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Hey FinTech Fanatic! During England’s World Cup match against Ghana, a major Worldpay outage knocked out card payment systems across pubs and shops nationwide in England, forcing thousands of businesses back to cash-only chaos at the worst possible moment.  Queues at ATMs, pints left unpoured, and merchants watching

Hey FinTech Fanatic! SoFi has acquired Composer, a startup that helps investors build and automate trading strategies using AI. The deal comes as more investment platforms look for ways to bring sophisticated investing tools to retail customers, something that was traditionally reserved for professional traders and institutions. We're

Hey FinTech Fanatic! On June 10, Mastercard rolled out Agent Pay for Machines (AP4M), an open protocol letting AI agents transact with each other directly. Every agent gets credentialed, spending limits get enforced automatically, and settlement runs across cards, accounts, or stablecoins. Coinbase, Ripple, Polygon, OKX, Solana and Aave all

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Airbnb's latest FinTech move lets guests pay for the right to cancel a stay, no questions asked, for a full refund up to 24 hours before check-in. Dennis Schaal from Skift reported that: “The feature, called the extended cancellation option, is currently available in

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Checkout.com and Microsoft are making a collaboration, and this one really caught my eye. The global digital payments provider announced that it has been selected by Microsoft to power digital payments across key products in the EMEA region.  This sees Checkout.com deliver card acceptance for