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WealthReach has unveiled Attract, an AI‑driven SEO and answer‑engine optimisation (AEO) platform built specifically for registered investment advisors. The tool continuously scans a firm’s website, local search trends and content gaps, then drafts locally‑targeted landing pages and refreshes existing material in real time. Attract includes a compliance‑aware workflow that flags regulatory issues before any content is published. Integrated with WealthReach’s existing prospecting suite, Attract aims to funnel more qualified traffic into advisors’ digital funnels, completing an end‑to‑end organic growth system.
Flanks, a Barcelona‑based WealthTech firm, unveiled its AI Financial Advisor, a natural‑language co‑pilot that lets wealth managers interrogate complex, multi‑custodian portfolios instantly. The platform merges client wealth data with live market intelligence, delivering consolidated household views, real‑time sentiment, cash‑flow visibility,...
𝗥𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 “𝗕𝘂𝘆 𝗡𝗼𝘄, 𝗣𝗮𝘆 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿” 🇿🇦 South African fintech Happy Pay has raised $5 million in seed funding, in a round led by global venture capital firm Partech, 𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲𝘀...
Summer Mersinger of the Blockchain Association testified before the House Financial Services Committee, urging the SEC to classify decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols as infrastructure rather than financial intermediaries. The association argues that DeFi should receive tailored oversight that addresses traditional...
London‑based Eunice, which builds AI‑driven due‑diligence infrastructure for regulated markets, announced an $8 million seed round led by Moonfire Ventures and Speedinvest, with participation from Openspace Ventures and a roster of high‑profile angel investors. The funding will accelerate the rollout of...
Citrea, a Bitcoin‑focused rollup built by Chainway Labs, launched its mainnet in January 2026, introducing the native asset cBTC and the dollar‑pegged stablecoin ctUSD. The platform uses the Clementine bridge to lock native BTC and zk‑proof batching to settle DeFi transactions...
India's Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs has added a payment‑aggregator option to its ICEGATE e‑payment platform, allowing customs duty payments via credit/debit cards and UPI. The new mode expands internet‑banking access from 23 to 41 banks and initially...
German fintech Solaris is cutting about 80 jobs, roughly 20% of its 400‑strong staff, as it pivots toward becoming an “AI‑native bank.” The restructuring follows a previous write‑down and a rescue funding round led by Japan’s SBI Group. New CEO...
Global Payments has seized the top spot in the 2026 TSG U.S. merchant acquirer ranking, driven by its $24.5 billion acquisition of Worldpay. The deal adds roughly $1.9 trillion of processing volume, lifting Global’s estimated 2025 volume to $2.8 trillion and pushing JPMorgan...
SEBI has partnered with Google to launch a “verified” badge for investment apps on the Play Store, initially covering more than 600 stock‑broker applications. Only apps belonging to SEBI‑registered entities will display the badge, helping investors differentiate legitimate platforms from...
Russian telecom giant MTS has broadened its MTS Oplata carrier‑billing platform to include five popular foreign games—Call of Duty Mobile, Standoff 2, Critical Ops, Top Eleven Be Football Manager, and AFK Journey. The expansion also adds additional top‑up options for Apex Legends and Mobile Legends on both mobile and...
AI startup Zivy, backed by Blume Ventures, announced it will cease operations on March 31, 2026 after struggling to convert users into paying customers. The Bengaluru‑based firm, which raised $1.2 million in a September 2024 pre‑seed round, saw demand evaporate as...
I&M Group reported that 98% of its 727,000 customers now transact digitally, signaling that Kenya’s banking sector has largely completed the migration to online channels. The bank’s non‑interest income surged 31% to $111 million and assets under management jumped 223% to...
Affirm and Stripe Team to Combine BNPL and Agentic AI SPTs let ANY merchant offering Affirm accept transactions in agentic flows (even without direct Stripe integration). Stripe direct merchants get capability now, non-Stripe merchants later 2026. Stripe also announced parallel Klarna...
5 Quality Stocks with strong competitive advantages trading below median valuation 👇 $SOFI Full-stack bank + infrastructure. Galileo + Technisys cut costs, speed launches. Members expand across products, lowering CAC structurally. $ZETA 240M+ identity profiles power targeting. Athena automates campaigns across channels....
