June 22, 2026
Adyen acquires Orb for $335 million. That is the headline from Amsterdam on June 11, 2026, and it reads, at first glance, like a routine fintech infrastructure deal: a large payments processor buys a smaller billing platform. It is not. Adyen acquires Orb to solve the most consequential unsolved problem in enterprise payments: the structural
June 21, 2026
EMEA fintech credit boom forecasts have turned into a news feed. The convergence that analysts have predicted for years, every major digital finance platform becoming a multi-product lender, has stopped being a forecast and started being a headline. In the space of two weeks, the proof arrived from every direction. Monzo launched Flex Build, a
June 10, 2026
Revolut's $115 billion secondary share sale, first reported by Bloomberg on June 5, 2026, is the most significant valuation event in European fintech history. Revolut is looking to run a secondary share sale that would value the company at $115 billion, on the heels of receiving a UK bank licence and applying for a charter in
June 8, 2026
UK wealth fintech has long been told that growth and profit cannot coexist at scale. Moneybox just answered that. The London company's 2025 results show revenue past £100 million for the first time. That figure reached £115.6 million, up 23 percent. Meanwhile, assets under administration grew 62 percent to £19 billion. The customer base rose
June 3, 2026
Kaiko Acquires Amberdata in a landmark digital assets deal! There is a principle in financial markets that predates fintech, crypto, and most of what we call modern capital markets: the firm that controls the data controls the market. Bloomberg built a $10 billion business on it. Refinitiv, sold to the London Stock Exchange Group for
May 18, 2026
Mobile payments will hit $6.78 trillion in 2026. Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal and real-time rails are reshaping global commerce. We break down who is winning and what comes next.
May 18, 2026
Embedded finance trends 2026 feature a market moving from aspiration to architecture, with payments, lending, insurance, and banking integrating directly into non-financial platforms. According to a February 2026 Mordor Intelligence report, the embedded finance market is projected at $155.96 billion in 2026, growing to $454.48 billion by 2031 at a 23.84% CAGR. Gartner forecasts that
May 18, 2026
Personal finance management 2026 features a sector that has moved from spending-display apps to platforms that act on financial data on a user's behalf. Mint launched in 2006, Betterment in 2008, and Robinhood in 2013, and the category has since cycled through hype, regulatory scrutiny, and consolidation. According to Fortune Business Insights, the global personal
May 18, 2026
Crypto payment providers 2026 operate within a regulatory framework that has shifted from enforcement-led ambiguity to defined compliance rules. According to Cleary Gottlieb's 2026 digital assets regulatory update, US regulators moved from "enforcement-heavy crypto-scepticism to a determined focus on flexibility for market participants to engage with digital assets and distributed ledger technology." The shift centres
May 18, 2026
Crypto exchange regulations 2026 mark a significant reversal in US enforcement posture toward digital asset firms compared with the prior administration. Exchanges that had been defending Biden-era allegations of operating as unregistered securities exchanges and broker-dealers saw those cases dropped in 2025 without substantive findings. According to Morgan Lewis, the dismissals followed a January 2025
May 18, 2026
Challenger banking 2026 features a sector where Monzo, Revolut, N26, Starling, Chime, and Nubank collectively serve hundreds of millions of customers across multiple jurisdictions. Their growth has prompted traditional banks to accelerate digital transformation programmes. Heading into 2026, sector activity centres on which firms are building the next innovation layer on top of mobile-first, low-fee,
May 14, 2026
Revolut has FCA approval for portfolio management and private wealth services. With a £500K private banking threshold and £750M AUA, we analyse what it means for UK fintech.
