By Jeroen Dossche, Partner and Nick Paulussen, Executive Director Global Strategy - Capco Payments gave embedded finance its headline moment. Apple Pay reduced friction at checkout. Klarna made point-of-sale credit feel mainstream. That same logic is visible beyond payments: IKEA embeds financing directly into the home furnishing-buying journey without the customer ever “going to a bank”, while Tesla’s insurance model showed how protection can be embedded around the underlyin

The investors writing the cheques are the same credit unions watching members leave for Chime. That dynamic tells the real story behind Reset's seed round. Credit unions are losing members to neobanks at a measurable pace, and some are now betting their own capital that a Menlo Park startup can slow the bleed. Reset, an embedded earned wage access (EWA) platform designed specifically for credit unions and community banks, closed a $6 million seed round on June 8, 2026, bringi

Munich-based mobility fintech ryd has launched ryd fleet, a digital-first fleet payment operating system built with Mastercard, removing the physical fleet card from European commercial vehicle operations and replacing it with a tokenized virtual card that lives inside the driver's app and the vehicle's infotainment system. The product went live on 21 May 2026 and targets a European fleet card base that stood at roughly 6.7 million cards in 2023, according to MarketGrowthRepo

NMI has acquired Dwolla in a deal that lifts the combined business to roughly $700 billion in annual transaction volume and hands the embedded payments provider a ready-made account-to-account (A2A) infrastructure layer. Announced on 19 May 2026, the transaction is NMI's sixth acquisition since 2021 and signals an aggressive bid to own the "sign-up to payout" stack as merchants accelerate their move away from card rails. Financial terms were not disclosed. The Schaumburg, Ill