InvoiceCloud’s latest consumer trust survey shows 82% of respondents favor digital billing platforms that clearly highlight security and a smooth user experience. Mobile accessibility is critical, with 89% demanding the ability to pay on smartphones, while 55% will abandon a...
Triple‑A, a licensed global financial institution, announced its integration with Circle Payments Network (CPN), a stablecoin‑based settlement platform operated by Circle Technology Services. As a Beneficiary Financial Institution, Triple‑A will enable USDC‑to‑local‑currency payouts across major cross‑border corridors, covering remittances, payroll,...
Dream Sports, the parent of fantasy‑sports platform Dream11, announced it will launch a stockbroking service called Dream Street. The brokerage, aimed at retail investors, builds on the company’s recent wealth‑management app Dream Money and will tap the large Dream11 user...
Branch has partnered with Stripe to embed its digital wallet into Stripe Connect, allowing platforms to launch customizable wallets and branded debit cards for workers. The solution delivers instant, fee‑free payouts, cash‑back rewards, and everyday financial tools without requiring pre‑funding....
Sri Lanka's central bank approved a fee waiver for low‑value QR code payments, eliminating transaction charges to encourage mobile payments. The move targets small merchants and consumers, aiming to deepen digital finance in a country still recovering from a prolonged...
Fintech startup Glimpse announced a $35 million Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from 8VC and Y Combinator. The company, a Y Combinator graduate, pivoted from an Airbnb product‑placement venture to an AI‑driven platform that automates retailer...
Fintrac, Canada’s AML watchdog, revoked the registrations of 23 cryptocurrency money‑services businesses on Tuesday, adding to 12 revocations earlier this month for a total of 35 firms in days. The moves represent over 10 percent of all revocations in the past...
Paisalo Digital Limited announced that Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) has joined its Business Correspondent (BC) network, marking the third public‑sector bank partnership after State Bank of India and Bank of India. The move expands Paisalo's Banking‑as‑a‑Service platform to 4,872 touch...
London‑based Eunice, which builds AI‑driven due‑diligence infrastructure for regulated markets, closed an $8 million seed and pre‑seed round led by Moonfire Ventures and Speedinvest. The funding will accelerate development of its institutional‑grade AI agents and broaden coverage beyond digital assets into...
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority has fined The Bank of London Group and its parent Oplyse Holdings £2 million (≈ $2.5 million) for deliberately misrepresenting their capital position between October 2021 and May 2024. The regulator said the firms provided fabricated documents, breached capital adequacy...
AI is not “one-size-fits-all,” and we need to recognize that use cases that work in SEA won’t work in LatAm. While the AI spend in banking is projected to surge over 10x from $35 billion in 2023 to $368 billion by...
Apparently teen banking app Step, an Evolve Bank & Trust partner, also encouraged kids to "do their own research" before considering investing in DOGECOIN https://t.co/HKioRJQbyq
Ahold Delhaize’s Dutch e‑commerce platform Bol is extending its checkout technology to third‑party online stores. The move lets merchants embed familiar payment methods such as iDEAL and pay‑later, aiming to cut friction and lift conversion rates. Initial integrations are live for...
prediction markets = collective intelligence agentic finance = distributed execution One discovers truth. One acts on it. The synthesis is where things get interesting.
NEW: Ripple joins Singapore central bank’s BLOOM initiative to test RLUSD for programmable cross-border trade settlements https://t.co/ucOB11gheA
Fintech firms are urging social‑media platforms to shoulder more responsibility for fraud after a new Payments Association report highlighted their role in scams. The study found roughly two‑thirds of authorised push‑payment (APP) fraud originates on social networks, marketplaces and messaging...
Fintech VibePay, a UK peer‑to‑peer payment app backed by Nick Candy’s Candy Ventures, entered liquidation after investors withdrew funding. The company, founded in 2019 by Luke Massie, had raised over £12 million (approximately $15 million) and aimed to enable open‑banking account‑to‑account transfers...
