October 29, 2026 @ 3:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) latest quarterly results underscore accelerating artificial intelligence adoption across its cloud platform, with particular relevance for financial technology applications that demand secure, scalable compute. On Wednesday, the company delivered first-quarter figures for fiscal 2027 that surpassed analyst forecasts, prompting shares to rise… Read More

 Tagged ai development, artificial intelligence, mfst, microsoft, satya nadella

October 29, 2026 @ 12:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

A recent research report reports that in the first 9 months of 2026, the US saw 19 new Fintech unicorns, up from 4 in the same period in 2025. At the same time, Fintech funding rose 2% to $17.4 billion in the first three quarters… Read More

 Tagged research, tracxn

October 29, 2026 @ 11:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The tokenized equity market has reached roughly $3.84 billion as shares of major U.S. companies migrate onto public blockchains. Coinbase’s (NASDAQ: COIN) Base layer-2 network now hosts representations of Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and other large-cap names, issued under its B20 token standard and backed… Read More

 Tagged base, carlos domingo, coinbase, okxice, securitize, tokenization

October 29, 2026 @ 8:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut Mexico has begun introducing payroll portability, a feature that enables customers to redirect their salary deposits to the digital bank and treat it as their primary account. The UK-headquartered Fintech firm, which secured a full local banking license and launched operations earlier in 2026,… Read More

 Tagged digital bank, latam, mexico, payroll, revolut

October 29, 2026 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s digital bank Monzo has officially entered the Spanish market, marking its first major expansion onto the European continent outside the UK and Ireland. The London-headquartered fintech, which has grown into one of the UK’s leading neobanks since its founding in 2015, announced the launch… Read More

 Tagged digital bank, monzo, spain, uk

October 29, 2026 @ 4:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Hong Kong-based payments firm RedotPay is weighing a private submission of its U.S. initial public offering paperwork before the close of 2026, according to people familiar with the discussions. The move comes after prolonged internal reviews and efforts to address regulatory questions that have shaped… Read More

 Tagged initial public offering, ipos, redotpay, us

October 29, 2026 @ 2:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

A substantial majority of travel intermediaries view foreign exchange expenses as a significant operational hurdle, yet relatively few maintain precise records of these outlays, according to industry research shared by Fintech firm Modulr. According to the latest insights from Modulr, this gap in visibility raises… Read More

 Tagged fx, modulr, uk, united kingdom

October 28, 2026 @ 9:11 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Bank of England has required an external examination of the procedures Revolut uses to clear new financial products, according to reporting by the Financial Times. The central bank’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) issued a section 166 order earlier this year, shortly after the fintech obtained… Read More

 Tagged bank of england, digital bank, revolut, uk, united kingdom

October 28, 2026 @ 8:47 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Anurag Gurtu’s vision for Airrived is to give the best business minds easy access to, and full control over, artificial intelligence (AI) tools that help them reach their goals. And if that means you eventually do that without Airrived playing a major role, even better…. Read More

 Tagged Agenic Observability, agentic operating system, ai, Airrived, Anurag Gurtu

October 28, 2026 @ 8:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Stablecoin funded debit cards have crossed a key threshold: spending through them in a single recent month reached roughly $1.1 billion, already matching or exceeding the roughly $1.08 billion recorded across the entirety of 2024. This is not the launch of a new blockchain or… Read More

 Tagged Payment Cards, payments, research, stablecoins