Rob Fernandes
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Rob Fernandes
@rob2775
Fintech strategy & why it matters • Payments Product Leader • Advisor @Pay2Z • Founder @ClearAccept • Exits Metacharge, WePay • Built multiple active PSPs
London, UK Katılım Temmuz 2009
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How can you tell an American has written something at a payments company especially more legacy ones — the word commerce… Something Brits never say
Rob Fernandes@rob2775
Taking aim at small business & food service segment dominated by @Square, @ToastTab and @SumUp, new #payments terminal from @GlobalPayInc offers AI agent that listens to server conversation to build the bill 😍 while handling #POS admin conversationally! investors.globalpayments.com/news-events/pr…
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Australian banking giant @NAB acquires UK based #PayByBank technology platform @WeAreBanked - with whom it was already partnering to enable bank account based payments on @AmazonAustralia. news.nab.com.au/tag/announceme…
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Taking aim at small business & food service segment dominated by @Square, @ToastTab and @SumUp, new #payments terminal from @GlobalPayInc offers AI agent that listens to server conversation to build the bill 😍 while handling #POS admin conversationally! investors.globalpayments.com/news-events/pr…
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Strong numbers - and if you noted functional expense lines below mostly growing despite workforce cost cut, they're unadjusted and include IPO share payments & platform depreciation - here's true picture of expenses, also adjusted for FX in blue (only Tech and Central up).
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After bumpy end to 2025 results, @Klarna swings out of red in Q1, EBITDA $68m and $17m EBIT profit (up $107m YoY). It handled $33.7bn (+33% YoY) with $1bn revenue (+44%) and now serving over 1 million merchants (+49% accerated by strategic PSP partners). investors.klarna.com/News--Events/n…
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After bumpy end to 2025 results, @Klarna swings out of red in Q1, EBITDA $68m and $17m EBIT profit (up $107m YoY). It handled $33.7bn (+33% YoY) with $1bn revenue (+44%) and now serving over 1 million merchants (+49% accerated by strategic PSP partners). investors.klarna.com/News--Events/n…
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Feeling quite naïve - had no idea this was a thing: abuse victims suffer "economic abuse" micro #payments with payment references designed to harass or control them. Well played @AskNationwide for adding such a simple #banking app feature w/ @SEAresource. deadlinenews.co.uk/2026/05/14/nat…
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UK financial regulator @TheFCA has granted neobank @Revolut permission to expand their app into wealth management and offering complex investments - as it pushes to build on its #crypto trading history and lure higher sums (and HNWs) onto the platform. ft.com/content/4cb8fd…
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Important developments in @Shopify antitrust case with potentially wide-reaching implications for how #platforms & #ISVs promote integrated #payments: Judge accepts @sezzleinc claim that inferior UX & #merchant financial penalties plausibly monopolistic.
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Built with #stablecoin and #AI-native core, #banking platform @augustus_bank - on a mission to create the world's first clearing bank for the AI and programmable money era - secures conditional @USOCC banking charter. augustus.com/newsroom/ameri…
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London #Fintech Adfin, building an #agentic platform to help small businesses get paid on time by accelerating AR #payments & streamlining finance processes, raises $18m Series A. Founders ex @Worldpay_Global, @tink and @Mambu_com. businesscloud.co.uk/news/payments-…
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Embeddable #Commerce platform @Shoppable - which holds US patents for universal (multi retailer) #checkout (cc @inventur_es) - enable MCP-ready infrastructure for end-to-end #agentic shopping that handles discovery, cart & payment natively in #AI agents. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…
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Contrast with @OpenAI, @Google is using its search-native checkout to strengthen role as over-the-top #payments wallet. @Klarna is enabling sales in search results & via @GeminiApp, not via #UCP but building on last year's deal to be native to @GooglePay. investors.klarna.com/News--Events/n…
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Issuer Processor @HelloThredd (formerly GPS) enables @PayZilch to use @Visa Flexible Credential (VFC) in the UK, the scheme native switching layer that links several funding sources to one card (think @ImagineCurve style flexibility from one provider). thredd.ai/company/press-…
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#Ecommerce focussed digital bank @Parkerhq_ files for bankruptcy - just over six months since $125m lending arrangement took funding past $200m - having been in negotiations over a possible acquisition. techcrunch.com/2026/05/09/fin…
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Global #blockchain #payments platform @circle, which operates #USDC, launches new suite of agent services, to put its leading #stablecoin at the heart of emerging #agentic #commerce uses - with focus on agent built applications & their usage micropayments. circle.com/pressroom/circ…
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