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Wise Eyes Nasdaq, Beats Earnings and Invades UK Banking All at Once
Fintech & Ecommerce

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
Fintech & Ecommerce

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
Blockchain & Crypto

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
Fintech & Ecommerce

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 
Blockchain & Crypto

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
Science & Technology

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
Blockchain & Crypto

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
Fintech & Ecommerce

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
Fintech & Ecommerce

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
Fintech & Ecommerce

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
Fintech & Ecommerce

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
Finance & Economics

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.

Crypto Prediction Platform Polymarket Debuts Native Stablecoin in Major Upgrade and Sign of Market Getting Mature
Blockchain & Crypto

Crypto Prediction Platform Polymarket Debuts Native Stablecoin in Major Upgrade and Sign of Market Getting Mature

To boost its control over payment settlement, Polymarket — one of the world’s largest crypto prediction platforms, rolls out its own stablecoin, Polymarket USD, and starts the most sweeping infrastructure upgrade in its six-year operation period. 

Solflare & Snowdrop Solutions Team Up to Make Crypto Card Transactions Less Mystic
Blockchain & Crypto

Solflare & Snowdrop Solutions Team Up to Make Crypto Card Transactions Less Mystic

Solflare and Snowdrop has joined forces to upgrade crypto-linked debit card UX with transaction enrichment features bringing neobank-style clarity to complex blockchain data that may confuse customers.

Nevermined Makes Giant AI Agent Payments Stride With Visa, x402 and VGS Support
Fintech & Ecommerce

Nevermined Makes Giant AI Agent Payments Stride With Visa, x402 and VGS Support

AI agents may perform various tasks for a business or individual, but they may not complete half of them without the ability to actually make payments. Nevermined aims to solve that deficiency with their new agent card delegation feature based on secure technologies developed by Visa, Coinbase’s x402, and VGS.

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Unites Tech Leaders in Face of Growing AI Power That Can Either Shatter or Supercharge Global Cybersecurity
Science & Technology

Anthropic’s Project Glasswing Unites Tech Leaders in Face of Growing AI Power That Can Either Shatter or Supercharge Global Cybersecurity

Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks… What do all of these companies have in common besides their massive tech industry presence? Apparently, they all care about AI models able to discover “thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities, including some in every major operating system and web […]