FreshBooks Adds Klarna Payment Options for US and Canadian Businesses
Klarna on October 21, 2026 announced a partnership with FreshBooks that brings Klarna’s full suite of payment methods directly into FreshBooks’ invoicing and payment flows, with no additional setup required for merchants. The integration is powered by Stripe, and FreshBooks…
Klarna Rolls Out Consumer FX With No Exchange Fee Across 26 Countries
Klarna Group Plc launched Consumer FX on October 21, 2026, giving shoppers the ability to buy from any participating Klarna merchant in the world and pay in their own currency with no exchange fee, Klarna announced in a statement datelined…
Klarna to Offer Flexible Payments on Fiserv’s Enterprise Commerce Hub
Klarna Group plc announced on October 19, 2026 that its payment options will be available for the first time on Commerce Hub, Fiserv’s enterprise commerce platform, enabling enterprise merchants in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and select European markets to…
AI Credit Underwriting and Fair-Lending Risk
A first-principles guide to AI Credit Underwriting, including its operating chain, economics, authoritative records, failure modes, and the evidence investors or operators should verify.
Revolut Wins Gibraltar DLT Licence for New Digital Assets Entity
Revolut announced on October 19, 2026, that the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) had granted a Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Provider licence to Revolut Global Digital Assets Limited (RGDAL), the fintech company’s newly established Gibraltar entity. HM Government of Gibraltar…
UK E-Money Institution ePayments Systems Enters Special Administration
ePayments Systems Limited (EPS), an electronic money institution authorised by the UK Financial Conduct Authority to issue e-money under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011, entered special administration on 15 October 2026, the FCA announced. Mark Boast and Allister Manson of…
Mastercard Debuts Global Money Platform in First Major BVNK Integration
Mastercard and BVNK on October 15, 2026, launched Mastercard Global Money Platform, an infrastructure layer that combines Mastercard’s global payments capabilities with BVNK’s stablecoin infrastructure through a single API, according to a Mastercard announcement. The platform is available now through…
Marks & Spencer Adds Klarna Installment Payments Online
Klarna is now available as a payment option at Marks & Spencer for Fashion, Home & Beauty purchases online, the company announced in a London-dated release on October 15, 2026. Shoppers on M&S.com and the M&S app can now pay…
Stablecoin Payments: From Wallet to Merchant Settlement
A first-principles guide to Stablecoin Merchant Payments, including its operating chain, economics, authoritative records, failure modes, and the evidence investors or operators should verify.
Agentic Payments: How AI Finds, Negotiates, and Pays
A first-principles guide to Agentic Payments, including its operating chain, economics, authoritative records, failure modes, and the evidence investors or operators should verify.
Walapay Raises $4.6M Seed Round to Expand Cross-Border Payment Rails
Walapay has raised a $4.6 million seed round to expand the licenses, banking relationships, and local payment connections behind its fiat-and-stablecoin infrastructure.
Modern Credit Underwriting: From FICO to Cash-Flow Data
A first-principles guide to Modern Credit Underwriting, including its operating chain, economics, authoritative records, failure modes, and the evidence investors or operators should verify.
Corpay Agrees to $100 Million FTC Settlement Over Fuel Card Fees
Corpay Inc. , formerly known as FleetCor Technologies, has agreed to pay $100 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission administrative action alleging the company charged customers, who overwhelmingly are small businesses, undisclosed fees in connection with their use of…
Programmable Payments: Rules, APIs, and Smart Contracts
What programmable payments really are, how conditional instructions differ from programmable money, and where APIs, smart contracts, oracles and atomic settlement fit.
Merchant Acquiring: MDRs, Interchange, and Chargebacks
A mechanics-first guide to merchant acquiring, including merchant discount rates, interchange, scheme fees, processor costs, reserves, chargebacks and net revenue.
