/crypto
Coinbase has launched a stablecoin payments stack to make it easier for online merchants around the world to accept USDC.
8 hours
/startups
Polar, a fintech startup building payment infrastructure for AI-native SaaS companies, has raised a $10 million Seed round.
12 hours
Visa is upping it game in the stablecoin market, expanding its settlement capabilities in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (CEMEA) region to enable USD cross-border transactions through blockchain technology.
13 hours
/ai
London-based RegTech Cube has acquired operational risk AI and technology provider Acin. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Card issuance and embedded finance platform Highnote has enlisted BVNK to launch real-time 24/7 stablecoin-based funding for card programmes.
22 hours
/payments
Nordic challenger bank Lunar is to begin processing Visa cards over a cloud-native core banking platform provided by Pismo.
Tensec, a startup founded by ex-Rapyd, Meta, and Goldman Sachs executives, has raised $12 million in seed funding to take on the $190 trillion B2B cross-border payments market.
18 June 2025
Klarna is the latest financial services provider to enter the mobile market, working with Telecom-as-a-Service platform Gigs to launch a phone plan in a host of major markets, beginning with the US.
/security
Swiss bank UBS has fallen victim to a cyberattack at a vendor that leaked the personal details of tens of thousands of employees.
JPmorgan's response to the rising interest in stablecoins is to launch its own rival token, called JPMD.
Embedded payments platform Payabli has closed on a $28 million Series B funding round.
The Bank of England has been castigated for losing hundreds of laptops and phones amid an escalating cyber threat.
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