Citi Issues Its First Digitally Native Structured Note on Euroclear’s D-FMI Platform
Citi has launched its first digitally native structured note on Euroclear’s Digital Financial Market Infrastructure (D‑FMI), marking a pioneering use of distributed‑ledger technology for wealth‑management products. The note, issued under English law by Citigroup Global Markets Funding Luxembourg, demonstrates a fully digital issuance‑to‑settlement workflow within existing legal frameworks. Citi and Euroclear highlight the transaction as a proof‑of‑concept for regulatory compliance and operational efficiency. The deal showcases Citi’s cross‑division collaboration to embed digital solutions across its franchise.
Navi Technologies Swings to Red with Rs 126 Cr Loss in FY25
Navi Technologies posted an Rs 126 crore loss for FY25, a marked improvement from the Rs 358.5 crore loss a year earlier, despite an 18% jump in revenue to Rs 2,565 crore. Interest income, which makes up 85% of total revenue, rose 21% while other income...
Brex Is Now in the ChatGPT App Marketplace So You Can Ask Anything About Your Expense Data
Brex has entered the ChatGPT app marketplace, becoming one of the first fintech solutions available in OpenAI’s ecosystem. ChatGPT Enterprise users can now ask natural‑language questions about their company’s spending, balances, and expense policies directly within the chat interface. The...
Top AML and Identity Verification APIs for Compliance in 2026
Financial institutions are turning to AML and identity verification APIs to meet escalating regulatory demands and combat sophisticated fraud. In 2025, FBI reports over 5,100 account‑takeover complaints costing more than $262 million, underscoring the urgency. Providers such as AiPrise, ComplyAdvantage, Sumsub,...
PAY360 2026: Shaping the Future of Payments
PAY360 2026, the premier global payments conference, will be held on 24–25 March 2026 at ExCeL London. The event expects more than 6,000 innovators, thought leaders and industry stakeholders, with over 200 speakers covering topics such as crypto, open payments,...
Novobanco Partners Feedzai to Modernise AML and Fraud
Novobanco has entered a multi‑year partnership with Feedzai to overhaul its anti‑money‑laundering (AML) and fraud defenses using Feedzai’s AI‑native platform. The initiative consolidates fragmented compliance tools into a single, intelligence‑driven system that merges KYC, AML and fraud functions. Advanced watchlist...
TRON's High Throughput Powers Autonomous AI Transactions
As AI agents begin transacting autonomously, payment infrastructure becomes critical. TRON’s high throughput supports this new wave of machine driven activity.
Multiple Payments for Card Bill Frustrates Users
well that's just rude.. having to make multiple payments to pay the monthly card bill is all a bit much - thanks BPAY.. not.. https://t.co/6MGklFKw4O
Clio Launches Clio Capital to Provide Fast, Low-Friction Financing for Law Firms
Clio has introduced Clio Capital, a financing program that offers law firms using its practice‑management software pre‑qualified working capital. Launched on Feb. 26, the service embeds a fast, low‑friction application directly within the Clio platform, bypassing traditional loan paperwork. Eligible firms...
LINE NEXT Launches Stablecoin Platform ‘Unifi’ Globally
LINE NEXT launched Unifi, a stablecoin wallet integrated with LINE Messenger, allowing global users to create wallets via social logins. The non‑custodial platform currently supports Tether (USD₮) and offers 4‑5% annual interest, with a launch promotion up to 8% for...
Nigeria's Rise as Africa's Unicorn Factory
Nigeria has become Africa’s premier unicorn factory, outpacing Kenya, Egypt and South Africa with the continent’s highest number of billion‑dollar startups such as Flutterwave, OPay, Interswitch, Moniepoint and Andela. A 220‑million‑strong consumer base, massive unbanked population and rapid smartphone adoption...
Airwallex Launches Yield Accounts in the U.S., Supercharging Business Payments With Interest-Earning Balances
Airwallex has introduced Yield Accounts for U.S. businesses, enabling companies to earn interest on idle balances held within its payments platform. The product is built into the existing Airwallex treasury suite, offers FDIC insurance up to $250,000 per account, and...
