April 11, 2026 @ 11:04 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Sweden’s Patent and Market Court has pushed back its long-awaited decision in a major antitrust damages claim. The case pits PriceRunner, a price-comparison platform fully owned by fintech Klarna Group (NYSE:KLAR) against Alphabet (Google) (NASDAQ:GOOG). The court announced it would no longer release its ruling… Read More

 Tagged europe, google, klarna, search engine, sweden

April 11, 2026 @ 8:40 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Ampd, the agentic suite of solutions connecting brand media to commerce, this week launched Agentic Shoppable Media. This solution addresses the challenges many brands have faced with their shoppable media strategies, namely shopper drop-offs (up to 95%), and concerns around meeting equitable retailer routing. The… Read More

 Tagged agentic commerce, Agentic Shoppable Media, AI agent, Ampd, Joshua Gebhardt, Keith Lehman

April 10, 2026 @ 9:54 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ latest Cybercrime Report reveals key global fraud trends emerging over the past year. The report shows a significant 8% rise in global fraud rates driven by attacks targeting the gaming, gambling and e-commerce sectors, cost of living pressures and new emerging fraud… Read More

 Tagged cybercrime, fraud, lexisnexis risk solutions, Stephen Topliss

April 10, 2026 @ 5:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Polygon Labs’ recent move into stablecoins has been viewed positively by Fintech industry professionals. Artur Firstov, Chief Business Officer at Mercuryo, a payment infrastructure platform in the digital token space, has shared key insights with CI on this latest development. Artur Firstov of Mercuryo stated:… Read More

 Tagged fintech, mercuryo, perspective, polygon labs, stablecoins, ux

April 10, 2026 @ 5:52 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Securitize this week announced that Brett Redfearn, former Director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Trading and Markets, has been appointed president of the company. He also joins Securitize’s board of directors. Redfearn will work with Securitize’s leadership team to scale the… Read More

 Tagged brett redfearn, carlos domingo, coinbase, sec, securitize

April 10, 2026 @ 5:49 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Persistent Systems has launched Merchant Risk Management and Fraud Detection, powered by Databricks Data Intelligence platform. The solution helps financial institutions reduce fraud losses, improve detection accuracy and lower manual review effort through real-time, intelligence-driven decisions. As digital payments scale, financial institutions, payment service providers, digital… Read More

 Tagged Barath Narayanan, databricks, fraud, Josh Meyer, Persistent Systems

April 10, 2026 @ 5:46 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Aspire, a finance stack for global founders, has launched in the United States. Its AI-driven financial command center unites multi-currency accounts, foreign exchange, yield, global payroll infrastructure, spend management and real-time financial controls into a single platform. “As the world’s largest startup ecosystem and a… Read More

 Tagged andrea baronchelli, Anuvrat Jain, aspire, dan westgarth, David Harris, Paul Harapin

April 10, 2026 @ 2:02 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

MoonPay, a provider of crypto payments and stablecoin infrastructure, is now powering crypto payments inside Paysafe (NYSE: PSFE), a global payments platform that processed $167 billion in transactions in 2025. The integration embeds stablecoin rails directly into Paysafe’s platform, giving merchants crypto payment capability alongside… Read More

 Tagged ivan soto-wright, moonpay, Pay With Crypto, paysafe, zak cutler

April 10, 2026 @ 6:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Following the news update that the United Kingdom government’s £100m entrepreneur tax relief package has now officially come into effect, CI received commentary from Leo Labeis, CEO and Founder of REGnosys, on just how sustained policy clarity and consistency is vital in effectively translating investments… Read More

 Tagged regulation, uk, united kingdom

April 10, 2026 @ 5:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut has introduced a new AI assistant in order to assist clients with money management related tasks, allowing customers to get timely spending insights, check up on their portfolio investments, effectively manage subscriptions or plan out a trip via a single, all-in-one Fintech… Read More

 Tagged ai, digital banking, digital tools, revolut