Financialtechnology

July 15, 2026

Banyan WIZE is a deal about quiet, entrenched software. Banyan Software has completed a majority investment in WIZE, a Geneva-based wealth and asset management software platform serving more than 120 financial institutions across 27 countries, including external asset managers, family offices, private banks, pension funds, and institutional investors. Founded in 2010 and incubated inside TeamWork

July 14, 2026

Ruleguard Continuous Assurance is a bet that regulated firms are done reconstructing their compliance position after the fact. Ruleguard has launched a Continuous Assurance Platform aimed at getting financial firms off the periodic compliance cycle, the quarterly or annual review model, and onto something closer to a live, continuously updated view of where they stand

July 14, 2026

MSCI UBS private markets is a bet on standardizing an asset class that has resisted it. MSCI and UBS announced a strategic partnership meant to bring more transparency to private markets, pairing MSCI's data and analytics with UBS's alternatives business, which oversees more than $340 billion in combined invested assets across hedge funds, private equity,

July 14, 2026

BitGo quantum risk tooling is now live for institutional Bitcoin wallets. BitGo has rolled out new quantum-risk management capabilities, aimed at helping custody clients assess and reduce exposure tied to UTXO-based wallet structures before quantum computing becomes a practical threat rather than a theoretical one. The release adds four concrete pieces. A UTXO Selection Method

July 13, 2026

Citi 24/7 USD Clearing has its first live bank client. The Siam Commercial Bank has become the first financial institution client globally to go live on Citi's integrated 24/7 USD Clearing paired with Citi Token Services, enabling near-instant cross-border USD payments for corporate and institutional clients at any hour, any day of the year. The

July 13, 2026

Swift blockchain ledger is now ready for initial use. Swift says the ledger is live for early adopters, with 17 banks across six continents lined up to pilot 24/7 cross-border payments using tokenised deposits. The list is not a group of niche crypto-friendly banks. ANZ, BNP Paribas, BNY, Citi, DBS, First Abu Dhabi Bank, FirstRand,

July 13, 2026

Klarna Germany facility is the company's first forward flow and warehouse financing deal in the country. Klarna has established a 900 million euro facility that it says will support up to 5 billion euros of Fair Financing originations there over the life of the program. Under the two-year agreement, Klarna sold a portfolio of existing

July 10, 2026

Amplify Goldman Sachs custody is a bet about what independent advisors really want. Amplify, a platform built around what it calls an AI-native data lake for registered investment advisors, launched its Custody Command Layer this week, integrated directly with Goldman Sachs Custody Solutions. The pitch is same-day account opening, real-time data, and no reconciliation, aimed

July 10, 2026

Nuvo CreditRiskMonitor is a data integration with real consequences. Nuvo Technologies and CreditRiskMonitor, the publicly traded credit risk data provider (OTCQX: CRMZ), announced an integration that makes CreditRiskMonitor's company risk scores, alerts, and credit limit guidance readable by Nuvo's AI agents. Those agents handle customer onboarding, credit monitoring, and accounts receivable work for finance teams

July 10, 2026

Account takeover confidence at financial firms sits far above the evidence supporting it. Secret Double Octopus, a passwordless authentication vendor, published its 2026 State of Identity Security in Financial Organizations report this week, based on a survey of 200 identity and access management leaders at US and Canadian financial services firms. The topline is a

July 10, 2026

Depa Finance stablecoin infrastructure now has a new backbone. Depa, a payments provider that sits between traditional banking rails and digital assets, has selected Modern Treasury to power its cross-border payments across both US dollar rails and stablecoins. Depa says it settles payments in more than 200 countries with round-the-clock availability, processes upward of 14,000

July 9, 2026

Klarna Flix is a partnership built on a genuinely good fit. Klarna and Flix, the parent company of FlixBus, FlixTrain, Greyhound, and Kamil Koç, are expanding a partnership that puts Klarna's pay-in-full, interest-free installment, and longer-term financing options into Flix's booking flow across 21 markets. The expansion adds the UK, Germany, Italy, France, Poland, Switzerland,