MoonPay has acquired Glide, a crypto deposits infrastructure company founded in 2023 by Tushar Soni and Qinyu Tong, the engineers who led the build of Robinhood’s crypto wallet. Glide’s team, technology and existing customers are folding into MoonPay with immediate effect, the company confirmed on 16 July 2026. Glide’s core product lets applications accept crypto […]
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Joe Channer, CEO of Delta Capita, on why ageing private equity fintech assets are pushing capital markets fintech into an era of industrialisation. Joe Channer, founder and CEO of Delta Capita For years, fintech thrived on a simple assumption that cheap money would remain abundant long enough for scale to solve everything else. A plethora […]
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The following showcases the 2026 developments of fintech and wider digital of Turkey, or officially known as Türkiye. Türkiye is an unusual place to build a fintech company. Consumers are highly digital, Istanbul has a substantial technology ecosystem and the country has produced payment companies capable of attracting billion-dollar valuations. At the same time, businesses […]
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Azerbaijan’s Bir ecosystem has partnered with UnionPay International, the global payments subsidiary of China’s UnionPay, that materially widens acceptance of UnionPay-branded cards across the country. The first phase of the rollout is already live, giving UnionPay cardholders access to online checkout at more than 1,000 merchants and cash withdrawal at approximately 1,300 Birbank ATMs. The […]
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MoneyGram, Figure Markets and Range have been announced as new Tier 1 validators on the Stellar blockchain network, in a move the Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) says broadens the decentralisation and fault tolerance of a network it positions as infrastructure for regulated finance. Tier 1 status on Stellar carries specific obligations. Each organisation must operate […]
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Monzo has partnered with the Centre for Inclusive Money at Nest to investigate how digital banking tools and behavioural design could increase retirement saving among the UK’s 4.4 million self-employed workers. The project will run a live customer initiative through Monzo Business, and the organisations intend to submit their findings to the UK Government’s Pensions […]
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Money20/20 Middle East, the premier gathering for the regional and global money ecosystem, is set to make its return to Riyadh from 14 to 16 September 2026. Taking place at the Riyadh Exhibition & Convention Centre in Malham, the landmark three-day event will gather policy makers, banking heavyweights, tech pioneers, and institutional investors to address […]
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The following showcases the 2026 developments of fintech and wider digital of Southeast Asian nation of Timor-Leste. For more than two decades, Timor-Leste was Southeast Asia’s young outsider. That changed in October last year. After a 14-year accession process, the country formally became the 11th member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), joining […]
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Elliptic, the London-headquartered blockchain analytics firm, has launched an upgraded version of its Continuous Monitoring product aimed at crypto compliance teams. The new release expands the range of risk-changing events the system can detect and adds configurable alerting controls designed to reduce alert fatigue, which the company says can cut manual rescreening and alert triage […]
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The following is an in-depth analysis of the fintech and wider digital economic development of African nation Togo. Togo’s most interesting fintech company started with motorcycle taxis. When Gozem launched in Lomé in 2018, its proposition was relatively straightforward: bring the ride-hailing model to a West African city where motorcycle taxis were already part of […]
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