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Fintech & Ecommerce

Digital Takes Over: Visa’s 2025 Report Shows Apps Now Dominate North America’s Remittance Landscape

Visa’s latest Money Travels: 2025 Digital Remittances Adoption Report reveals a strong shift toward digital remittance apps in North America.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Mastercard and National ITMX Extend Strategic Collaboration Powering Thailand’s Instant Payments

Thailand’s PromptPay has had a dramatic impact on the national payment landscape, which will continue to expand as Mastercard and National ITMX agree to carry their cooperation forward.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Alipay+ Enables First Smart Glasses E-Wallet Payment with AlipayHK & Meizu

The revolutionary Alipay+ transaction with a payment solution for global e-wallets embedded within Meizu StarV Snap smart glasses is an important milestone for the whole fintech industry.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Lunar Expands Payment Processing Capabilities Via Wise & Visa Partnerships

Digital challenger Lunar becomes the first bank in the Nordics to start Visa card processing on Pismo’s cloud platform, while its partnership with Wise allows Lunar customers to send money abroad at favourable terms.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Unzer to Support EPI Wero Rollout

German fintech Unzer joins the ranks of the European Payments Initiative (EPI) to advocate for the unified EU payment infrastructure enabled by the digital wallet Wero.

Science & Technology

Databricks Acquires Startup Neon

Data and artificial intelligence company Databricks acquires Neon, which is a database startup.

Science & Technology

TensorWave Raises $100 Million

TensorWave, a Las Vegas-based startup specializing in the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure, announced on Wednesday, May 14, that it managed to raise $100 million in the latest round of financing.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Monzo Introduces Payment Reversal Option

Monzo customers may now have up to a minute to decide whether they want a transaction to proceed, thanks to the new payment reversal feature.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Perplexity Selects PayPal for AI-Powered Payments Within Its Agentic Commerce System

Perplexity and PayPal will allow AI agents on the Perplexity Pro platform to pay for products, travel bookings, or tickets requested by users.

Blockchain & Crypto

Robinhood to Buy WonderFi

United States-based financial company Robinhood is buying WonderFi, the Canadian crypto operator of Bitbuy and Coinsquare.

Blockchain & Crypto

Citi Predicts Stablecoin Market to Hit $3.7 Trillion by 2030

Citi predicts that the financial volume of the stablecoins market could reach $3.7 trillion by the end of the current decade.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Stash to Add AI to Financial Guidance Platform

Stash has secured $146 million in a Series H funding round to deepen its investment in artificial intelligence for the company’s financial guidance platform.

Science & Technology

Google Says Gemma AI Model Surpasses 150 Million Downloads

Google reported that its Gemma open-source artificial intelligence model has been downloaded by users more than 150 million times.

Science & Technology

Perplexity AI Reportedly Plans to Launch Browser

The media published information according to which Perplexity AI, which is gradually becoming an increasingly powerful player in the global artificial intelligence industry, is currently in preliminary negotiations on raising investments worth $500 million at a valuation of $14 billion.

Blockchain & Crypto

Dubai to Enable Crypto Payments for Government Services

Dubai Finance and Crypto.com partner to allow UAE citizens to pay for government services with crypto.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Adyen to Offer JCB Card-on-File Tokenization

Merchants who use Adyen platform will soon benefit from even more secure credit card transactions with JCB Card-on-File (COF) Tokenization technology.