Newsletter / Embedded Banking: Expensify goes European, Samsung launches the Galaxy Card Expensify launches its card in Europe with Marqeta, Samsung's Galaxy Card with Barclays, plus neobanks moving into BaaS and Tino Keller of Accountable. By Lars Markull / 28 Jul 2026
News / REA Card brings YouLend financing to Germany's offline merchants REA Card and YouLend launch embedded financing for German SMEs, with offers based on card revenue instead of bank credit checks. By Lars Markull / 27 Jul 2026
News / Expensify launches its card in Europe, with Marqeta as both processor and issuer Expensify launches its Visa Commercial Card in the UK and Europe, built entirely on Marqeta, with credit that cannot roll over past month-end. By Lars Markull / 23 Jul 2026
News / Samsung launches the Galaxy Card with Barclays, a co-branded card that does not go as far as the Apple Card Samsung's Galaxy Card is issued by Barclays and lives in Samsung Wallet. How it compares with the Apple Card, and why it counts as a co-brand. By Lars Markull / 23 Jul 2026
Newsletter / Embedded Payments: Unipaas takes childcare, plus Modulr, Visa and more Stripe and Advent's $53bn PayPal bid, Unipaas's childcare run, and Modulr's European push, in this week's embedded payments edition. By Lars Markull / 21 Jul 2026
News / JTL and YouLend bring embedded lending to German e-commerce merchants JTL and YouLend launch embedded lending for German e-commerce merchants, with same-day financing inside the JTL-Wawi ERP ecosystem. By Lars Markull / 20 Jul 2026
Newsletter / The Embedded Lending edition: Just Eat crosses €150m, Otto sellers get up to €5m The first embedded lending edition: Just Eat and YouLend cross €150m, Otto sellers get €5m through Banxware, plus Nicolas Kipp's hot takes. By Lars Markull / 14 Jul 2026
News / Otto Market Sellers Get Financing up to €5m Through Banxware Otto and Banxware bring seller financing up to €5m to Otto Market. How the deal works and why Otto builds payments but buys lending. By Lars Markull / 8 Jul 2026
Events / Embedded Lending: Hype or Reality? What 25 Practitioners Think 25 practitioners on embedded lending: why launches outpace adoption, what separates good platforms, and where data becomes the real edge. By Lars Markull / 8 Jul 2026
News / Just Eat Takeaway.com and YouLend cross € 150m in restaurant financing Just Eat Takeaway.com and YouLend have passed €150m in embedded financing to restaurants across seven European markets. By Lars Markull / 7 Jul 2026
Newsletter / How Fortnox and Squarespace built their finance stacks Two non-financial brands, two embedded finance playbooks: how Fortnox and Squarespace built cards, lending and accounts for their users. By Lars Markull / 7 Jul 2026
News / How Squarespace Built a Financial Stack for Its Merchants How Squarespace built Payments, Capital and Balance with Stripe, and why its embedded finance stack rolls out US first, Europe later. By Lars Markull / 6 Jul 2026
