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Fintech & Ecommerce

Klarna Debuts on NYSE

Digital banking and payment service provider, Klarna, is now officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) after more than 1,5 years of preparations.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Revolut Enhances Its Payment Gateway With Pay by Bank Option

Adding a Pay by Bank account-to-account (A2A) payment option to the payment gateway empowers Revolut customers to seamlessly improve their conversion rates and significantly reduce chargeback hustle.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Bunq Celebrates First Decade of Operations With 20 Million Users and App Revamp

One of the EU’s largest neobanks, bunq, has reached its tenth anniversary while hitting a major 20-million-user milestone. The challenger unveiled a new app design to mark the occasion.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Thunes Expands Real-Time Payments to Morocco

Being one of the top remittance receivers in Africa, Morocco heavily depends on the speed and reliability of cross-border payment solutions, so Thunes’ real-time payment infrastructure can be a game-changer for many local households.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Mastercard Unveils On-Demand Decisioning To Add Flexibility to Payment Authorization

On-demand decisioning functionality will help Mastercard’s banking partners gain more control over transaction authorization processes, reduce false declines, and improve fraud prevention.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Irish Banks to Launch P2P Payments App Zippay

Leading Irish retail banks, AIB, Bank of Ireland, and PTSB, are launching a Zippay solution integrated into each bank’s mobile app.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Nuvei Integrates With Paze Online Checkout Via Early Warning Services Partnership

Fast, tokenized Paze checkout brings Nuvei merchants enhanced security, reduced cart abandonment, and increased conversion, all through a simple integration process.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Ant to Pilot Card-Based Agentic AI Payments

Ant Group’s global merchant payments powerhouse unit, Antom, has made a foray into agentic payments, enabling AI agents to initiate and complete transactions on users’ behalf.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Fintech Giant Revolut Deepens Ties with Google Cloud in Multi-Million Dollar Deal

Revolut has a strategic plan to deploy Google Cloud’s expansive infrastructure across all segments of its operations, starting from back-end systems to the user-facing app.

Fintech & Ecommerce

JPMorgan Sets Sights on Europe’s Digital Banking Future With 2026 Germany Launch

By choosing Germany for its 2026 retail banking debut, JPMorgan signals confidence in Europe’s largest economy as the next frontier for digital finance.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Airwallex Acquires OpenPay, Adds Billing to Automate Customer Revenue

Airwallex’s acquisition of OpenPay combines global payments infrastructure with advanced subscription and usage-based billing tools, giving businesses a unified, multicurrency platform to scale recurring revenue and simplify cross-border commerce.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Kite AI Bags $18M From PayPal, General Catalyst

Over two dozen prominent investors, including PayPal Ventures, General Catalyst, 8VC, and Samsung Next, have placed their bets on an AI-driven startup, Kite AI, focused on agentic AI payment and e-commerce infrastructure.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Stripe Expands in Japan With Terminal for Unified Commerce

Stripe launched its Terminal service in Japan, complemented by new cellular-enabled readers and integrations with local methods like PayPay and WeChat Pay, to simplify payments and reconciliation across online and in-store channels.

Blockchain & Crypto

Trump-Backed Bitcoin Company Debuts on Nasdaq as New Crypto Token Lifts Family Wealth by $5B

This week has brought two crypto-related events linked to the U.S. President Donald Trump’s family: while a new WLFI crypto token has already boosted family wealth by roughly $5 billion, another Bitcoin venture is just starting its trading on Nasdaq.

Blockchain & Crypto

Thunes Partners With Ripple to Streamline Global Money Movement Over Blockchain Rails

Thunes Direct Global Network will leverage Ripple’s blockchain-powered payments solutions to make cross-border payments more accessible and efficient.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Klarna Expands Debit-First Card Offering to EU

The Klarna Card is debit-by-default, so purchases are settled immediately from the user’s funds, while the benefits of Klarna’s flexible repayment options still remain.