
Citi moved client dollars on Swift's blockchain ledger alongside First Abu Dhabi Bank and OCBC, the first live ledger transactions for a US bank and for the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 8, 2026

Visa, Nacha's preferred partner list and Navan all added AI fraud tools within a few weeks. The same technology is making fraud cheaper to commit, and that is the harder problem.
Marvin Evans·September 8, 2026

The OCC turned down bunq on capital planning, credit risk modelling and management experience, the second high-profile fintech charter denial of 2026 after Wise.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 8, 2026

By absorbing MSB USA, OpenPayd gains 43 US state money transmitter licences without filing a single application, just ahead of its planned Nasdaq listing.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 8, 2026

Premialab users can now analyse Parameta benchmarks for swap rates, rate volatility, inflation swaps and LNG basis inside the same quantitative platform they already use.
Marvin Evans·September 8, 2026

Nuwan Liyanage of DFCC Bank argues the winning fintechs in emerging markets sell cash access and liquidity, not slicker apps, whatever the headline mobile money numbers suggest.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 7, 2026

Nick Sawinyh of Veodyn argues DeFi has already shown where agentic payments go wrong: nearly all of the safety sits in how narrowly an approval is scoped.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 7, 2026

All of Cari's $32.5 million came from banks, including its six design partners and Glacier Bank. The startup builds tokenized deposit infrastructure for community lenders.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 7, 2026

FTV Capital led TabaPay's $155 million round, and the processor plans to buy Denver's Transact Bank, which will become TabaBank under a new holding company.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 7, 2026

bunq's Working Abroad Index covers 75 cities and adds Canada for the first time. The counterintuitive rent comparisons are what make it travel.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 7, 2026

Archive Intel now reviews and archives transcripts from the Zocks AI notetaker for advisory firms, at $12 per user a month, to meet the five-year retention rule.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 5, 2026

Hightower has picked Dispatch to sync client data across custodians and advisory systems for Signature Wealth, its employee advisor practice launched in October 2025.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 5, 2026