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South Korea’s Toss Expansion Playbook: Australia, Stablecoin, Wall Street

South Korea’s Toss Expansion Playbook: Australia, Stablecoin, Wall Street

Hey FinTech Fanatic! South Korea’s unicorn Toss is lacing up for a global run — literally. After conquering its home market with 30M+ users, the FinTech is setting its sights abroad, starting with Australia. CEO (and ex-dentist) Lee Seung-gun says the same playbook that let Toss go toe-to-toe with Korea’

EasyJet Founder Wants to Make Bitcoin… Easy

EasyJet Founder Wants to Make Bitcoin… Easy

Hi FinTech Fanatic, Remember when Stelios Haji-Ioannou shook up European skies with EasyJet? ✈️ Now he wants to do the same in crypto. The EasyJet founder just unveiled EasyBitcoin—his latest “easy” venture (yes, right next to gyms, hotels, storage, and even pet travel 🐾). Teaming up with Uphold, Stelios is gunning

Introducing: How FinTech Performs

Introducing: How FinTech Performs

Hey FinTech Fanatic, Quick update before we dive into today’s news: I’ve just launched a brand-new weekly newsletter called How FinTech Performs. Each week, it looks at the industry through data, market caps, top performers, and sector standouts, all in a few simple charts. The first edition is

Fireblocks Joins Stablecoin Payment Race

Fireblocks Joins Stablecoin Payment Race

Hey FinTech Fanatic! Fireblocks just launched the Fireblocks Network for Payments to support stablecoin transactions in over +100 countries. This enables FinTechs and PSPs to handle payouts, remittances, merchant settlements, and cross-border treasuries with stablecoins. It also connects local rails, blockchains, issuers, and liquidity providers across 60 currencies. "Fireblocks

A representation of a payment made with a digital gift card from a mobile phone to a POS machine

The Power of a Good Gift (Card): Digital Gifting in the UAE

Globally and regionally, digital gift cards are on the rise. UAE consumers like gift cards (especially digital ones) and do not consider them impersonal. Gift cards plug directly into the payment and loyalty system: they’re as easy to send as a text message but as rewarding as in-person presents.

🚨HERE WE GO! Airwallex Acquires OpenPay

🚨HERE WE GO! Airwallex Acquires OpenPay

Hi FinTech Fanatic! Let’s kick off the way Fabrizio Romano breaks a transfer deal 🚨 HERE WE GO! Airwallex has acquired OpenPay, a San Francisco-based billing platform specializing in subscription management, payment orchestration, and revenue analytics. The move brings OpenPay’s billing and analytics capabilities into Airwallex’s global platform,

Klarna & Gemini IPO Final Countdown

Klarna & Gemini IPO Final Countdown

Hey FinTech Fanatic! May have come the time we’ve been waiting for, not weeks, but months! After 5 months of Klarna and Gemini pausing their IPO plans, now could be their “Liberation Day”, unless Trump shakes things up again 😂 After other FinTechs listed this year I’ve covered, Etoro,