Global

September 16, 2026 @ 1:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Klarna (NYSE: KLAR) has added a new layer of protection for customers in the Nordic region, rolling out an in-app tool that lets people check in real time whether an incoming phone call is actually coming from the company. The feature, called Call Status Detection,… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 10:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Latin America’s digital bank Nubank (NYSE:NU) has taken another step beyond its home markets. Nu, which already serves more than 140 million customers in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia, has entered a strategic alliance with Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum to support the launch of Nu… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

Last week, UK Finance and Oliver Wyman, a management consulting firm, partnered on a report on the developing digital asset ecosystem. The report said the UK is well positioned for the tokenization of securities, but it must “act with urgency” to remain globally competitive. The… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 8:06 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Federal prosecutors in New York have moved to confiscate about $61 million in cryptocurrency they describe as revenue from unsanctioned Iranian crude and petroleum sales. The civil forfeiture complaint, filed September 14, 2026 by the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 7:58 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  The FCA acted after the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) found that Mr Miah, who was a non-legal manager at Kingly Solicitors Limited, dishonestly caused or allowed more than £28m of client money to be taken from client accounts… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 6:51 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Ireland’s largest retail lender has taken another step in modernising its technology stack by deepening its relationship with Stripe, the Dublin-founded payments and financial infrastructure company. The newly announced strategic collaboration is being presented internally as a significant marker in Bank of Ireland’s broader digital… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 1:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Brussels fintech Chift has closed a €10.5 million Series A round to expand the software “plumbing” that links Europe’s fragmented financial tools — and to make that plumbing usable by artificial intelligence as well as by traditional applications. The financing was led by BlackFin Capital… Read More

September 15, 2026 @ 12:53 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Poland’s mobile payment scheme has taken a notable step into the emerging world of agentic commerce. BLIK, the account-to-account system used across Polish banking apps, has completed its first pilot in which an artificial intelligence agent independently finished an online purchase and settled it with… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 11:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Hungary’s CIB Bank has teamed up with Visa (NYSE: V) to put contactless payment rings into everyday banking, turning a once-niche wearable into a mainstream account perk. Under a joint initiative, eligible customers who open selected CIB ECO current accounts and add a Visa Inspire… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Ripple USD (RLUSD) has grown into one of the larger regulated dollar stablecoins, with net circulating supply recently topping an all-time high of about $2.44 billion before settling near $2.42 billion. That expansion looks like a success story for Ripple’s dual-chain product. A closer look… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 2:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital bank Revolut is facing a public extortion campaign after criminals began publishing identity files taken from a recent customer-data incident, just as the company presses ahead with plans to enter Israel. The firm has confirmed that an unauthorized party obtained sensitive records after submitting… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 12:25 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

UK’s financial regulator is examining whether some digital representations of physical gold should sit outside existing fund rules, as part of a wider push to modernise wholesale markets and keep London at the centre of global bullion trading. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is working… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 10:46 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  You should proceed with caution if you are approached by a CMC or a law firm. For the vast majority of clients, there is no benefit in involving a third party in reclaiming your assets. If you use… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 9:45 am By FCA  |  

This post was originally published on fca.org.uk  Mr Odey was the founder and majority owner of Odey Asset Management (OAM). He faced an internal disciplinary process for breaching a final written warning relating to repeated and persistent inappropriate behaviour towards female employees. In response, Mr… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 9:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Tokenovate shares that it has completed an intra-day repurchase agreement (Repo) on the Canton Network using the FINOS Common Domain Model (CDM), utilzing USDC. Tokenovate is a UK-based Fintech enabling post-trade lifecycle automation and digital settlement solutions. Canton is  a privacy-enabled blockchain network built for… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:18 am By Michael Wong  |  

Hong Kong and Dubai financial authorities and exchanges have established a Strategic Working Group to strengthen ties between the financial markets of Hong Kong and the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), according to a joint announcement. The move comes as the two financial centres seek to… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 8:16 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Satsuma Technology PLC (LSE:SATS),  a United Kingdom company listed on the London Stock Exchange, has completed the sale of its entire Bitcoin treasury and secured court clearance to send the resulting cash back to investors. The firm disposed of 669.4867 Bitcoin in late July and will… Read More

September 14, 2026 @ 4:18 am By Omar Faridi  |  

HelmGuard, a London-based startup building an agentic platform for governance, risk, and compliance, has closed a $7.3 million seed round as it looks to replace slow, document-heavy assurance work with AI systems that inspect risk at the source. The financing was co-led by Infinity Ventures… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 11:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin Suisse, a digital assets focused firm currently based in Zug, is preparing a far-reaching reorganization that would transfer a large share of its Swiss workforce to operations in other countries. The company, founded in 2013, currently employs about 120 people in Switzerland and roughly… Read More

September 13, 2026 @ 9:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has secured an unprecedented influx of cash from two cryptocurrency billionaires, who together handed the party £72 million in the space of a day. The gifts, each worth £36 million, rank as the largest individual donations ever recorded to a British… Read More