Autonomy is becoming one of financial services; most widely used, and inconsistently defined, terms. It gets conflated with automation, confused with AI, or presented as a future where banks and insurers run themselves. Srinivasan Seshadri, chief growth officer and global head, financial services, HCLTech Srinivasan Seshadri of HCLTech argues autonomy in financial services is not […]
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Private credit has grown rapidly across Europe, but much of that capital still flows towards businesses that fit a fairly conventional lending profile. For thousands of viable mid-market companies, securing finance remains considerably harder. That gap is where Fuels Capital sees an opportunity. Founded in Stockholm in 2025, the private credit company has already financed […]
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Recent warnings from the Bank of England about autonomous AI agents have pushed a question up the agenda for financial firms: how does an institution intervene safely when an AI system starts behaving in ways nobody expected? Much of the debate has centred on kill switches, the mechanism for stopping a system once it misbehaves. […]
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The following is a fintech and wider digital economic development view of the US Pacific territory of Tuvalu. In Tuvalu, financial technology starts with geography. The Pacific island nation has a population of only around 11,000 people scattered across nine islands and atolls. Its capital, Funafuti, is more than 1,000 kilometres from Fiji and thousands […]
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Robinhood‘s decision to build its new Earn product on Morpho put an open onchain credit network behind one of the best-known retail investing brands in the United States. Rather than build proprietary lending infrastructure, Robinhood plugged into a network on which lenders and borrowers already compete for capital. Paul Fambot, co-founder & CEO at Morpho […]
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When ACI Worldwide and dLocal announced their partnership on 28 July, the offer to global merchants was a single integration into the ACI Payments Orchestration Platform, six local payment methods across Brazil and Mexico at launch, and Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru to follow. Behind it sits a claim both companies have been making for […]
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Making Tax Digital for Income Tax became mandatory in April 2026 for sole traders and landlords with qualifying income above £50,000, with the first quarterly update due on 7 August. Much of the coverage in the months leading up to the change focused on the approaching deadline, potential penalties and the need to get accounting […]
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In July 2026 the crypto venture firm Paradigm launched a 1.2 billion dollar fund aimed at frontier technology, including AI and robotics. Shortly before, it led an 8.5 million dollar seed round in M1X Global, a company that describes itself as sovereign financial infrastructure: it partners with governments to put financial instruments on public blockchains […]
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Stablecoins have spent most of their existence as trading instruments. As they move into supplier payments, treasury and cross-border settlement, the questions that follow are less about the technology and more about the disciplines that sit around any payment: who authorised it, how it is valued, how it reconciles to the ledger, and what the […]
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Ivan Kroshnyi, founder of SharPay, on the move from trading into payments and why a payment setup can look diversified without being resilient. Ivan Kroshnyi, founder of SharPay SharPay is a payments platform for international businesses and entrepreneurs, bringing European IBANs, merchant accounts, payment processing, payouts, cards and access to digital-asset services into a single […]
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