Tnw - Fintech and ecommerce # pt-br <![CDATA[After years of bleeding cash into a mobile network, Rakuten has finally clawed its way back to profit.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/rakuten-first-profit-six-years-ecommerce-fintech]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/06/Rakuten.avif <![CDATA[August 10, 2026 - 11:18 am]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:13:06]]> <![CDATA[TL;DRSouth Africa’s Reserve Bank and National Treasury have proposed banning companies from making cross-border stablecoin transfers, while leaving individual allowances of up to R2m intact. Exchanges including VALR and Luno have objected, with Luno signalling a possible legal challenge if Treasury bypasses parliament.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/south-africa-corporate-stablecoin-ban-exchange-control-backlash]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2013/08/south-africa.avif <![CDATA[August 8, 2026 - 10:53 am]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:13:06]]> <![CDATA[Etsy beat Wall Street on revenue, raised its outlook, and told investors it would buy back $2bn of its own shares. Then it said it was cutting 12% of its staff.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/etsy-12-percent-layoffs-restructuring-q2-2026]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/etsy-office-logo-overlay.avif <![CDATA[August 6, 2026 - 1:57 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:13:06]]> <![CDATA[Nik Storonsky wants a bigger slice of Revolut, and he has picked an ambitious price. The cofounder and chief executive is in talks over a new share award, the Financial Times reported. It would grow his stake if the fintech reaches a $500 billion valuation.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/nik-storonsky-revolut-500bn-share-award]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/Nik-Storonsky-Revolut.avif <![CDATA[August 6, 2026 - 11:47 am]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:13:06]]> <![CDATA[A businessman in Sussex watched £14,244 drain out of his Metro Bank account. The money went on credits for Claude, the AI chatbot he already paid to use. Two things failed at once. Criminals had turned a chatbot into a way to cash out stolen cards. And his bank spotted the first fraudulent charge, warned him, then let more than £14,000 more go through.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/metro-bank-claude-credits-fraud-14000-refund]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/06/anthropic-mythos-eu-enisa-cybersecurity-access.avif <![CDATA[August 4, 2026 - 6:03 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:13:06]]> <![CDATA[The AI memory shortage has reached the phone-shop counter. T-Mobile is rolling out financing that lets customers walk out with a new handset for nothing down. It does this by spreading not just the device but its taxes and fees over three years. The reason its executives give is unusually blunt: chips are getting dearer, and phones with them.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/t-mobile-eip-flex-36-financing-memory-shortage-phone-prices]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/t-mobile-executives-oppose-deutsche-telekom-merger.avif <![CDATA[August 4, 2026 - 5:43 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:13:06]]> <![CDATA[Two former Nubank executives have raised $85m to build an AI wealth adviser in Brazil. Their backers call it the largest seed round in Latin American history. The startup, Decade, came out of stealth on Tuesday with money from Greenoaks, Benchmark and Diffusion, and a striking promise: to create “a new generation of millionaires.”]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/decade-85m-seed-ai-wealth-brazil-nubank]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/08/Decade-founders.avif <![CDATA[August 4, 2026 - 2:10 pm]]> <![CDATA[12/08/2026 15:13:06]]>