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September 21, 2026 @ 3:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Shares of Gemini Space Station (NASDAQ: GEMI) have lost most of the value they carried at the company’s public debut, and that slide has revived a familiar question among crypto industry professionals: whether the platform could become a takeover candidate if its core exchange does… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 8:57 am By Omar Faridi  |  

French data breaches have coincided with a noticeable increase in phone-based cryptocurrency fraud, according to entrepreneur Owen Simonin, better known as Hasheur. The founder and chief executive of the French platform Meria says he has received multiple reports in recent days of callers posing as… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

UK mortgage overpayment app Sprive has completed a £5.5 million funding round as it seeks to help more homeowners cut interest costs and finish their loans sooner. The London company described itself as the United Kingdom’s independent mortgage overpayment app. The round was led by… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 7:18 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  The FCA alleges that Hunter Jones, which sells loan notes, carries out regulated activity without authorisation. The FCA is asking the court to stop Hunter Jones carrying out regulated activity and require money to be returned to investors…. Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 6:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Skalar, a New York fintech building an alternative way to fund customer growth at later-stage technology companies, has come out of stealth. The firm began operating in January and went public last week after lining up an undisclosed seed round led by Brazilian venture firm… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 5:17 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  While the market is working well for consumers who have protection insurance, millions of people remain unprotected. Around 58% of adults have no life insurance, critical illness cover or income protection – and 59% of that group has… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 4:11 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Nubank (NYSE: NU) has named Sarah Wilson, previously a senior legal leader at Circle Internet Group, as its new chief legal officer. In the role, she will oversee the digital bank’s worldwide legal organization and report directly to founder and chief executive David Vélez. Wilson… Read More

September 21, 2026 @ 12:41 am By Michael Wong  |  

Eight Latvian-regulated Fintech platforms have facilitated more than €13 billion in investments and serve more than 800,000 foreign investors, with German investors accounting for about 30% of demand, Latvia’s investment agency said. The figures were disclosed during a Latvian trade mission to Berlin, where fintech… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 9:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Vietnam and Austria are deepening practical cooperation on financial-market supervision, with digital assets at the center of the conversation. On September 15 in Vienna, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Finance Nguyen Duc Chi met Mariana Kühnel, the newly appointed executive director of Austria’s Financial Market Authority… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 12:43 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Poland’s state-controlled energy group Orlen is facing one of its costliest trading setbacks after a late-2023 attempt to secure cheap Venezuelan crude unraveled. The arrangement, handled through its Swiss trading arm, Orlen Trading Switzerland, was meant to lock in about six million barrels of heavy… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 12:14 am By Omar Faridi  |  

European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde personally pressed Greek leaders to stop Binance from receiving a pan-European crypto license, according to a Wall Street Journal account published in mid-September 2026. The report, based on people familiar with the talks and related documents, describes an… Read More

September 20, 2026 @ 12:02 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Partior and LSEG Digital Settlement House have joined forces to give settlement banks continuous access to liquidity on Partior’s cross-border payments network. The two firms, working with several large banks, are building a Multi-Settlement Bank model that pairs correspondent banking’s reach with digital settlement speed,… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 7:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Manchester payments firm Ryft has closed a £20 million Series B round to take its multi-party payment infrastructure beyond Britain and into continental Europe and the United States. The raise was led by Gresham House Ventures, with follow-on support from existing backers Pembroke VCT and… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 7:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut’s latest expansion push arrives alongside a difficult security episode that the company is still managing. The London-based digital bank said this week that Colombia’s financial supervisor had granted it an operating licence, completing the last regulatory hurdle before it can open as a locally… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 6:40 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Institutional crypto technology firm Haruko has told customers that a targeted intrusion into its own systems reached a limited group of users. The London company supplies portfolio, risk and trade-data tools that sit between hedge funds and the exchanges they use. In messages to clients,… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 10:34 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut has stated that it has not received any direct ransom request from people claiming responsibility for a recent customer-data incident. The digital bank said it has had no contact from the group that later posted a public ultimatum online. The company first disclosed the… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 2:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Zurich-based ETF data specialist ETFBook has closed a €4 million Series A round led by BlackFin Capital Partners, with participation from former Amundi ETF head Arnaud Llinas. The capital is intended to support product development, talent hiring, and geographic growth into the United States and… Read More

September 19, 2026 @ 1:33 am By Michael Wong  |  

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is proposing a senior unsecured loan of up to $40 million to Azerbaijan’s Unibank Commercial Bank OJSC, aimed at expanding financing for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), according to project disclosure seen by CrowdFund Insider. The proposed financing comprises… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 3:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Saffron Building Society has chosen FintechOS to modernise how it originates mortgages, starting with residential lending and building toward a full end-to-end process. The Essex mutual, founded in 1849 and now serving more than 118,000 members with assets above £1.5 billion, wants the new system… Read More

September 18, 2026 @ 1:42 pm By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk