05/20/2026
The new bank will "operate through the wider Mal Group ecosystem, spanning banking, wealth, payments, and embedded finance, targeting the $7 trillion Islamic finance space", according to a Mal statement.
05/20/2026
The regulator said it had uncovered serious breaches in the firm's risk management practices and noted it provided false information in material particulars
05/19/2026
Central to the authorities’ concerns is the speed and scale at which frontier AI can be weaponised.
05/19/2026
The regulatory approval comes just two months after Zerohash’s European subsidiary, Zerohash Europe B.V., expanded its headquarters in Amsterdam
05/18/2026
Juspay raised $50m in January to hit a $1.2b valuation.
05/15/2026
iDenfy provides identity verification and compliance tools for businesses operating in regulated industries
05/14/2026
Reap provides cross-border business payments infrastructure that links traditional finance with digital assets, providing stablecoin-native infrastructure for cross-border payments, corporate card issuance, and business management.
05/14/2026
The transaction remains subject to required regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.
05/14/2026
For FinTech firms, the proposed legislation could accelerate demand for digital working capital tools, invoice finance platforms and automated collections technology.
05/13/2026
The central bank is requiring local financial institutions to implement stricter merchant monitoring to prevent digital fraud.
05/13/2026
Large-scale financial initiatives have never been delivered in isolation, and Open Banking will be no different.
05/12/2026
ECB president says settlement in tokenised markets must be anchored in central bank money
05/12/2026
Isio is among the fastest-growing firms of its kind in the UK and is backed by Aquiline, a private investment specialist in financial services and technology.
05/11/2026
A freezing order over the respondents’ cryptoasset accounts was granted in support of that claim. The Judge was asked to decide whether to continue the freezing order.
05/05/2026
While AI offers operational gains, it also raises concerns over governance, ethics, and potential impacts on the banking workforce.
05/05/2026
SVFL is now waiting on the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) to approve third-party retail outlets, which could take the number of remittance locations to 80 by the end of 2026.
05/05/2026
All data will be deleted at the end of the initiative.
05/05/2026
Experts are particularly interested in the potential for blockchain-enabled smart contracts to allow equity holders to have more options with their tokens than they would with a share in a traditional fund.
05/01/2026
The draft policy was recently withdrawn from public consultation following revelations that fictitious references were used during the policy development process.
05/01/2026
Live Facial Recognition works and is one of the biggest break throughs for policing