Crypto BitPay Wins Dutch MiCA Authorisation, Passporting Crypto Payments Across the EU BitPay's European subsidiary has been authorised as a crypto-asset…
FinTech Funding Ant International Raises $1.2bn Series A to Scale Its Cross-Border Network Ant International, the global arm of Jack Ma-founded Ant Group, has…
Banking Flex Files for Utah Industrial Bank Charter to Fund Rent Instalments Directly Flexible Finance has applied to charter a Utah state-chartered industrial bank,…
Banking Augustus Raises $180m to Build a Chartered Dollar Clearing Bank for Stablecoins Augustus, the correspondent banking startup formerly known as Ivy, has raised $180m…
Banking Upstart Wins Conditional OCC Approval for Branchless National Bank Charter The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted Upstart conditional…
FinTech Funding Airwallex Raises 320 Million Dollars at 11 Billion Dollar Valuation as Agentic Finance Bet Accelerates Airwallex has raised 320 million dollars in a Series H round that…
Payments Adyen Takes Direct CBUAE Licence, Cutting Local Intermediaries Out of Its UAE Settlement Chain Adyen has secured a Retail Payment Services Category II licence from the…
M&A Santander-Backed Ebury in Talks to Buy FX Rival Lumon in £100m-Plus Deal Ebury, the cross-border payments and foreign exchange business majority-owned by…
Wealth Moneybox reaches £800m valuation as it becomes first UK fintech to use PISCES Moneybox, the UK savings and investing app, has been valued at £800m…
M&A UK mutuals walk away from Atom Bank as £600m sale process nears collapse The auction of Atom Bank is close to unravelling. Yorkshire Building Society…
Islamic Banking audax Powers Embedded Shariah Banking for Maybank Indonesia Syariah and Muslim Pro audax Financial Technology has gone live with its first deployment in Indonesia,…
M&A Finova buys AI start-up Cubit Labs in push to automate broker-led mortgage lending Finova, the UK cloud-based mortgage, savings and lending software provider, has…