TLDR Fintech 2026-06-04

Apple is prepping an iPhone feature that will enable users to split bills by taking a photograph of a receipt. The feature will be unveiled next week when Apple introduces iOS 27. It will be available in the Wallet and Messages apps. Users will be able to take photos of receipts, assign items to different people, and generate payment requests. The tool can calculate a person's share of the bill, including the item cost, tax, and tip.

Visa invested in Replit as part of a broader push to embed payments infrastructure into AI-native software development environments. The companies are exploring ways for Replit developers and the agents they build to accept payments using Visa Intelligent Commerce and Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol. The partnership reflects the convergence of vibe coding, software creation, and agentic commerce, where developers can build, deploy, and monetize payment-enabled apps directly inside platforms like Replit.

Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO and could reach public markets before OpenAI, marking a major milestone in the race to commercialize frontier AI. The filing follows a massive funding round valuing Anthropic at $965 billion, reported revenue growth that may exceed a $50 billion annualized run rate by June, and growing enterprise adoption of Claude for coding, cybersecurity, and knowledge work. The IPO would give public investors direct exposure to one of the leading AI labs and signals that the AI industry is rapidly transitioning from venture-backed experimentation to public-market competition.

Wise shares fell more than 10% after Belgian prosecutors said they are investigating the company's European entity over potential money-laundering offences tied to more than €500 million in suspicious transactions. The probe is examining whether Wise Europe's services were used by criminal organizations linked to fraud, corruption, and drug trafficking. Wise said it is cooperating with Brussels prosecutors and continues to invest in compliance systems to combat increasingly sophisticated illicit activity.

Simon Taylor argues banks should treat stablecoins as an accretive infrastructure opportunity rather than a deposit-flight threat, especially for fiat on/off-ramps, correspondent banking replacement, and off-hours settlement. The key distinction is that tokenized deposits are “money that rests” inside bank walls, while stablecoins are “money that moves” across open platforms globally and 24/7. As banks like SoFi, Coastal, Standard Chartered, and Société Générale experiment with stablecoins and tokenized deposits, the likely end state is a complementary 24/7 money loop where banks monetize stablecoin flows instead of resisting them.

Deel, the global people platform trusted by 40,000+ businesses to hire, manage, and pay teams across 150+ countries, today launched the Deel stablecoin wallet for contractors.

Kry Livi, the UK's leading digital healthcare provider, today announced a new partnership with Klarna, the global digital bank and flexible payments provider, bringing on-demand clinical consultations to Klarna's UK members as digital-first healthcare continues to grow.

Mastercard is rolling out settlement support for a range of US stablecoins operating across multiple blockchain platforms. The extension of its settlement network will also include additional intraday, weekend, and holiday card settlement, supporting both fiat currencies and on-chain card settlement using regulated stablecoins.

At Gartner's Finance Symposium/Xpo 2026, CFO discussions shifted from basic AI adoption to measuring whether AI investments are producing real business performance gains. Gartner found that “efficient growth” companies are more likely to deploy AI across product innovation and customer-facing growth, not just back-office productivity. The message for finance leaders is that AI ROI increasingly depends on operating model design, enterprise-wide measurement, and disciplined capital allocation across tools, workflows, and token usage.

AI infrastructure has become the dominant theme in leveraged finance, with data centers, power, and chips creating massive capital needs while traditional M&A-driven debt issuance remains uneven. Recent activity includes more than $20 billion of US junk-bond issuance tied to AI facilities and a proposed $36 billion Apollo and Blackstone financing for Anthropic's infrastructure buildout. Goldman bankers expect AI financing demand to remain strong, but warn that as supply grows, borrowers that miss execution targets could face higher capital costs.

For much of the last decade, fintech success was driven by product innovation.

Foreign exchange infrastructure company OpenFX is to acquire Dutch payment processor Embed, marking its first regulated presence in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom.