Hatton National Bank PLC (HNB), one of Sri Lanka’s premier private sector commercial banks, has expanded its digital payments offering by enabling its debit cards to be added to Google Wallet, leveraging BPC SmartVista. The rollout allows HNB customers to use their current debit cards for more convenient digital transactions, marking another step in the bank’s drive to make everyday banking and payments simpler, more accessible and more relevant to how Sri Lankans live and transact.

Startale Group today announced the second close of its Series A round, securing $50 million from SBI Group, Inc. ("SBI Group"). Combined with the first close of $13 million from Sony Innovation Fund announced in January 2026, Startale has completed a $63 million Series A round.

Payy Network, the only stablecoin blockchain where transactions are private by default, announced today it has raised $6 million in a seed round led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from Robot Ventures and DBA Crypto. The new funding will support continued product development, team expansion and growth as Payy scales its privacy-preserving infrastructure for institutional stablecoin payments.

Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR), an automated global broker, today announced that clients can transfer their existing holdings in supported cryptocurrencies to their Interactive Brokers-linked crypto account, enabling them to trade crypto at lower costs while gaining access to global investment markets – all without selling their digital assets upfront.

ING and UniCredit have structured a €375 million mini-perm project financing for Retelit Datacentre, the data centre arm of leading Italian telecommunications and ICT operator Retelit.

Allegro Finance Limited (“Allegro”), an alternative lending platform for the media sector, today announced a strategic joint venture and senior funding line with entities advised by Elliott Advisors UK Limited (“Elliott”), a leading global investment manager. The partnership establishes a new institutional-scale credit platform for the global film and television industry.

FalconX has partnered with MoonPay to provide institutional-grade liquidity and execution across supported digital assets on MoonPay’s global platform.

Leading Philippine digital financial services platform Maya is working with Lydian to ensure digital asset payments can be used in everyday commerce in the Philippines safely, compliantly and at scale.

Danish acquiring company Clearhaus is introducing a new Payment Facilitator (PayFac) solution that allows licensed businesses in Denmark and across Europe to manage payments directly for merchants using their platforms.

Payment service provider Buckaroo and fintech YouLend are launching Buckaroo Capital during the Webwinkel Vakdagen, a new financing service for entrepreneurs in the Benelux. Entrepreneurs will soon be able to access flexible working capital directly via the Buckaroo portal, based on their own transaction data.

The Summit for Asset Management (TSAM) will return to London on 13–14 April 2026 with an expanded two-day programme, reflecting the rapid innovation and structural change reshaping the asset management industry.

London based, FCA regulated travel fintech Vuelo, (https://getvuelo.com) has raised £56 million in seed funding to expand its AI-native travel booking platform, enabling customers to discover, book, finance, and plan through a single intelligent experience.

Bitget Wallet, the everyday finance app, today unveiled the "Onchain Payments Matrix," a global payment infrastructure designed to connect fragmented financial rails and support stablecoin payments across everyday consumer use and emerging agentic economic activity.

Bitpanda, a leading European platform for crypto and other digital assets, is seeking to address the long-standing infrastructure deadlock in European finance with the launch of Vision Chain. Vision Chain is a dedicated blockchain layer designed to transition tokenized assets from isolated pilots into the mainstream economy. Developed in partnership with the Vision Web3 Foundation and built on the Optimism tech stack, the network provides a standardized environment for institutions to issue and settle tokenized assets in accordance with the EU’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and incorporates technical resilience principles that align with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

Jack Henry® (Nasdaq: JKHY) announced today that Independent Bancshares Inc., the holding company of FM BANK and Quoin Financial Bank, has selected Jack Henry to strengthen both banks' technology infrastructure. Using Jack Henry technology will allow the banks to achieve their objective of delivering the best financial products and services to their customers.