October 2, 2025 @ 2:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH), an SME finance platform, has removed foreign transaction fees across its business card portfolio, including the FlexiPay card and its Cashback Business Credit Card. This is expected to challenge the current UK market status quo, where SMEs have been forced to… Read More

 Tagged funding circle, smbs, uk, united kingdom

October 2, 2025 @ 1:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Blackhawk Network (BHN), a global branded payment solutions provider, announced it will partner with Google Play to launch a gift card mall in the Play Store. By combining BHN’s digital gifting portfolio and digital technology with the reach of Google Play, a digital content store,… Read More

 Tagged blackhawk network, digital commerce, gift cards, google play

October 1, 2025 @ 5:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PayOS, an agentic payments and value added services platform company,  announced the completion of an agentic payment transaction using a Mastercard Agentic Token. This historic transaction was executed “leveraging Mastercard Agent Pay, which builds upon tokenization capabilities that power global commerce solutions like mobile contactless… Read More

 Tagged mastercard, payments, payos

October 1, 2025 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

As a key moment for the global financial system and blockchain industry alike, Swift announced it is launching a new blockchain-based ledger. Chainlink acknowledges the wok of their partner Swift and the broader Swift community on “adopting blockchains and oracle networks as a key next… Read More

 Tagged blockchain adoption, chainlink, financial messaging, oracles, swift

October 1, 2025 @ 12:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut has reportedly recorded the highest number of fraud and scam complaints that had been referred to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS). Data reviewed by Which? found that fraudulent activity complaints from clients of the digital banking service provider had outnumbered all other… Read More

 Tagged banking, fraud, revolut, scams, uk, united kingdom, which?

October 1, 2025 @ 9:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Chainlink announced a technical solution enabling financial institutions worldwide to manage digital asset workflows from their systems “using Swift messaging and the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE).” With Swift messages and CRE, banks and institutions can “access blockchains through the same Swift infrastructure they have relied… Read More

 Tagged chainlink, decentralization, oracles, swift, ubs

October 1, 2025 @ 9:28 am By Omar Faridi  |  

N26 has announced the launch of its PEA (Share Savings Account), with no brokerage fees, to allow French people to “save and invest for the future while benefiting from tax treatment.” With its PEA offering, N26 allows French people “to invest in the largest European… Read More

 Tagged berlin, digital bank, europe, france, germany, n26

October 1, 2025 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Consensys shared that it is supporting Swift with early-stage prototyping as the global financial infrastructure adds a blockchain-based digital ledger to its technology stack. Swift’s move is a pivotal one for global finance, “beginning with instant, always-on cross-border payments at unprecedented scale.” For more than a… Read More

 Tagged blockchain adoption, consensys, infrastructure, swift

October 1, 2025 @ 8:49 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Deutsche Börse Group and Circle Internet Group, Inc. (NYSE: CRCL)  signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the use of Circle’s EURC and USDC stablecoins “within Deutsche Börse’s financial market infrastructure.” This agreement in Europe aims to deliver new solutions for market participants… Read More

 Tagged circle, deutsche borse group, digital assets, stablecoins, usdc

September 30, 2025 @ 3:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mambu, the SaaS cloud banking platform, announced today its successful collaboration with ABN AMRO to support BUUT, a bank designed to help younger consumers better manage their money/finances. The neobank was brought to market in 12 months. BUUT is a full-service bank that offers a… Read More

 Tagged abn amro, banking, mambu, saas