2025: Top Five Payments Stories of the Year
FinTech Futures highlighted five major 2025 payments developments: the UK government will dissolve the Payment Systems Regulator and fold its duties into the FCA, aiming to streamline oversight; Africa launched PAPSSCARD, its first pan‑African card scheme to enable cross‑border retail payments; Klarna announced a NYSE IPO targeting a $14 billion valuation; South Africa’s Street Wallet acquired digital‑tipping startup Digitip; and the UK Post Office secured an expanded partnership with Western Union for broader money‑transfer services.
2025: Top Five Fintech Partnership Stories of the Year
2025 saw a wave of high‑profile fintech partnerships reshaping payments across regions. Swift was chosen by the European Payments Council to run the EPC Directory Service, enhancing payee verification and interoperability for the VOP scheme. Stripe teamed with Paradigm to...
2025: Top Five Banking Technology Stories of the Year
Fintech Futures highlighted five pivotal banking‑technology developments in 2025. Temenos named Takis Spiliopoulos CEO, reinforcing an execution‑focused strategy. Commonwealth Bank of Australia completed a massive migration of its SAP core‑banking system to AWS, supporting 90% of accounts and 40% of national...
2025: Top Five Fintech M&A Stories of the Year
FinTech Futures highlighted the five biggest fintech M&A deals of 2025, ranging from Global Payments’ $24.25 billion acquisition of Worldpay to Santander’s £2.65 billion purchase of TSB. The transactions collectively exceed $60 billion, signaling aggressive consolidation across payments processors and traditional banks. Each...
2025: Top Five AI Stories of the Year
FinTech Futures highlighted five pivotal AI developments in 2025: the UK FCA launched an AI sandbox with Nvidia to safely test financial‑service models, while UBS hired JP Morgan’s Daniele Magazzeni as chief AI officer to steer its enterprise‑wide strategy. Grasshopper partnered with...
Banxware Co-Founder and COO Fabian Heiß to Depart
Banxware’s co‑founder and COO Fabian Heiß announced he will leave the Berlin‑based embedded lending provider at month‑end. Heiß, who helped scale the firm to serve more than 40 digital marketplaces and achieve 100% year‑over‑year loan‑origination growth, also led the integration...
The What the FinTech? Podcast | Season Six’s Jailed Buzzwords
Season six of the What the FinTech? podcast introduced its “Fintech Jail” segment, where guests either lock away overused fintech buzzwords or free previously incarcerated terms. Across 25 episodes, words such as “Cloud,” “Cheques,” and “Blockchain” were jailed, while “Agile,”...
FinTech Futures: Top Five News Stories of the Week – 19 December 2025
FinTech Futures highlighted five pivotal stories this week. PayPal applied for a Utah‑chartered industrial bank to expand small‑business lending, while Monzo secured a full European banking licence and bought mortgage fintech Habito. The UK regulator fined Nationwide Building Society £44 million...
CVB Financial Acquires Heritage Commerce in $811m Merger
CVB Financial Corp, the parent of Citizens Business Bank, announced an all‑stock merger with Heritage Commerce Corp valued at roughly $811 million. The transaction will give CVB shareholders a 77% stake and Heritage shareholders 23%, creating a combined institution with about...
What the FinTech? | S.6 Episode 25 | 2025 in Review and Predictions for 2026
The "What the FinTech?" podcast’s Season 6, Episode 25 recaps 2025’s most impactful financial‑services developments and outlines key forecasts for 2026. Hosts Dave Wallace and Dharmesh Mistry highlight AI‑driven credit models, the rapid expansion of open‑banking APIs, tighter crypto regulation, and the...
Imprint Hits Unicorn Status Following $150m Series D
Imprint, a New York‑based co‑brand financial platform, secured a $150 million Series D round, pushing its valuation to $1.2 billion and achieving unicorn status. The round was led by Khosla Ventures and featured a slate of prominent VCs including Kleiner Perkins and Ribbit...
