Discover Network Merlin Deal Makes Discover and Diners Club Preferred at the London Eye
Discover and Diners Club are now the preferred cards at the London Eye and Madame Tussauds. The network's American owner goes unmentioned.
November 9, 2026
42.8%Visa Agentic Commerce Benchmark: AI Shoppers Failed 42.8% of Runs, and Most Failures Still Bought51%CSI Study Finds Inertia, Not Loyalty, Keeps 51% of Account Holders10%Fintech Stocks Plunge as Robinhood Falls 10% and Dave Drops 18% in the 5 November Sell-Off$10mFinpilot Lands $10M Series A to Put AI Agents to Work for Pensions and Endowments$205.8mExzeo ARR Slips to $205.8M, Down From $210.7M in Q238%Deluxe Q3 2026 Shows Celero Lifting Merchant Revenue 38%273%NCR Atleos Profit Soars 273% as the Brink's Deal Lines Up for January$657mFICO Guidance Goes Dark for Fiscal 2027 After a $657M Quarter$80mPliant Series C Doubles Its Last Round to $80M for AI Agent Payments$17Mercado Pago Hits 93 Million Users, With a $17.9B Credit Book Behind It
Global fintech news and analysis
The latest payments, banking, lending, digital asset and AI in finance news from every region, reported from the primary source and read with a sceptical eye.
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Payments news
Card networks, real-time payment rails, stablecoin settlement and AI agent checkout, tracked in every region.
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Financial Inclusion Index Hits a Five-Year High, Yet Fewer People Feel Included
Principal's annual index shows financial systems getting more inclusive on paper, driven by digital payments and fintech, while people feel less included each year.
November 6, 2026
Banking and lending news
Digital banks, charters, embedded finance, credit facilities and mortgage technology, from releases and filings.
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Snap Marketplace Opens With 100,000 Products on Lease-to-Own Terms
The lease-to-own lender is selling directly to shoppers online instead of relying only on merchants to offer its financing at checkout.
November 6, 2026
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AI, identity and wealth news
Generative AI in financial services, digital identity and fraud prevention, and the wealthtech stack behind advisers.
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Fintech Stocks Plunge as Robinhood Falls 10% and Dave Drops 18% in the 5 November Sell-Off
Robinhood, SoFi and Affirm fell far more than PayPal and the card networks on 5 November 2026. Of 14 fintech stocks Fintechbits checked, six fell further than the Nasdaq and only Chime rose.
November 6, 2026
Digital assets news
Stablecoins, tokenisation, custody and the institutions building on crypto rails, judged on settlement rather than price.
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Samsung Pay Morocco Launch Arrives on Mastercard Tokenization Rails
Mastercard is supplying the tokenization behind Samsung Pay's arrival in Morocco, its latest step toward tokenizing all online transactions by 2030.
November 6, 2026
Funding and deals
Fintech funding rounds, acquisitions and facilities, with the terms each announcement leaves out.
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Arrowpoint Arcesium Deal Backs a $2 Billion Fund That Has Doubled Since Its July 2024 Launch
A Singapore multi-strategy fund built by a former Millennium executive is renting its back office from Arcesium. Its growth since launch explains why.
November 5, 2026
