James Owusu, CEO and founder at Kord, on building an FCA-regulated platform for high-value transactions and why fintech avoids its least glamorous markets. James Owusu, CEO and founder at Kord Kord was set up in 2020 to take the administrative friction out of high-value transactions. It is an FCA regulated UK fintech that brings client […]
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The following is a fintech and wider digital economic development view of Pacific Nation Tonga. Few countries depend on money sent home quite like Tonga. Across Australia, New Zealand, the United States and elsewhere, Tongans working abroad regularly transfer part of their earnings back to relatives in the Pacific kingdom. That money pays for groceries, […]
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The following showcases the 2026 developments of fintech and wider digital of Central Asian nation of Turkmenistan. Fintech usually thrives on openness. Entrepreneurs need access to international technology. Investors need reliable information. Consumers need affordable internet, while financial companies need the freedom to experiment, compete and connect with markets beyond their borders. Turkmenistan provides almost […]
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MoonPay has added Discover Network as a supported card network on its US crypto onramp, completing a trio of major American card schemes alongside Visa and Mastercard. The integration means Discover cardholders can now purchase and sell digital assets across MoonPay’s network of more than 500 enterprise partners, which includes wallets, exchanges and consumer applications. […]
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Ozone API has launched a dedicated commercial Variable Recurring Payments product for UK banks and payment service providers that sit outside the CMA9 mandatory compliance group. The company says any institution can go live with a fully OBL 4.0-compliant cVRP infrastructure in 8 to 10 weeks via its Ozone Connect integration layer, with no internal […]
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The following is an overview of the fintech ecosystem and its relation to wider economic development of Canada in 2026. Canada should have been an open-banking pioneer. It has one of the world’s most developed financial systems, near-universal access to banking, a highly connected population and Toronto is one of North America’s largest financial […]
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Part 2 of 4 in the series Fastest Route to Market: Licensing Roadmaps for FinTechs. By Taft’s FinTech Practice Framing the problem: when ‘money transmission’ is not enough In Part 1 of our four-part series, Fastest Route to Market: Money Transmission Licensing Roadmaps for FinTechs, we explained why many early-stage FinTechs begin with federal Money […]
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HM Treasury’s Wholesale Digital Markets Champion has convened an industry taskforce, supported by the City of London, that has brought 54 financial institutions together to develop live tokenisation use cases. Barclays and PwC estimate that tokenisation could add up to £33 billion a year to the UK economy by 2035. Isadora Arredondo, VP of global […]
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If a platform appears cheaper because it has already been depreciated, but every change requires scarce specialists, manual reconciliation and another workaround, is it really the economical option? Julian Farley, Sales Director for the UK and EU at BPC In this recent article, Julian Farley, Sales Director for the UK and EU at BPC, an […]
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The following is a fintech and wider digital economic development view of the Solomon Islands in 2026. In the Solomon Islands, getting to a bank can sometimes mean getting into a boat. That simple reality explains more about the country’s fintech opportunity than almost any statistic. Spread across nearly 1,000 islands in the South Pacific, […]
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