Luno’s investing arm leaves stealth mode: Luno Expeditions targets early-stage fintechs and startups focused on crypto and web3, and its focuses put it in a good spot despite mixed investing climates.
As buy now, pay later becomes a common consumer practice, Klarna has its sights set on expanding its services beyond online commerce. Hear from Klarna’s CMO about how its payment platform has turned into a growth partner for merchants and retailers.
Ruling narrows open banking’s UK potential: The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA’s) exclusion of e-commerce transactions from its open banking payments tech decision will help card issuers and neobanks dependent on interchange fees.
Moneyhub’s and Tink’s partnerships spotlight the growing demand for A2A payments ahead of planned card fee hikes.
Green Dot strikes open banking deal with Plaid: Green Dot’s neobank customers gain data-sharing capabilities for 6,000-plus outside apps. Are its banking as a service (BaaS) clients next?
Curated by eMarketer, this special collection of interviews will help you understand the financial services industry’s digital acceleration and how companies are pivoting toward fintech to increase retention.
US consumers pined for pre-pandemic pleasures in Q4 2021, with the delta wave receding and omicron just entering the frame—and it showed in their search behavior. Organic Google search visits to travel sites increased 41% year over year that quarter. Meanwhile, retail and consumer goods took a hit: Visits to those sites decreased 14% as the prospects of in-store shopping improved.
Tencent reportedly faces a record fine over rule violations; Paytm was allegedly banned from onboarding new users for similar reasons.
Another bank sets up a metaverse HQ that consumers haven’t asked for: Siam Commercial Bank has become the second major financial institution to enter the metaverse.