Tink, A Visa Solution, and Chip, the award-winning wealth app, have today announced a partnership which will see Tink provide its Payment Initiation Services (PIS) to Chip customers.

Tink is working with Chip to provide seamless and secure open banking-powered money transfers for users topping up their account.

New research by YouGov commissioned by Checkout.com, a leading global digital payments platform, reveals that UK parents are concerned about children’s online financial safety.

A new generation of AI is taking hold and it’s set to completely reshape how finance teams run and scale their O2C operations. Rob Harvey, Chief Product Officer at Sidetrade, takes a closer look at agentic AI and its ability to think, plan, and act autonomously.

After years of progress in automation and generative AI - including LLM capabilities coming on leaps and bounds - we’ve seen a new form of AI begin to take hold in the last 12-18 months or so: Agentic AI. 

Yaspa, a hyper-growth London fintech, has received investment in a funding round led by Discerning Capital to fuel its expansion in the United States.

Yaspa is an award-winning fintech providing instant payment and identity services, using open banking technology and AI to help regulated businesses elevate customer intelligence - and cashflow - via its proprietary real-time payments solution, Intelligent Payments.

Orbital, a cross-border platform that orchestrates payments across stablecoins and traditional rails, today announced its partnership with ClearBank Europe, an enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking. The partnership unlocks faster, cost-effective, and compliant euro transactions for Orbital’s enterprise customers, bridging traditional payments with digital assets.

Stripe, a programmable financial services company, has announced the upcoming launch of Pay by Bank in France and Germany. This product builds on the successful partnership between Stripe and TrueLayer in the UK, where Pay by Bank has revolutionised payments for both merchants and customers.

One of the UK’s fastest growing revenue-based lenders, 365 Finance, based in London with operations in the UK & Ireland, reveals latest regional insights in alternative lending – with exceptional growth in the North West of England for SMEs in e-commerce.

Bitget, the leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 company, is now the most liquid platform for altcoins within the 0.3–0.5% price interval, as per reports released by CoinGecko analyzing centralized exchange (CEX) liquidity across key digital assets. This finding comes from a comparative study of order book depth across major trading venues including Binance, Bybit, OKX, Kraken, and Coinbase.