Ziina Becomes First Homegrown UAE Fintech With Three CBUAE Licences
UAE fintech Ziina says it is the first homegrown UAE fintech company…
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TransUnion: Under-30s Are Borrowing Smarter, Not More
Under-30s are borrowing differently from their pre-pandemic peers, leaning on…
Compliance Leaders Fear AI-Enabled Crime, but Only 28% Have Fully Deployed AI in Screening
Compliance leaders are worried about AI-enabled financial crime but have been…
Splitit Launches White-Label World Mastercard for Mid-Sized Banks and Credit Unions
Splitit, the installment payments platform, has announced the upcoming launch of the…
Laeceum Report: Lender Due Diligence, Not Regulation, Was the Failure Behind MFS Collapse
The collapse of London bridging lender Market Financial Solutions (MFS) was avoidable,…
TBC Uzbekistan Launches Secured Lending for SMEs
TBC Uzbekistan, part of London-listed TBC Bank Group, has launched its…
Barclays Expands Anthropic Partnership, Targets Claude Code for Most Engineers by 2027
Barclays expects half its developers to use Claude Code by the end of 2026, as it extends Anthropic's AI across operations and engineering.…
Splitit Brings Debit and Deposit Account Installments to Jack Henry Banks
Splitit has joined the Jack Henry Fintech Integration Network, letting eligible US banks and credit unions offer installments on debit cards and deposit accounts.…
Checkout.com Goes Live With US Direct Acquiring Under Georgia MALPB Charter
Checkout.com has begun direct card acquiring in the US under its Georgia Merchant Acquirer Limited Purpose Bank charter, gaining direct access to card networks.…
OpenReserve Emerges From Stealth With OCC Nod for an Onchain National Bank
MoneyLion co-founder Dee Choubey's new venture has preliminary conditional approval to charter a full-service national bank built around onchain settlement and tokenised deposits.…
Revolut Wins OCC Conditional Approval to Form Revolut Bank US
The OCC has granted preliminary conditional approval for Revolut Bank US, National Association, with FDIC and Federal Reserve approvals still ahead of a planned 2027 launch.…
UK Hands the Bank of England a Secondary Objective on Payments and Digital Money
HM Treasury will give the Bank of England a statutory objective to support innovation in payment systems and digital money, including stablecoins, subordinate to financial stability.…