Saudi Vision 2030: Banking Transformation Progress Report
A candid progress report on Saudi Arabia's banking transformation - digital bank licensing, the cashless economy, open banking under SAMA, and PIF-backed fintech ventures.…
Islamic Finance and AI: Opportunities and Sharia Compliance Challenges
How AI intersects with Sharia compliance - from automated screening to sukuk structuring and ethical investment screening - and where it collides with Islamic finance governance.…
Hong Kong's Digital Asset Clearing Center raises US$10m to build tokenised settlement rails
The plumbing of cross-border settlement is becoming a contested frontier for tokenised…
Enfuce installs Mårten Mickos as chairman of its regulated EMI as resilience scrutiny mounts
As European supervisors sharpen their focus on the operational resilience of the…
Stablecoins are no longer a why question for banks. The hard part is operating them
The interesting question about stablecoins is no longer whether they are useful.…
TikTok pursues Brazil banking licence and a UK Visa card, signalling a push into embedded finance
A social platform applying for a banking licence is the kind of…
Circle pushes beyond USDC with Arc, an institutional blockchain backed by a $222m presale
The significance of Circle's latest move is not the headline…
Eisen banks $18.5m to close the dormant-asset compliance gap
Escheatment is one of the least glamorous obligations in financial services, and…
LendingClub becomes Happen Bank as a marketplace lender finishes its turn into a deposit bank
One of the original US marketplace lenders is dropping the word that…
Qivalis euro stablecoin consortium swells to 37 banks ahead of H2 launch
Europe's banks are closing ranks behind a single euro stablecoin.…
UBX Tanzania to double payments capacity as ACI Worldwide deal extends into merchant acquiring
Tanzania's national payments backbone is being readied for a step…
CommBank moves reconciliation onto a single FIS platform
Reconciliation is one of banking's least glamorous functions and one…