Future Alpha, the research arm of events group Alpha Events, is inviting firms to partner on The Edge Report 2026, a survey-based study of investment practices across the quantitative and systematic investment community. The announcement came via a direct sales email addressed to The Fintech Times, rather than a formal press release. According to the […]
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Banque internationale pour l’industrie et le commerce (BIIC) have launched a €100million financing facility aimed at strengthening agricultural value chains in Benin, with the operation backed by a guarantee from the European Commission. The partnership channels capital to Beninese small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-caps operating across three […]
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The following is a fintech and wider digital economic development view of Papua New Guinea in 2026. In Papua New Guinea, the distance between a person and a bank account is not always measured in kilometres. It may involve travelling by boat, crossing mountainous terrain or leaving a rural community for the nearest town. For […]
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Vine, a commercial and agricultural lending platform for community banks and credit unions, has launched a configurable reporting dashboard it says will give institutions a unified view of loan portfolio performance alongside core banking data such as deposit relationships and liquidity trends. David Eads, chief executive and co-founder of Vine The product is positioned as […]
Explore MoreEcommpay has launched a self-serve payments platform aimed at UK-registered micro enterprises, bringing the transaction routing, fraud management and hosted checkout technology it operates for enterprise clients down to businesses with under two million euros in annual revenue. The product, branded Ecommpay for Small Businesses, is open to merchants who have been trading for at […]
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The UK Government’s announcement of expanded SME finance support, timed to coincide with the Chancellor’s Mansion House speech, has drawn a measured welcome from the fintech sector alongside a pointed critique of incumbent banks’ ability to serve smaller businesses. Laurent Descout, co-founder and CEO of Neo The package includes an expansion of the Growth Guarantee […]
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The following showcases the 2026 developments of fintech and wider digital in Poland. Poland’s financial technology story does not begin with start-ups trying to overturn an outdated banking industry. In many respects, the banks moved first. Long before mobile-first finance became commonplace across Europe, Polish consumers were already using advanced banking applications, contactless payments and […]
Explore MoreInteractive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR) has expanded its digital-asset offering with nine new tokens available through custody partner Zerohash and three through Paxos Trust Company, while simultaneously introducing the ability for clients to withdraw funds via stablecoin for the first time. The announcement, made on 14 July 2026, positions the S&P 500-listed multi-asset broker as one […]
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SAMP Risk, the connected-insurance subsidiary of Asset Performance Partners, has called on the insurance market to rethink how it underwrites power generation risk, warning that intensifying heatwaves are creating a category of exposure that is currently sitting largely unhedged on generators’ own balance sheets. The intervention follows a July 2026 grid emergency on the PJM […]
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The following is an overview of the fintech ecosystem and its relation to wider economic development of Nicaragua in 2026. Nicaragua’s fintech story begins outside the country. In Miami, San José, Madrid and other cities with large Nicaraguan communities, migrant workers send money home to support relatives, pay school fees, finance housing and sustain small […]
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