October 3, 2026 @ 3:36 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Capitolis to acquire eSecLending in $200M, all-cash deal eSecLending is an independent securities lending business working with large asset owners, including pension funds, insurance companies, and asset managers, to lend securities to major global banks. The acquisition lets Capitolis add securities lending as a complementary… Read More

 Tagged AI Agents, Ascerta, Autoheal, capitolis, elio mortgage, eseclending, Walapay

October 3, 2026 @ 10:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Barclays (NYSE: BCS) is widening its partnership with Anthropic, bringing the Claude family of models deeper into day-to-day work across the British universal bank. The October 1, 2026 announcement frames the move as an effort to place secure, enterprise-grade systems throughout global operations, with particular… Read More

 Tagged Anthropic, barclays, claude, uk, united kingdom

October 2, 2026 @ 6:33 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

Yellow Card expands into Canada Nigeria-founded Yellow Card, a stablecoin infrastructure provider, enables banks, fintechs, and multinational businesses to access US dollars, manage treasury, and move money across borders. Remita app unifies bank apps Remita has launched a new, improved app that unifies multiple bank… Read More

 Tagged connexpay, el salvador, fiserv, kyriba, mastercard, Sivar, trulioo, yellow card

October 2, 2026 @ 8:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zilch, the London-founded consumer credit fintech, has taken a concrete step toward going public by inviting investment banks to compete for advisory roles on a possible stock market debut as early as 2027. The move, reported in late September 2026, would represent a notable boost… Read More

 Tagged ipos, london, uk, united kingdom, zilch

October 2, 2026 @ 2:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Apple Pay from Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has arrived in India after a long wait, opening a narrow but high-profile lane into one of the world’s busiest digital-payments markets. From 30 September 2026, eligible Axis Bank Visa and Mastercard credit cards can be added to Apple… Read More

 Tagged apple pay, e-commerce, india, payments

October 2, 2026 @ 1:20 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Trading Technologies International has completed the purchase of TRAFiX, a New York–based specialist in equities and equity-options order and execution management. The deal, announced and closed on September 30, 2026, is intended to close a long-standing gap in TT’s product set and move the Chicago… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, trading technologies, trafix

October 2, 2026 @ 12:56 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Visa (NYSE: V) and Lloyds Banking Group have finished a week-long live experiment in using stablecoins for institutional settlement, showing that funds can move across borders far more quickly than on conventional rails—even when banks are closed. The trial, announced on 30 September 2026, is… Read More

 Tagged archax, lloyds bank, payments, stablecoins, uk, visa

October 2, 2026 @ 12:47 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Capitolis has agreed to purchase eSecLending in a $200 million all-cash deal, a move that adds securities lending to the fintech firm’s platform and widens its reach among the world’s largest asset owners. Announced on September 29, 2026, the transaction would combine Capitolis’s financial-resource optimization… Read More

 Tagged acquisition, capitolis, eseclending, lending

October 2, 2026 @ 12:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

ABN AMRO Bank (ABN.AS) and Infosys (NYSE: INFY) have agreed to extend their long-running technology partnership, with a sharper focus on simplifying the Dutch lender’s IT environment and spreading artificial intelligence more widely across the organization. The announcement, issued on 30 September 2026, frames the… Read More

 Tagged abn amro, banking, infosys, netherlands

October 1, 2026 @ 6:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Miami-based Fintech Jeeves has closed a $110 million equity round to grow its stablecoin-native banking platform for companies that operate across borders. CoinFund led the financing, with AllianceBernstein, Andreessen Horowitz, Coinbase Ventures, CRV, GIC, Global PayTech Ventures, ParaFi, Vista, Wintermute, Y Combinator and additional backers… Read More

 Tagged funding round, jeeves, miami, stablecoins