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PayTabs agrees $100m+ deal for Amazon’s MENA payments arm

PayTabs agrees $100m+ deal for Amazon’s MENA payments arm

PayTabs Group, a Saudi Arabia-founded FinTech specialising in payment processing and digital infrastructure, has agreed to acquire Amazon Payment Services’ Middle East and North...
Citi becomes first US bank to process live Swift ledger transactions

Citi becomes first US bank to process live Swift ledger transactions

Citi has become the first US bank to process live transactions on Swift’s blockchain-based ledger, as banks test whether shared infrastructure can support always-on,...
Ant International wins payment licence in Brazil

Ant International wins payment licence in Brazil

Ant International, a global digital payments and financial technology provider, has secured a Payment Institution (PI) licence from the Central Bank of Brazil, strengthening...
Bitget Wallet shifts card cashback towards digital assets

Bitget Wallet shifts card cashback towards digital assets

Bitget Wallet, a digital asset wallet and payment card provider, has launched a new rewards scheme that lets cardholders receive up to 3% cashback...
Diameter Pay, a FinTech platform building infrastructure for global US dollar payments and virtual accounts, has announced the completion of a $10m Series A funding round.

Diameter Pay lands $10m to expand US dollar access

Diameter Pay, a FinTech platform building infrastructure for global US dollar payments and virtual accounts, has announced the completion of a $10m Series A...
EMVCo drafts framework for agentic card payments

EMVCo drafts framework for agentic card payments

EMVCo, the global technical body behind the EMV specifications used across billions of card transactions, has published a draft framework aimed at creating a...
Hopscotch taps Unlimit to strengthen peak-period payments

Hopscotch taps Unlimit to strengthen peak-period payments

Hopscotch has rolled out Unlimit’s payment solution across its website and mobile app as the Indian children’s fashion retailer looks to strengthen checkout performance...
Grupo Salinas taps Integral for digital asset trading

Grupo Salinas taps Integral for digital asset trading

Grupo Salinas has selected Integral Digital to provide the technology infrastructure for the institutional digital asset trading desk operated by its digital asset arm,...
TabaPay raises $155m as it moves into banking

TabaPay raises $155m as it moves into banking

TabaPay has secured $155m in strategic growth financing from FTV Capital as it prepares to move into banking through the planned acquisition of Transact...
Felix

Félix lands $200m to rewire US Latino banking

Félix, a FinTech that connects people in the United States with family across Latin America through a conversational financial platform built on WhatsApp, has...

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Are firms seeing a realised return on AI investment?

Financial institutions are increasing their investment in artificial intelligence, but the scale of spending varies considerably by organisation size, raising questions about how effectively...
Insurers face a simulation gap, not a pricing gap

Insurers face a simulation gap, not a pricing gap

Insurance pricing has reached a level of sophistication few would have predicted a decade ago. Carriers have poured resources into predictive modelling, AI, advanced...
FINMA tightens AML rules as FATF scrutiny looms

FINMA tightens AML rules as FATF scrutiny looms

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA), the country’s financial markets watchdog, has finalised a partial overhaul of its Anti-Money Laundering Ordinance. This places fresh...
Finite State raises $27m to secure firmware before attackers do

Finite State raises $27m to secure firmware before attackers do

Finite State, a specialist in product security and software supply chain risk management, has secured $27m in a Series C round to help manufacturers...
Bay raises $50m as AI agents test enterprise security limits

Bay raises $50m as AI agents test enterprise security limits

Bay has come out of stealth with $50m in total funding and a customer roster that already includes Micron, Peloton, ClickUp and Wix, less...

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