marketing culture that organic traffic is essentially free. It shows up in startup pitch decks, payments company growth plans, and e-commerce platform go-to-market strategies. The logic seems airtight: search engine optimization (SEO), social media, fintech community forums, and content marketing cost nothing to place, ergo they […]
Though Vinted is gradually turning from marketplace relying on external infrastructure to a fintech-driven e-commerce hub, it continues its long-standing collaboration with Mangopay that “understands both Vinted history and future”.
Chargebacks911 and acceptcards have announced a strategic partnership to provide chargeback prevention and dispute management services to acceptcards’ merchant clients in the United Kingdom.
For a century, JPMorgan Chase was targeting corporations, investment banking clients, high-net-worth individuals for private banking, and institutional investors in Germany. Now the bank finally moves into retail consumer services with the new digital bank entity called Chase.
iFX EXPO International 2026 returns to Limassol, 16-18 June, and for the global brokerage industry, it remains the single most important event on the calendar.
For decades, much of the card payments ecosystem has relied on technology originally designed long before the emergence of real-time commerce, embedded finance and global digital marketplaces. Many core processing environments still depend on fragmented integrations, batch-based settlement processes and legacy programming languages that can slow product development and limit operational flexibility.
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