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The British all-cards-in-one solution provider Curve is planning to go across the pond in the fall and has taken a clear step towards it with the opening of its first US office.

AnaCap Financial Partners has kicked off exclusive negotiations for the purchase of a majority stake in payment FinTech Market Pay in a deal worth roughly €300m.

Manny Pacquiao has been busy since hanging up his boxing gloves, having embarked on a career as a senator and, now, as the founder of payments company PacPay.

Syncapay has announced that it has bought Wirecard North America, marking another page in the story of the collapse of the scandal-ridden former FinTech giant.

These 33 FinTech funding rounds from last week highlight the rise of Scandi challenger banks, the importance of cybersecurity and how competition in the buy now, pay later space is heating up.

Hot on the heels of it bringing its Series B round to a hefty $125m in July, Thought Machine has now been tapped to power Curve's new credit and loan startup Curve Credit.

Replanting company Ecosia is powering a new wooden debit card named TreeCard that will use 80% of its profits to plant new trees.

Payment giant Visa has made a strategic investment into Global Processing Services (GPS), a payments issuer processor.

The WealthTech and cryptocurrency FinTech sectors were among some of the winners of the investment rounds recorded last week.

The instalments solutions war is heating up with PayPal bringing its Klarna-competing buy now, pay later service to the UK.