Lava Tokenization Sandbox Gives Electric Blue the Infrastructure for a €500M Rollout in Germany

Shein’s app runs on the tricks the FTC calls ‘dark patterns.’ Now the FTC is investigating.

PayPal turned down $53bn, and pointed to a beat and a $70 target

Apple raised its prices, then offered to rent you the phone instead

Visa is cutting 2,600 tech jobs to bankroll the tech that threatens it

Two hotel groups moved into ChatGPT this week. Neither will let you pay there

Friendsurance invented peer-to-peer insurance. It just sold for its paperwork.

Stripe wants to own the toll booth between AI models, for ~$10bn

Wise shares tumble after US regulator rejects its trust bank charter bid

Revolut hits $115 billion valuation as it becomes the first global fintech with an Australian banking licence

A 25-year-old just raised $180M to build a US bank from scratch

Apple is launching a Klarna-backed device leasing program called Apple Upgrade on July 28

Natural raised $30M to build a Stripe for AI agents, before Stripe gets there

Ant International raises $1.2bn to fund its payments push beyond China

Visa launched a stablecoin platform that sent Circle shares tumbling six percent

OpenAI is showing Kalshi’s World Cup odds inside ChatGPT, its first prediction market deal

Velocity raises $38M to move business money with stablecoins

Stripe and Advent offer $60.50 a share for PayPal, valuing it above $53bn

Kalshi builds a forward curve for computing power as exchanges race to turn GPUs into a tradable commodity

India’s Udaan secures $160 million in new funding as it races to fix its balance sheet before an IPO

Flex raises $70m from Ryan Smith’s Halo fund to take its AI private bank global

Axos buys AI fintech Arc Technologies to bolt modern software onto a bank

Karina Portugal: learning to ask the right question

How crypto payment processors can help businesses accept cryptocurrency

Klarna applies for a US banking licence, its boldest American move yet

Uber quietly pauses 5 of 7 European food-delivery launches as it chases Delivery Hero

Thought Machine crosses $100M revenue and delays its London IPO to 2028

Citi boss Jane Fraser says 2 AI races will decide banking’s future

Palmer Luckey’s Erebor bank eyes an $8bn valuation as deposits quadruple

London’s MDOTM raises $27M to put AI inside wealth managers

Cross-border payroll runs on $200B and zero shared infrastructure

AI shopping just beat search at its own game on Prime Day

Google’s GV bets $30M on a stock exchange for space

India’s payments chief says AI will drive UPI from 750 million to a billion daily transactions

TikTok is building a super app, and most of its users have not noticed yet