Daily brief
July 9, 2026
7 stories curated for this day.
- Starling Bank has launched expense cards and a team access tool for small business customers, enabling owners to delegate spending and share account visibility with team members. Sources: starlingbank (opens in a new tab)
- Xoom, a PayPal service, partners with Flutterwave to enable direct money transfers to bank accounts in Nigeria. Sources: flutterwave (opens in a new tab)
- Revolut is tightening its financial operations and compliance in Lithuania following reports that the country accounted for a large majority of its suspicious transactions. Sources: finextra (opens in a new tab)
- Cross-border payments infrastructure firm Nium has acquired Cypher, a crypto-native non-custodial wallet and issuing company. Sources: finextra (opens in a new tab)
- Volt launches stablecoin checkout for Profee, enabling USDC wallet top-ups for cross-currency money transfers. Sources: finextra (opens in a new tab)
- Monzo partners with ClearScore to launch a debt consolidation service for its UK customers. Sources: finextra (opens in a new tab)
- Kraken overhauled its Pro fee tiers to factor in assets held and futures volume, not just spot trading volume. Sources: kraken (opens in a new tab)