TOP

Blog & News

admin comments (0) September 4, 2026

Autonomy in Financial Services: Engineering Trust and Control

Autonomy is becoming one of financial services; most widely used, and inconsistently defined, terms. It gets conflated with automation, confused with AI, or presented as a future where banks and insurers run themselves. Srinivasan Seshadri, chief growth officer and global head, financial services, HCLTech Srinivasan Seshadri of HCLTech argues autonomy in financial services is not […]

Explore More
admin comments (0) September 4, 2026

Behind the Idea: Fuels Capital

Private credit has grown rapidly across Europe, but much of that capital still flows towards businesses that fit a fairly conventional lending profile. For thousands of viable mid-market companies, securing finance remains considerably harder. That gap is where Fuels Capital sees an opportunity. Founded in Stockholm in 2025, the private credit company has already financed […]

Explore More
admin comments (0) September 4, 2026

Control AI Agents, Do Not Just Stop Them, Says LaunchDarkly CTO

Recent warnings from the Bank of England about autonomous AI agents have pushed a question up the agenda for financial firms: how does an institution intervene safely when an AI system starts behaving in ways nobody expected? Much of the debate has centred on kill switches, the mechanism for stopping a system once it misbehaves. […]

Explore More
admin comments (0) September 4, 2026

Tuvalu: Fintech Begins With Getting Connected

The following is a fintech and wider digital economic development view of the US Pacific territory of Tuvalu. In Tuvalu, financial technology starts with geography. The Pacific island nation has a population of only around 11,000 people scattered across nine islands and atolls. Its capital, Funafuti, is more than 1,000 kilometres from Fiji and thousands […]

Explore More
admin comments (0) September 4, 2026

Why Robinhood Built Earn on Morpho: Paul Frambot Explains

Robinhood‘s decision to build its new Earn product on Morpho put an open onchain credit network behind one of the best-known retail investing brands in the United States. Rather than build proprietary lending infrastructure, Robinhood plugged into a network on which lenders and borrowers already compete for capital. Paul Fambot, co-founder & CEO at Morpho […]

Explore More
admin comments (0) September 4, 2026

Why a Card-Only Checkout Loses Customers in Latin America

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 […]

Explore More
admin comments (0) September 4, 2026

MTD’s First Deadline: The Hard Part is the System, Not the Tax

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 […]

Explore More
admin comments (0) September 4, 2026

M1X Global on Issuing Sovereign Debt Natively on the Blockchain

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 […]

Explore More
admin comments (0) September 4, 2026

Stablecoins as Payment: What Changes for The Finance Team

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 […]

Explore More
admin comments (0) September 3, 2026

In Profile: Ivan Kroshnyi, founder of SharPay

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 […]

Explore More

Start Processing Today