- Wise has acquired expat resource Expatica, gaining access to a website that attracted more than 7 million visits in 2025 from people researching and navigating life abroad.
- The deal gives Wise an earlier touchpoint with prospective customers, allowing it to build brand awareness and trust before consumers choose a bank, payments provider, or money transfer service.
- Wise plans to expand Expatica's content and geographic reach, strengthening its position among the growing global...
For years, bank-fintech relationships often followed a predictable path. Banks identified promising startups, tested their technology, and viewed acquisition as the ultimate endgame. Today, that dynamic is changing.
At FinovateSpring 2026, I sat down with Deepa Chatterjee, SVP of Business Development and Go-to-Market for Small Business Banking at U.S. Bank, to discuss how bank-fintech partnerships are evolving, where banks are competing with digital-first challengers, and what the future...
- Coinbase is evolving beyond crypto into an “everything exchange,” adding AI-powered advice, agentic trading, tokenized stocks, and expanded credit offerings in a bid to become consumers' primary financial platform.
- The new launches highlight two major fintech trends: AI moving from financial guidance to autonomous action, and the continued blurring of lines between banks, brokerages, fintechs, and crypto platforms.
- By combining investing, lending, payments, wealth management, and...
A newly announced, multi-year partnership between HSBC and Google Cloud will enable the financial institution to work with engineering teams from Google Cloud and DeepMind to develop new AI-powered tools and capabilities. The partnership will allow HSBC to benefit from access to Google's latest agentic AI capabilities including Gemini and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
The agreement will enable more than 200 new AI use cases for HSBC over the next two years, with a focus on the...
- Ripple participated in Flutterwave's Series E round, helping push the African payments company's total funding above $500 million and valuing it at $3.2 billion.
- The partnership will embed Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin and XRP Ledger into Flutterwave's payment infrastructure to support faster settlement, liquidity management, remittances, and cross-border payments.
- The deal highlights the growing race to control stablecoin infrastructure, with Ripple seeking to establish RLUSD and XRPL...