Robinhood Unveils $695 Platinum Credit Card Made With Real Platinum to Target Affluent Users
Robinhood announced a new premium credit card priced at $695 annually, crafted from real platinum. The card is aimed at the platform's affluent clientele and bundles higher rewards, concierge assistance, and travel protections. By introducing a tangible luxury product, Robinhood...
Broadridge’s DLR Platform Processes Average of $362bn in Daily Repo Transactions in Feb 2026
Broadridge Financial Solutions reported that its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform processed an average of $362 billion in daily repo transactions in February 2026, amounting to $6.9 trillion for the month. This represents a 457% year‑over‑year increase, underscoring rapid institutional adoption of...
Swiggy, HDFC Bank Launch Two New Co-Branded Credit Cards with up to ₹48,000 Annual Savings
Swiggy and HDFC Bank introduced two co‑branded credit cards—the Swiggy BLCK and Swiggy Ornge—on March 7, expanding a partnership that began in 2023. The BLCK card targets premium spenders with 10% cashback on Swiggy orders and up to 5% on entertainment,...
Banc of California Makes a Payments Push
Banc of California is accelerating its payments strategy by hiring industry veteran Chris Healy to lead its merchant acquiring platform, BancEdge. The bank aims to broaden the platform across existing and new commercial clients, emphasizing real‑time, AI‑driven payment capabilities. Healy’s...
How to Avoid Sanctions Using Crypto
A new Henry Jackson Society report reveals that cryptocurrency has become a major conduit for sanctions evasion and money laundering, estimating $350 billion laundered between 2005 and 2025. Russia, Iran and North Korea are highlighted as prolific users, with the Russian...
Things Worth Reading: 9th March 2026
The latest roundup highlights several seismic shifts in finance: HSBC estimates a $100 trillion wealth surge among women, urging private banks to capture the gap, while fintech firms race to tailor services for female consumers. Lloyds Bank announced a bold data‑monetisation...
Binance Aims to Enhance Operational Resilience in Crypto Trading with ISO 22301 Certification
Binance has secured ISO 22301 certification for its Business Continuity Management System, confirming robust plans to keep trading, wallet and support services running during disruptions. The standard requires third‑party audited, tested processes, marking a step beyond generic risk policies. This achievement...
Hong Kong Regulators Widen GenA.I. Sandbox Across Financial Services
Hong Kong’s financial regulators have broadened the GenA.I. Sandbox into a cross‑sector programme called GenA.I. Sandbox++, covering securities, asset management, insurance, pensions and stored‑value facilities. Launched on March 5 by the HKMA, SFC, Insurance Authority and MPFA in partnership with Cyberport,...
The Payment Revolution: How Asia Buys, Pays and Lives in 2026
Asia’s payment landscape is evolving toward AI‑driven agentic commerce, where conversational prompts replace traditional searches and agents act on behalf of shoppers. Embedded payment methods—QR codes, contactless taps, and account‑to‑account rails—now span digital, physical and hybrid environments, turning every interaction...
BYD Has Fallen to One Third of China Sales Compared to 1 Year Ago
Chinese EV maker BYD saw its February 2026 domestic sales tumble to roughly 90,000 units, a 65% year‑over‑year decline. In the same period, Geely sold about 206,000 cars, extending its lead over BYD to more than 76,000 units for the...
Irish Banks Launch P2P Payments Service
Ireland’s three largest retail banks—AIB, Bank of Ireland and PTSB—are rolling out Zippay, a peer‑to‑peer mobile payment service developed by Nexi, starting 10 March. The app, embedded directly within each bank’s existing mobile platform, will initially reach a potential user base...
How TIAA Is Using AI To Help Protect Older Adults
TIAA is embedding artificial intelligence across its retirement‑services platform to shield older participants from escalating financial scams. The firm’s AI strategy rests on four pillars—human‑first culture, workflow rewiring, selective use‑cases, and strict ethics guardrails. AI now monitors transactions and calls,...
UTEXO – Native USDT Comes Home to Bitcoin
In this episode, Andy Pickering talks with Victor, co‑founder and CEO of Utexo, about the company’s Bitcoin‑native stablecoin settlement network that brings USDT onto the Lightning Network using RGB. Victor explains how Utexo enables instant, zero‑fee, private USDT payments while...
