Anti-money laundering, or AML, might look the same from the outside, but inside, it behaves very differently. The work at a private bank does not transfer cleanly to a fintech serving payment processors or to a consumer lending platform. In short, th…
Instant payments are moving from a regulatory requirement to everyday financial infrastructure. In short, the question is no longer whether SEPA Instant is coming. It is already here. What matters now is how it actually changes the way businesses mov…
Written by Karine Martinez, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Wallester In the world of corporate payments, cards are often reduced to little more than a commodity. But Karine Martinez, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Wallester, makes a compelling…
What our CRM team hears week after week is rarely just a question of whether Wallester Business can do something. The questions are usually more practical: how to use the platform properly, what to put on cards, how many cards to issue, and how to or…
Not all SMEs are managing for the same outcome. Some are still building for growth and others are already defending margin. That divide runs clearly through Wallester’s Corporate Spending Outlook 2026, which surveyed SMEs on their priorities and chal…
Last December, Visa Innovation Programme Europe launched its first Nordics & Baltics initiative, with the idea of bringing together a new cohort of regional fintechs focused on B2B payments and financial infrastructure. The process began with 81…
On 14 May, Wallester’s HQ at Golden Gate Business Centre in Tallinn hosted the 4th edition of John Galt Forum, a founder-focused event themed around F*ckup & Success Stories, organised by John Galt Finance together with Baltic Business Club as th…
More than six in ten European small and mid-sized businesses operate across multiple countries. Half also say entering new markets is their biggest strategic priority in 2026. But when it comes to how they actually manage spending, many are still rel…
Danielle Coimbra started out in journalism in Brasília, where her early work ranged from government radio and online reporting to health and wellbeing magazines in both digital and print. She later moved into PR in Brazil, handling communications wor…
For most SaaS platforms and marketplaces, payments are still treated as a cost. There are several reasons for this. Mainly, processing fees go out. But reconciliation also takes time, and finance teams deal with the admin in the background. Too often…
There is a moment when a new category of spend stops being something companies experiment with. One way to recognise that moment is to take a look at the balance sheet and flag what has started regularly appearing on it over, let’s say, a yearly peri…
Written by Karine Martinez, Head of Strategic Partnerships at Wallester Corporate finance teams spend their days inside ERP and accounting platforms, because that is where so many workflows live. There are budgets, approvals, reconciliation, reportin…
New data from the Global Payments Report 2026 puts hard numbers behind a shift most people in payments have been sensing for a while, and that’s the steady rise of digital wallets. Yes, cards are still holding their ground. For example, in 2025, 49%…
Karine Martinez has spent twenty years in financial services across two countries and two very different disciplines. She started in wealth management, building investment cases, managing client portfolios, running cross-asset allocation strategies a…
On 22 April, Wallester hosted Devclub for the third time at its Tallinn HQ. What started as a first-ever external tech event in February has now become a regular fixture, an evening where the local tech community comes together to share ideas, challe…
Wallester has become a member of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the oldest and largest representative organisation for entrepreneurs in Estonia. The Chamber was founded in 1925 and re-established in 1989. Today, it has more than 3,500…
Written by Edouard Roca, Head of Business Development at Wallester. Last month, JP Morgan published its five payments trends to watch in 2026. Embedded finance made the list, alongside AI agents, blockchain, and real-time treasury. When one of the wo…
B2B card payment volumes will grow from $5.9 trillion in 2026 to $10.9 trillion in 2030, according to new Juniper Research data. That is 85% growth in four years. Over the same period, the broader B2B payments market is forecast to grow by 17%. …
