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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Visbanking founder and CEO Brian Pillmore said that while banking has long been a relationship-driven business, especially at the local and regional level, relying solely on those relationships in a data-driven area leaves those institutions at risk. Visbanking offers source integration, production data pipelines,… Read More
Tagged Brian Pillmore, community banking, edgar, risk assessment, Visbanking
Germany’s fintech sector has entered a new phase in 2026, one defined not by flashy disruption but by quiet, seemingly hard-won resilience. According to the latest German Fintech and Banking Report from Contextual Solutions, Europe’s largest economy has traded hype for durability. After years of… Read More
Tagged Contextual Solutions, europe, fintech, germany, research
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