Oracle Expands AI Agent Strategy Into Financial Crime Compliance With Lucinity Technology
Oracle Corporation is deepening its push into enterprise AI agents, this time targeting financial crime and compliance operations.
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U.S. Small Business Sales Hold Steady in March as Consumers Spend More Per Visit
American small businesses closed out the first quarter on solid ground, with sales rising 1.3% year over year in March despite consumers trimming the number of trips they made and spending more deliberately when they did show up, according to new data from Fiserv.
EU’s Digital Border Revolution: Biometrics Replace Stamps But Queues Replace Convenience
The Entry/Exit System went fully live on 10 April 2026. The technology is working in EU. Getting through the airport is another matter.
UK Farmers Ready to Copy Ireland Fuel Protests Pattern As Irish PM Announces €505M Support Package
Farmer groups in the UK are preparing to protest against fuel cost rise that sent diesel price up to £2 per litre. This move follows suite of recent fuel protests in Ireland, that disrupted critical supply chains and forced the government to introduce a €505 million fuel tax cuts package.
Wise Eyes Nasdaq, Beats Earnings and Invades UK Banking All at Once
The global money transfer giant Wise is having its biggest month in years: a Nasdaq listing confirmed, Q4 income surging 24%, and a new UK current account taking aim at Monzo and Revolut.
Citi Brings AI to Wealth Management
With embedded portfolio intelligence, advisor-first insight resources, AI-powered note taking tool, and more, Citi is propelling its wealth management solutions to the age of smart innovations.
HSBC to Roll Out HKD Stablecoin This Year Empowered by Issuer License
One of the world’s largest banking and financial services conglomerate, HSBC aims to launch a Hong Kong dollar-backed stablecoin in the second half of 2026, with new crypto-issuing capabilities brought by the HKMA license.
India’s UPI Turns 10 Approaching 1 Trillion Transactions
India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) marked its tenth anniversary on 11 April 2026. Today, we want to share some numbers behind the milestone which are frankly speaking extraordinary. The world’s most widely used instant payment system now processes transactions at nearly twice the rate per user as UK debit cards and is on course to […]
Money20/20 Asia Unveils the Intersection Stage: The Epicenter Where TradFi and DeFi Converge
Industry Leaders, Regulators, and Innovators to Convene in Bangkok at the Intersection Where Digital Assets and Traditional Banking Enter New Era of Collaboration
SBC Summit Malta to Help Affiliates Unlock New Growth in a Changing Landscape
As AI and shifting power dynamics continue to redefine modern affiliation, SBC Summit Malta will introduce a dedicated Affiliates Reinvented track, exploring how stakeholders can adapt and unlock new growth opportunities in an increasingly complex landscape.
ClearBank Europe Becomes First Dutch Bank to Get MiCAR Approved
A regulated bank with crypto asset functionality is still a rarer thing than it should be in Europe. That changed a little yesterday, when ClearBank Europe announced it had received confirmation from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) to operate as a Crypto Asset Service Provider, making it the first credit institution in […]
Fiserv Helps Major U.S. Grocery Retailer Expand Card-Free Checkout Experience
Pay by Bank will now be available for Giant Food and Stop & Shop customers as Ahold Delhaize USA expands its pilot project with Fiserv across additional digital channels.
Revolut Launches AIR: Its First AI Financial Assistant Offers a Glimpse of Where Banking Is Heading
If you’ve ever opened a banking app, tapped through four menus to check a single transaction, and wondered why this is still how things work, Revolut has an answer.
Research Shows South African Travelers Book More When They Can Pay Their Flexible Way
The best travel deal in the world might still lose the ground if accompanied by a clunky checkout. New research shows that flexible payment options like BNPL, digital wallets, or mobile money are quietly becoming one of the travel industry’s most effective sales tools.
Bank of America’s CashPro App Records $1.2T in Payments & 20% Usage Growth, as AI and Mobile Transform BofA Treasury Operations
Corporate treasurers don’t sleep at their desks anymore — at least not the ones at Bank of America. In 2025, clients approved $1.2 trillion in payments through the bank’s CashPro App, a figure that works out to roughly $38,000 every second of every day. For a mobile app, that’s a staggering amount of financial trust […]
US-Iran Ceasefire Is Tearing at the Seams While the Strait of Hormuz Is Still Closed
Forty eight hours ago news of US-Iran ceasefire, no matter how temporary it could be, looked like a real breakthrough. Now Iran is protesting against any deals again, Israel is still bombing Lebanon, ships that need to pass the Hormuz remain stuck, and oil is creeping back toward $100.
