Flutterwave has secured a strategic investment from Circle Ventures and added USDC settlement across its platform, giving the African payments company a second regulated dollar stablecoin rail alongside the RLUSD integration it announced with Ripple weeks earlier. The move lets businesses collect payments locally and settle in USDC, Circle's dollar-pegged token, extending settlement beyond traditional banking hours and cutting the multi-day delays that have long characterised

Tokenized stocks debut on the NYSE, DTCC's pilot goes live, and Europe's regulators pick a fight with prediction markets. It has been a very busy seven days for financial market infrastructure. If you blinked last week, you missed the moment U.S. market infrastructure crossed a Rubicon. In the space of five trading days, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation moved from press releases to production, the New York Stock Exchange welcomed its first fully tokenized listed eq

FinanceX Magazine is delighted to announce its media partnership with the Smarter Payments Summit, the UK's premier Head of Payments event, taking place on 10 September 2026 at the Hilton London Canary Wharf. This partnership reinforces FinanceX Magazine's commitment to connecting senior finance and payments leaders with the insight, innovation, and industry connections shaping the future of the sector. As a proud media partner of the Smarter Payments Summit, FinanceX Magazin

The Financial Conduct Authority has published the Mills Review, the first regulator-initiated study of its kind globally, concluding that AI is on course to become a defining force in retail financial services and setting out a seven-point roadmap for how the regulator, industry and government should prepare. Released on 6 July 2026 and led by FCA executive director Sheldon Mills, the review examines how AI could restructure the sector for consumers, firms, markets and regula

Goldman leads $110M AI claims round, Matic acquires 30K Policygenius policies, Mitigata bags $15M for India cyber. Inside InsurTech's AI-native pivot.

Klarna has applied for a U.S. banking license, submitting applications to the Utah Department of Financial Institutions and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on July 6, 2026, to establish Klarna Bank USA, a proposed Utah-chartered industrial bank. If approved, the wholly owned subsidiary of Klarna Inc. would let the buy-now-pay-later lender end its reliance on partner banks and take deposit-taking, credit, and payments infrastructure in-house across a U.S. base of 30

Retail investors spent the second quarter of 2026 positioning themselves along the plumbing of the artificial intelligence economy rather than its headline names, buying into memory chipmakers, nuclear power operators and commercial space companies. New quarterly data from trading platform eToro, which tracks proportional changes in the number of holders across its global user base, shows flash storage maker SanDisk recorded the sharpest rise in holders of any stock, up 151%.

Ripple has secured full authorisation as a Crypto-Asset Service Provider from Luxembourg's financial regulator, completing its compliance under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation and clearing the way to offer regulated cryptoasset services across all 30 countries of the European Economic Area. The Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier confirmed the CASP licence on 6 July 2026, converting the preliminary "Green Light Letter" the regulator issued on 23 June

MDOTM closes $27M, Robinhood launches its own chain for tokenized stocks, and Orion earns an AI cert. WealthTech's AI reset is here.