Microsoft hands Checkout.com its EMEA card acceptance for Xbox, 365 and Azure — why the regional unbundling matters for Adyen, Stripe and enterprise payments.
SumUp is launching a consumer bank account with cashback at its own merchants — a two-sided network play Europe's neobanks like Revolut can't easily copy.
Airwallex raises $320m Series H at an $11bn valuation, betting a decade of cross-border payment licences is the real moat in the agentic-commerce race.
Meta is investing $900m for a 20% stake in India's Cred at a $4.5bn valuation and making founder Kunal Shah the global head of WhatsApp. What it signals.
bunq has opened bunq-as-a-Service to EU businesses, letting partners build regulated accounts and payments on its own bank licence — inverting the US BaaS model.
Float Financial raised CAD $85m at a $548m valuation, led by Inovia Capital, to build an AI finance platform — corporate-spend fintech's pivot accelerates.
Nuvei will acquire Payoneer for $7.40 a share, about $2.75 billion, bundling payment acceptance with cross-border payouts in the latest paytech consolidation.
Interchecks raised a $50m Series C led by Bettor Capital and launched debit-rail account funding, as regulated gaming underwrites the instant-payments race.
Marqeta taps Banking Circle to add multi-currency accounts and money movement across 30 European markets — the clearest sign yet it wants to be more than a card-issuer.