Ripple has expanded GSmart, the treasury AI now built into the platform it acquired for $1bn last year, adding policy-governed agents across forecasting, liquidity, risk, reconciliation and reporting. The capabilities are already in production across the enterprise customer base, and the pitch to finance chiefs is deliberately narrow: keep the arithmetic deterministic, keep humans on the approval button, and use AI only to interpret, flag and explain. That framing is a direct

Mambu ships an AI-native core, Temenos moves a Vietnamese giant to hybrid cloud, and Brussels edges PSD3 closer to the finish line. Welcome to the week open banking and core modernisation collided.

Mastercard has launched Wallet Pay, a portfolio of connectivity solutions that lets digital wallet providers plug into its global network for contactless, QR code and online payments, positioning the card network as the interoperability layer beneath a market on track to reach 6 billion users by the end of the decade. The launch, announced in Singapore on 9 September 2026, arrives with an unusually broad roster of partners already signed on. It includes wallets connected thro

Chime has agreed to acquire Stride Bank, N.A., its banking partner of more than seven years, for $590m in cash, ending the neobank's reliance on rented banking infrastructure and pulling a national charter directly onto its own balance sheet. The all-cash deal, announced on 8 September 2026, will convert Stride into a wholly owned subsidiary named Chime Bank, N.A. and, subject to regulatory approval, close in the first half of 2027. What is Chime actually buying? The headline

FinanceX Magazine is pleased to announce its media partnership with the Fin.Tech Marketing Conference Singapore 2026, taking place on 24 September 2026 at the Guoco Midtown Network Hub, 126 Beach Road, Singapore. Organised by the Fin.Tech Marketing Community, the Singapore conference convenes senior business and marketing professionals from across financial services, FinTech, and technology to exchange best practices and sharpen go-to-market strategies. The programme is built

From FIS's embedded banking launch in the US to a 500-delegate summit in Cape Town, this week's beyond-banking news reveals a sector finally putting purpose and plumbing on the same balance sheet.