/payments
Félix, a chat-based platform that utilises WhatsApp and stablecoins to enable Latino immigrants in the US to send money abroad, has secured $75 million Series B in equity and growth financing.
1 hour
Turkish emebedded finance fintech Sipay has raised $78 million at a valuation of $875 million.
Berlin-based Mondu is expanding its distribution across Europe through new partnerships with Payin3 and Lemonway, providing businesses and marketplaces with the same ease and convenience of consumer payments and buy now, pay later options.
2 hours
Open banking startup LuxHub has signed up six major banks in Luxembourg to its Verification of Payee (VoP) and Routing and Verification Mechanism (RVM) technology.
6 hours
/people
Standard Charted has appointed former Monetary Authority of Singapore executive David Hardoon as global head of artificial intelligence enablement.
12 hours
A record 94.6% of all eligible in-store card transactions in the UK were made using contactless last year.
Brazil's central bank is set to allow users of the Pix instant payments system pay for their transactions in instalments.
/security
Santander says that over £18 million was stolen from customers by scammers in the first three months of 2025.
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/ai
Revolut has embedded an AI into its People platform that conducts interviews with job candidates and summarises the performance of all appointees.
07 April 2025
Payment orchestration platform Juspay has secured $60 million as part of its Series D funding round.
Metro Bank is using technology from AI firm Ask Silver to enable customers to instantly check whether they are at risk of a scam by spotting fraudulent communications.
Fintech trade body Innovate Finance is calling on the UK Government to set up a National Anti Fraud Centre for cross-sector data sharing and introduce shared liability for social media and telecommunications firms
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