Marcel van Oost

Hey Payments Fanatic! You know I’m always tuned into FinTech and Payments, but if you’ve started following me recently, you might not know I’m also a football fan. So today I'm sharing a story that caught my eye and connects both worlds. Back in February,

Hey Payments Fanatic! Executive pages don’t often speak loudly, but their silences can be telling. In recent weeks, Tyro Payments has quietly entered a period of leadership transition. Jonathan Davey, Tyro's CEO & Managing Director, announced his departure earlier this month to a leadership role outside of

Hey Payments Fanatic! ACI Worldwide is entering new strategic partnerships with MongoDB and Synadia Communications to strengthen its cloud-native payments platform, ACI Connetic. Launched last month, ACI Connetic combines A2A payments, card processing, and AI-driven fraud prevention in one platform, helping banks modernize their payment systems more efficiently. The collaboration

Hey Payments Fanatic! A decade after launching as a UPI payments app, PhonePe is about to go public. The company is expected to file its draft red herring prospectus by August, aiming to raise up to $1.5bn at a valuation of around $15bn. Backed by Walmart, PhonePe has become

Hey Payments Fanatic! dtcpay has partnered with Mastercard Move to offer faster, more secure, and transparent international money transfers, launching June 2025. Through this collaboration, dtcpay users can access 49+ payment corridors from Singapore to destinations including China, UAE, Malaysia, Switzerland, and EU markets. Transfers will now be 60% faster

Hey Payments Fanatic! Last week, Coinbase dropped a few major updates, including a partnership with Shopify that brought USDC payments to checkout. It already felt like a big step, but now, it’s starting to look like the reveal of something much bigger. Coinbase has now introduced Coinbase Payments, a