When ACI Worldwide and dLocal announced their partnership on 28 July, the offer to global merchants was a single integration into the ACI Payments Orchestration Platform, six local payment methods across Brazil and Mexico at launch, and Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru to follow. Behind it sits a claim both companies have been making for […]
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Making Tax Digital for Income Tax became mandatory in April 2026 for sole traders and landlords with qualifying income above £50,000, with the first quarterly update due on 7 August. Much of the coverage in the months leading up to the change focused on the approaching deadline, potential penalties and the need to get accounting […]
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In July 2026 the crypto venture firm Paradigm launched a 1.2 billion dollar fund aimed at frontier technology, including AI and robotics. Shortly before, it led an 8.5 million dollar seed round in M1X Global, a company that describes itself as sovereign financial infrastructure: it partners with governments to put financial instruments on public blockchains […]
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Stablecoins have spent most of their existence as trading instruments. As they move into supplier payments, treasury and cross-border settlement, the questions that follow are less about the technology and more about the disciplines that sit around any payment: who authorised it, how it is valued, how it reconciles to the ledger, and what the […]
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Ivan Kroshnyi, founder of SharPay, on the move from trading into payments and why a payment setup can look diversified without being resilient. Ivan Kroshnyi, founder of SharPay SharPay is a payments platform for international businesses and entrepreneurs, bringing European IBANs, merchant accounts, payment processing, payouts, cards and access to digital-asset services into a single […]
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New federal rules on student loan borrowing and repayment are tightening limits and narrowing options for millions of American borrowers, and the effects will not stop at the campus gate. US student loan balances are widely reported at around 1.6 trillion dollars, the great majority of it federal, so even modest policy changes can ripple […]
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For years, AI has been poised to reshape the banking industry. From fraud detection and customer service to compliance and risk management, financial institutions have invested heavily in AI initiatives designed to improve efficiency and customer experiences. Ben Saunders, co-founder of WeBuild-AI Ben Saunders is co-founder of WeBuild-AI, an AI-native consultancy helping organisations bridge the […]
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For many UK fintech founders, the word “regulation” feels like a brick wall. In the race to deploy large language models and agentic AI across lending, payments and wealth platforms, there is a pervasive fear that strict governance will drain limited capital and let less-regulated global competitors sprint ahead. Deepali Limaye Davalbhakta, managing director at […]
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Much of the discussion around the new BNPL rules focuses on regulation finally catching up with the product. There is certainly a lot of truth in that, but I have always thought the industry sometimes overstates how different BNPL really is. At the end of the day, BNPL has always been credit. Consumers borrow money […]
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The following showcases the 2026 developments of fintech and wider digital of Uzbekistan. Less than a decade ago, Uzbekistan was one of Central Asia’s more closed economies. Foreign exchange was tightly controlled, the state dominated much of the economy and private enterprise operated within an environment considerably less open than neighbouring Kazakhstan. That began changing […]
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