DXtrade, Devexperts' multi‑asset trading platform, has integrated Gold‑i’s Visual Edge risk‑management tool, giving brokers real‑time visual analytics, automated alerts and scalper detection. The addition expands DXtrade’s feature set beyond its existing MatrixNET liquidity‑management integration. Brokers can now monitor exposure, P&L...
Nevermined introduced persistent card delegation, letting AI agents hold delegated credit cards and make real‑world payments without human approval. The feature embeds spending limits, duration controls and revocability directly into the infrastructure, mirroring corporate expense policies. By enabling continuous, automated...
Dare Okoudjou, a Benin‑born telecom engineer, founded MFS Africa—now rebranded as Onafriq—to build the continent’s underlying payments rail. The network interconnects more than 500 million mobile wallets and 200 million bank accounts across 40 African nations, turning a fragmented ecosystem into a...
Hyperliquid Strategies Inc. began trading listed options on its PURR common stock on the Nasdaq Options Market, giving investors new hedging and speculative tools. The launch arrives as crypto‑linked derivatives expand, highlighted by Wintermute’s new oil CFD offering.
Bitpanda announced the launch of Vision Chain, a public blockchain built with the Vision Web3 Foundation and Optimism, to let banks and fintechs issue and settle tokenized assets under EU rules. The move targets a market projected to hit $18.9 trillion...
Assistant Governor Brad Jones told Bloomberg the Reserve Bank of Australia is now focusing on how to implement wholesale digital tokens, not whether they belong in the system. The shift follows a pilot that showed efficiency gains and comes as...
The UK is moving from strategic planning to the practical build of its National Payments Vision, launching the Payments Forward Plan to define how the new retail payments infrastructure will be assembled. The article highlights that execution decisions—such as system...
Excited to be joining Skyler Fox from @ProveIdentity to lead a webinar exploring the practical requirements for securing the agentic economy and what this means for the future of financial services. Register here: https://t.co/YLubCFXpnR @chyppings #agenticai #digitalidentity https://t.co/xeWxcrgXty
CUBE has teamed with Microsoft to launch its RegPlatform on Azure, delivering AI‑driven regulatory intelligence that automates compliance for global financial institutions. The integration leverages Microsoft Azure’s secure, globally distributed cloud and data services, enabling real‑time tracking of thousands of...
Paymentology has appointed payments veteran Peter Theunis as principal advisor to accelerate its global expansion. Theunis, formerly Visa’s country manager for Belgium and Luxembourg, brings deep experience launching neobanks, modernising legacy banks, and building fintech ecosystems. His background spans card...
Fintech startup Kiwi has named payments veteran Sumeet Basrani as its new Chief Business Officer, bolstering the firm’s leadership as it pivots toward mass‑scale credit distribution on India’s UPI network. Basrani arrives with more than 15 years of experience at...
What has #fintech ever done for us? Apart from a better UX in my bank app. https://t.co/Tvnowb75O3
METAPLANET TO LAUNCH BITCOIN REWARD CARD FOR SHAREHOLDERS Metaplanet has announced a new Bitcoin card called The MetaPlanet Card It is set to launch this summer, exclusive to company shareholders, offering 1.6% spending returns in Bitcoin https://t.co/RiLeBqYZgd
Programmable liquidity is emerging as a core capability for modern treasury functions, enabling real‑time, event‑driven payments without restricting spend. The approach relies on a multi‑instrument digital money ecosystem—including CBDCs, stablecoins and tokenised deposits—while AI‑driven payment libraries provide controlled automation. Quantum‑computing...
The blog highlights that the real shift in payments is infrastructure modernization, not crypto hype. Ripple is developing a blockchain‑based cross‑border rail while the Federal Reserve’s FedNow service provides instant domestic payments for U.S. depository institutions. Both initiatives are anchored...
Fluxa, a UK‑based card payment processor founded by Paul Jones in 2026, launched a platform offering a flat 1.8% transaction fee for online merchants. The service includes a fully hosted checkout with Apple Pay, Google Pay and 3D Secure, plus a real‑time dashboard...
SGB has launched SGB Net, a real‑time settlement platform that links traditional banking infrastructure with digital‑asset ecosystems through SWIFT and stablecoin integration. The service processes roughly $2 billion in monthly volume and is growing at a 50% month‑on‑month rate. Backed by...
