Marcel van Oost

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Cegid has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Shine.  Together, they aim to build a unified, cloud-native financial hub for more than one million SMBs and 15,000 accountants across Europe. The platform will bring together e-invoicing, accounting, payroll, payments, tax… all under one roof. Shine brings

Hey FinTech Fanatic! MoneyLion will pay $1.75 million to settle a CFPB lawsuit alleging it charged service members more than the 36% interest-rate cap allowed under the Military Lending Act.  The bureau said the FinTech tied access to low-APR loans to mandatory memberships costing up to $29 per month

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Some days in FinTech pick up faster than expected, and today definitely felt like one of them… Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, has launched KlarnaUSD, its first stablecoin.  The move comes as McKinsey estimates stablecoin transactions have reached $27 trillion annually. And here’

Hey FinTech Fanatic! A lot is happening in the FinTech world this week! Waking up in Curaçao today, one headline caught my attention right off the bat… and not by chance: Revolut’s latest valuation milestone. Revolut has reached a $75 billion valuation after completing a long-running share sale led

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Getnet and UnionPay International (UPI) have signed a strategic agreement to expand UnionPay card acceptance across Spain and Portugal, covering retail, e-commerce, and public transport. The partnership builds on years of cooperation between the companies and aims to speed up acceptance across in-store and online channels. It

Hey FinTech Fanatic! The European Central Bank is beginning work to interlink the Eurosystem’s Target Instant Payment Settlement (Tips) with India’s Unified Payment Interface (UPI) and other real-time payment networks across Asia. The initiative aims to simplify cross-border Payments for businesses and consumers, including remittances. The ECB says