April 15, 2026 @ 1:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The British Business Bank has strengthened its backing for the agricultural sector by providing an additional £10 million in Tier 2 capital to specialist lender Oxbury Bank. This latest injection raises the total Tier 2 facility to £35 million, building directly on an initial £25… Read More

 Tagged british business bank, lending, oxbury, uk, united kingdom

April 15, 2026 @ 12:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Funding Circle (LSE: FCH) has noted that the UK is pushing forward with its national growth agenda and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) stand ready to invest, expand, and innovate following years of economic uncertainty. Yet traditional high-street banks have continued to limit lending, widening… Read More

 Tagged funding circle, lending, sme's, uk, united kingdom

April 14, 2026 @ 10:36 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PitchBook’s Emerging Tech Research team released its Q1 2026 Fintech & Payments Public Comp Sheet and Valuation Update recently, painting a rather sobering picture of the public payments ecosystem. Despite carrying considerable momentum into the new year, publicly traded fintech and payments companies shed roughly… Read More

 Tagged ai, fintech, payments, research

April 14, 2026 @ 11:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Financial services firms are charging ahead with artificial intelligence and digital transformation efforts, but a new KPMG analysis underscores that true progress hinges on proper underlying systems rather than speed alone. The KPMG Global Tech Report 2026: Financial services related insights, drawn from a worldwide… Read More

 Tagged ai, artificial intelligence, financial services, insights, research

April 14, 2026 @ 8:29 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Meta (Facebook) (NASDAQ:META) is reportedly considering significant staff cuts that could affect at least 20% of its employees. According to unnamed insiders who shared insights with Reuters, the specifics—such as the exact schedule—remain undecided. A company representative dismissed the claims, describing them as “hypothetical speculation on… Read More

 Tagged ai, fintech, layoffs, meta, us, Web3

April 14, 2026 @ 2:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Consumers are trying to adapt to higher living costs through value-seeking behaviors, curbing spending, and budget reallocation, according to insights from EY. This, as long‑term financial anxiety deepens. Just how much this financial stress is affecting US consumers is still unclear due in part to… Read More

 Tagged cost of living crisis, ey, inflation, research, spending

April 14, 2026 @ 1:05 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Finastra has announced a strategic partnership with Marketnode to digitize and automate the onboarding of credit agreements for corporate lenders. The collaboration brings together Marketnode’s LLM- and AI‑powered intelligent document automation and Finastra’s Loan IQ platform via the Loan IQ Nexus Build module. It enables financial institutions… Read More

 Tagged automation, Digitization, finastra, marketnode, onboarding

April 13, 2026 @ 10:49 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK based cross-border payments Fintech Wise (LON:WISE) is set to complete its long-anticipated move of its primary stock market listing from London to the United States in May, marking a significant milestone for the fintech company. The shift, which will see the firm establish its… Read More

 Tagged payments, uk, us, wise

April 13, 2026 @ 7:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance noted that the ongoing battle against financial crime has become more challenging because artificial intelligence has emerged as a powerful weapon (but for both sides). A recent analysis from UK Finance underscores a critical shift where fraudsters are now harnessing AI to outpace… Read More

 Tagged ai, fraud, scams, uk finance, united kingdom

April 13, 2026 @ 3:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The US Federal Reserve has introduced a public consultation on a regulatory update that would open its FedNow real-time payments platform to international transfers for the first time. FedNow, which began operations in 2023, functions as a high-speed interbank settlement network designed for instant domestic… Read More

 Tagged federal reserve, fednow, instant payments, us