In the post-Brexit scramble to maintain their European footholds and take advantage of European passporting rules, a slew of U.K. businesses turned to FinTech-friendly Lithuania, catapulting the small Baltic...
Integrated AP and procurement automation company, PairSoft forms payment processing partnership with Finexio, a Payments-as-a-Service provider. “PairSoft Pay, powered by Finexio, will further solidify the high performance of AP...
Streaming music service, Spotify is making another venture into live music with plans to sell concert tickets directly to fans instead of linking to outside ticket companies. As Music...
PayPal’s most recent earnings results spotlight the continued digital shift, as active user counts eclipsed pre-pandemic levels, and Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) volumes surged by triple-digit percentages. PayPal’s...
Bloc, Nigeria’s full-service FinTech and Banking as a Service (F/BaaS) infrastructure provider, announces its acquisition of Getwallets, the wallets-as-a-service provider which pivoted to become a payments orchestration company, Orchestrate....
Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), Kenya’s apex bank, has instructed commercial banks in the country to stop dealing with Nigerian fintechs, Flutterwave Payment Technology and Chipper Technologies.The CBK gave...
Umba, a U.S.-based digital bank with a focus on emerging markets, has acquired a majority share of Daraja, a Kenyan deposit-taking microfinance bank, for an undisclosed amount. Kenya’s monetary...
Pakistani FinTech startup Dbank has raised $17.6 million in a seed funding round, the largest ever in Pakistan. Founded in 2021, Dbank is in the process of building a...
In a blog published on June 15, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) indicated that Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) lenders and Nationwide Consumer Reporting Companies (NCRCs) may need...
Smart credit card company X1 Card on Monday (July 18) raised $25 million in a Series B funding round that it plans to use for product innovation and growth...