The Bank of England‘s Digital Pound Lab has selected NOBO Finance, Dun & Bradstreet and Polygon Labs as a consortium for Phase 2 of its experimental programme, which tests whether stablecoins and a potential digital pound can work alongside each other to modernise cross-border trade finance infrastructure. NOBO, a UK fintech building digital trade finance […]
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For a Nigerian importer, the hard part of paying an overseas supplier is rarely knowing who to pay. It is turning naira into dollars, euros, sterling or yuan at the right size and the right time, and getting the money to the supplier before a shipping window closes. Sheriff Adedokun, founder and CEO at Clea […]
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Pathward, N.A., the Sioux Falls-based sponsor bank listed on Nasdaq under its parent Pathward Financial (ticker: CASH), has selected Thought Machine‘s Vault Core as its foundational core banking platform. The deal, announced on 20 August 2026, is intended to accelerate product deployment and extend Pathward’s reach into underserved markets across the United States. Pathward occupies […]
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Greenbridge Markets has joined Centiglobe Connect as a liquidity provider. Centiglobe, headquartered in Sweden, runs a member-based cross-border payment network in which banks, payment service providers (PSPs) and electronic money institutions (EMIs) pay each other directly using bank-agnostic tokenised deposits. Greenbridge now converts between those tokens and fiat cash on demand. Petter Sandgren, CEO of […]
Explore MoreIf you’re thinking about launching an institutional investment platform, the legal structure is only one part of the equation. The bigger question is whether you have the mindset, systems, and resilience to build something investors will trust for the long term. In a conversation with Gary Anderson, partner in Seward and Kissel’s mergers and acquisitions […]
Explore MoreStripe‘s reported acquisition of AI gateway OpenRouter, valued at more than $7 billion, is being read by payments executives as confirmation that the next competitive frontier in cross-border infrastructure is not the rail itself but the intelligence layer above it. Coming shortly after Stripe acquired stablecoin infrastructure firm Bridge, the OpenRouter deal suggests a deliberate […]
Explore MoreUAE banks have never spent more on innovation, and rarely had less to show for it in production. That is the uncomfortable conclusion of The Innovation Trust Gap, a new whitepaper from VerityX examining why bank-fintech engagement across the Emirates keeps stalling between prototype and deployment, and what a regulator-aligned alternative looks like. The headline […]
Explore MoreEquiti Group has renewed and expanded its sponsorship of Al Wahda FC, securing front-of-shirt placement on the Abu Dhabi club’s first-team, reserve and goalkeeper kits for the 2026-27 season. The Equiti logo will appear alongside Lead Development, a leading Abu Dhabi property developer, on the club’s matchday and training kit. The upgrade from a previous […]
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Premium card propositions were long built on points, cashback and lounge access. Issuers now have to compete on something harder to copy, and Mastercard is betting that the answer is curated experiences that travel with the cardholder. Ben Gilbey, SVP, consumer products & processing, Asia Pacific, Mastercard In August the network opened Asia Pacific’s first […]
Explore Moreether.fi entered into a three-way infrastructure partnership with decentralised lending protocol Aave and layer-2 network Optimism to expand the borrowing capacity underpinning its ether.fi Cash Visa card. The company says it will deploy a dedicated Aave V4 lending instance on Optimism’s OP Mainnet, targeting $500 million in lending capacity by 2027, up from approximately $22 […]
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