The following is an in-depth analysis of the fintech and wider digital economic development of African nation Sao Tome and Principe. When people think about Africa’s digital economy, countries such as Nigeria, Kenya or South Africa usually dominate the conversation. São Tomé and Príncipe rarely does. With a population of just over 230,000 people spread […]
Explore MoreTS Imagine has extended its TradeSmart Fixed Income execution management system to include leveraged loans, syndicated loans and distressed debt, giving institutional trading desks the ability to manage those instruments within the same platform they use for bonds, credit default swaps, interest rate swaps and listed securities. The expansion was announced on 15 June 2026. […]
Explore MoreThe Financial Conduct Authority has published its final rules for cryptoasset firms and, with the Bank of England, a joint approach to supervising systemic stablecoin issuers. It has eased several of its earlier proposals, most notably halving the capital requirement for stablecoin issuance. Among the commentators who responded, the reaction was broadly positive, though several […]
Explore MoreThe International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation (ITFC) has signed a new US$250million framework agreement with the Republic of The Gambia, providing a three-year facility to support trade finance, energy imports, food security and private sector development. The agreement was executed on the sidelines of the 2026 Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) Group Annual Meetings in Baku, […]
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Anchorage Digital has added custody support for CETES, a tokenized form of Mexican Federal Treasury Certificates issued by Etherfuse on the Stellar network. The move extends the federally chartered crypto bank’s product range into Latin American sovereign debt and adds a new asset class to the suite of tokenized real-world assets it holds on behalf […]
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Melio, the New York-based accounts payable and receivable platform owned by Xero, launched an AI agent-powered B2B payment network on 17 June, enabling buyers to execute payments directly into supplier accounts receivable systems without requiring those suppliers to register on a new portal or payment network. The company says the network has already processed more […]
Explore MoreThe Bank of England has opened a consultation on the design of the United Kingdom’s next-generation retail payments infrastructure. The payments specialists who responded welcomed the move. Several also warned that its value will be judged on what gets built, not on the strategy behind it. The Retail Payments Infrastructure Board, a senior industry body […]
Explore MoreAfreximbank has published Volume 10, Issue 1 of its Trade and Development Finance Brief, examining the structural fault lines in Africa’s trade and investment landscape amid what it describes as an increasingly uncertain global environment. The Cairo-headquartered multilateral development bank argues that the continent’s export base remains heavily concentrated in raw materials, including agricultural commodities, […]
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A survey of more than 6,700 people across ten major markets has quantified the economic damage inflicted by fragmented cross-border payment infrastructure, with one in three remittance recipients reporting they have struggled to pay for food, rent or utilities because funds were trapped in disconnected systems. The research, published jointly by Singapore-headquartered payments network Thunes […]
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3iQ, the Canadian digital asset investment manager and exchange-traded product issuer will migrate a significant portion of its assets under management across six publicly listed products on the Toronto Stock Exchange to Anchorage Digital. Anchorage will serve as custody and infrastructure partner for 3iQ’s entire Canadian product suite, subject to regulatory approvals and any required […]
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