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A flight tracker is suing Kalshi over cancellation bettingFlightAware filed suit in the Southern District of New York on August 10, alleging Kalshi used its data and trademark without permission to settle prediction-market contracts on flight cancellation…Revolut adds France to its banking licence collectionFrance becomes the latest market where Revolut can operate as a fully licensed bank rather than an e-money outfit, deepening a European push that's already put it under national banking regulators …Bradesco is putting $2 billion behind a digital-only betBrazil's second-largest private bank approved a $2 billion capital increase specifically earmarked for digital expansion, a direct response to Nubank's relentless share gains in Brazilian retail ba…Prediction markets are eating exchange volume, and regulators are behindThe FIA, the trade body for derivatives exchanges, is now publicly discussing prediction markets as a disruption rather than a niche, a marker of how fast Kalshi and Polymarket have moved from nove…Kalshi wants to let traders bet on gold and silver foreverKalshi is seeking regulatory approval for perpetual contracts on precious metals, a structure that never expires and would let retail traders take leveraged directional bets on gold and silver with…Apple teams up with Klarna to let you rent an iPhoneThe lease-to-own scheme lets customers pay monthly for iPhones, iPads, and Macs without owning the device outright until the term ends, giving Apple a subscription-like revenue stream and Klarna a …Stripe wants to buy the company it was supposed to replacePayPal was the incumbent Stripe spent fifteen years positioning itself against, and now Stripe and private equity firm Advent are offering roughly $53.4 billion to own it outright. PayPal shares ju…Circle just accused a Tether-linked fund of gaming the marketStablecoin issuers policing each other's trading desks is new territory, and it tells you the post-IPO scrutiny on Circle is forcing disclosures that used to stay in Slack channels. The dispute cen…BNPL finally gets FCA-style guardrails, and lenders feel it firstBuy now pay later providers coming under formal consumer protection rules means affordability checks, refund rights and clearer rejection processes become mandatory rather than optional goodwill ge…Anthropic just poached a fintech founder, not an AI researcherThe talent war in AI has stopped being about who can hire the best model researchers and started being about who can hire people who've actually shipped consumer products at scale. Monzo's founder …Zilch's CEO has become UK fintech's unexpected political operator. That is a more durable edge than product.The profile of Philip Belamant, Zilch's founder, as UK fintech's de facto power broker reflects something the sector has needed for years: an operator willing to spend political capital rather than…UK fintech founders abandon growth for survivalBritish fintech chiefs are switching from expansion mode to capital preservation as funding conditions deteriorate faster than expected. The shift signals the end of the growth-at-all-costs era tha…