Managers of Wealth Fintech

Crypto exchange Binance takes on tradfi by courting rich investors to join its expanded wealth-management platform

Binance has been expanding its offerings beyond crypto and into traditional financial assets.

Circle, Ripple and Visa join $10 million funding round for stablecoin platform Velocity

Velocity’s platform is designed for CFOs and finance teams managing high-volume, cross-border flows.

TrueMoney Adds Fireblocks to Thai Baht Blockchain Payment Pilot

The second phase is open to up to 20,000 Thai and international participants until 31 December 2026.

Banking Circle Expands OSL Stablecoin Payments to Five More Currencies

Banking Circle will provide the infrastructure for settlement, conversion and liquidity management across OSL’s platforms.

Crypto exchange CoinEx winds down

Security and compliance are becoming ever more onerous aspects of running crypto businesses as regulators catch up with what was once a Wild West sector and hackers become more sophisticated in the era of AI.

TS Imagine ships AI platform for capital markets

TSIQ clients can apply TS Imagine’s unified data foundation to their own data in a secure environment, with confidence that every output is grounded in transparent logic and verifiable sources.

Singapore banks complete blockchain-enabled SGD transactions on Swift ledger

The ledger enables interbank payments using blockchain and tokenised deposits.

ChatGPT and Claude get financial advice wrong 57% of the time, potentially costing tens of thousands of pounds

Some AI models gave wrong answers to 99% of those more complex questions.

Stablecoins won’t kill the banks, they will kill the excuse

Every industry has its “load-bearing excuse” - the explanation that while true, conveniently absolves everyone of ambition. In the banking industry, for many years, the excuse has been the rails.

Ripple launches AI capabilities for enterprise treasury

Enterprise adoption of AI agents is accelerating faster than the governance around it.

Spice Money launches AI-powered financial assistant Ojas

Built on Spice Money’s proprietary ExeAI platform, Ojas combines conversational AI with transaction execution capabilities.

Trust and Control Emerge as Key Barriers to AI-Enabled Commerce

In APAC, 76% of consumer businesses are set to adopt agentic AI by 2028.

Coinbase partners with Moov to boost community bank stablecoin capabilities before Clarity vote

The partnership, shared exclusively with CNBC, comes just days before a crucial preliminary vote on the Senate floor to advance the Clarity Act.

Derailing the AI train will be surprisingly difficult, according to Bank of America

Proprietary measures of risk and investor anxiety — alongside historical perspective — persuade the bank that euphoria surrounding the AI trade has not reached bubble proportions

BIS Chief Warns Disappointing AI Returns Could Turn Investment Boom “Into a Bust”

The world’s five largest tech companies are expected to spend more than US$1 trillion on AI across 2025 and 2026.

Singapore banks complete first tokenised SGD transactions on Swift blockchain ledger

The completed transactions come days after DBS and OCBC completed a tokenised USD pilot on Swift's ledger with Citi.

MessagePay launches AI Pay+ to predict borrower payments

This allows collections teams to segment portfolios and prioritise accounts with greater precision than traditional delinquency-bucket methods.

AI Can Help Banking – But Customers Still Want a Person

Businesses still want fast, modern payment infrastructure, but they also want a real person behind the process when something goes wrong or when a compliance question needs answering.

Mastercard & Backbase Drive AI-Native Banking Transformation

In this environment, the architecture that sits beneath AI matters as much as the models themselves.

Wealth management’s AI rush: Are firms getting it right?

AI adoption is not just hollow talk at conferences, wealth firms are actively, and eagerly, embracing the technology into their workflows.

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