The trade group representing the UK's largest retail investment platforms has told the Financial Conduct Authority that its proposed SIPP due diligence rules risk harming consumers holding legacy assets, and has asked the regulator to spell out how far firms are expected to go before the checks become unworkable. The intervention responds to CP26/20, the FCA's consultation on adapting its rules for self-invested personal pensions, which closes on today. The UK Platform Group

FinanceX Magazine is delighted to announce its official media partnership with Boston Fintech Week 2026, one of the fintech industry's most anticipated annual gatherings. Presented by Fintech Sandbox, the event takes place 22 - 25 September 2026 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, bringing together the global fintech community for a full week of programming. Held under the theme "Fintech That Thinks," this year's edition will examine the technologies, data, governance ex

CAIS's $170m Series D, Playbook's AI orchestration launch and a fresh wave of RIA M&A are turning wealth management's tech stack into an AI-native operating layer.

Financial regulators across three continents have shifted post-quantum cryptography from a research topic to a supervisory expectation within a matter of months, and the compliance clock is now visible even where hard mandates are not. A cross-jurisdiction pilot convened by the Responsible Fintech Institute with Safeheron, launched on 23 August 2026, is the latest signal that banks and their supervisors are testing quantum-safe infrastructure together rather than waiting for

FinanceX Magazine is proud to announce its official media partnership with Nordic Fintech Week 2026, the largest finance and fintech conference in the Nordic region. Taking place from 21–25 September 2026, with core conference days on 23–24 September, the event convenes the entire Nordic fintech ecosystem for a week of insight, connection, and collaboration. Hosted by the team behind Copenhagen Fintech, Nordic Fintech Week has grown since 2017 into the region's flagship gathe

The week of 18 August 2026 gave the payments world three signals that the plumbing is changing faster than most treasurers can spell "settlement finality". Here is what actually happened, and why it matters for anyone still moving money the old way. A quick pulse check on where payments sit right now Every August in payments used to be quiet. Not this one. In the last seven days, the industry has watched a stablecoin consortium of more than 140 firms turn into an actual settl

FinanceX Magazine is pleased to announce its official media partnership with the 20th Annual Collateral Management and Securities Lending Forum, organised by Fleming and taking place on 21–22 October 2026 at the Novotel Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in Hoofddorp, Netherlands. This partnership reinforces FinanceX Magazine's commitment to delivering authoritative coverage of the issues shaping the securities finance and collateral management landscape. Now in its 20th edition, the

BlackRock's tokenised money market funds, JPMorgan Kinexys, DTCC's runway, EU AI Act enforcement, D-Wave bookings. The plumbing of finance is being replaced at speed.

Standard Chartered has issued USD 200 million of three-year floating-rate digitally native notes on Euroclear's Digital Financial Market Infrastructure, becoming, by its own account, the first globally systemically important bank and the first UK issuer to raise money for itself on the platform. The distinction matters less for the headline number than for what it signals: a G-SIB is now willing to fund its own book through distributed ledger rails rather than merely build th