Fintech

Greenwich Pacific Technology Partners opens a dedicated DORA practice, targeting mid-tier financial institutions struggling to translate regulation into architecture.

The six-year partnership has backed over 30,000 UK merchants, with total funding doubling in under 15 months.

Newly Nasdaq-listed Stewards pursues two luxury apartment deals as it builds a private credit and real assets platform.

Partech leads a Series A for a Cairo-Abu Dhabi fintech building sovereign AI credit infrastructure across MEA and Latin America.

What a stablecoin is, what backs the dollar, why $300bn now sits in them, and how the US, EU and UK rules written in the last two years change the picture.

Follow a payment from Manchester to Lagos to see where the stablecoin removes the correspondent banks, what it costs, and why the last mile is still hard.

A tokenised deposit is a bank's own money on a shared ledger. Here is how it differs from a stablecoin, who has one live, and why the two will coexist.

Take one card payment apart: interchange to the issuer, scheme fees to Visa or Mastercard, margin to the acquirer, and why the new rails are aimed at all three.

Ramp's reported $1B raise at a $60B valuation caps a week of nine-figure fintech rounds spanning payments, wealthtech and cross-sector VC.

The merger of two leading climate-software firms creates a transatlantic carbon data platform targeting one billion tonnes of CO₂ managed by 2030.

Addepar chief revenue officer Peter O'Brien on $1.4 trillion of family office data: 48 per cent in alternatives, heirs already at the table and AI for advisers.

Aqua Global's Nick Fernando on decades-old bank payment systems, where tokenised deposits already do real work, and why visibility is the first thing to fix.

BSA LAW's Michael Kortbawi and Nadia El Tannir on Cabinet Decision 94/2026: doubled deadlines, trustee-free settlements and priority financing for UAE debtors.

Commerce payments lead Michaela Weber on what Lululemon's in-store Klarna move signals, why shoppers stack payment methods, and what is hard at the till.

CUBE founder Ben Richmond argues that regulators and regulated firms now want the same real-time regulatory intelligence, making the two labels redundant.

Cyberette founder Julia Jakimenko on the deepfake fraudster who opened 46 ABN AMRO accounts, five ways to beat a face check, and why the EU AI Act stops none.

Exactly.com COO Mark Andreev argues that Klarna, Revolut and their peers have gone from fringe challengers to owning the customer relationship.

FBX Capital Group partner Alex Fenton on 54 per cent growth, £143 million arranged for UK SMEs, and why slow bank decisions matter more than higher rates.

First Digital chief executive Vincent Chok on bank-issued stablecoins, what Hong Kong's payment rails still need, and how he will judge the next twelve months.

Futures trader Amir Naser Hojati argues that when an AI agent analyses, recommends and executes in one step, firms must decide in advance who owns the trade.