Finance
India Prepares Agentic Payments on UPI as AI Enters Everyday Transactions
India is preparing to introduce an agentic payments framework on UPI, potentially allowing AI agents to execute small-value transactions on behalf of users ...
Finance
Every UK Fintech Is Chasing America. Allica Went to Sweden Instead
There is a stampede happening in British fintech, and almost everyone is running the same direction. Revolut, Klarna, and others have been applying ...
Finance
PayPal Turned Down $53 Billion. When the Buyer Walked, Its Stock Paid the Price
There is a certain symbolism in the deal that just fell apart. Stripe, the private upstart that has spent a decade eating the ...
Finance
Britain Just Told the Bank of England to Care About Innovation, Not Only Stability
The Bank of England is, by temperament and design, a cautious institution. Its job for centuries has been to keep the financial system ...
Finance
DBS and Stripe Team Up for a Future Where AI Agents Do the Buying
On paper, the new partnership between DBS, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, and Stripe, the global payments giant, is about the familiar business of ...
Finance
StoreHub Secures ShardLab Investment as Merchant Payments Reach $3.5B in Annual Volume
Southeast Asian commerce and payments platform StoreHub has secured a strategic investment from ShardLab, the fintech venture studio backed by Hashed and SCBX, ...
Finance
UAE’s Fintech Galaxy Secures In-Principle Approval for Domestic Open Finance Services
UAE-based Fintech Galaxy has received in-principle approval (IPA) from the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (CBUAE) to operate as an open ...
Finance
Banco Inter Rebuilds Its Merchant Payments for a Country Now Running on Pix
Banco Inter has picked ACI Worldwide to overhaul the payment technology behind Inter Pag, its merchant-acquiring arm, in a deal that says as ...
Finance
Fasset Hit $1 Billion Moving Stablecoins Where Banks Fall Short
Fasset has joined a growing club of stablecoin startups that turned into unicorns almost overnight. The Los Angeles company, which runs a stablecoin-powered ...
Finance
Natural Is Stocking a $100M War Chest Before Its Big Product Even Ships
Most young startups raise money to build. Natural, a year-old San Francisco company making payment infrastructure for AI agents, has just raised money ...


















