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SBC Summit Malta Focuses on Compliance, Risk and Operational Resilience
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SBC Summit Malta Focuses on Compliance, Risk and Operational Resilience

As the industry faces growing pressure from cyber threats, fraud, and regulatory uncertainty, SBC Summit Malta will feature a dedicated ‘Operations and Compliance’ stage focused on helping businesses strengthen security and build more resilient operations.

Coinbase Testing AI Agents on Slack and Email
Blockchain & Crypto

Coinbase Testing AI Agents on Slack and Email

Two AI agents modelled after ex-employees will assist Coinbase staff with work tasks, as the crypto exchange CEO predicts the platform will “have more agents than human employees” in the near future.

Payment Sovereignty Debate Accelerates: What CB Payments Network in France Has to Say Against Visa and Mastercard
Fintech & Ecommerce

Payment Sovereignty Debate Accelerates: What CB Payments Network in France Has to Say Against Visa and Mastercard

In France, the CB network is reportedly striving to become the next payment sovereignty frontier as officials warn against overreliance on foreign payment methods, such as Visa and Mastercard.

Decentro Platform Joins NPCI Banking Connect to Boost High-Value Transaction Flow
Fintech & Ecommerce

Decentro Platform Joins NPCI Banking Connect to Boost High-Value Transaction Flow

Higher-value transactions have always been the ones to face limited netbanking experiences, but Banking Connect through Decentro offers to eliminate most of those limitations, creating smooth money flows and a simplified integration experience.

China’s Lending Benchmark Stability Prompts Asian Markets Growth
Finance & Economics

China’s Lending Benchmark Stability Prompts Asian Markets Growth

Trading in leading Asia markets accelerated following the PBoC’s Monday decision to keep the benchmark loan rates unchanged for the 11th consecutive month.

Colombia’s Bre-B Surpasses 600 Million Transactions: What the Milestone Means for Latin American Instant Payments
Fintech & Ecommerce

Colombia’s Bre-B Surpasses 600 Million Transactions: What the Milestone Means for Latin American Instant Payments

Colombia’s real-time payment system Bre-B is rewriting the regional playbook and the numbers are hard to ignore.

Payments Weekly: Top 5 Stories You Might Have Missed
Fintech & Ecommerce

Payments Weekly: Top 5 Stories You Might Have Missed

This week’s essential reads: India tightens data rules for fintechs, Airwallex takes on Stripe in the physical world, Senator Warren questions X Money’s stablecoin ambitions, Monzo opens up in Ireland, and dLocal plugs emerging-market remittance gaps.

Corient Acquires Bedrock Group, Pushing Combined Assets Toward $470 Billion
Fintech & Ecommerce

Corient Acquires Bedrock Group, Pushing Combined Assets Toward $470 Billion

U.S. wealth manager Corient adds over $10B AUM and expands European presence with the acquisition of Geneva-rooted Bedrock Group. Allong with late 2025 acquisitions to be approved, the firm’s combined client asset base will near $470B.

Governments Are Betting Big on AI and Britain Just Joined the Race With £500 Million Sovereign Fund
Science & Technology

Governments Are Betting Big on AI and Britain Just Joined the Race With £500 Million Sovereign Fund

From London to Riyadh, states are no longer leaving artificial intelligence entirely to the private sector. Sovereign funds focused on AI infrastructure are becoming the new black and UK is now on trend. 

Online Trading Expo Makes Its Hong Kong Debut This May, Bringing the Global Trading Industry to Asia-Pacific.
Fintech & Ecommerce

Online Trading Expo Makes Its Hong Kong Debut This May, Bringing the Global Trading Industry to Asia-Pacific.

The inaugural edition of Online Trading Expo arrives at AsiaWorld-Expo, Hong Kong on 27–28 May 2026.

EBANX Expands into Southeast Asia and Turkey as Cross-Border Demand Grows in $610B Market
Fintech & Ecommerce

EBANX Expands into Southeast Asia and Turkey as Cross-Border Demand Grows in $610B Market

Payments firm EBANX adds five markets and targets fast-growing, mobile-first economies with high cross-border e-commerce activity

Funding Rounds, Unicorns & Tokenized Bonds: The Startup Deals That Defined This Week
Fintech & Ecommerce

Funding Rounds, Unicorns & Tokenized Bonds: The Startup Deals That Defined This Week

Your Friday news briefing on the most consequential fintech and startup funding moves — April 17, 2026

AI Surges Again: Which APAC Markets Are Riding the Wave?
Science & Technology

AI Surges Again: Which APAC Markets Are Riding the Wave?

Singapore’s exports surge, Taiwan’s chip giant breaks records — a fresh 2026 AI boom is reshaping APAC stocks markets

Visa Joins Tempo as Validator, Signaling Shift Toward Institutional Blockchain Infrastructure
Blockchain & Crypto

Visa Joins Tempo as Validator, Signaling Shift Toward Institutional Blockchain Infrastructure

Visa has launched a validator node on the Tempo blockchain, joining Stripe and Zodia Custody, a digital asset firm backed by Standard Chartered, as the first external participants helping operate the network.

Top 5 AI News Stories You Can’t Miss This Week
Science & Technology

Top 5 AI News Stories You Can’t Miss This Week

There’s no hotter topic in modern financial technology than AI. Artificial intelligence develops in great strides. One moment you blink, and the next thing you see AI agents exchanging data and payments in some self-orchestrated scenarios with only slight prompts. Make sure not to miss the most important AI updates. This article will help you. […]

UK’s Top Finance Leaders Sound the Alarm: Manual Payment Processes Are Costing Businesses Their Competitive Edge
Fintech & Ecommerce

UK’s Top Finance Leaders Sound the Alarm: Manual Payment Processes Are Costing Businesses Their Competitive Edge

Britain’s CFOs are waking up to a payments crisis hiding in plain sight. New research from global corporate payments company Corpay has exposed a striking contradiction at the heart of UK finance: the people responsible for managing billions in corporate spend know their processes are broken and they know rivals are already pulling ahead.