March 29, 2026 @ 7:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SadaPay, one of Pakistan’s digital wallets, has fully restored its mobile app following a complete service blackout on March 25. The interruption was triggered by a drone strike linked to escalating tensions between Iran and regional powers, which directly damaged Amazon Web Services infrastructure in… Read More

 Tagged aws, fintech, outage, sadapay

March 29, 2026 @ 6:27 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Indonesia’s antitrust agency has fined 97 peer-to-peer lending companies a combined Rp755 billion ($44.6 million) after finding them guilty of coordinating interest-rate practices in a cartel scheme, according to a report by The Jakarta Post. The Business Competition Supervisory Commission, or KPPU, said the lenders… Read More

 Tagged enforcement, indonesia, KPPU, online lending, p2p, peer-to-peer lending

March 29, 2026 @ 2:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

German embedded finance Fintech Solaris is eliminating roughly 80 positions—about 20 percent of its 400-strong workforce—as it repositions itself as Europe’s first AI-native bank. The Berlin-based company, which holds a full banking license and provides white-label banking services, announced the restructuring on March 25, 2026,… Read More

 Tagged ai, germany, layoofs, solaris

March 29, 2026 @ 2:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In a seemingly concerning development that has rattled investors and cybersecurity professionals, Anthropic’s highly anticipated AI model, internally referred to as Claude Mythos, has apparently been leaked to the public. The unauthorized release triggered an immediate sell-off, with shares of major software companies tumbling and… Read More

 Tagged ai, Anthropic, software applications, vulnerabilities

March 29, 2026 @ 10:18 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Visa will join the Canton Network as the first major global payments company to serve as a Super Validator, to help extend privacy‑preserving blockchain infrastructure to banks and financial institutions around the world. Visa will be one of 40 Super Validators on Canton. That move… Read More

 Tagged Canton Network, Eric Saraniecki, Rubail Birwadker, stablecoins, Super Validator, visa

March 29, 2026 @ 9:53 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Kotapay, a division of First International Bank & Trust (FIBT), recently announced that Giftly, a digital gifting platform that allows people to send personalized, monetary gifts, is live on Kavinu, FIBT’s bank-direct Banking as a Service (BaaS) platform. The partnership supports Giftly’s payout experience with… Read More

 Tagged digital gifting, First International Bank & Trust, Giftly, Kavinu, Kotapay, Timothy Bentley, trent sorbe

March 29, 2026 @ 9:05 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Firmly, an agentic commerce provider, has introduced Firmly Connect, a no-code onboarding platform that autonomously integrates with merchants’ existing websites and commerce infrastructure to help merchants more easily sell through new agentic marketing channels. The solution creates a direct and trusted connection between the agent… Read More

 Tagged agentic commerce, Aurus, Firmly, Firmly Connect, Kevin Lenau, Kumar Senthil, Rahul Mutha

March 28, 2026 @ 6:00 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore-based payments infrastructure provider Tazapay has closed a Series B extension led by Circle Ventures, bringing its total Series B funding to $36 million. The funding comes as the startup looks to expand its regulatory licenses and scale cross-border payment services across emerging markets. New… Read More

 Tagged circle ventures, payments, singapore, tazapay, venture capital

March 28, 2026 @ 2:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The UK’s Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has outlined an agenda for the 2026/27 financial year, prioritizing reductions in excessive card charges, robust safeguards against authorized push payment (APP) fraud, and broader advancements in competition and innovation within the UK’s payment systems. Released on 26 March… Read More

 Tagged payments, psr, regulation, uk, united kingdom

March 27, 2026 @ 4:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Mastercard (NYSE: MA) is reportedly preparing to sell off a major payments business it purchased from Denmark’s Nets Group in 2019 for roughly $3.2 billion, marking a reversal of what was then the company’s largest acquisition. According to sources familiar with the matter and cited… Read More

 Tagged divestiture, mastercard, nets group, payments