Nuvei to buy Payoneer for $2.75bn in cross-border paytech deal
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.
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Interchecks raises $50m Series C, debuts account-funding rails
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 adds money-movement rails in 30 markets via Banking Circle
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.
Fintech revenue tops $504bn but an AI divide splits the field
Global fintech revenue hit $504bn in 2025, up 22% and 4x faster than banks, per BCG and FT Partners — but an AI-foundational divide now splits the winners.
Adyen launches Agentic to ride the AI-checkout protocol war
Adyen launched Adyen Agentic on June 16, 2026, betting on neutral 'integrate once' infrastructure as Visa, Mastercard and Stripe split the agentic-payments market.
Flagright raises $12.5m to scale AI financial-crime compliance
Flagright has raised a $12.5m Series A led by Infinity Ventures to scale its AI financial-crime compliance platform as RegTech defies the funding slowdown.
Pollen Street buys Finastra’s Universal Banking core unit
Pollen Street Capital is buying Finastra's Universal Banking core unit and its Essence platform — a PE bet that modernising 150+ incumbent banks beats rip-and-replace.
Mercury raises $200m at $5.2bn after OCC bank-charter nod
Mercury raised a $200m Series D at a $5.2bn valuation and won conditional OCC approval for its own US bank charter, breaking the sponsor-bank model.
Chime turns its first profit as the 2026 fintech IPO wave stalls
Chime booked its first GAAP profit ($53m) in Q1 2026 while Revolut and Monzo defer their IPOs — proof the fintech listing window now opens for earnings first.
Saris raises $28.8m to bring agentic AI to bank back offices
Saris raises a $28.8m Series A led by 8VC to scale agentic AI workflow automation for banks and credit unions across lending, compliance and operations.
Temenos acquires additiv in embedded-wealth orchestration push
Temenos has agreed to buy Swiss wealth-orchestration platform additiv in a 50/50 cash-and-equity deal, pushing embedded finance from payments into wealth.
Klarna launches US Visa debit card in pivot beyond BNPL
Klarna has rolled out a Visa Flexible Credential debit card in the US, signalling its push to be valued as a neobank rather than a BNPL lender.
Figure buys Kiavi for $717m in tokenised-lending push
Figure is acquiring lender Kiavi for $717m, with Sixth Street warehousing the loans — a balance-sheet-light template for scaling tokenised lending.
KOHO raises C$130m at C$1.33bn as bank licence nears
KOHO becomes Canada's newest unicorn with a C$130m Series E backed by Mubadala and Tobi Lutke — capital aimed squarely at a Schedule 1 bank licence.
Swift retail cross-border scheme goes live at 25+ banks
Swift's cross-border payments scheme hits its June go-live with 25+ banks across 11 corridors — landing as stablecoins are reframed as settlement rails.
Wise FY26 volume jumps 25% to £181.7bn as take rate falls
Wise FY26 cross-border volume rose 25% to £181.7bn and customers hit 18.9m, even as its take rate fell to 51bps — the volume flywheel that defies neobank fee logic.
Forage raises $40m to scale its SNAP-benefits payments rail
Forage raised a $40m Series B led by Mouro Capital to scale its SNAP/EBT payments rail — the government-benefits infrastructure mainstream fintech ignores.
Ramp raises $750m at $44bn as AI rerates corporate spend
Ramp's $750m Series F at a $44bn valuation re-rates the corporate-spend leader on an AI-spend thesis even as the broader fintech index stays weak.
Flutterwave adds Stripe’s Tempo as a stablecoin rail for Africa
Flutterwave is integrating Stripe-backed Tempo as a stablecoin settlement layer for African cross-border payments — a tell about where stablecoins actually work.
Perk lands $300m credit line to take spend platform to US
Perk, formerly TravelPerk, has secured a $300m private credit facility — not equity — to fund the US launch of its AI-native spend management platform.
