Global Fintech Investment Rebounds to $103bn, With $80.8bn of It in the US
Global fintech investment rose to 103.1bn dollars in H1 2026, but across fewer deals and heavily concentrated in US payments infrastructure.…
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UK Fintech Funding Falls to a Decade Low as AI Takes a Quarter of the Pot
UK fintech investment fell to £1.8bn in H1 2026, the weakest six months since KPMG began tracking the sector in 2016, with AI the one area still attracting capital.…
SNB Group Becomes First in MENA to Issue Mastercard's World Legend Tier
SNB Group has become the first financial institution in the Middle East…
Cross River to Power X Money, Embedding FDIC-Insured Accounts Inside X
Cross River Bank will provide the banking infrastructure behind X Money, the…
BitPay Wins Dutch MiCA Authorisation, Passporting Crypto Payments Across the EU
BitPay's European subsidiary has been authorised as a crypto-asset…
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…
Flex Files for Utah Industrial Bank Charter to Fund Rent Instalments Directly
Flexible Finance has applied to charter a Utah state-chartered industrial bank,…
Augustus Raises $180m to Build a Chartered Dollar Clearing Bank for Stablecoins
Augustus, the correspondent banking startup formerly known as Ivy, has raised $180m…
Upstart Wins Conditional OCC Approval for Branchless National Bank Charter
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted Upstart conditional…
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…
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…
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…