March 12, 2026 @ 2:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

NatWest Group is increasing its focus to spur economic expansion across the UK through targeted support for midsized companies and emerging entrepreneurs. Recent initiatives announced on 10 March 2026 highlight the bank’s focus on regional leadership and innovation, reinforcing its “Growing Together” strategy to back… Read More

 Tagged investments, natwest, startups, uk, united kingdom

March 12, 2026 @ 1:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) shared that the research arm of Hong Kong’s financial academy has launched an analysis shedding light on the transformative potential within the family office segment of the wealth industry. Released this month, the Applied Research publication from the Hong… Read More

 Tagged asia, hkma, hong kong, research, wealth

March 11, 2026 @ 8:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

An analysis from Experian’s automotive division underscores how subprime borrowers are carving out a bigger role in the vehicle financing landscape, even as affordability pressures persist across the industry. The company’s latest State of the Automotive Finance Market Report for the fourth quarter of 2025… Read More

 Tagged data, experian, financing, research

March 11, 2026 @ 3:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Global financial technology provider Airwallex has posted another year of explosive growth in Singapore, reporting 107 percent revenue expansion for fiscal year 2025. This now reportedly marks the second straight year of triple-digit increases, underscoring the city-state’s role as a strategic hub for the company’s… Read More

 Tagged airwallex, apac, fintech, payments, singapore

March 11, 2026 @ 12:07 pm By Tony Zerucha  |  

This week, Sutherland launched Sutherland FinAI Hub, an enterprise Agentic AI platform built for banking and financial services. As financial institutions accelerate AI adoption, many initiatives remain confined to pilots, unable to scale across legacy systems and core operations. Sutherland FinAI Hub is designed to… Read More

 Tagged AI agent, Banwari Agarwal, Doug Gilbert, FinAI Hub, Sutherland

March 11, 2026 @ 11:44 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

RedStone, a DeFi oracle network, has launched its enterprise-grade oracle infrastructure on the Stellar network, introducing a data layer needed to support lending markets, decentralized exchanges, derivatives, and tokenized real-world assets. Stellar processes nearly six million operations daily and powers global payment infrastructure for Circle,… Read More

 Tagged Marcin Kazmierczak, oracle, raja chakravorti, redstone, stellar

March 11, 2026 @ 11:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK Finance has released analyses underscoring the evolving landscape of Britain’s payments system. One focuses on designing better access to core infrastructure, while the other examines real-world cash usage on high streets. Together, they highlight the need for inclusive, efficient, and resilient payment options that… Read More

 Tagged insights, payments, uk finance, united kingdom

March 11, 2026 @ 10:08 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

CommerceIQ, a retail AI platform, has launched a suite of AI agents designed to help brands move beyond dashboard-driven e-commerce management to continuous, AI-powered execution across sales, digital shelf, content, and retail media. The platform deploys AI agents to handle repetitive, high-volume operational tasks that… Read More

 Tagged AI Agents, CommerceIQ, Guru Hariharan, Nick Hammitt

March 11, 2026 @ 10:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Circle (NYSE:CRCL) has introduced Nanopayments on its testnet, marking a pivotal advancement in the infrastructure supporting autonomous AI-driven economies. This innovative payment system functions as the essential backbone for what is being called the agentic economy, where intelligent software agents conduct financial exchanges at a… Read More

 Tagged circle, digital transactions, payments, product update

March 11, 2026 @ 9:26 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

Jazz, a company turning data loss prevention (DLP) into an intelligence system, has emerged from stealth with $61 million in Seed and Series A funding. The rounds were led by Glilot Capital Partners and Team8, with participation from Ten Eleven Ventures (1011vc), Merlin Ventures, Encoded… Read More

 Tagged data loss prevention, funding round, Ido Livneh, Jake Tuertskey, jazz, Liran Grinberg, Noam Issachar, Yonatan Zohar