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Rain Expands Visa Membership Into Asia-Pacific, Advancing the Reach of Its Global Stablecoin Payment Infrastructure
Rain, Posted March 25, 2026
Rain, the enterprise-grade infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments, today announced a major expansion of its Visa Membership into Asia-Pacific (APAC). Through Visa, a world leader in digital payments, Rain is expanding its card issuing footprint in the region, broadening its global infrastructure and allowing partners to launch and scale consumer and corporate credit card programs in some of the world’s most digitally active economies, with initial launches expected in Q2 2026.
The expansion builds on Rain’s existing issuing infrastructure and introduces a regulated presence in the region, strengthening the company’s long-term issuing capabilities across APAC and enabling partners to launch and scale programs with greater regional stability. This milestone establishes Rain as one of the few stablecoin infrastructure platforms with direct Visa Membership supporting programs at this scale.
APAC finance app installs decline 17% as firms pivot to customer retention
Asian banking Finance, Posted March 27, 2026
Finance app installs in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region declined 17% year-on-year (YoY) in 2025 whilst user acquisition (UA) dropped 27%.
This reflects tighter capital discipline and more selective acquisition strategies, according to a 2026 report by AppsFlyer, which analysed over 5.31 billion installs across APAC and $5.7b in user acquisition spend across Android and iOS.
Innovation, regulation and credit risks in APAC financial services
Financier Worldwide, Posted March 20, 2026
For firms operating in the financial services sector in recent years, the landscape has been shaped by significant and sustained challenges. 2025 brought escalating geopolitical risks for financial institutions (FIs) navigating the financial and operational impacts of military conflicts, shifting tariff structures, rapidly changing diplomatic dynamics and evolving trade rules. This trend is expected to continue throughout 2026.
Across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, FIs and other financial services firms have faced a complex mix of pressures, including rapid digitalisation, rising competition from fintechs and highly fragmented regulatory environments.
Europe
Why Financial Technology Is Attracting Record Investment
Mexc, Posted March 26, 2026
Cumulative investment in financial technology companies exceeded $600 billion between 2010 and 2024, according to CB Insights. Even after the correction from the 2021 peak of $132 billion, fintech attracted $51.4 billion in venture capital in 2024, making it the second-largest sector for venture investment behind only artificial intelligence. The sustained capital flow into fintech reflects investor conviction that financial services, the largest industry in the global economy by revenue, is still in the early stages of technology-driven transformation.
Open Banking Could Unlock £43bn Annually for the UK Economy, new EY Analysis Reveals
MENA Fintech, Posted March 22, 2026
Open banking unlocks £43 billion economic opportunity for UK.
Open banking drives economic expansion through secure financial data sharing. EY analysis reveals £43 billion in annual potential for the UK economy at full adoption. This analysis examines the UK’s open banking achievements and their implications for Dubai’s emerging fintech infrastructure.
payabl. introduces Tap to pay for smartphone-based card payments
Electronic Payments International, Posted March 25, 2026
European fintech payabl. has launched Tap to pay, a SoftPOS product that enables businesses to accept contactless card payments directly on smartphones.
In a statement, payabl. said the service will allow micro and SME businesses to take in-person payments without “dedicated card terminal hardware”.
Tap to pay by payabl. allows merchants to use NFC-enabled Android devices as payment terminals.
USA
US fintech Worth bags $30m in Series A funding
Fintech Futures, Posted March 26, 2026
US-based fintech start-up Worth has announced a $30 million Series A funding round, building on the $25 million it secured in March 2025.
The latest round was led by Fulcrum Equity Partners with participation from Amex Ventures and TTV Capital.
Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, Worth was created in 2024 by former Stax Payments founders Sal Rehmetullah and Suneera Madhani. It offers an AI-powered platform that automates onboarding and underwriting for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) applying for financial services.
March 2026: Top five fintech M&A stories of the month
Fintech Futures, Posted March 26, 2026
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are common occurrences in the world of fintech, often reshaping businesses and redefining the market landscape.
Here, we take a look at five of the top fintech M&A stories in March, featuring BVNK, Mastercard, Saxo Bank, Ripple, Ramp, Billhop, and more.
LatAm
Borderless Banking integrates cross-border product suite to catalyze B2B payment rails between LatAm and North America.
Prometeo, Posted March 18, 2026
We’re thrilled to introduce Borderless Banking, our latest solution designed to streamline business-to-business (B2B) financial operations between Latin America and the United States. As a leading fintech infrastructure company, we continue to bridge the gap between global corporations and financial institutions, making cross-border transactions more seamless and efficient.
With Borderless Banking, we’ve integrated directly with banking infrastructures across the U.S. and LatAm to offer businesses a comprehensive financial solution. Through a single platform, it enables access to local bank accounts for receiving payments and automating collections, facilitates international payment disbursement with real-time tracking, and optimizes global treasury management by ensuring visibility of balances in all accounts. Additionally, it incorporates account verification to minimize risks and enhance security in every transaction, giving businesses greater confidence and efficiency in their international operations.
Latin America-Wide
Practice Guides, Posted March 4, 2026
The expansion of private debt across Latin America and in Mexico is one of the most significant phenomena and, at the same time, one of the least critically examined, in the recent evolution of the national financial system. In the prevailing discourse on corporate financing, private debt is often presented as an efficient response to the structural limitations of traditional bank credit, a flexible tool capable of channelling capital to companies and projects that, due to their risk profile, size or complexity, do not fit into the regulated financial system.
