TerraPay and Cooperative Bank of Oromia with Quantoz Payments have launched a blockchain-based settlement system for euro-denominated remittances flowing from Europe to Ethiopia, targeting one of Africa's largest inbound remittance markets. The Ethiopia remittance corridor handles more than $5 billion in annual inflows, and the new infrastructure routes euro settlement through the Xahau blockchain while keeping retail delivery within Coopbank's licensed domestic network. The

Asia’s fintech ecosystem reached new heights with breakthrough announcements and industry-defining moments that will reshape the region’s financial landscape Money20/20, the world’s leading fintech show and the place where money does business, concluded three days of industry‑shaping conversations, high‑impact networking, and packed stages from April 21–23 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC) in Bangkok, Thailand. This year’s show welcomed over 4,500 attend

MoonPay has acquired DFlow, the Solana-based trading infrastructure platform that has processed more than $50 billion in cumulative trading volume since April 2025, in a move that significantly expands the crypto payments network's onchain execution capabilities. The deal marks MoonPay's most strategically significant acquisition since January 2025 and positions the New York-headquartered firm to compete directly in high-frequency onchain trading and the emerging agent-driven

Barclays has completed its acquisition of Best Egg, folding the Delaware-based personal loan platform into its US consumer banking arm and signalling a more aggressive push into one of America's fastest-growing unsecured credit segments. The deal, first announced on 28 October 2025, gives the UK lender a direct-to-consumer origination engine to sit alongside its existing partnership-led credit card and deposit franchise. For UK-listed Barclays, it is the most material US cons

FINRA's green light for tokenized custody, the SEC's cross-margining nod, and Euronext's CSD consolidation are quietly rewiring the plumbing of global finance, and they all landed in the same news cycle. If you blinked this past week, you missed an inflection point. Between a landmark FINRA approval that drops tokenized securities into the regulated U.S. broker-dealer stack, an SEC exemptive order on Treasury cross-margining, and Europe's accelerating march toward a T+1 settl

Finastra and Nammu21 have struck a partnership to automate the processing of syndicated credit agreements, integrating Nammu21's document intelligence engine directly into Finastra's Loan IQ platform via its Nexus Build API. The integration targets one of the most persistent operational drags in institutional lending: the manual interpretation of complex credit documents that currently slows deal onboarding across the $5 trillion global syndicated loan market. What Does This

Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) has agreed to acquire UK-headquartered transfer agent Equiniti from private equity firm Siris Capital in a $4.2 billion deal that fuses a regulated shareholder-services franchise with blockchain-native issuance infrastructure. The transaction, announced on 5 May 2026 and expected to close in January 2027, gives the digital asset platform a system of record covering nearly 3,000 issuer clients, 15,000 corporate clients, 20 million shareholders and roughly

Tetra Trust Company, through its agent CAD Digital Inc., has launched CADD, the first Canadian-dollar stablecoin issued by a regulated financial institution after receiving approval from Alberta Treasury Board and Finance. The Calgary-based trust company's CADD token is backed 1:1 by Canadian dollars held in trust and is now live on Base, Ethereum, and Tempo, with Solana deployment to follow. The launch arrives as global stablecoin transaction volume surpassed $27 trillion in

Global InsurTech funding surged 27% year-over-year in Q1 2026, AI is automating more than half of all claims at leading carriers, and regulators are finally building the tools to keep pace. Welcome to insurance's most consequential quarter in years. According to Beinsure, global InsurTech investments rose 27% year-over-year in Q1 2026, recording $943.4 million across 42 deals. The global InsurTech market is projected to reach $23.5 billion this year, and roughly two-thirds of