Dear Subscriber,

In today’s newsletter we take a closer look at how Apple’s decision to open up Siri and iMessages to third parties affects fintech companies, with challenger bank N26 already rolling out voice-activated and in-message payments.

Elsewhere in the newsletter, Swedish payments giant Klarna continues to grow its footprint in the UK shopping market, signing a major new deal with fashion retail group Arcadia to let online shoppers ‘buy now, pay later’, and we see just how much you remember about some Payment Acronyms!

Enjoy!

Digital challenger bank, N26, which has been live for one and a half years and has more than 200,000 customers, rolled out a new feature that allows its customers to transfer money using Siri. All they have to do is talk to it.

Swedish retail payments giant Klarna is teaming up with Arcadia to let shoppers buy goods and pay for them later.

Facebook is bringing payments inside its Messenger bot platform for the first time.