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Commercial Banking AI: StrategyCorps Acquires Quantuma to Equip Relationship Managers

StrategyCorps has acquired Quantuma, an early-stage developer of AI agents for commercial banking, and will fold the technology into a new business-banking tier of its MonetizeIQ platform. The Nashville company said the extension, MonetizeIQ for Business Banking, will begin rolling out to client institutions and selected prospects in the fourth quarter of 2026. The deal is a bet that commercial banking AI can help community and regional lenders defend small-business relations

AI Governance for Law Firms Shifts from Policy to Enforcement

AI governance for law firms and insurers is moving from written policy to enforcement at the point of action, and a distinct vendor category is forming around it. Jalubro, a London legal-technology consultancy founded in 2015, has rebranded its J-10 control layer as Ephiria and extended it to govern not only how staff use AI and how autonomous agents behave, but the automated back-office processes that move client data between enterprise systems without human review. The pitc

Tabby's $6.5bn Moment: How BNPL Grew Up, Bricks Got Tokenised and Credit Became Software

Following a Series F that reshaped MENA lending, September 2026 has become the month PropTech, embedded credit and AI underwriting finally stopped rehearsing and started operating. The Week Credit Stopped Playing Pretend There is a version of the story where BNPL is still a mall gimmick, tokenised property is still a whitepaper hobby, and AI underwriting is still a slide in someone's Series B deck. As of this week, that version is no longer available. On 14 September 2026, Ta

Open Banking Grows a Brain: PSD3, Intelligent Cores, and the Great API Reset of September 2026

As of this week, the plumbing has stopped being the point. Mambu wired agentic AI into its core, PSD3 edged closer to the Official Journal, and BaaS finally started sounding like a regulated business model. Here is what that means for anyone still shipping APIs in 2026. Open banking spent seven years being sold as a plumbing story. Standardised APIs, third party providers, screen scraping out, PSD2 in, the future is composable. As of September 2026, that pitch is quietly bein

Mortgage Journey Simulator Lets Lenders Test Reform Before They Invest

Novus Strategy, a boutique consultancy focused on the UK mortgage and home buying market, has launched a mortgage journey simulator that lets lenders model changes to their application-to-completion process using their own data before committing any capital. The tool, called Pathfinder, went live on 17 September 2026, arriving as the Government's home buying reform programme and a new smart data regime push lenders to rethink a process that still takes an average of 134 days

Deutsche Bank Enters Crowded German Crypto Custody Market

Deutsche Bank plans to launch a regulated digital asset custody service for European institutional and corporate clients before the end of 2026, entering a German market where dozens of rivals already hold licences and where the bank has spent more than three years preparing the ground. The service, announced on 16 September, will let clients hold and transfer selected cryptocurrencies and stablecoins, with Deutsche Bank managing the wallets and private keys on their behalf.

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A Property History for Your Home

An interview with Bob Frady, by Sean Murphy Last month a friend of Bob Frady's was closing on a house in Nashville and asked him to run the address. Frady came back with a puzzle. The place had clearly been improved, yet there was not a single permit on record, which meant that on paper everything was original. The estate agent insisted the work was only two years old. Then why, Frady asked, are there no permits? He told his friend to hold on to the inspection contingency wha

BNPL’s Regulated Era: When a Checkout Feature Becomes Consumer Credit

By Joris Nijboer, Managing Director at Akkuro Lending Buy Now Pay Later grew by making credit feel unlike credit. It embedded borrowing directly into the point of purchase, giving consumers greater flexibility while helping merchants reduce friction and support conversion. Customers could pay later without leaving the checkout journey, completing a lengthy application, or waiting for a conventional lending process. That simplicity helped drive BNPL adoption. But as the market

Know Your Agent: The Liability Gap in Agentic Payments in the UAE

By Zinah Abdaki, CMO at QUBE Events Agent-initiated payments moved into live operation over the course of 2026, and the UAE is not watching from the sidelines. Globally, the pace is comparable. FIS launched the payments industry's first dedicated agentic commerce offering in January 2026. In March, Mastercard and Santander, with PayOS orchestrating, completed Europe's first live end-to-end payment executed by an AI agent in a controlled environment, and Visa extended support

Founders - The Hidden Risk in a Lease is Not Always the Rent

By John D. Evans, CFA, Founder & General Manager at SEIML For many Founders, the first commercial lease feels like a milestone. It says: we are real, we have an office, we are building something. But inside that lease there is often a hidden risk that does not get enough attention: The deposit In Hong Kong, a commercial lease deposit can often be three months’ rent. In Central, that can be a very large amount of cash for an early-stage company. And for a Founder, cash trapped

Making Financial Data Meaningful

An interview with David Firth by Sean Murphy Around four in five of the calls landing in one high street bank's contact centre are not complaints, fraud or lost cards. They are people trying to make sense of a transaction they can’t recognise. The payment is almost always one of their own but a week later they have already forgotten and the transaction description is often a nonsensical collection of letters and numbers with no location and no memory to hang it on. Multiply t

The 95 Percent Problem: Why Compliance Breaks After the Alert

An interview with Kartik Dabbiru, by Sean Murphy Picture a financial crime analyst at the moment an alert lands. Five, perhaps ten systems are open across as many browser tabs: the alert itself, the customer record, the documents submitted at onboarding, the log of every conversation the firm has had with them. The analyst moves between them, following one branch and then another, until resolving the case has become an impressively convoluted decision tree. Somewhere along th

When Qualified People Can't Find Work in a Market That Needs Them

By Daniel Stoica, Founder & CEO at Skillbourg by RMT Labs Luxembourg's fintech sector keeps growing and keeps saying it can't hire. The labour data tells a more complicated story. Luxembourg's fintech story is a growth story. More than 200 fintechs have set up here since PayPal took a banking licence in 2007, and roughly 280 startups now sit in the ecosystem. The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology runs a yearly FinTech Recruits event where 80-plus fintechs, banks and in

Linxo and the Real Cost of Building Open Banking in France

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Underwriting the Cost of AI

An interview with Will Ross by Sean Murphy Will Ross did not set out to work in insurance. He was at Stanford, between an MS in climate and atmospheric modelling and an MBA, collaborating on a wildfire modelling project in a corner of northern California, when insurers started knocking. A better model, they told him, would help them solve some real problems. He took the meetings and what he found there redirected his career. "There's a lot of good people trying really hard,"