SCRYPT, the Swiss digital asset infrastructure firm, announced on 13 July the expansion of its licensed stablecoin settlement infrastructure across four East African markets: Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda. The expansion gives banks, payment providers and corporate treasury teams a route from local currencies directly into stablecoins, without first sourcing US dollars through correspondent banking […]
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MNT-Halan has opened subscription for the Cairo Stock Exchange listing of MNT Tech Holding, its Egyptian operating business, at EGP 24.5 per share. The base offering covers 320 million existing shares, representing a 20 per cent stake and targeting gross proceeds of approximately $150 million at a company valuation of around $750 million. The offering […]
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Lumin Digital has commercially launched Lumin Signal, a behavioural intelligence capability built natively into its digital banking platform, targeting banks and credit unions that want clearer evidence of what return their digital feature investment is generating. The San Ramon, California company said the product arrives pre-configured across more than 100 pages and 700 features, with […]
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The American Fintech Council (AFC) has filed comment letters with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) backing proposed rule changes that would widen the circumstances under which banks and fintech companies can share confidential supervisory information (CSI). The letters respond to Notices of Proposed Rulemaking […]
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Late payments remain a structural threat to UK small business survival, with an estimated £26 billion locked in overdue invoices at any one time, according to new analysis published by loan broker Century Business Finance. The firm’s research, drawn from Office for National Statistics, Companies House and government datasets, finds that around 1.5 million UK […]
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The gap between AI ambition and real business results came under scrutiny at FintechOS Elevate 2026, as banking and insurance leaders discussed what it takes to turn investment in artificial intelligence into meaningful operational improvements. Held at Kings Place in London on 14 October, the second annual Elevate conference attracted around 300 registrations and featured […]
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Ant International has expanded its real-time treasury management operations into the Middle East through an enlarged collaboration with HSBC, completing pilot transactions across two UAE-anchored payment corridors. The milestone makes Ant International the first client in the region to use HSBC’s Tokenised Deposit Service (TDS). The two corridors tested were intra-UAE dirham transfers executed in […]
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Emirates NBD has expanded its VIP Privilege Program for Business Banking clients, widening access from an invitation-only arrangement to all existing business customers and new customers within qualifying packages. The Dubai-headquartered bank announced the move on 7 October 2026, framing it as a structural upgrade to its premium SME proposition in the UAE. The programme […]
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Ether.fi, the self-custodial crypto neobank reporting more than $6 billion in assets under management, has announced a partnership that will move its entire payments infrastructure onto MoonPay‘s integrated stack. The deal covers fiat onramps and offramps, cross-chain trading, institutional-grade virtual bank accounts and crypto deposits, all without requiring users to surrender control of their private […]
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Financial services compliance teams are moving quickly to assess AI tools for communications supervision. In this contributed piece, one product leader argues that a more basic question about the data behind those tools is being skipped. Jamie Hoyle, SVP product at RedOak/MirrorWeb Jamie Hoyle is SVP, product at RedOak/MirrorWeb. The two companies combined in 2026 […]
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