Rob Fernandes

@mttjon @velocityxyz_ It's funny you should say that as I'm just about to launch my stablecoin infrastructure designed exclusively for depositing stablecoin platform Series A investments

@rob2775 @velocityxyz_ Is hard to figure out what’s new with all these stablecoin infrastructure raises!

London's @velocityxyz_ raises $38m Series A for its CFO friendly #stablecoin infrastructure platform - focussed on the treasury & global transfer/FX needs of enterprise #finance teams that count on speed, cost optimisation and institutional grade tech. velocity.xyz/blog-post/seri…

Another big #stablecoin Series A as @Cyclops_inc raise $20m for infrastructure offering focussed on needs of #payments platforms. The US / Austria #fintech was founded by team that sold #crypto #payment #startup to @Shift4. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Japan has seen a nationwide card #payment processing outage affecting #merchants & #transit during morning rush hour today. Echos of recent UK regulatory scrutiny of resilience of networks. No word yet on the cause. aa.com.tr/en/economy/nat…

The @FT again this morning perpetuating the common narrative that @Stripe is acquiring a consumer-facing checkout brand in the @PayPal deal. It shows how few people have visited LINK [dot] COM or followed @link. My insight on the real back story: linkedin.com/posts/robferna…

Spreedly, who pioneered the PSP and acquirer agnostic #payments orchestration and aggregation platform - is offering their scheme-tokenised vault fully standalone, to enable #merchants to even be orchestrator agnostic. prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

UK @hmtreasury publish consultation on modernising #payments law (PSRs). Includes delegating rule making to @TheFCA with things like SCA enforced on outcome basis rather than one-size fits all UX, plus enablers for #stablecoin & #agentic #payment adoption. gov.uk/government/con…

Happy UK #BNPL regulation day everyone! Something Klarna "asked for back in 2020" albeit after trying another route with campaigners who actually did the real pushing for a lot longer.😆@AliceRTapper

As first rumoured in February, @Stripe has made a take private bid for ailing @PayPal - with @adventintl, former @Worldpay_Global owner. The pair have $50bn funding committed from banks and have offered $53bn at a 25-30% premium. Monumental #payments deal. ft.com/content/3738e8…

The @bankofengland and @TheFCA have now brought @awscloud, @googlecloud, @MSCloud and @Oracle under their regulatory purview as part of managing critical third parties to the financial services industry. computerweekly.com/news/366645764…

February warning that @Klarna might not be complying with #Netherlands regulations has given way now to €500m class action by local consumer not-for-profit - citing inadequate creditworthiness checks, failure to publicise risks & poor handling of claims. nltimes.nl/2026/07/13/dut…

.@Revolut is bullish that their application to launch a US #bank, filed in March, will be complete and operational next year. Represents a significant maturity shift from a drawn out regulatory approval for UK #banking licence. tech.eu/2026/07/13/rev…

Founded by an ex @netflix #payments team, card killer NoPan (no more PANs) raise €7.2m seed for platform to help #merchants optimise #A2A and wallet #payments adoption such as Wero at scale. Single API to European wallets & ongoing UX, reliability focus. nopan.com/blog/nopan-rai…

Wholly unsurprising news that @Mastercard is exploring majority sale back to UK banks of @fasterpayments and @BacsUK operator @Vocalink. Amid mounting calls for #payments sovereignty, may be only way for Voca/MC to retain contract at early 2030's renewal. ft.com/content/111791…

Ahead of Monday report from new @hmtreasury digital markets taskforce, prediction that tokenising assets to run key financial markets on distributed ledgers could be worth up to £33bn boost to UK economy - but faces competition from the US, EU and Asia. ft.com/content/d4b379…

The Netherlands largest online retailer @bol_com secure authorisation for their own #payments entity: with plan to diversify and offer own payment tech to #merchants, as well as to establish own #BNPL offering. nltimes.nl/2026/07/07/reg…

Practical product roadmap thinking from @StarlingBank who roll out both motion and location sensitivity in their #mobile #banking app - motion to disable features if a suspected phone snatch occurs, location to limit where major A2A transfers can be made. finextra.com/newsarticle/48…

London #fintech Kord raises £6.4m Series A for their end to end #compliance and #payments platform for regulated, client-money oriented sectors - such as law, conveyancing, property & lending. UK rival @shieldpay already carved out niche for complex flows. tech.eu/2026/07/08/kor…

Latest plan from @Fiserv to arrest declining fortunes is to offload the 42 year old US debit card network STAR back to the banks - which they've owned since their go private deal in 2003. Largest domestic interbank #bank #payments network in the US. reuters.com/business/finan…

#Payments stakeholder group organised by #Australia central bank @RBAInfo today issued their vision for the future of account to account (#bank based) payments in the country. rba.gov.au/media-releases…