Digital Commerce Group (DCGroup) has named Padder the winner of its 2026 Fintech Grant, awarding the Calgary-headquartered competition’s top prize at Startupfest in Montréal this month. The grant is worth $100,000 in total: $95,000 in cash alongside a legal services package from law firm Osler valued at $5,000. The prize is non-dilutive, meaning Padder surrenders […]
Explore MoreThe Bank of England has issued a warning that artificial intelligence poses a potential risk to financial stability, adding regulatory weight to a debate that has been building across central banks, prudential supervisors and the financial institutions they oversee. The warning places the UK’s central bank alongside a growing cohort of regulators who view AI […]
Explore MoreQuantios has published a platform-wide artificial intelligence roadmap, setting out how a growing suite of purpose-built agents will be embedded across the full client lifecycle for trust and corporate service providers (TCSPs). The announcement accompanies the launch of a new Timesheet Agent and follows the live deployment of several earlier agents already in use across […]
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The following showcases the 2026 developments of fintech and wider digital in the Scandinavian nation of Norway. Few countries have had to answer the same question as Norway: how do you prepare for the future when your present is already remarkably successful? For decades, oil and gas have generated extraordinary wealth, helping Norway build one […]
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9fin, the AI-native platform for global debt capital markets, has appointed Huw Richards as head of customer partnerships, a newly created position based in the company’s New York office. Richards spent 23 years at JPMorgan, where he led several debt financing businesses globally before becoming the lead architect of the bank’s Digital Investment Bank unit, […]
Explore More83% of Gen Z women say they’ve been talked over by a male colleague at work. 68% say they’ve been dismissed outright, and almost four in ten say they’ve felt pressure to downplay their femininity just to be taken seriously. That’s according to a UK survey of female employees published this year, and Gen Z […]
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Emirates NBD has gone live on Partior’s blockchain-based clearing and settlement network, completing the first real-time cross-border USD payment on the infrastructure from the MENAT region. The Dubai-headquartered bank, which holds a strategic investment in Partior, executed its inaugural live transaction with J.P. Morgan acting as both the settlement and beneficiary bank. Corporate and institutional […]
Explore MoreAs the financial technology sector continues to evolve at breakneck speed, Singapore is gearing up to host a defining event for the industry. The People Events has officially announced that the 4th edition of the FinTech Week Awards & Expo will take place on 16–17 September 2026 at the Crowne Plaza Changi Airport. Following the […]
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A coalition of major US banks is launching a bank-led initiative to enable the clearing and settlement of tokenised commercial bank deposits at scale through The Clearing House, the US payments company owned by 25 of the country’s largest financial institutions. Unveiled on 5 June 2026, the move represents the most significant coordinated effort by […]
Explore MoreMarshmallow Insurance has signed a multi-year data partnership with analytics specialist Percayso Inform and credit reference agency TransUnion, bringing together credit bureau intelligence and behaviour-based risk segmentation under a single integration layer. The three-way arrangement was agreed on an undisclosed commercial basis and runs initially for three years on Marshmallow’s side, with Percayso and TransUnion […]
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