
Bron has added face-based recovery to its self-custody wallet, using iProov's liveness checks. It tackles crypto's worst user problem, but the release leaves the storage of the face data unexplained.
Marvin Evans·October 9, 2026

Altruist has added charitable giving accounts to its adviser platform, priced below the usual sponsor fees. The real prize is keeping philanthropic assets under the adviser's management.
Marvin Evans·October 9, 2026

Polly now prices, hedges and sells mortgages on one system. If it can show lenders where each basis point of margin went, it has a real argument against the incumbents.
Marvin Evans·October 9, 2026

Charitarth Sindhu·October 9, 2026

Ant International has run real-time dirham and dollar pilots on HSBC's tokenised deposit rail in the UAE. The useful part is two separate ledgers talking to each other.
Marvin Evans·October 8, 2026

Experian has set up a separate credit bureau just for bank-account data. The legal structure matters more than the lift figures, and Plaid launched a rival offer on the same day.
Marvin Evans·October 7, 2026

Bank of North Dakota is the first live user of Fiserv's stablecoin infrastructure, and the coin moves money between North Dakota banks, not consumers. The release gives no volumes.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 4, 2026

Advisors get an S&P index of the ten largest cryptocurrencies inside client accounts, with the coins owned directly. The real product is the tax management around it, and the release gives no fees or minimums.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 2, 2026

Five US regulators have said a digital driver's license can satisfy bank ID rules. Socure wants to be the workflow that lets banks act on that, starting with Google and Samsung wallets.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 2, 2026

Wells Fargo has renewed with ICE and will run its whole home loan servicing book on MSP. The release confirms a 35-year relationship and withholds every number a reader would need to size the deal.
Charitarth Sindhu·October 2, 2026

LoanPro is pulling payment processing, instant card disbursement and AI-assisted servicing into its lending core, anchored by a new in-house processor called DirectPay and a virtual Mastercard named Beyond Credit.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 28, 2026

Revolut customers could pay by looking at a terminal in three London cafes, with merchants paying no processing fees. The pilot ran on Revolut Register, the company's new point-of-sale system for hospitality.
Charitarth Sindhu·September 27, 2026