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? […]
Finastra has introduced a next-generation, cloud-native lending platform aimed at transforming how commercial loans are originated and processed by financial institutions.
U.S. digital bank Varo Bank has raised $123.9 million in Series G funding led by Warburg Pincus and Coliseum Capital Management, marking a major vote of confidence in its digital banking model.
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.
If you’re wondering whether instant injury payouts actually change the risk for brick-and-mortar businesses, the answer is yes. These fast payments can reshape liability decisions, customer expectations, and how teams handle on-site incidents.
In the early 2020s, the conversation around finance and fintech startup site selection was dominated by a binary choice between the expensive, high-energy density of the urban core or the cost-effective, but often isolated, sprawl of the suburbs. By 2026, this landscape has been fundamentally reshaped. For today’s entrepreneurs, the prime location is no longer […]
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.
Brazilian digital banking and payments platform PicPay has successfully priced its initial public offering (IPO) in the United States, raising approximately $434 million and marking the first significant U.S. listing by a Brazilian company in over four years.
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 […]
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