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Paysafe added Croatia, Bulgaria and Estonia to its PaysafeWallet rollout, completing coverage of the euro area. American Express now lets Cash Back Card Members move rewards straight into its savings account, and the launch announcement never names the rate those rewards will earn. Q2 Holdings beat its own guidance, raised its 2026 outlook and promoted its finance chief Jonathan Price to co-chief executive. SoFi posted record revenue of $1.4 billion and raised its 2026 outlook again, well above the range it set in July.
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Turned down by investors and short of cash, Chime's co-founder refused a sale and kept going. Nine years later his company is listed, profitable and waiting for approval to own a bank.
Marvin EvansNovember 3, 2026
Revolut's New Zealand bank registration came through under a law with an end date, and its launch savings rate sits well above the central bank's cash rate.
Marvin EvansNovember 3, 2026
Monzo has opened to Spanish customers with Bizum, a Spanish IBAN and a 4% savings rate. The rate is capped, and the deposit protection comes from Dublin, not Madrid.
Marvin EvansOctober 31, 2026
American Express now lets Cash Back Card Members move rewards straight into its savings account. The announcement never names the rate those rewards will earn.
Marvin EvansOctober 30, 2026
Emprise Bank, a $2.8 billion Kansas lender, will move its core to Maximum's AI-native platform. Fintechbits notes the bank targets 10 times more customers in 24 months on a system that is still being built.
Marvin EvansOctober 19, 2026
The digital bank is making its Kroger cash deposit programme permanent. Fintechbits found its two releases describe the pilot differently and neither gives an adoption figure.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 18, 2026
Customers Bank is putting Palantir engineers inside its own teams to rebuild deposit onboarding. Fintechbits notes the release refers to a contract with an amount and terms, then discloses neither.
Marvin EvansOctober 17, 2026
Charitarth SindhuOctober 11, 2026
A budgeting app with over 1 million members buys a former neobank's technology team, and the founder of that team will run a new unit named Monarch Labs.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 6, 2026
Nu Holdings says it is not pursuing a Nubank Monzo deal after Sky News reported talks at a valuation of up to 10 billion pounds. What each side has said.
Charitarth SindhuOctober 5, 2026
MVB will hold the deposits and run the Visa debit program behind DingoBlu's planned app. Nothing is live yet, and rates, fees and a launch date are still to come.
Charitarth SindhuSeptember 29, 2026
Argentina's central bank has cleared Revolut's purchase of Banco Cetelem from BNP Paribas Personal Finance. The lender becomes Revolut Bank Argentina, though it will not offer public products at first.
Charitarth SindhuSeptember 27, 2026
Revolut's licence from Colombia's financial regulator is its sixth full banking licence worldwide, and around 200,000 Colombians have already joined the waitlist.
Charitarth SindhuSeptember 25, 2026
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