September 25, 2026 @ 9:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Swedish open banking company Trustly is reducing its workforce by about a quarter, eliminating roughly 200 positions worldwide as it tries to simplify its structure and put more money behind a smaller set of priorities. The company, based in Stockholm, employs more than 800 people… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A group of the UK’s largest banking institutions has moved tokenised bank money out of laboratory tests and into actual customer activity, completing the first live retail transactions using digital representations of ordinary sterling deposits. The work sits inside the Great British Tokenized Deposit programme,… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut has become entangled in another customer-data scare after a security incident at US brokerage partner DriveWealth. The event is separate from an earlier September episode at Revolut itself. This time, the exposure occurred on DriveWealth’s systems, not inside Revolut’s own infrastructure. DriveWealth… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 9:01 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has called on EU policymakers to consider bringing crypto-asset lending within the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation as part of a wider review of the bloc’s digital asset rulebook. In its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation, published on 24… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 2:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

MyComplianceOffice (MCO), a specialist in compliance software for financial firms, has secured more than $100 million in growth financing from Accel-KKR Credit Partners. The capital is intended to fund product work, artificial intelligence projects, and a larger technology staff as banks and asset managers look… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 12:12 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut is taking what appears to be a distinctly conservative path on credit even as it builds out a full banking presence in more countries. Rather than following the traditional model of recycling large volumes of customer deposits into loans, the fintech intends to keep… Read More

September 25, 2026 @ 12:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Two financial groups in East Asia have completed a proof-of-concept exercise designed to show how stablecoins might one day support institutional payments between Japan and South Korea without routing money through the US dollar. SBI Digital Practice, a subsidiary of Japan’s SBI Holdings (TYO: 8473)… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 6:08 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube, a leading online investment platform in the UK and Europe, says secondaries have quickly become a significant part of its business. According to a blog post, Crowdcube reports that £543 million in PISCES secondaries are in the pipeline. In total, including the PISCES listings,… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 5:41 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Fintech founders who built one of Europe’s open banking platforms Tink have stepped back into the startup arena with a very different problem in mind: the constant work of staying compliant. Daniel Kjellén and Fredrik Hedberg founded Stockholm-based Tink in 2012 and spent a… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 5:26 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Galaxy Digital (NASDAQ: GLXY) has placed $100 million of Sky Protocol’s yield-bearing savings token, sUSDS, onto its corporate balance sheet and opened the asset as eligible collateral across its institutional trading and lending platform. The allocation was funded from Galaxy’s own cash and stablecoin reserves,… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 5:22 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s roughly 10% advance through September 2026 has put the largest cryptocurrency on course for three straight monthly gains, a July-to-September run last recorded in 2012. July finished higher, August delivered a sharp rebound, and September has so far stayed in the green after bitcoin… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 5:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) has published a new research paper examining how artificial intelligence and digital assets are starting to reinforce one another. Titled, The Machine-Native Economy, the note from the firm’s digital-assets team argues that widespread AI adoption could become an underappreciated source of demand… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 1:35 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crowdcube has just listed an offering of shares in Veremark, a screening and background-check firm that supports employers. According to the offering page, Veremark is offering shares at £6.34. The Series B funding round in February valued the company at about $100 million and raised… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 12:12 pm By JD Alois  |  

Anchorage Digital says it now offers Bitcoin staking to Bitcoin holders. Anchorage Digital is a federally regulated bank with a mission to support the digital asset sector. Bitcoin staking is its newest service, enabling clients to stake BTC held at Anchorage and benefit from staking… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 11:39 am By JD Alois  |  

The Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA) has adopted a policy objective to ask the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to “deliberately compare exemptions” and avoid a “disjointed patchwork of regulations.” The new “Presumptive Parity” advocacy was distributed by the CfPA board of directors this week. The… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 10:23 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jamie Dimon, the longtime chief executive of JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), told an audience in India this week that outlays on artificial-intelligence infrastructure are on track to cross the $1 trillion mark in 2027. The remark, delivered on the sidelines of the bank’s annual India… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 10:06 am By JD Alois  |  

Crypto investment firm Keyrock has announced the launch of Keyrock Securities, a subsidiary that supports tokenized securities and institutional derivatives. According to a release, Keyrock Securities is a dealer registered in the Cayman Islands via the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority under the Securities Investment Business… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 9:45 am By JD Alois  |  

Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) could be considered one of the largest Fintechs in the world due to its massive install base and its popular wallet features. One of Apple’s services pays interest on a savings account managed by partner Goldman Sachs. This week, Apple notified savings account… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 9:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) research suggests that familiar banking-style safeguards could sharply lift US consumer interest in stablecoins, even though most Americans still know little about the category. The payments company released its Money Travels 2026 report on September 23, 2026. The US portion of the… Read More

September 24, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin’s (BTC) latest rebound has cleared several cost-basis hurdles that capped the market through much of 2026, and on-chain researchers at Glassnode now frame the $95,000–$97,000 band as the first genuine stress test if the advance continues. The firm notes that BTC price has moved… Read More