Innovation

The publicly listed US neobank is exploring embedded stablecoin wallets as its fastest-growing users shift upmarket.

Klarna's four-tier membership overhaul targets credit card displacement across Europe, bundling travel, media and wellbeing perks.

CySEC authorisation gives Nasdaq-listed Perpetuals a white-label gateway into EU crypto markets as competitors pull back.

The FCA's Mills Review signals where AI regulation in retail financial services is heading, with accountability frameworks now a boardroom priority.

Dell's UK survey reveals financial services SMEs are embedding AI faster than other sectors, yet a skills gap threatens to stall momentum.

A four-way public-private coalition targets Africa's 90%-SME economy with finance, digital tools and logistics to unlock cross-border trade.

A three-year renewal signals AI-driven, journey-wide fraud detection displacing manual review in high-velocity digital goods markets.

Flywire's Pay by Bank expansion into the US and Canada marks a significant step in open banking's move from European test bed to

Abu Dhabi's exchange becomes the first in the MENA region to stream official live market data through conversational AI platforms.

Global Finance's Innovators 2026 award spotlights how embedded ML is reshaping real-time fraud prevention across Latin America's fast-digitising payments market.

InsurTech platform Redkik teams with specialty broker Fortress to offer flexible, real-time gap and excess cover for freight operators.

Blockchain.com integrates Adclear's AI review tools as the FCA prepares its toughest-ever cryptoasset marketing regime for 2027.

An India-US services partnership aims to bridge the gap between AI capability and measurable business outcomes in customer experience.

Corpay's new plain-language Virtual Assistant targets the six-plus hours UK finance teams lose weekly to manual spend admin.

Defacto's SEPA integration with Mambu Payments automates SME receivables financing, signalling a shift in how fintechs plug into institutional banking.

Farsight's expanded PitchBook tie-up pipes private-market deal and valuation data directly into AI-driven financial workflows.

The London partnership merges AI transaction monitoring with client lifecycle management to cut financial crime compliance costs.

Stanbic IBTC's platform upgrade signals Africa's corporate banking shift toward real-time payments and intelligent liquidity management.

A multi-year deal embeds a 99-qubit trapped-ion system in OCI data centres, bringing hybrid quantum-AI workloads to enterprise cloud users.

Brazil's aerospace giant raises full-year guidance after a record Q2, with defence revenue surging 38% and its backlog at an all-time high.