Fintech

IGEN president Ryan Padget on the financial services firm that lost a $2.5 million refund when one tax analyst left, and why tax belongs on the risk register.

KPC Private Funds chief executive Dean Rubino on why onboarding for alternatives stayed manual, what PRISM 2.0 standardises, and what the industry must fix.

OORI co-founder Naif Alajmi on the CMA licence, why Saudi private markets stayed hard to reach, and the plan for GCC-wide private market infrastructure.

Redmill Advance founder David Tait on the skills advice firms now ask for, how empathy and judgement can be assessed, and why trust does not pass with assets.

Sokin chief financial officer Tom Steer on why a private company disclosed its numbers, what an AI agent needs from regulated rails, and the risks to $120m.

Trust Payments chief executive Laurence Booth on a 72-hour terminal rollout, reconciling casino and restaurant payments, and where AI takes payments next.

Womble Bond Dickinson partner Louis Froelich on the SEC's 2026 agenda, why privacy is a harder problem than custody, and where tokenisation will concentrate.

Two market data specialists are offering banks and trading firms an incremental escape route from ageing, vendor-locked data infrastructure.

Checkout.com's US processing volume is on track to exceed $100bn this year, as the firm launches direct acquiring and issuing capabilities.

Experian's new AI decisioning engine blends real-time cash flow and credit data, widening access for borrowers missed by traditional underwriting.

Ripple's GSmart expansion puts policy-cited AI agents into treasury workflows, targeting the governance gap slowing enterprise adoption.

The Malta-licensed payment provider gains a modern issuer-processing stack as embedded finance infrastructure becomes a cross-sector battleground.

TP ICAP's data arm and Zema Global expand a partnership to pipe broker-sourced OTC pricing into energy firms' existing decision systems.

Ant International rolls out its open agentic payment protocol to 17 partners, while Mastercard and Visa join a shared agent-identity framework.

Sidetrade's SAFE framework runs agentic finance AI entirely on owned GPUs and data centres, targeting a 30–35% EBITDA margin by 2030.

The fintech's new commercial president will accelerate its pivot from back-office data into front-office agentic AI for institutional investors.

Mastercard's new Agent Connect platform positions the payments giant as the trust layer for AI-driven retail, connecting merchants, agents and payment providers.

OKX AI's pay-per-task marketplace lets autonomous agents hire each other, pointing toward agentic micro-economies beyond human-directed software.

Checkout.com becomes one of only three firms to operate a US MALPB charter, gaining direct card-network access without third-party intermediaries.

A $100M Series C backs Savvy's bet that AI can give independent advisors institutional scale without surrendering ownership.