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Month: August 2026

admin comments (0) August 15, 2026

Kraken Taps Maple Finance for On-Chain Digital Asset Warehouse Deal

Kraken, the multi-asset trading platform operated by Payward, has entered into an on-chain warehouse facility with Maple Finance, a deal advised by offshore law firm Carey Olsen across Cayman Islands and British Virgin Islands law. The transaction is among the more structurally sophisticated products to emerge from the digital asset lending space, applying traditional warehouse […]

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admin comments (0) August 15, 2026

Checkout.com Handles ~50% of Coinbase’s Non-US Acquiring

Checkout.com has published details of its long-running infrastructure partnership with Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States, disclosing for the first time the operational scale of an arrangement that began in 2020 as a card-payout relationship and has since grown into a broad payments mandate spanning acquiring, fraud detection, authentication and smart routing. […]

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admin comments (0) August 15, 2026

Serbia: The Next Fintech Hub in Southeast Europe?

The following showcases the 2026 developments of fintech and wider digital landscape of Serbia. Not every fintech ecosystem begins with consumer apps or digital wallets. In Serbia, much of the momentum is coming from something less visible but arguably more valuable: talent. For years, the country has quietly built one of Southeast Europe’s strongest technology […]

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admin comments (0) August 14, 2026

Saint Lucia: Building a Digital Economy One Payment at a Time

The following is an overview of the fintech ecosystem and its relation to wider economic development of Saint Lucia in 2026.  Saint Lucia’s fintech story is not being written by billion-dollar start-ups or venture capital. Instead, it is being shaped by hotel owners accepting QR-code payments, small businesses selling online to international customers and regional […]

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admin comments (0) August 14, 2026

From Routing to Revenue: Why Payment Orchestration has Become a Boardroom Issue

Merchants are diversifying away from single processors, failed payments have become a measurable drag on revenue, and finance teams want the visibility they already have elsewhere. Payment orchestration has stopped being an engineering tool. Ran Cohen, CEO and Co-founder of BridgerPay In this contributed article by Ran Cohen CEO and Co-founder of BridgerPay, He discusses […]

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admin comments (0) August 13, 2026

AI Readiness is an Organisational Problem, not a Technology One, Argues Decentriq’s Maximilian Groth

As financial institutions push artificial intelligence deeper into everyday operations, the harder question is not what the technology can do but how firms need to change to work with it. Maximilian Groth, chief executive and co-founder of the confidential-computing and data-collaboration company Decentriq, argues that the first thing to break is the approval chain, and […]

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admin comments (0) August 13, 2026

Glovo and PragmaGO Roll Out MCA Financing for Romanian Merchants

Glovo and PragmaGO have extended their embedded-finance partnership to Romania, making it the second European market after Spain where the two companies are offering working capital financing to merchants operating within Glovo’s platform. The product, branded PragmaCash, uses a Merchant Cash Advance structure and is aimed at the thousands of small and medium-sized businesses in […]

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admin comments (0) August 13, 2026

The Boardroom Playbook for UAE E-Invoicing

Amit Dua, President of SunTec Business Solutions, sets out the four disciplines UAE boards must master before mandatory e-invoicing arrives in 2027. Amit Dua, president, SunTec Business Solutions E-invoicing in the UAE is no longer a distant policy idea; it is a dated commitment. From July 2026, the Federal Tax Authority (FTA) begins the pilot […]

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admin comments (0) August 13, 2026

Thailand: The Fintech Market That No Longer Feels Like Fintech

The following showcases the 2026 developments of fintech and wider digital of Southeast Asian nation of Thailand. Thailand’s fintech transformation is easy to miss. There was no single moment when the country suddenly became cashless. No start-up arrived and overturned the banking system overnight. Instead, digital finance was gradually absorbed into ordinary life. A market […]

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admin comments (0) August 12, 2026

AI is Everywhere in Finance, but the Trading Desk is Where it Still Falls Short, Says Quantum Signals’ Yianni Gamvros

Wall Street banks have spent the past year putting AI digital assistants to work across research, coding and other knowledge tasks, with reports describing lenders ramping up the tools in a productivity race. Yianni Gamvros, CEO and co-founder of Quantum Signals Adoption has been broad, but one area has proved harder than the headlines suggest. […]

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