OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
Swift ledger goes live with 17 banks on…
Swift's blockchain ledger is live with 17 banks across six continents preparing tokenised cross-border payments, and the architectural choice underneath it is the part institutional treasurers should read closely: this is an orchestration layer, not…
Flex raises $70m at $1.2bn to bank business…
Flex has raised $70 million barely seven months after closing a $60 million Series B — and the pairing of those two rounds says more about where fintech capital is going than either does alone.…
Airwallex hits $11bn valuation as fintech funding rebounds
Airwallex has raised $320 million in a Series H at an $11 billion valuation, a 38% step up from the $8 billion it commanded six months earlier. The round lands in a quarter when United…
Swift blockchain ledger goes live with 17 banks…
Swift's blockchain-based shared ledger is live for initial use, with 17 banks across six continents — including Citi, HSBC, UBS, BNP Paribas, Wells Fargo and MUFG — preparing to pilot real tokenised-deposit payments, the interbank…
Nuvei installs COO, CFO and CPTO ahead of…
Nuvei has installed a new operating leadership tier — its first-ever Chief Operating Officer, a new Chief Financial Officer and a new Chief Product and Technology Officer, all effective July 1, 2026 — three weeks…
UK big four go live on Swift consumer…
Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and NatWest have gone live on Swift's new consumer payments scheme, making the UK's big four the first banks in the world to run the framework in production — and, in effect,…
Airwallex raises $320m Series H at $11bn valuation
The most valuable thing Airwallex bought with its new $320 million round is not a product roadmap — it is the ten years of payment licences that agentic commerce cannot function without. The cross-border paytech…
Nuvei to buy Payoneer for $2.75bn in cross-border…
Nuvei has agreed to acquire Payoneer for roughly $2.75 billion, a deal that bundles payment acceptance with cross-border payouts and marks the next consolidation step in the race to own the full business-payments stack. Announced…