MoonPay Launches Non-Custodial Financial Layer to Power the Autonomous AI Agent Economy
MoonPay announced MoonPay Agents, a non‑custodial software layer that gives AI agents direct access to crypto wallets and funds. Built on the MoonPay CLI, the platform lets users complete KYC, fund a wallet, and then allow autonomous agents to trade,...
Ledger+ Cuts Family Office Costs From $2M to $200K
Most usage of Software Factory are by companies solving their own problems. They aren’t looking to create public demos. That said, if you’re a fund or family office and need a lightweight but robust way to manage your schedule of...
XRP Poised as Bridge for BlackRock’s ETF Tokenization
Analyst Breaks Down Theory On BlackRock's XRP Play Context: 1,700 iShares ETFs globally, $3.6T in US alone. If BlackRock tokenizes even 5-20% of ETF assets on-chain, that's hundreds of billions needing settlement rails. XRP positioned as "killer bridge for TradFi and...
Spreedly Activates Agentic Commerce Channel
Spreedly announced the launch of an agentic commerce channel that lets AI‑driven agents initiate transactions through merchants’ existing payment service provider relationships while the merchant remains the record of sale. The new channel runs on Spreedly’s open payments platform, preserving...
What Are Offline Payments? How to Accept Them
Offline payments let retailers accept card transactions when the internet drops by storing encrypted payment data on the POS device until connectivity returns. Shopify POS offers this capability for up to 24 hours, giving merchants a safety net during outages at...
Chargeflow Review 2026: The Shopify Chargeback Platform That Fights Back So You Don’t Have To
Chargeflow is a Shopify‑native chargeback platform that covers prevention, real‑time deflection, and AI‑driven dispute recovery in a single dashboard. It offers a success‑based pricing model—free installation, $29 per deflected chargeback, and a 25% fee only on recovered disputes—removing upfront risk...
Banks Overestimate AI Satisfaction; Prioritize Resolution Over Chit‑Chat
90% of banks think customers are satisfied with AI interactions. Only 59% of customers agree. Banks are optimizing for realism. Customers want resolution. Wrong metric, wrong investment. Why Your Voice AI Strategy Needs to Prioritize Resolution Over Chit-Chat https://t.co/ywMtrISq9g
Stablecoins Enable $68M Transfer in 30
A corporate treasury transfer just happened at blockchain speed. Circle shifted $68 million between its own entities in about 30 minutes using its stablecoin infrastructure, replacing bank wires that usually take days. Programmable money is starting to change how companies move capital....
Tokenized Assets Exceed $25 Billion After Nearly Quadrupling in a Year
Tokenized real‑world assets have surpassed $25 billion in on‑chain value, nearly quadrupling from $6.4 billion a year earlier. Growth is led by U.S. Treasuries, private credit and commodities, with major managers such as BlackRock, Fidelity and WisdomTree launching tokenized funds. The number...
Future Finance Chains Must Embed Privacy, Security, Scale
Privacy, security, scale, global connectivity. The building blocks for these features must be baked into the foundation of any chain that aims to be part of the world's new financial rails.
Credit Unions Excel by Executing Fintech Partnerships and AI
Strategy decks are everywhere in banking. Execution is where most institutions struggle. Jesus Garcia of @OceanAir_CU discusses what’s actually working in the credit union sector right now, from fintech partnerships to AI adoption. Watch the full episode, sponsored by @Q2_Software: //youtu.be/tGaZ5ZueuVs
Canton’s Yuval Rooz Says Smart Contract Blockchains Face a Reckoning over Value Gap
Yuval Rooz, CEO of Digital Asset and co‑founder of the Canton Network, warned that most smart‑contract blockchains are over‑valued because they generate little real‑world financial throughput. He argues that token designs copied from Bitcoin reward validators without tying value to...
SumUp Expands Form3 Partnership to Bring Real-Time SEPA Payments to Millions of European SMEs
SumUp announced an expanded partnership with cloud‑native payments platform Form3 to power real‑time SEPA Instant, Credit Transfer and Direct Debit across Europe. The move extends the existing UK‑focused integration, giving SumUp’s 4 million merchants in 37 countries access to instant European...
