The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has overhauled its supervisory approach for the payments industry, replacing more than 40 individual portfolio letters with a single annual Regulatory Priorities report. The move signals a shift toward a more “smarter” and “proportionate” regulatory model designed to support the UK’s National Payments Vision while tightening the net on firms […]
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Eritrea is a nation that has its own economic development challenges, yet, opportunities. The following showcases its nascent fintech and wider digital economic development landscape in the 2026 context. In a continent where mobile money has transformed financial inclusion across dozens of markets, Eritrea stands apart. Its financial system remains highly centralised, its digital infrastructure […]
Explore MoreIn this episode, Mark Walker interviews Oscar Orellana-Hyder, co-founder of Cordell Partners, to explore the evolving landscape of Fintech talent, investment trends, and family offices in the UAE. Oscar shares insights from his decade-long experience in regional financial markets, highlighting opportunities, challenges, and future outlooks. The UAE is experiencing a significant influx of international investment […]
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In South Asia’s fintech story, Bangladesh has always been something of an outlier. Not because it lacks scale, but, because it has built that scale quietly, through infrastructure, inclusion and institutional alignment rather than headline-driven disruption. When I last wrote about Bangladesh’s fintech ecosystem, the country was already emerging as a mobile money leader. In […]
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Cashflows, a fintech platform designed to make it easy for businesses to accept payments, has officially partnered with the British Dental Industry Association (BDIA). The strategic collaboration is aimed at ensuring dental operators have access to merchant services that are specifically purpose-built for their unique business needs. The BDIA serves as the primary UK trade […]
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The following is an economic development and fintech overview in 2026 of the only Spanish speaking nation in the African continent – Equatorial Guinea. In Central Africa, fintech conversations are often dominated by larger economies such as Cameroon or the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Yet smaller markets are beginning to reveal how digital […]
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Financial fraud has evolved from isolated incidents into highly organized, industrial-scale operations. Vyntra’s newly released 2026 fraud trends report, The Anatomy of Modern Banking Fraud, reveals that global scam losses have reached a staggering $442billion over the past 12 months. The data shows that 70 per cent of adults worldwide have experienced at least one […]
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In North Africa and the broader Middle East, fintech discussions increasingly converge on one market due to its unique position as a bridge between both: Egypt. What was once a promising, fast-growing ecosystem has, over the past few years, begun to mature into one of the region’s most significant digital finance hubs. Even a few […]
Explore MoreFraud prevention specialist Riskified has warned that Meta’s acquisition of Moltbook marks a definitive transition from experimental autonomous buying to a mandatory infrastructure shift for global merchants. By integrating the agent-to-agent directory into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the social media giant is effectively centralising the framework for programmatic spending. The move introduces a fundamental change in […]
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Financial services platform Mollie is urging cross-border merchants to adopt a ‘gold standard’ compliance strategy to navigate the widening gap between UK and EU fintech regulations. Dave Smallwood, managing director of Mollie UK & Ireland As the EU moves toward the prescriptive requirements of PSD3 and the Payment Services Regulation (PSR), the UK continues to pivot toward the outcomes-based […]
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