The latest payments, banking, lending, digital asset and AI in finance news from every region, reported from the primary source and read with a sceptical eye.
Three weeks of crawler logs from fintechbits.net show Amazon, Anthropic and Perplexity doing most of the reading, while OpenAI's training crawler barely shows up.
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Card networks, real-time payment rails, stablecoin settlement and AI agent checkout, tracked in every region.
More paymentsVisa can now refer its corporate card clients to Expensify. Expensify sells its own Visa card as well, so the deal plays both sides.
November 5, 2026
Digital banks, charters, embedded finance, credit facilities and mortgage technology, from releases and filings.
More banking and lendingChime beat the revenue and profit ranges it set in August by a wide margin and raised its full-year outlook, with lending and MyPay doing more of the work.
November 5, 2026
Generative AI in financial services, digital identity and fraud prevention, and the wealthtech stack behind advisers.
More ai, identity and wealthEvery fintech eventually faces the RegTech build or buy question for KYC, sanctions screening and transaction monitoring. We asked industry leaders how to make the call, and recent fines show that the firm keeps the risk whichever way it goes.
November 5, 2026
Stablecoins, tokenisation, custody and the institutions building on crypto rails, judged on settlement rather than price.
More digital assetsCircle earned more from reserves and payments even as USDC moved less onchain than in the second quarter, and it is buying a Singapore payments firm to push into B2B.
November 5, 2026
Fintech funding rounds, acquisitions and facilities, with the terms each announcement leaves out.
More funding and dealsA Singapore multi-strategy fund built by a former Millennium executive is renting its back office from Arcesium. Its growth since launch explains why.
November 5, 2026
