Finzly, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based provider of modular banking infrastructure, has joined the American Fintech Council (AFC), the US trade body representing more than 150 fintech companies and innovative banks. The membership adds Finzly to a coalition that lobbies for technology-friendly regulation and promotes responsible innovation across consumer and institutional financial services. Phil Goldfeder, CEO […]
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency formally rejected Wise‘s application to establish Wise National Trust, a proposed non-depository national trust bank headquartered in Austin, Texas, in a decision letter signed on 21 July 2026 by Senior Deputy Comptroller for Chartering Stephen Lybarger. When the decision became public on 24 July, Wise’s Nasdaq-listed shares […]
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Nearly three-quarters of retail banking customers worldwide are only moderately satisfied with their main bank, or less than that. Few of them are unhappy enough to leave today, but most could be won by a competitor that does a better job on fraud protection, payments and personalised service. That is the central finding of The […]
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Standard Chartered has issued USD 200 million in three-year floating-rate digitally native notes (DNNs) on Euroclear‘s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure (D-FMI), making it the first Global Systemically Important Bank and the first UK issuer to complete such a transaction on that platform. The notes have been submitted for admission to trading on the International Securities […]
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Dubai has nailed its colours to the mast. By 2033, the emirate’s bicentennial, it wants to be among the world’s top three cities to live, work and invest, and to have doubled the size of its economy. Those aims, gathered under the Dubai Economic Agenda (D33), are not marketing slogans. They are a policy programme […]
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The OpenID Foundation has completed conformance test suites for two of its most widely deployed specifications, OpenID for Verifiable Presentations (OpenID4VP) and OpenID for Verifiable Credential Issuance (OpenID4VCI), and opened both for self-certification. The move gives wallet providers, credential issuers, verifiers, government agencies and technology vendors a free, publicly recognised mechanism to demonstrate that their […]
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Sibos opens in Miami on Monday with more than 500 speakers across 250 sessions. Jane Fraser opens, Serena Williams closes, and the week’s running argument is how banks put AI, tokenised deposits and Swift’s new ledger into production. Sibos 2026 opens on Monday at the Miami Beach Convention Center and runs to Thursday 1 October, […]
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nCino (NASDAQ: NCNO) has shipped Mortgage MCP, a capability that allows lenders to connect Model Context Protocol-compatible AI agents directly to the nCino Mortgage Suite. The release uses MCP, an open-source protocol that provides a standardised interface between AI agents and external software platforms, to extend the reach of agents a lender may already be […]
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Cloudflare‘s launch of digital identity and payment capabilities for AI agents is accelerating a debate the payments industry has been circling for the better part of a year: whether the technical infrastructure for autonomous commerce is moving faster than the trust frameworks required to govern it. Andrew O’Connor, agentic AI lead at PSE Consulting, argues […]
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Sedric, an agentic AI compliance platform founded in 2020, has joined the American Fintech Council (AFC) as a member organisation. The move places the company inside the largest US trade body representing both fintech firms and regulated banks, where it says it intends to shape the practical standards for responsible AI deployment in financial services […]
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