September 8, 2026
Lumin Digital merger work now has a brand name. The digital banking platform markets itself as a growth platform for banks and credit unions. Now it has launched a formal framework for handling technology through mergers and acquisitions. It calls the product the M&A Readiness Advantage. Moreover it claims the framework is the first end-to-end
September 8, 2026
Delfi CUSO has a third credit union investor. Delfi is a New York startup selling AI-driven balance-sheet management tools to banks and credit unions. Now Members 1st Federal Credit Union has taken a strategic stake in its credit union service organization. The Enola, Pennsylvania-based credit union has more than 630,000 members and $8 billion in
September 8, 2026
Citi Swift ledger transactions went live on September 2, making Citi the first U.S. bank to move client money across the network's new blockchain infrastructure. The payments ran in U.S. dollars alongside First Abu Dhabi Bank and Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation. Those were the first ledger transactions from the Middle East and Southeast Asia respectively. Inside
September 8, 2026
Fintech bank charter rejections just got a second high-profile example: the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency rejected bunq's application for a US national bank charter on August 7, citing gaps in capital planning, credit risk modeling, management experience, profitability assumptions and familiarity with US banking rules. It is the second high-profile fintech charter
September 8, 2026
OpenPayd money transmitter coverage went from nothing to most of the United States in a single transaction. The London-based embedded finance provider is folding MSB USA Inc. into its group, and the regulatory approvals needed to close that integration are now finalized. Consequently, 43 state Money Transmitter Licenses sit under the OpenPayd umbrella without a
September 8, 2026
Premialab Parameta indices are the centerpiece of a partnership the two firms announced on September 8, plugging Parameta's index family directly into Premialab's quantitative analytics platform. The deal gives institutional investors using Premialab access to Parameta's benchmarks across swap rates, interest rate volatility, inflation swaps and global LNG basis, all inside the same environment where
September 7, 2026
Author: Nuwan Liyanage, Senior Manager - Corporate Banking, DFCC Bank PLC Emerging markets fintech loves a headline number. Mobile money moved more than $2 trillion in 2025, and registered accounts reached 2.3 billion. So investors read that as a land grab. Operators read it differently. In Lagos, Dakar, Jakarta and Sao Paulo, the companies that win
September 7, 2026
Cari tokenized deposit infrastructure has its first outside capital, and every dollar of it came from a bank. The Washington, D.C. startup raised $32.5 million on September 2, in the first tranche of its initial external funding round. Notably, every investor is a bank. That list covers all six of Cari's Design Partner Banks plus
September 7, 2026
TabaPay bank charter ambitions stopped being theoretical on September 2. The payments processor closed a $155 million strategic growth financing round led by FTV Capital and confirmed plans to acquire Transact Bank, N.A., an OCC chartered and FDIC insured bank in Denver. Once the deal closes, Transact becomes TabaBank, N.A. and sits alongside TabaPay under
September 7, 2026
Working Abroad Index editions now number three. Bunq, which describes itself as Europe's second-largest neobank, published the 2026 ranking covering 75 cities across 40 countries, with Canada included for the first time. What the Working Abroad Index Found in Canada The Working Abroad Index rent numbers travel well because they are counterintuitive. Vancouver renters pay
September 5, 2026
AI notetaker compliance became a purchasable add-on on 1 September. Archive Intel, a communications compliance platform for financial institutions, integrated with Zocks, the AI assistant Zocks says serves more than 5,000 advisory firms. Transcripts and notes flow automatically into Archive Intel, which reviews them for risky language and archives them for audit-ready retrieval. Clients activate
September 5, 2026
Hightower Dispatch terms were announced on 1 September. Hightower Advisors selected Dispatch, a data infrastructure platform for the wealth industry, to orchestrate the movement, validation and synchronisation of client data across custodians and advisory systems for Hightower Signature Wealth. What the Hightower Dispatch Deal Covers Signature Wealth launched in October 2025 as Hightower's nationally branded
