Wealth & Asset Management

Temenos Forward Awards Celebrate Innovation and Impact in Banking

Farther Raises $150 Million Series D Led by General Atlantic to Scale Intelligent Wealth Management

Wealth management: Getquin raises €12m

DBS remains committed to investing in young Singapore talent in AI era

AI Agents in Finance: How They Transform 70% of Processes

How wealth management firms, advisors can make the most of AI

Executive Moves

William Blair Adds Senior Fintech Banker in London

N26 brings in new COO amid leadership overhaul

Diebold Nixdorf hires tech veteran Raj Singh as CIO

Banking Circle Names Mastercard Vet Kush Saxena as CEO

Monoova names Bianca Bates CEO as co-founder Christian Westerlind Wigstrom steps down

21X appoints Mark David Bakacs as MD, group strategy

Legal,Regulation,Tax & Compliance

Mal secures in-principle regulatory approval for UAE bank licence

Bsquared Technology Payment License Revoked Over Serious Breaches, MAS Says

UK regulators warn firms on AI-driven cyber risks

Zerohash lands EMI licence in the Netherlands

Asia adds just 1 fintech unicorn in Q1 2026

iDenfy teams up with RATO

Retail Banking

FABMISR, Network International partner to accelerate digital payments in Egypt

SBS’s Digital Branch Mobilises UK Banking

Mastercard to Help Banks Spot Scam Merchants Earlier With New Trust Service

NAB acquires Banked to expand real-time payments infrastructure

Emerchantpay collaborates with Visa to offer instalment payments for UK merchants

BC Card strengthens customer protection through new security patents

Bitcoin, Blockchain & AI

AllUnity preps Swedish krona-backed stablecoin

How Can Banks Overcome Fear of AI Implementation Failure?

AI set to automate up to 50% of tasks in most financial services roles

Franklin Templeton and DigiFT Partner to Expand Benji Tokenisation in Asia

OpenAI Commits Over S$300 Million to Singapore

Trust Bank Cuts Human-Handled Chats by 50% With Gen AI Chatbot

Mobile Banking

Tucson Federal Credit Union embeds InvestiFi tech into online banking platform

Bunq applies for Mexican banking license

Google Finance lands in Europe

Ethiopia’s Commercial Bank Announces Digital Banking Disruptions

Vodafone Qatar buys Maktapp to boost SME solutions

Fears offshore move by banks is start of a tech brain drain

Comment & Analysis

It’s always been complicated

Fintech Landscape in the Caribbean: Barbados in 2026

Ludivine and Chloé - Two paths, one shared ambition: Empowering women to take action

1 in 3 Irish adults fallen victim to financial fraud

Revolut’s UK banking licence unlikely to disrupt incumbents, Citi says

Data Sovereignty in a Borderless World

Cyber Security

GCC insurers are betting big on cyber and risk cover amid geopolitical pressures

Big banks use OpenAI’s Daybreak for cybersecurity defence

Mugen expands into cybersecurity for decentralised organisations

Hybrid Threats in Africa: Cyber, Disinformation & Operational Resilience in Pan-African Banking

UK regulators warn of new threats from frontier AI models

New cyber obligations proposed for British energy businesses

Research

Middle East digital banking users show rising fraud vigilance, study shows

Why business owners’ biggest planning gap comes after the sale

India sees spike in AI driven ransomware attacks

Nasdaq Verafin unveils agentic AI AML workers

Research Reveals More Than 75% of UK Wealth Managers Planning Acquisitions

66% of Zillennials Use Their Phones as Bank Branch

Innovation & Startups

Starling Delivers Fifth Year of Profitability and Accelerates Global Growth Strategy

Why the World’s Most Advanced Companies Are Suddenly Obsessed With Simplicity

Why Financial Institutions Struggle With Digital Transformation

Saudi fintech Stitch raises $25m Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz

EXANTE unveils portfolio infrastructure for wealth managers

Digital Prime Technologies launches digital asset lending platform

Trading Platforms

Santander launches Navigator Global in Spain, its platform to drive companies’ international expansion

Ex-Royal Mint Executives Launch Fintech to Modernise Physical Gold Investment

GoTyme expands banking platform, includes investment

Endowus partners CIP to offer renewable energy investments

XDC Network partners with Australian fintech to bring modern payment tools to small businesses

LSEG partners Dell to build private cloud platform

Alternative Investments

SEI Converts $1 Billion Mutual Fund Into High Yield Bond & Alternative Credit ETF (LEND)

ABE Capital strengthens its technology strategy with the addition of LIS Global to its portfolio

Apex Fintech Solutions links with Plaid

Xero integrates with Anthropic's Claude

Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, TD Securities, Morgan Stanley, and Bank of America Join LTX in Bid to Unlock Greater Liquidity in Corporate Bonds

Macquarie Increases Stake in Tenora as it Secures FCA Authorisation as an Electronic Money Institution (EMI)

Planet SOS

EIB and BNP Paribas Finance Clean European Farm Technology

Advisors warm up to emerging energy plays in client portfolios

Temenos continues to top ESG ratings from Dow Jones, S&P Global, Sustainalytics and CDP

ESG in Action: The Role of Fintech Companies in Belgium’s Sustainable Financial Future

Cynergy Bank issues debit cards made from Parley Ocean plastic

Modern Bankers in an age of sustainable banking: Three take-aways