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Banking and Fintech

Visa and Mastercard complete transactions in Syria after US lifts state terrorism label

Visa and Mastercard have completed their first international card transactions in Syria after the US removed it from the state sponsors of terrorism list.

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Banking and Fintech

Swift accepts request to extend structured address migration for ISO 20022 messages

Swift is extending the November deadline for moving from unstructured to structured postal addresses for ISO 20022 payment messages after a…

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Banking and Fintech

Socure hits $5.2bn valuation on investment; buys AI fraud platform Fravity

Socure, the identity and risk intelligence infrastructure platform, has raised funding from investors including Goldman Sachs Alternatives …

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Banking and Fintech

How the banking industry can ensure vulnerable adults don’t remain underbanked

The industry often lauds the success of new technologies and rapid advances in real-time payments, but, for some, these changes can create …

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Banking and Fintech

Deutsche Bank's Private Bank selects Thought Machine for radical core banking shakeup

Deutsche Bank's Private Bank has selected Vault Core from Thought Machine as part of a broader programme to reduce the number of core banki…

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Banking and Fintech

UK Government tells Bank of England to support innovation in payment systems

The UK Government is to give the Bank of England a new mandate to support innovation in payment systems and digital money such as stablecoi…

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Presentation: Python, Numba, and Algorithm Design: Building Efficient Models in Financial Services

Chad Schuster discusses bridging Python's developer velocity with C-like performance using Numba JIT and GPUs. Drawing from large-scale act…

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Cloudflare Wallets Arrives Late to x402, and the Spending Controls Stop at the Payment

Cloudflare announced Wallets, giving agents a stablecoin balance and spending controls, though only handle claiming is live and squatting c…

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Banking and Fintech

Japan to form study group for blockchain-based settlement of stock and bonds

Japan's FSA, finance ministry and central bank are planning to develop a national blockchain-based settlement infrastructure for stocks and…

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Banking and Fintech

Financial services industry publishes roadmap for equity issuance electronification

In a step towards the first fully electronic IPO, the FIX Trading Community (FIX) and the Investment Association (IA), have published an in…

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Banking and Fintech

Stablecoin platform Fasset hits $1bn valuation

US-based start-up Fasset, which is described as an AI-powered stablecoin neobanking platform, has reached unicorn status after its latest f…

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Banking and Fintech

Walmart finally lets customers make contactless payments

US retail behemoth Walmart is making a daring expedition to the bleeding edge of technology, rolling out contactless payments in its stores.

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Forget the model wars, Stripe and Ramp just started the router wars

I’m Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. Each week, I round up the most important AI developments, The post Forget the…

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Banking and Fintech

Global banks sign for Ant International AI forecasting model

A host of banking giants, including Barclays and Deutsche Bank, are already using a new Ant International AI model to improve their cashflo…

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Banking and Fintech

Visa partners _able and Onafriq to expand credit access in Africa

Visa is working with credit infrastructure provider _able and African payments outfit Onafriq to expand access to credit to millions of Afr…

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OpenRouter called itself the “Stripe for LLMs” — now Stripe’s swooped in to buy it

After weeks of speculation, fintech giant Stripe has confirmed that it’s tabled a bid for AI model gateway platform OpenRouter, The post Op…

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Banking and Fintech

Prosus invests $100m in Indian fintech Navi

Indian digital financial services firm Navi is set to receive $100m funding boost from Dutch asset manager Prosus.

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Banking and Fintech

EIB launches fintech fund in Poland

The European Investment Fund (EIF) has teamed up with Polish national development bank, Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK)to launch a €30m v…

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Banking and Fintech

Revolut applies for banking licence in Finland

UK-based challenger bank Revolut has formally applied for a banking licence in Finland as it looks to continue its European expansion plans.

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Del crédito pyme al lending para gig workers: aprendizajes y desafíos de R2

El modelo ya opera con Uber en México, Colombia y Perú, pero su despliegue revela los retos de construir modelos de evaluación de crédito, …

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La IA no es el camino hacia la confianza, señalan bancos colombianos

Expertos de la industria financiera colombiana coinciden en que la tecnología, la hiper personalización y la inteligencia artificial no son…

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BC e bancos cobram mais rigor de parceiros, mas fintechs temem excesso de regulação

Eduarda Davidovic/Febraban | Imagem: Danylo Martins/Finsiders BrasilSetor discutiu como ampliar controles sobre operações financeiras sem e…

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Bancos brasileiros devem investir R$ 50,4 bilhões em tecnologia em 2026, aponta Febraban

O investimento em tecnologia dos bancos brasileiros apresenta uma alta de 8% em 2026, com um valor de R$ 50,4 bilhões, comparado aos R$ 46,…

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Yuno traz Alfredo Sarria, ex-Mastercard, para avançar entre bancos

Alfredo Sarria/Yuno | Imagem: reprodução/LinkedInAlfredo Sarria chega à empresa de orquestração de pagamentos para liderar vendas junto a i…

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Bancos já têm IA, agora precisam avançar na experiência do cliente, concordam executivos

Nesta terça-feira (25), a Febraban Tech 2026 reuniu executivos de Tecnologia do Banco do Brasil, Bradesco, Caixa, Itaú e do Santander para …

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CEO da ABBC cobra Banco Central por ‘fuga de dados’ no Open Finance

Da esq. para a dir., Eduarda Davidovic/Febraban, Heitor Bernardes/Bradesco, Ricardo Morishita/Senacon, Patricia Sousa/Citi e Leandro Vilain…

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Pagamentos B2B viram nova fronteira para cartões no Brasil

Marcelo Tangioni/Mastercard | Imagem: Danylo Martins/Finsiders BrasilSegmento pode migrar até US$ 750 bilhões hoje pagos por boleto e outro…

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Telefónica planea vender su aseguradora por 100 millones. Todo el negocio depende de que a sus clientes se les caiga el móvil

Telefónica estudia vender su filial de seguros y reaseguros por cerca de 100 millones de euros, según ha adelantado elEconomista. No hay op…

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Swap mira mercado de R$ 3,6 bi com cartão de crédito PJ lastreado em recebíveis

Imagem: Magnific/divulgaçãoApresentado na Febraban Tech, o cartão é a segunda frente da vertical de crédito que a fintech de BaaS inaugurou…

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Bancos terão de criar nova estrutura para autenticar agentes de IA

Inteligência Artificial | Imagem: CanvaExecutivos de Itaú, Bradesco, Banco do Brasil, Santander e Caixa debateram os novos limites de autor…

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