Marcel van Oost

Hey FinTech Fanatic! At its Investor Day, PayPal outlined its vision for the future, unveiling strategic initiatives to drive user engagement, broaden merchant services, and maintain competitiveness as the digital payments landscape continues to evolve. In the U.S., it launched PayPal Open, a unified platform for payments, financial services,

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Brex is thinking about going public—but not just yet. The FinTech wants to make sure it has a steady, predictable business before taking the step. “It’s easy to go public, it’s hard to be a public company with low volatility and very high predictability,

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Networking in FinTech usually means coffee chats and cocktail hours. But at the FinTech Running Club we are changing it! It’s not just an idea anymore; it’s a growing community, bringing FinTech professionals together on the run. Today I’m in San Francisco for the

Hey FinTech Fanatic! In an innovative retail partnership, Nubank has completely transformed Burger King's flagship restaurant, bringing its distinctive purple branding to every corner of the space. According to Juliana Roschel, the digital bank has reimagined everything from the inside and out, from the storefront to the self-service

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Amsterdam-based Stacks has raised $10 million across two funding rounds to expand its AI-powered accounting platform. The startup, founded last year by former Uber and Plaid product manager Albert Malikov, aims to eliminate the manual work of closing books—often a ten-day process involving spreadsheets—by providing

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Airwallex is making a major move into Latin America with a dual-market expansion into Mexico and Brazil, marking a significant step in its global growth strategy. The company has acquired Mexpago in Mexico and secured a payment institution license from the Banco Central do Brasil, enabling it