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Mollie has signed an agreement to acquire GoCardless, a UK-based bank payment company that offers solutions for businesses to collect recurring and one-off payments directly from customer bank accounts using direct debit and open banking. The terms of the deal were not revealed, but reports… Read More
Read more in: Fintech, Global | Tagged acquisition, EU, gocardless, merger, mollie, netherlands, payments, uk
As major jurisdictions across the globe continue exploring the feasibility and effectiveness of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), 2025 has seen a notable shift in emphasis from relatively early retail-payment pilots toward broader infrastructure, cross-border initiatives as well as strategic policy objectives. For the United… Read More
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets, Fintech, Global, Strategy | Tagged cbdcs, central bank, digital currency, uk, uk finance
Zilch, a payments platform, says that it has secured a payments services license from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Zilch states that the licensing marks a key milestone for them, removing the reliance on third-parties and “enabling the business to build payments methods in-house, develop… Read More
Read more in: Fintech, Global | Tagged fca, payments, uk, visa, zilch
CoinGecko has noted that meme coins have again emerged as the most popular crypto narrative this year, capturing a total of 25.02% of global investor interest across the main meme coin category as well as 35 meme coin trends. According to the report from CoinGecko,… Read More
Read more in: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Digital Assets, Global | Tagged Crypto Adoption, crypto tokens, crypto trading, insights, meme coins, research
DTCC, the market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, and Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) announced the release of their latest research findings on 24×5 trading, entitled “The Shift to 24×5 Trading: What It Means for U.S. Equity Markets.” The report details the… Read More
Read more in: Fintech, General News, Global | Tagged digitalization, dtcc
Virtus Investment Partners, Inc. (NYSE: VRTS), which operates a multi-manager asset management business, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority interest in Keystone National Group, an investment manager specializing in asset-centric private credit and a pioneer in providing such strategies… Read More
Read more in: Global | Tagged investments, keystone, rbc capital markets, virtus investment partners
DUAL Group announced a partnership with CyberCube, a provider of cyber risk analytics, to enhance its cyber underwriting capabilities and deliver value to brokers and clients. With cyber risk as one of the key challenges facing businesses right now, DUAL is taking a stance by… Read More
Read more in: Global, Insurtech | Tagged cybercube, dual, insurance technology, insurtech, underwriting
Tether Investments has recently announced an investment in Generative Bionics, the spinoff of IIT (the Italian Institute of Technology) and one of the largest research spinoffs in Europe, in order to support the development of intelligent humanoid robots built for industrial scale performance, human-centric interaction… Read More
Read more in: Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & Digital Assets, Global | Tagged robotics, tether
The EY US AI Pulse Survey finds many leaders are channeling productivity gains from artificial intelligence into existing and new AI capabilities, R&D, cybersecurity and retraining employees rather than reducing headcount. While an increasing number of companies announce AI-related layoffs and concerns mount about more… Read More
Read more in: Artificial Intelligence, Global, Strategy | Tagged ai, artificial intelligence, ey, insights, survey, workforce
ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, announces its partnership with Finseta plc , a foreign exchange and payments solutions company, to deliver agency banking services supporting GBP and multi-currency (MCCY) accounts. Under this partnership, Finseta will leverage ClearBank’s virtual IBAN tech in… Read More
Read more in: Fintech, Global | Tagged clearbank, finseta, uk, united kingdom
Digital assets platform Kraken has recently announced a new deal that further builds out their offering for institutions engaging in latency-sensitive trading strategies. Avelacom, a provider of ultra-low-latency network solutions, is now providing high-performance connectivity to their matching engine. This integration gives trading firms the… Read More
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets, Global, Investment Platforms and Marketplaces | Tagged avelacom, Crypto Adoption, digital assets, kraken, Web3
Malaysia will intensify efforts to enter new markets in Europe, Latin America and Africa to boost trade and strengthen its position as a competitive trading nation, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Sunday, according to state news agency Bernama. Speaking at the closing ceremony of… Read More
ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, recently announced a channel partnership with Plaid, a data network that serves as the analytics layer for financial services. This collab will reportedly aim to deliver faster, and frictionless Pay by Bank experiences for businesses and… Read More
Read more in: Fintech, Global | Tagged clearbank, open banking, payments, plaid, uk
As Bank of Ireland concludes its 2023–2025 corporate strategy, the Bank today confirmed it is financing the construction of approximately 25,000 homes nationwide through debt and equity funding. Construction is underway at over 240 sites across the country, with projects spanning listed builders as well… Read More
Read more in: Global, Real Estate | Tagged bank of ireland, europe, financing, lending
Worldline [Euronext: WLN], a European enabler of payment services, announces the contemplated divestment of PaymentIQ, a payment orchestration platform, to Incore Invest for an estimated cash proceeds at closing of c.€160m. The intended disposal of PaymentIQ marks yet another step in Worldline’s so-called strategic refocus… Read More
Read more in: Fintech, Global | Tagged divestment, paymentiq, payments, worldline
Australia’s labor market remains fairly resilient, with wages now said to be ticking higher and job growth steady, according to Commonwealth Bank’s Wage & Labor Insights report. The report draws on de-identified salary flows from about 400,000 CBA accounts to offer an early snapshot of… Read More
Read more in: Global | Tagged australia, commbank, insights, jobs, research
2025 was an important year in anti-money laundering and financial crime regulation, and 2026 is set to bring even more challenges and complexity for financial institutions. This, according to Fenergo’s insights which were obtained from professionals that had discussed various upcoming regulatory trends and had… Read More
Read more in: Global, Opinion, Regtech & Legaltech | Tagged ai, compliance, fenergo, insights, regtech
Santander (NYSE: SAN) recently released the report, entitled, ‘The Currency of Learning: Global Perspectives on Financial Education.’ This latest research report, based on a survey of 20,000 individuals that are now residing in 10 different countries, reveals how the gap between “perception and actual knowledge… Read More
Read more in: Fintech, Global | Tagged financial literacy, investing, research, santander, savings, survey
Elliptic is unveiling its next-generation Data and Intelligence Platform, purpose-built to meet the rapidly growing digital asset industry. Elliptic’s intelligence data indicates that crypto transaction and transfer volumes have grown “4.6x over the past two year, with projections of another 10x growth in the near… Read More
Read more in: Blockchain & Digital Assets, Global | Tagged compliance, Crypto Transactions, elliptic, regtech
Archax, a UK/EU-regulated digital asset platform, has recently announced the tokenization and first onchain transaction of the Canary HBR ETF on the Hedera Network. The completed “out-of-hours” transaction is a landmark achievement in blockchain-based finance: an ETF linked to Hedera’s native token, tokenised and “transacting… Read More
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