Nodu Raises $1.45M… and Stablecoin Rails in Europe Are Getting Practical
Hey Payments Fanatics!
Nodu just closed a $1.45M pre-seed round to help banks and FinTechs launch stablecoin services without rebuilding their stack from scratch.
The London-based team is building a ready-to-use compliance and payments framework for stablecoins. Send. Receive. Hold. Report. All handled in one regulated workflow.
What makes this interesting is the off-ramp. Nodu already supports near real-time fiat payouts in more than 100 countries. Cheaper. Faster. Built for cross-border use cases.
European banks are under pressure to digitize and find new revenue streams. Nodu is positioning itself as the shortcut. Less engineering pain. Less regulatory friction.
Now is the time to say: Happy Holidays...
You're part of my very special group. The Payments Fanatics who show up here every day. As the year winds down, I want to wish you a great break and a strong start to 2026.
I’ll be back after the holidays with the same daily rhythm and plenty more to unpack!
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🇺🇸 OnePay joins Google's Agent Payments Protocol to define the future of agentic payments. Through AP2, OnePay will help define clear authorization rules, secure the reuse of payment credentials, support multi-instrument wallets, and provide access to transparent financing options.
🇬🇧 Nayax partners with Unipaas to launch a fully integrated card-present payments solution for UK SaaS platforms. Through this collaboration, Unipaas expands its embedded payments platform to support digital and physical environments with POS devices powered by Nayax, offering a complete payments solution.
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🇺🇸 Timon adds Apple Pay and Google Pay to the virtual card for international travelers. The new offering enables tap-and-go payments, allowing users to make seamless transactions across borders without relying on physical cards. Timon users can now pay instantly using their smartphones or smartwatches wherever tap-to-pay is accepted.
🇺🇸 Ripple expands partnership with TJM to enhance institutional trade execution and clearing services. The expanded partnership with Ripple enables TJM to offer its clients improved capital and collateral efficiency as well as enhanced clearing stability and balance-sheet support.
🇺🇸 Klarna partners with Coinbase to receive stablecoin funds from institutional investors. Its partnership with Coinbase will let institutional investors front capital denominated in stablecoins, a type of cryptocurrency pegged to underlying assets like the U.S. dollar.
🇬🇧 UK contactless card limit of £100 to be scrapped from 19 March. allowing banks and card providers to set their own transaction and cumulative limits, including potentially eliminating PIN requirements. The change aims to give firms greater flexibility to reflect consumer demand, inflation, and technological advances.
🇸🇬 Crypto.com partners with DBS to expand payment services in SG. This will allow users faster, easier deposits and withdrawals of Singapore Dollars (SGD) and US Dollars (USD) through new banking rails and dedicated client money accounts.
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