Interactive 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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Velocity, the stablecoin treasury and settlement platform founded in 2025, has closed a $38million Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark. The round also drew in Capital One Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, QED Investors, Activant Capital, Ripple and Wintermute Ventures, and brings Velocity’s total capital raised to nearly $50million since its inception last May. The company […]
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The Wall Collective, a freelance communications outfit, has circulated a media availability list featuring executives from several digital-asset and fintech ventures, including Cap, Techdollar, Verona, Higlobe and Ethereal Ventures. The outreach is a standard expert-availability pitch rather than a product announcement, company milestone or funding event. The roster at a glance Cap is described as […]
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Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) has reported gross revenue of AED 12.4 billion for the first half of 2026, a 10% year-on-year increase, as the UAE’s largest Islamic lender by assets continued to expand its balance sheet and tighten asset quality metrics. Operating profit reached AED 4.8 billion, up 6% year-on-year, with a cost-to-income ratio of […]
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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 […]
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The 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 […]
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Quantios 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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