Marcel van Oost

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Expanding into the U.S. is one thing. Getting the regulatory infrastructure to actually operate there is another. OpenPayd is making a serious move on that front. The financial infrastructure provider has added 43 U.S. Money Transmitter Licences through the integration of MSB USA, giving its

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Mollie and GoCardless are officially joining forces, creating a payments and financial services group serving more than 350,000 businesses across 30+ markets. What I find interesting is the logic behind the deal: businesses still have cards with one provider, bank payments with another, banking somewhere else,

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Singapore is putting S$220 million into FinTech over the next three years, just days after private FinTech funding hit its weakest first half in about a decade. That timing says a lot. Funding fell to $499 million across 53 deals in H1, with AI taking most

Hey FinTech Fanatic! If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know about my passion for sports — so this story immediately caught my attention. Circle’s USDC is becoming the main shirt sponsor of Chelsea FC, marking the first time a crypto financial services company has taken

Hey FinTech Fanatic! The UK is taking another step toward making stablecoins part of the mainstream financial system. The government plans to give the Bank of England a formal secondary objective to support innovation in stablecoins, digital money and payment systems — while keeping financial stability as its top priority. It’