Liquid Crypto Funds Have a DeFi Problem Nobody Talks About
Liquid crypto funds are expanding rapidly, with DeFi strategies gaining legitimacy and institutional interest. Yet most managers still rely on spreadsheets, custom scripts, and manual reconciliation to track assets across multiple exchanges, chains, and protocols. This fragmented approach makes calculating...
Fideo Intelligence Expands Dark Web Monitoring
Fideo Intelligence has broadened its dark‑web monitoring to deliver early‑stage fraud signals for banks, fintechs, PSPs and merchants. The upgraded service surfaces synthetic identity creation, account takeovers and credential‑replay attacks before they reach a transaction. Integrated into its Verify and...
Best Crypto Presale February 2026: Bitcoin ETFs Record $145 Million in Inflows While Fear Sits at 10 as Pepeto Builds...
US spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $145 million of inflows in a single day while the Fear and Greed Index lingered at an extreme 10, echoing patterns that preceded past rally cycles in 2015, 2019 and 2020. The influx signals institutional investors...
Best Crypto Presale 2026: Ark Invest Rotates $19 Million Out of Coinbase Shares as Institutional Portfolios Reposition and Pepeto Offers...
Ark Invest sold about 119,000 Coinbase shares worth $19 million in early February 2026 and simultaneously increased its position in Bullish, a crypto‑linked equity. The trade was described as a tactical rotation aimed at managing near‑term price risk rather than abandoning its...
DLocal and Open English Introduce Bre-B Instant Payments to Eliminate Checkout Friction in Colombia
dLocal and Open English have launched Bre‑B, Colombia’s government‑backed real‑time payment rail, as an instant checkout option for the e‑learning platform. The integration lets students pay via bank‑linked llaves or QR codes, confirming transactions in seconds and eliminating the need...
Best Crypto to Buy Now 2026: Tokenized Real-World Assets Surge 13.8 Percent to $24.9 Billion Despite the Market Drawdown as...
Tokenized real‑world assets (RWA) on public blockchains grew 13.8% in the last thirty days, pushing total on‑chain value to $24.9 billion despite a broad crypto market downturn. Ethereum led the expansion with $1.7 billion of net inflows, followed by Arbitrum and Solana,...
Best Crypto Presale March 2026: SoFi Bank Launches a US Dollar Stablecoin With BitGo as LINK Powers a Visa Cross-Border...
SOFI Technologies and BitGo launched SoFiUSD, a U.S. dollar‑pegged stablecoin issued directly by the federally insured SoFi Bank. In parallel, Visa completed a cross‑border settlement pilot with ANZ, ChinaAMC and Fidelity, using Chainlink’s oracle to settle tokenized assets on multiple...
DeFi Needs AI-Friendly Execution Rails, Not Token Governance
DeFi isn't broken It's just built for the wrong species Every protocol assumes humans are making decisions But AI agents don't need governance tokens They need execution rails
AI Boosts Productivity, but Also Fuels Fraud Surge
AI cuts costs. AI also cuts the cost of fraud. The same tooling driving efficiency is fueling the fraud surge. Financial services can't run an AI productivity strategy without a parallel fraud controls strategy. AI was meant to boost productivity. It...
Aave's GHO Supply Hits $565M, Targets $1B Year-End
Aave’s second business line, GHO, has now reached $565M in total supply. On the way to $1B by the end of the year. https://t.co/qyG76L2Z1L
OceanAir Bridges Credit Union Transformation Gap
[New Episode] How OceanAir Is Closing the Credit Union Transformation Gap. Interview with Jesus Garcia of @OceanAir_CU. Watch the latest episode on the Banking Transformed Podcast channel on YouTube. Watch the latest episode sponsored by @Q2_Software: https://t.co/VtR2LEbWma https://t.co/cisrp4Lmlv
US Users Test X Money by Donating to Shatner
If you are a US resident, willing to test X Money for feedback (need to donate to @WilliamShatner 's charity). More Greenback digitalization 😉 https://t.co/ZIp8QncQ4J