European Central Bank (ECB) Considers Linking Europe’s Instant Payments to Brazil’s Pix

The European Central Bank (ECB) is examining a possible connection between its TARGET Instant Payment Settlement platform, known as TIPS, and Brazil’s Pix system. If the work advances, the link would be the first major cross-border expansion of Pix and one of several corridors the… Read More

Stablecoins, Crypto Dominate Digital Assets Thoughts of the Week

Stablecoin consortium “Twenty-one banks backing a stablecoin is the clearest sign yet that the growth in blockchain rails is coming from TradFi now, not crypto. Nobody’s debating whether public chains work for settlement anymore, just who gets to own the issuer. “The real losers here… Read More

Russian BNPL Fintech Investors File $100 Million Treaty Claim Against Uzbekistan

Russian investors behind a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) platform have started international arbitration against Uzbekistan, arguing that a commercial joint venture with a state-owned bank collapsed into coercion, expropriation and the detention of a local executive. Counsel for Solfy RUS LLC and its shareholder Maksim Poletaev say… Read More

OpenPayd Gains US Money Transmitter Licenses via MSB USA Integration

OpenPayd has taken a step forward into the United States by folding MSB USA Inc. into its group, bringing 43 state money transmitter licenses under one corporate structure. The London-based financial infrastructure firm said the deal, completed after the necessary regulatory approvals, gives it a… Read More

In-App Payments : X Money Expands Coverage for US Accounts

X Money just widened its gates. The official account posted that the in-app payments product is now open to every Premium and Premium+ subscriber whose X account is marked as American. Users are told to tap the Money tab in the sidebar and begin. That… Read More

Digital Hawala : Informal Money Networks are Reportedly Using Crypto and Fintech to Hide Billions

Informal money-transfer systems such as hawala have grown more organised and now lean heavily on digital tools to hide criminal proceeds, a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report concludes. Drawing on information from about 45 countries and organisations, including Pakistan and India, the Paris-based body… Read More

Tokenized Payments : TD Bank Trials Atomic Settlement via Project Agorá

Toronto-Dominion Bank (NYSE: TD) has completed a live tokenized payment exercise on the Project Agorá platform, joining a broader international effort to modernize wholesale cross-border transfers while keeping settlement inside the regulated banking system. The trial moved tokenized funds between TD’s New York branch, operating… Read More

Switzerland’s Incore Bank Pilots Agentic AI to Enhance Digital Onboarding and Automate Risk Checks

Incore Bank has completed a proof-of-concept project that explores how agentic artificial intelligence can speed digital customer onboarding while automating large parts of the risk-assessment process. The trial, conducted with technology services firm Kyndryl and Google Cloud, used Google’s Gemini models together with Kyndryl’s agentic… Read More

Euroclear and HSBC to Launch AutoFX Ahead of Europe’s T+1 Shift

Euroclear and HSBC (NYSE: HSBC) have unveiled a partnership to introduce AutoFX, an automated foreign-exchange service aimed at helping securities-market participants handle the shift to shorter settlement cycles in Europe and the United Kingdom. The two organisations said the offering will fold currency conversion and… Read More

Revolut Obtains Conditional OCC Approval for US National Bank Charter

Revolut has taken a major step toward operating as a fully licensed bank in the United States. On September 3, 2026, the company said the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted preliminary conditional approval for a national bank charter that would allow… Read More

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