Payments & Fintech Acquisitions in 2026

Rezolve Ai PLC (NASDAQ: RZLV) has acquired 100% of Reward (Reward Loyalty UK Limited) for $230 million in an all-cash transaction. The deal adds a profitable, scaled loyalty and commerce-media platform embedded across major banks and retailers, advancing Rezolve Ai's AI-commerce and payments strategy and providing immediate EBITDA-accretive revenue.

Wrisk Limited has acquired Atto, a real-time financial intelligence platform that uses open banking to provide credit scoring, income verification, affordability assessment and behavioural insight. The deal integrates Atto's decisioning capabilities into Wrisk's embedded finance and protection platform to enable more personalised, context-aware finance and insurance journeys for automotive OEMs and other enterprise partners; Atto will continue to operate as a dedicated product and team within Wrisk.

SUNRATE, a Singapore-headquartered payment and treasury management platform, has acquired an experienced payments team along with its acquiring systems and book of business to launch a new Global Acquiring business unit. The move expands SUNRATE's end-to-end payments stack — adding merchant acquiring, global card scheme connectivity, local payment methods, fraud and compliance capabilities — to serve cross-border eCommerce, online education, gaming, travel and retail clients.

Telos Labs, a Berkeley-based digital product studio focused on AI and fintech, has acquired Flourish Fi, a behavioral loyalty and financial-engagement platform. The deal brings Flourish's behavioral data models and engagement platform into Telos' AI and fintech practice, with Flourish co-founder Pedro Moura joining Telos as an Operating Partner to continue supporting existing clients.

Airwallex has acquired South Korea-based Paynuri Co. Ltd., securing local payment gateway, prepaid electronic payment instrument licenses and a foreign exchange business registration to launch payments and FX services in Korea. The deal gives Airwallex a licensed foundation to introduce global business accounts and payment acquiring locally as it expands its Korea team and broader Asia-Pacific footprint.

Remote has acquired Atlas, an expense management and corporate card platform built for distributed workforces, to embed expense, card and employee financial tooling into Remote’s global HR and payroll platform. Atlas’s AI-native approach to employee spending, global cards, stipend management and localized benefits (across markets such as the U.S., Mexico, Colombia and Argentina) will expand Remote’s product capabilities; financial terms were not disclosed.

Blockchain developer Polygon Labs acquired Toronto-based Sequence and Seattle-based Coinme in deals totaling more than $250 million to accelerate its stablecoin payments strategy. The purchases bring wallet and developer infrastructure (Sequence) together with fiat on-/off-ramps and US money-transmitter licenses (Coinme) to form an integrated Open Money Stack for on-chain payments.

SmartMoving, a Dallas-based operations and profitability platform for moving companies, has acquired Remedy Payments, an embedded payments provider for the moving and storage industry. The acquisition brings Remedy’s payments infrastructure into SmartMoving’s core platform for deeper integration, improved cash flow and streamlined invoicing; Remedy’s CEO Alex Dimitracopoulos will join SmartMoving’s executive team.

Solutions by Text (SBT) has acquired Triple Play Pay (TPP) to expand its FinText payments and embedded commerce capabilities, combining SBT's compliance-first conversational commerce with TPP's payment orchestration and PayFac onboarding capabilities. The deal (terms undisclosed) adds ACH, card, and mobile wallet acceptance, faster merchant onboarding, fraud and transaction monitoring, and enhanced reporting to SBT's platform to accelerate embedded payments for consumer finance customers.

Flutterwave has acquired Mono, a Lagos-based open banking infrastructure provider, to deepen its bank-based and authenticated payment capabilities across African markets. Mono will continue to operate independently while its APIs for financial data access, identity verification, and account-to-account payments are integrated into Flutterwave's payments ecosystem to improve onboarding, reduce fraud, and enable richer bank-enabled payment flows.