Revolut has closed a secondary share sale that values the London-based fintech at $115bn (£87bn), a 53% jump from the $75bn it commanded a year ago and a figure that now places it above several of Europe’s established banks by equity value. The deal lets employees and early backers sell existing shares rather than raising fresh capital for the business, and it crowns a year in which Revolut secured banking permissions across four continents. The transaction was led by Glade B

Embedded finance is no longer a side quest, it's the main event. As of this week, new ESG rules are landing, African payment rails are scaling, and green fintech is finding real money. Here's how finance is quietly reinventing itself beyond the bank branch. If there is one story shaping finance this November, it is that "banking" is becoming an ingredient rather than a destination. Payments show up inside ride-share apps, loans inside e-commerce checkouts, insurance inside de

CrediMax, Bahrain’s first and largest card issuer and acquirer, has agreed to work with Mastercard to bring agentic commerce tools to merchants across the Kingdom, placing it among the first institutions in the country to help local businesses sell to AI shopping agents rather than only to people. The collaboration centres on Mastercard’s Agent Suite for Merchants, a set of capabilities that lets businesses embed AI-driven shopping experiences, product discovery, cart managem

As of this week, Hong Kong has a new AI compliance platform, Belgium's Nagelmackers has handed its reporting stack to Regnology, and a new industry forecast puts the RegTech market on a path to $112 billion by 2033. Compliance just became the fastest-moving story in financial technology. If you had to pick the sector where artificial intelligence has moved from PowerPoint promise to production grind the fastest, you would not pick trading or asset management. You would pick c

Pine Labs and Stripe will let retailers in Singapore run online and in-store payments from a single platform starting November 2026, with Stripe handling online payments and card transactions routed through Pine Labs terminals on the shop floor. For finance teams at multi-channel retailers, the offer replaces a familiar patchwork, one vendor for the website, another for the stores, and others again for instalments and analytics, with one partner and one consolidated view of e

Barclays Partner Finance will offer early full and final settlements to some motor finance customers whose commission complaints it acknowledged on or before 1 October 2026, moving ahead of a redress timetable that has been frozen since the summer. The step gives eligible customers the option of compensation within weeks, instead of waiting out the legal challenges that have left the Financial Conduct Authority's motor finance redress scheme partially suspended until a tribun