From Blend's autonomous mortgage agents to the FCA's incoming BNPL crackdown and a 308% surge in tokenised real estate, the lending stack is being rebuilt in public, and this week brought a fresh round of receipts. If you blinked at any point this past week, congratulations, you missed three credit revolutions, one regulatory hammer, and a tokenised tower block. The lending world is no longer pretending to "explore" AI; it is shipping it. The buy-now-pay-later world is no lon

Companies that wrote substantively about artificial intelligence in their 2024 annual reports outperformed silent peers by roughly 18 percentage points, according to the 2026 AI Barometer released today by AI-native systems integrator Blue Bridge Group AI. The finding lands a clear message for investors and reporting teams alike: AI disclosure has shifted from optional narrative colour to a measurable signal of strategic credibility, and markets are now pricing the difference

The 'open banking lurches onward' era is officially over. Between a near-final PSD3 text, a fresh recurring-A2A framework anchored by Britain's biggest banks, and a new chapter for BaaS, this week reset what European financial infrastructure actually looks like.

A digital legacy startup is betting that automated notifications alone will not deliver an estate, so it is putting a trained person on the phone to make sure heirs actually receive what was left for them. LegacyApp, a digital inheritance platform, has launched GOLD, a tier that adds supervised delivery by a human "Guardian" who intervenes when a beneficiary fails to respond to automated alerts. The product targets a growing structural gap in estate planning: the wealth, acce

More than 1,000 senior financial leaders from over 40 countries convened at Oradea Fortress in Romania on 17 and 18 June for the fifth edition of the UNCHAIN Festival, where the digital euro, AI governance, and stablecoin regulation dominated an agenda built around Central and Eastern Europe's claim to a defining role in the future of European financial services. The anniversary edition drew roughly 170 speakers and central bank and supervisory representatives from more than

From a Japan-to-US remittance debut to Nairobi's Inclusive FinTech Forum and LSEG's sustainability data push, the 'beyond banking' story is no longer hypothetical — it's distribution infrastructure.

Six months after switching on recurring payments through Brazil's instant payment rail, Nord Security is processing more than a quarter of its Brazilian payment volume via Pix Automático, a result that quantifies how quickly account-to-account recurring billing is displacing cards in the country. The cybersecurity firm, working through emerging-markets payments platform EBANX, reports that the feature accounts for 28% of its total payment volume in Brazil and has been taken u

With AMLA holding its first conference in Frankfurt, DORA's grace period over, and perpetual KYC becoming the de facto default, the compliance industry is no longer a cost centre. It's the operating model.

As the world's biggest post-trade utility wires institutional securities to a public blockchain, Europe sprints toward an October 2027 T+1 deadline that suddenly feels much closer.