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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.

 

Rowen Brooks  · 
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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AI & ML
Fintech

Mitratech acquires BotDojo to push agentic AI into legal ops

The legaltech incumbent bets that proprietary data depth beats standalone AI wrappers as agentic platforms go enterprise-standard.
The legaltech incumbent bets that proprietary data depth beats standalone AI wrappers as agentic platforms go enterprise-standard.
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Datatech

TransUnion: debt settlement hits credit scores harder than bankruptcy

New TransUnion data shows current-status consumers enrolling in debt settlement face steeper score drops than bankruptcy filers.
New TransUnion data shows current-status consumers enrolling in debt settlement face steeper score drops than bankruptcy filers.
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AI & ML

Feedzai launches Farol as banks accelerate agentic AI fraud ops

Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets fraud investigation latency as mandatory reimbursement rules raise the cost of financial crime.
Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets fraud investigation latency as mandatory reimbursement rules raise the cost of financial crime.
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Blockchain
Fintech
AI & ML

Brickken joins Linux Foundation to open-source tokenised asset rules

Brickken's LFDT membership targets shared open standards for tokenised assets and agentic capital markets.
Brickken's LFDT membership targets shared open standards for tokenised assets and agentic capital markets.
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Fintech
AI & ML

Feedzai launches Farol agentic AI to cut fraud investigation times

Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets the fragmentation gap stalling bank fraud teams, with SAR drafting claimed at 12x speed.
Feedzai's embedded AI agent targets the fragmentation gap stalling bank fraud teams, with SAR drafting claimed at 12x speed.
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Fintech
Transportation & Logistics

TBC Bank Uzbekistan adds UZCARD to Salom debit card network

TBC UZ's 1.2 million-card Salom product adds a domestic rails partner, targeting one million new cards in Central Asia's fast-digitalising
TBC UZ's 1.2 million-card Salom product adds a domestic rails partner, targeting one million new cards in Central Asia's fast-digitalising
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AI & ML

F2 Strategy acquires Callaway Cloud in eighth buy since 2023

F2 Strategy adds Salesforce and data-engineering depth to its wealth-management tech stack with its third acquisition of 2026.
F2 Strategy adds Salesforce and data-engineering depth to its wealth-management tech stack with its third acquisition of 2026.
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Blockchain
Fintech

Hedera's CLPR targets blockchain fragmentation in tokenised finance

Hedera contributes a bridgeless cross-ledger protocol to open-source governance, aiming to end liquidity trapping across tokenised asset networks.
Hedera contributes a bridgeless cross-ledger protocol to open-source governance, aiming to end liquidity trapping across tokenised asset networks.
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Retail & E-Commerce

Silverflow and Hypergate unite to modernise acquiring infrastructure

Two cloud-native payments specialists combine processing and gateway into one API layer for acquirers battling legacy complexity.
Two cloud-native payments specialists combine processing and gateway into one API layer for acquirers battling legacy complexity.
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Datatech

Experian-Workday tie-up puts 80m payroll records into lending pipeline

Experian's Workday integration extends instant income verification to over half of US payroll employees, compressing mortgage and auto-loan decisioning.
Experian's Workday integration extends instant income verification to over half of US payroll employees, compressing mortgage and auto-loan decisioning.
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Fintech
Retail & E-Commerce

Solaris goes live on SEPA Instant as EU rules rewire euro payments

Solaris Bank's ACI Connetic go-live marks a regulatory inflection point forcing eurozone banks to rebuild payments infrastructure at pace.
Solaris Bank's ACI Connetic go-live marks a regulatory inflection point forcing eurozone banks to rebuild payments infrastructure at pace.
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AI & ML
Fintech

Fearn raises $5.5m to rewire patent law for the startup era

The AI-native patent firm's a16z-backed launch signals that professional services economics are the next frontier for AI disruption.
The AI-native patent firm's a16z-backed launch signals that professional services economics are the next frontier for AI disruption.
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Fintech
AI & ML

Juniper Square embeds Nasdaq eVestment AI into private markets CRM

Capital Intelligence gives GPs institutional-grade LP intelligence without leaving their existing CRM, as LP capital concentrates with fewer managers.
Capital Intelligence gives GPs institutional-grade LP intelligence without leaving their existing CRM, as LP capital concentrates with fewer managers.
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Fintech
AI & ML

Purple Group launches Hello Purple fintech infra platform

Hello Purple opens Purple Group's payments and trading stack to external founders, targeting the persistent infrastructure bottleneck in fintech product creation.
Hello Purple opens Purple Group's payments and trading stack to external founders, targeting the persistent infrastructure bottleneck in fintech product creation.
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