/payments
Shift4 Payments is to acquire Canadian gift card company Givex for C$200 million in an all-cash transaction.
28 August 2024
/regulation
British ambitions to become a global crypto hub are being hindered by a conservative regulatory approach that has seen applications for registration by crypto firms drop by 51% over the past three years.
Indian buy now, pay later firm Axio has landed a $20 million equity investment from Amazon's Smbhav Venture Fund.
/sustainable
Zero, a UK finance app targeting climate-active young Brits has signed up a host of technology partners ahead of its launch later this year.
/wholesale
Summit Partners and Vista Equity are sounding out investment bankers for a potential sale of financial software house Trintech.
/ai
Klarna saw revenue rise 27% in the first half of 2024, buoyed by its aggressive use of AI, which CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski says could help the BNPL giant halve its workforce.
27 August 2024
Revolut has teamed up with Visa to offer business customers instant card transfers for cross-border transactions.
/crypto
Banking Circle has launched a new MiCA-compliant stablecoin into the European market.
AIB is the latest bank to introduced a voluntary block feature on debit and credit card transactions linked to gambling.
/people
Payments processor Adyen has hired Cash App's head of engineering Tom Adams as chief technology officer.
26 August 2024
/security
Visa is in talks with Featurespace about a £700 million acquisition of the British financial fraud fighting outfit, according to Sky News.
Singapore's DBS has completed a pilot using blockchain technology for programmable government grant disbursements to businesses.
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