December 6, 2025 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digitalization and geopolitical tensions are now increasingly said to be shaping developments in the payments market, according to an update from Sweden’s Riksbank. Blockchain / distributed ledger technology (DLT) and the tokenization of various assets are now creating both new opportunities and potential risks. The… Read More

 Tagged central bank, europe, insights, riksbank, sweden

December 6, 2025 @ 5:00 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With the electric vehicle tax credit expiring at the end of Sept of this year, the market observed an increase in EV finance transactions in the third quarter of 2025. According to Experian’s (LSE: EXPN) State of the Automotive Finance Market Report: Q3 2025, EV… Read More

 Tagged ev financing, insights, loans, research

December 6, 2025 @ 4:57 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

According to the J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Small Business Credit Card Satisfaction Study, the year-over-year improvement in customer satisfaction is highest among financially unhealthy small businesses for whom credit cards and their rewards programs have become critical business tools. “Merchants report few macroeconomic differences in the… Read More

 Tagged credit card, J.D. Power, john cabell, SMB

December 6, 2025 @ 11:09 am By Michael Wong  |  

Embed Financial Group Cayman Holdings (EFGH), a Singapore-headquartered provider of digital infrastructure for embedded financial services in emerging markets, has agreed to go public in the US through a merger with WinVest Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company. EFGH said the agreement implies a… Read More

 Tagged Embed Financial, Embed Financial Global Holdings, spac, WinVest Acquisition Corp

December 6, 2025 @ 11:08 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance Chief Executive David Postings shared key insights at the Economic Crime Congress 2025. The session included key perspectives from Lord Hanson and have viewpoints shared during sessions involving Marcus Wogart, Rachel Herbert, James Babbage, Mike Regnier, Michelle Haslem and Tracy Paradise. David Postings… Read More

 Tagged financial crime, insights, perspective, uk finance

December 6, 2025 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE:V), a digital payments enabler, and Pismo announced a strategic collaboration with Circle Asia Technologies, a credit-led neobank in Southeast Asia, to unlock credit for Vietnam based clients. This will enable Circle to launch an AI-enabled PayLater card aiming to set standards for personalization,… Read More

 Tagged ai, payments, pismo, vietnam, visa

December 5, 2025 @ 3:10 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. (Nasdaq: FIGR), the blockchain-native capital marketplace for the origination, funding, sale, and trading of onchain loan products and tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), announced the launch of the RWA Consortium, a coalition that will expand access to Figure’s onchain loan originations, starting… Read More

 Tagged defi, digital assets, figure, lending, rwas

December 5, 2025 @ 3:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Quality Automotive Services, a franchisee of Valvoline Instant Oil Change, is reporting continued employee retention improvement in its 3rd year of partnership with DailyPay, the enabler of On-Demand Pay and financial wellness solutions. The implementation of DailyPay has been described as a key tool in… Read More

 Tagged dailypay, ewa, on-demand pay, us, wage access

December 5, 2025 @ 3:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU), which claims to be one of the world’s largest digital financial services platforms, announces its intention to obtain a banking license in Brazil. The inclusion of a banking institution within the conglomerate complies with the provisions of Joint Resolution No. 17, which has… Read More

 Tagged brazil, digital banking, latam, nubank

December 5, 2025 @ 9:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Cloudflare has dropped the ball once again, impacting big sites and platforms with a surprise outage. Cloudflare posted on X: “A change made to how Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall parses requests impacted the availability of Cloudflare’s network for several minutes today. This was not an… Read More

 Tagged cloudflare, outage, silverflow