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Payments, neobanks, and the future of money.
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The UK challenger bank is restructuring its banking and technology teams to reduce duplication and speed up product delivery, while continuing to hire AI engineers.
A new Mastercard SME Confidence Index finds most Nigerian small businesses optimistic about growth, signalling opportunity across the Africa-Europe fintech corridor.
A Michigan judge issued a restraining order blocking prediction-market platform Kalshi from offering sports wagers for two weeks.
FactSet has agreed a strategic AI partnership with Google Cloud, while FlexTrade integrates EDX Markets for institutional crypto trading.
The state's attorney general amended its complaint against prediction-market platform Kalshi, alleging it marketed sports betting to users under 21.
Square is adding a ChatGPT app and a Claude plugin, letting merchants surface products and complete sales inside AI chat conversations.
Eighty students from six South African institutions built financial-inclusion solutions at a UCT hackathon that saw women feature in every top-three team for the first time.
AI-native fund operations platform bunch is becoming a shareholder in Luxembourg Fund Services, joining founder Massimo Longoni and CFE Finance Group in a bid to modernise private markets infrastructure.
Visa and M-Pesa are testing stablecoin payments in the Democratic Republic of Congo with Onafriq, signalling deeper crypto experimentation in African mobile money.
Visa says between 60% and 70% of online transactions across its network now rely on tokenisation, signalling a shift in how digital payments are secured.
US fintech SoFi has bought Toronto-based AI-powered retail investing platform Composer, expanding its automated investing tools. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Singapore's OCBC has added two AI-powered avatars to its app, offering round-the-clock personalised wealth management services.
Industry observers are turning attention to what will define Europe's next wave of fintech firms as they seek to scale across a fragmented market.
Nigeria's central bank has withdrawn the operating licences of 46 microfinance banks, saying they no longer meet the requirements to function as licensed institutions.
Financial institutions are being urged to overhaul legacy banking infrastructure and weave AI into core operations, according to industry coverage from Finextra.
Safaricom wants to turn M-PESA's transaction data into a credit engine for underserved businesses, and it's inviting European investors to help fund it.
A Swedish court has ruled that Google must pay $1.97 billion in damages to PriceRunner, the price comparison service owned by fintech group Klarna.
European financial institutions are increasingly framing digital sovereignty as a central outcome of banking transformation, alongside streamlined operations and compliance.
Nigeria's central bank stripped 47 microfinance banks of their licences, including one acquired by fintech Sycamore, which says the action stems from pre-acquisition problems.
A new event asks how open-source tools and community data can turn regenerative finance ideas into resilient social and nature-based assets.
A three-week hands-on test of AI stock and forex bots concludes discipline and risk control matter more than any promise of predicting the market.
Vodacom has secured majority control of Kenya's largest telecom operator, a move that deepens European ownership across East Africa's connectivity market.
Two Finextra commentaries argue banks are misjudging both their technology roadmaps and how they underwrite merchant sectors like supplements as 2026 approaches.
A Finextra event puts the spotlight on how financial institutions can integrate AI into banking systems from customer-facing tools to back-office operations.
Root has emerged from stealth with a platform handling receivables, payables and money transmissions, aiming to speed up business payments in the US.
A Stripe- and Coinbase-backed consortium has spooked Circle investors, yet analysts warn that winning real adoption is far harder than lining up marquee partners.
Financial institutions are being urged to treat digital sovereignty as a core outcome of modernisation efforts, not an afterthought, according to industry coverage.
Industry discussion turns to how autonomous AI agents could reshape treasury operations, moving beyond assistive tools toward independent action.
A cluster of partnerships spanning AI tooling, embedded B2B payments and travel commerce points to where financial services is investing next.
As digital money reshapes settlement and infrastructure, banks are examining where they can add value—and revenue—in an evolving payments landscape.
