Banks strike back: the tokenized-deposit counterattack on stablecoins
For two years the narrative ran one way. Stablecoins were the insurgents,…
TrueLayer Acquires Dutch FinTech in3 to Bring Credit to Pay by Bank
TrueLayer, Europe's leading Pay by Bank network, has acquired in3,…
Paypercut Raises EUR 5M Seed Round to Scale CEE Payments Platform
Paypercut, a European fintech payments platform, has raised a EUR 5 million…
Saudi Vision 2030: Banking Transformation Progress Report
A candid progress report on Saudi Arabia's banking transformation - digital bank licensing, the cashless economy, open banking under SAMA, and PIF-backed fintech ventures.…
Islamic Finance and AI: Opportunities and Sharia Compliance Challenges
How AI intersects with Sharia compliance - from automated screening to sukuk structuring and ethical investment screening - and where it collides with Islamic finance governance.…
Hong Kong's Digital Asset Clearing Center raises US$10m to build tokenised settlement rails
The plumbing of cross-border settlement is becoming a contested frontier for tokenised…
Enfuce installs Mårten Mickos as chairman of its regulated EMI as resilience scrutiny mounts
As European supervisors sharpen their focus on the operational resilience of the…
Stablecoins are no longer a why question for banks. The hard part is operating them
The interesting question about stablecoins is no longer whether they are useful.…
TikTok pursues Brazil banking licence and a UK Visa card, signalling a push into embedded finance
A social platform applying for a banking licence is the kind of…
Circle pushes beyond USDC with Arc, an institutional blockchain backed by a $222m presale
The significance of Circle's latest move is not the headline…
Eisen banks $18.5m to close the dormant-asset compliance gap
Escheatment is one of the least glamorous obligations in financial services, and…
LendingClub becomes Happen Bank as a marketplace lender finishes its turn into a deposit bank
One of the original US marketplace lenders is dropping the word that…