Browsing: Fintech
Innovation in digital finance — including payments, wallets, startups, and banking technology.
Revolut has completed a major share sale valuing the fintech at $75 billion, backed by top global investors and aligned with rapid expansion across key international markets.
A new analysis highlights how fintech is expanding access to financial services, yet millions of consumers still lack the digital and financial skills needed to use them safely.
Kraken has confidentially filed for an IPO following an $800 million fundraising round that valued the company at $20 billion, marking a major step in its global growth strategy.
Revolut users have processed more than $690 million over Polygon, as the neobank adds stablecoin transfers, POL trading and staking, and fast cross-border payments.
The 18 November Cloudflare outage disrupted digital banks, crypto exchanges and payment apps worldwide, raising urgent questions about resilience and vendor risk across fintech.
The Trump Organization and Dar Global announced a luxury Maldives resort planned for 2028 that aims to be the first hotel development financed via tokenisation, opening new avenues for real-estate investment.
Agentic AI is emerging as a catalyst for banking transformation, cutting costs, reducing delays and forcing institutions to rethink customer relationships and business models.
Germany and Singapore have formalised a new partnership to develop tokenised cross-border settlement systems designed to cut costs, improve speed and boost interoperability.
The Singapore FinTech Festival 2025 marks a decade of innovation, spotlighting artificial intelligence, tokenization, and digital money as key forces transforming global finance.
Leading fintech associations are urging the European Central Bank to open its digital euro sandbox to non-bank providers to foster innovation and competition.