South Korea’s digital-only AI-driven lender KakaoBank reported its highest annual profit to date, with overseas investments now accounting for roughly one-fifth of earnings and turning its regional expansion into a measurable financial contributor.
In a move to modernize how insurers connect, analyze, and manage payments, One Inc has rolled out AI-powered tools built to reduce onboarding time and streamline digital payment operations.
AI-powered KYB functionality will enhance myTU’s banking platform through direct integration, enabling business customers to open fully operational accounts in minutes rather than days without extra fuss.
New research from global tech strategist Juniper Research finds that the annual value of fraudulent eCommerce transactions will rise from $56 billion in 2025 to $131 billion by 2030. The forecast represents a 133 % increase over five years, driven by rising instances of “friendly fraud,” where legitimate transactions are disputed fraudulently.
Bits Technology has secured €12 million in Series A funding to accelerate automation of KYB, AML, and onboarding processes for financial institutions across Europe. The investment highlights growing demand for streamlined regulatory compliance solutions as banks and fintechs face increasingly complex European regulations.
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.
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