Blockchain

UN:BLOCK Fintech to Bring 600+ Professionals to Riga

More than 600 fintech professionals and regulators will gather in Riga to discuss MiCA, payments, investment and the future of financial services.

On October 15, more than 600 fintech professionals, private investors and European Union regulators will gather in Riga for UN:BLOCK Fintech, a one-day conference exploring the issues reshaping financial services.

Retail & E-Commerce

Brand loyalty is a myth: experience is what drives growth

AAWE founder Tom Belt argues that what businesses call loyalty is usually habit or inertia, and that growth comes from the experience customers actually get.

Loyalty schemes, cards, discounts and rewards all rest on the assumption that loyalty exists and can be bought.

Fintech

The next fintech frontier: finance for global citizens

LemFi co-founder and CEO Ridwan Olalere argues that fintech must let migrants carry their credit history and financial identity with them across borders.

More than 300 million people now live outside their country of birth, and for many of them a credit history does not survive the move. The founder of one cross-border finance platform argues that this is the gap fintech has so far left open.

 

AI & ML

How Uzbekistan Built Open Banking Before The West

Uzbekistan is emerging as a serious fintech market, driven by its young population, local payments infrastructure, and evolving regulation.

When you think about the next big fintech market, Uzbekistan probably isn’t the first country that comes to mind. But it should be.

Fintech
Retail & E-Commerce

Lloyds embeds invoicing in its app via BankiFi to tackle late payments

Lloyds' Get Paid tool brings invoicing and payment tracking into business banking, targeting the £26bn overdue payments crisis.
Lloyds' Get Paid tool brings invoicing and payment tracking into business banking, targeting the £26bn overdue payments crisis.
Fintech
AI & ML

IDEMIA Secure Transactions opens agentic commerce to all networks

IDEMIA's new trust infrastructure lets domestic and regional payment schemes compete as AI agents increasingly automate checkout decisions.
IDEMIA's new trust infrastructure lets domestic and regional payment schemes compete as AI agents increasingly automate checkout decisions.
Fintech
Blockchain

Circle and Volante bring USDC into T1 bank payments infrastructure

Circle and Volante are embedding USDC stablecoin workflows directly into the payments platforms used by most of the world's top banks.
Circle and Volante are embedding USDC stablecoin workflows directly into the payments platforms used by most of the world's top banks.
Fintech
Retail & E-Commerce

Volt's AFSL completes A2A regulatory trifecta across UK, EU, Australia

Volt's ASIC licence unifies real-time A2A payments under direct regulatory authority across three of the world's most advanced payment markets.
Volt's ASIC licence unifies real-time A2A payments under direct regulatory authority across three of the world's most advanced payment markets.
Robotics
Transportation & Logistics

Tacta Systems opens Singapore haptic lab to give robots human touch

Tacta's sensor-glove facility in Singapore aims to transfer human dexterity to robotic hands, targeting electronics and auto manufacturing.
Tacta's sensor-glove facility in Singapore aims to transfer human dexterity to robotic hands, targeting electronics and auto manufacturing.
AI & ML
Cybersecurity
Datatech

UiPath tightens agent governance as AI takes enterprise decisions

UiPath's platform update puts a unified control plane around autonomous agents, robots, and people across regulated enterprise environments.
UiPath's platform update puts a unified control plane around autonomous agents, robots, and people across regulated enterprise environments.
Fintech
Wellbeing

Checkout.com adds Jaywan to UAE acquiring platform

Checkout.com integrates the UAE's sovereign card scheme, giving merchants local routing and built-in regulatory compliance in one platform.
Checkout.com integrates the UAE's sovereign card scheme, giving merchants local routing and built-in regulatory compliance in one platform.
Defence
Aerospace
Transportation & Logistics

Traust Structured names M&A director to lead aerospace and defence push

Traust Structured appoints Erin Rooney as shareholder and MD to drive consolidation across organ-transport aviation and defence drone manufacturing.
Traust Structured appoints Erin Rooney as shareholder and MD to drive consolidation across organ-transport aviation and defence drone manufacturing.
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