Boerse Stuttgart Digital has integrated EUR CoinVertible, the euro stablecoin issued by Société Générale-FORGE, into its trading and custody platform, making it the first stablecoin issued by a bank subsidiary to enter the firm's regulated infrastructure. The move, announced on 23 July 2026, deepens a two-decade commercial relationship between the Boerse Stuttgart Group and Société Générale and extends it from traditional capital markets into digital assets. What is Boerse St

The FCA's BNPL rulebook is live, Forward Financing landed $525M, and Propy became a title company. Inside a week that rewired credit.

Growth-focused private equity firm Bregal Sagemount has agreed to acquire a majority stake in ATOZ Services, a Luxembourg-based fund services platform, in a deal that consolidates the New York firm's position in one of Europe's fastest-consolidating financial services markets. Under the transaction, Sagemount becomes the controlling shareholder while founding parent ATOZ Group and existing backer ICG retain minority positions. The deal is subject to regulatory approval and cu

As of July 10, Europe's Anti-Money Laundering Authority has delivered the Level 2 and Level 3 measures that will bind every regulated firm on the continent from 2027. Meanwhile, an AI Act watermarking obligation lands August 2, Australia's Tranche 2 goes live, and a wave of RegTech funding suggests the compliance stack itself is being rebuilt in real time. The Regulator's Fortnight If you work in compliance, this month is not a slow one. According to AMLA's own regulatory ins

Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) has launched the Intuit Business Credit Card, a World Elite Business Mastercard for US small businesses that connects directly to QuickBooks, the accounting software many of those businesses already run on. The card is issued by WebBank, operates on the Mastercard network, and carries unlimited 2% cash back on everyday purchases and 5% back on Intuit products including QuickBooks and Mailchimp, with no annual fee. The bigger story sits underneath the rew

Airtel Money is dusting off its London IPO paperwork, Climate First Bancorp just added institutional muscle to its balance sheet, and the FCA is still turning "open finance" into more than a slogan. This week, the beyond-banking story is writing itself. If you spent the last five years wondering whether "sustainable finance" and "financial inclusion" would remain conference-panel platitudes or become actual profit centres, the last few days should have settled the argument. B

Mitigram, the Stockholm-based digital trade finance platform, has acquired eexpand, the Paris trade intelligence provider whose software helps banks spot and vet cross-border business for their corporate clients. The acquisition, announced on 22 July 2026, moves Mitigram out of pure transaction execution and into the earliest stages of the trade journey, the point at which a company is still deciding which markets to enter and which counterparties to trust. Financial terms we

The EU is inches from publishing PSD3, Temenos just picked up its second consecutive Euromoney trophy while closing a marquee US bank deal, and Thought Machine crossed a nine-figure revenue threshold. Core banking modernisation is no longer a slide in a boardroom deck, it's the balance sheet. If open banking's first act was regulators forcing banks to open their APIs, the second act now unfolding is banks quietly rebuilding the engine underneath. The last seven days delivered

Banks and credit unions can now vary how much freedom their AI gives an account holder depending on the question being asked. On 21 July 2026, Glia introduced three configurable banking AI response modes for Glia Banker, its voice and digital AI agent, letting an institution set how flexible or how tightly scripted a reply is on a topic-by-topic basis. The move reframes AI risk as something to be tuned rather than accepted or rejected wholesale, and it targets the single obst