Finastra has launched a supply chain finance platform built to help banks originate payables and receivables finance at scale and then move that risk off their own balance sheets. Unveiled on 28 September at Sibos 2026 in Miami, Finastra Supply Chain Finance (SCF) pairs origination with native secondary-market distribution, a combination that speaks to the constraint every trade-finance desk now works under: capital is expensive, and growth in working-capital lending has to b

A partnership with cross-border processor EBANX lets NetEase Games Club accept instant transfers, digital wallets and cash vouchers, opening its checkout to the majority of regional players who do not hold a credit card. NetEase Games Club will start accepting the local payment methods that most Latin American players actually use, following a partnership with cross-border payments company EBANX aimed at one of the fastest-growing video game markets in the world. In an initia

As of this week, the wealth stack is being rebuilt in two directions at once. AI is quietly moving from novelty to production inside advisor workflows, while tokenised assets are edging out of the sandbox and into private-bank client accounts. Here is what actually shipped, who paid for it, and what it means for the next quarter. Something odd is happening in WealthTech. The narrative for most of 2026 has been "the winter continues", and by one measure that is still true: Eur

FinanceX Magazine is delighted to announce its media partnership with the 5th Financial Innovation Forum – Payments & RegTech, taking place on 5 November 2026 at the Convene Convention Centre, New York, USA. Organised by QUBE Events, the forum has established itself as a leading executive meeting point for payments, risk and compliance leaders driving the next phase of financial innovation. Set in one of the world's foremost capitals of finance, technology and regulation, the

HSBC has extended Nasdaq Calypso to clear exchange-traded derivatives, bringing listed futures and options onto the same platform the bank has used for over-the-counter (OTC) swap clearing since 2011. The change consolidates OTC, ETD and repo clearing onto one engine, and its central benefit for institutional clients is cross-margining: the netting of collateral across product types that would otherwise be margined in isolation. The expansion turns HSBC Nasdaq Calypso clearin

Revolut, IDScan and a 160 million identity heist have made one thing plain this month: the KYC vendor is the new perimeter, and the perimeter is on fire. When the front door becomes the crime scene Bank cybersecurity used to be a story about firewalls, endpoints and the occasional embarrassing phishing test. As of this week, it is a story about the third-party API your compliance team signed off on two years ago and quietly forgot about. Following a rush of incidents disclose