FinXP, a European payment infrastructure provider, has partnered with Thredd, a global issuer-processing platform, to strengthen FinXP’s card issuing capabilities and support the next phase of its embedded finance offering. The partnership will enable FinXP to enhance its debit card programmes with a modern issuer-processing stack, supporting tokenisation, provisioning, risk and fraud prevention, card […]
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Making Tax Digital is reshaping how sole traders structure their businesses, and not in the way HMRC intended. New research from tax compliance platform Taxfix, published on 3 August, shows that nearly a quarter of affected sole traders have already set up or begun setting up a limited company at least partly because of the […]
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NatWest has become the first UK high street bank to integrate Equifax UK’s Verification Exchange into its mortgage application process, replacing paper-based payslip submission with real-time, direct-from-source income and employment data. The partnership, announced on 4 August 2026, is positioned by both companies as a step towards reducing application fraud and cutting the administrative friction […]
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In a significant advancement for cross-border European payment infrastructure, Viva.com, the tech bank for businesses, has established a direct connection to Multibanco, Portugal’s national payment network. The technical milestone establishes Viva.com as the first international bank to achieve direct connectivity with the MB Scheme, enabling seamless acceptance of domestic MB cards and MB WAY transactions […]
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BALBOA | CORP, the Panama-based stablecoin infrastructure company, has appointed Austin Campbell and Richard Douglas to its advisory board as it advances BALBOA1, a USD-backed stablecoin built for cross-border trade settlement and shipping finance. Austin Campbell, CEO and founder of Zero Knowledge Group Campbell is founder and chief executive of Zero Knowledge Group and previously […]
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Rebecca Kacaba spent more than a decade as a capital markets lawyer on Bay Street before deciding, in 2016, to build the platform she believed the industry was missing. DealMaker, the company she co-founded with Mat Goldstein, has since powered more than $2 billion in online capital raising for brands including the Green Bay Packers […]
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Banks do not lack ideas. The real challenge is turning those ideas into production-ready solutions. In many cases, the journey from identifying a problem to implementing a solution can take around 12 months. In this conversation, Paul Wallis and Lionel Laulhé from Granite MENA, Philip Hughes and Mark Rothwell-Brooks from Verityx, and Barbara Gottardi from […]
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The Financial Market Innovation Hackathon concluded in Riyadh on 16 September 2026 at Money20/20 Middle East, bringing together emerging talent, technology and financial expertise to explore new solutions for Saudi Arabia’s rapidly evolving capital markets. The hackathon was organised by the Financial Academy in collaboration with the Capital Market Authority (CMA), with Sahm Capital as […]
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As programmable money, real-world asset tokenization, and stablecoin payment rails continue to reshape international commerce, blockchain ecosystem builder CV Labs and the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) have launched the first cohort of the Stellar x CV Labs Accelerator. Selected from a global applicant pool, ten high-growth financial technology startups hailing from the UAE, Africa, Asia, […]
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The global cross-border payments landscape has achieved a major technological milestone as regulated commercial bank money transitions onto programmable digital ledger infrastructure. In a groundbreaking regional first, First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB)—the UAE’s global bank and one of the world’s largest financial institutions—has successfully executed live U.S. dollar transactions at scale using tokenized deposits through […]
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