Global digital payments Visa is calling on fintech innovators across Africa to apply for Cohort 6 of its Visa Africa Fintech Accelerator. Applications are currently open, with a strict deadline set for 17 May 2026. The launch of the new cohort follows the successful Cohort 5 Demo Day, recently held during the GITEX Africa tech […]
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Hashgraph, the organization driving the development of the Hedera network, has partnered with The Institutes RiskStream Collaborative. The collaboration between the tech firm and the insurance industry’s largest emerging technology consortium aims to develop an interoperable property risk and resilience portal. The new solution is designed to transform how commercial and residential property risk data […]
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ClearBank, the enabler of real-time clearing and embedded banking, has released its financial results and annual report for the year ending 31 December 2025. Marking its 10th year since launching, the fintech reported its third consecutive year of profitability in the UK, alongside significant growth in payment volumes, deposits, and fee-based revenue. At the Group […]
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NatWest Group is expanding the scope of its free Financial Foundations education programme to help demystify investing for the UK public. The banking group has announced plans to extend the initiative to reach 50,000 individuals across workplaces, charities, and community groups throughout 2026. To support this ambitious scale-up, NatWest Group is training an additional 300 […]
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Trading and investing platform eToro has officially entered into an agreement to acquire Zengo, a self-custodial crypto wallet provider. The acquisition brings together eToro’s global, multi-asset distribution platform with Zengo’s advanced non-custodial wallet technology. According to eToro, the transaction is designed to accelerate its broader strategy of connecting traditional finance with on-chain infrastructure. It will […]
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ClearBank Europe has officially become the first Dutch credit institution to complete a notification under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR). The bank has received confirmation from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) to legally operate as a Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP). This critical regulatory milestone enables the bank to begin […]
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In 2008 there was a key moment that changed mobile phones forever. It came from Apple, and it wasn’t a new model announcement but the launch of its App Store. Transforming the humble iPhone from a single-purpose device into a platform that users could tailor with functionalities to fit their own needs, wants and individual […]
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What has been the economic development, wider digital and fintech developments been in the North African country of Libya in 2026? Libya’s fintech and wider digital ecosystem in 2026 is best understood as a story of reconstruction through technology. In a country where institutional fragmentation, liquidity constraints and reliance on hydrocarbons have long defined economic […]
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Payments is an industry full of big claims about what comes next, but product teams usually deal with something more concrete: regulation, infrastructure, customer needs and the limits of what systems can actually support. Much of the work inside fintech sits in that gap, especially at companies building the technology behind issuing and acquiring. In […]
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Started PR has been appointed as the official PR partner for the Banking Transformation Summit Europe 2026. The strategic partnership aims to strengthen how the industry’s most critical conversations are amplified and carried beyond the event space. Taking place from 19 to 20 May at Tobacco Dock in London, the summit brings together one of […]
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