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Tabby raises $233m at $6.5bn valuation

Tabby raises $233m at $6.5bn valuation

Tabby, the Saudi Arabia- and UAE-based buy now, pay later and financial services provider, has raised $233m in a new equity round. The financing was...

Saldo Bank teams up with finperks on cashback push

finperks, the Berlin-based API infrastructure provider for the global prepaid market, and Saldo Bank, a Finnish retail bank, have entered into a partnership that...
Ant International scales AMP as agentic payments go global

Ant International scales AMP as agentic payments go global

Ant International, the FinTech, digitisation and FinAI solutions provider behind the Alipay+ network, is expanding its Agentic Mobile Protocol (AMP) across the global payments...
Piston raises $15m to scale cardless fuel payments

Piston raises $15m to scale cardless fuel payments

Piston, a cardless payments platform that connects commercial fleets and petrol stations, has closed a $15m Series A funding round. FPV Ventures led the investment,...
Can Wallet Pay solve digital wallets' interoperability gap?

Can Wallet Pay solve digital wallets’ interoperability gap?

Mastercard, the global payments and technology company, has launched Mastercard Wallet Pay, a portfolio of solutions designed to help digital wallets scale and connect...
Tieto Banktech powers Maldives-India payment link

Tieto Banktech powers Maldives-India payment link

Tieto Banktech, a Nordic financial SaaS provider serving customers across more than 30 countries, has delivered a new cross-border payment capability for the Maldives...
Revolut clears US hurdle on path to national bank

Revolut clears US hurdle on path to national bank

Revolut has taken a major step towards establishing a banking presence in the US after securing conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller...
Mastercard, Backbase push banks towards AI-native transformation

Mastercard, Backbase team up to accelerate AI-native banking

Mastercard, the global payments and technology company, and Backbase, the provider of an AI-native Banking Operating System, have partnered to help financial institutions move...
Olenbee raises €7m to scale real-time perks tech

Olenbee raises €7m to scale real-time perks tech

Olenbee, a French FinTech and mission-driven company that applies artificial intelligence to everyday employee benefits, spending and rewards, has closed a €7m funding round...
Feedzai

ITSS and Feedzai unite to outpace payment fraud

IT Smart Systems has entered a strategic partnership with Feedzai, an AI-native financial crime prevention specialist, to strengthen fraud protection across digital payment journeys. The...

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Emirates NBD brings AI market insights into digital wealth

Emirates NBD brings AI market insights into digital wealth

Emirates NBD, a banking group operating across the Middle East, North Africa, Türkiye and South Asia, has partnered with Bridgewise, an embedded investment AI...
Is business verification failing to keep pace with financial crime?

Is business verification failing to keep pace with financial crime?

Business verification has become an increasingly important line of defence against financial crime, yet the complexity of modern corporate structures is exposing weaknesses in...
Banks face tougher data scrutiny as APAC reporting rules evolve

Banks face tougher data scrutiny as APAC reporting rules evolve

Submitting the correct reporting template on time is no longer enough to satisfy regulators. Across Asia-Pacific (APAC), supervisors are demanding more detailed data, greater...
Banks face growing fraud risks as criminal tactics converge

Banks face growing fraud risks as criminal tactics converge

Banking fraud is becoming harder to detect as criminals combine identity theft, payment manipulation and increasingly sophisticated digital attacks. Banking fraud is no longer limited...
Financial crime risk assessments have outgrown spreadsheets

Financial crime risk assessments have outgrown spreadsheets

For years, spreadsheets have been the default tool for financial crime risk assessments. They were familiar, flexible and easy to adapt, and for a...

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