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.
NYSE owner ICE will run regulated US versions of Trade[XYZ]'s 24/7 perpetual markets and take a stake in the Hyperliquid deployer. It is a retail bet from a company whose business is more than 99% institutional.
October 30, 2026
October 30, 2026
October 30, 2026
October 30, 2026
Card networks, real-time payment rails, stablecoin settlement and AI agent checkout, tracked in every region.
More paymentsAdyen's third-quarter net revenue grew faster than in the first half, and platforms revenue rose 46%. In the same update, the payments company scrapped the margin target it had reaffirmed about eleven weeks earlier.
October 29, 2026
Digital banks, charters, embedded finance, credit facilities and mortgage technology, from releases and filings.
More banking and lendingBuy now pay later has been FCA-regulated since 15 July 2026. Two industry voices explain what changed in affordability checks and complaints, and the record shows where providers still fall short.
October 29, 2026
Generative AI in financial services, digital identity and fraud prevention, and the wealthtech stack behind advisers.
More ai, identity and wealthHummingbird has bought Quantimon to feed analysts' alert decisions back into AML detection models. Quantimon's own published results are more modest than the problem the deal sets out to fix.
October 29, 2026
Stablecoins, tokenisation, custody and the institutions building on crypto rails, judged on settlement rather than price.
More digital assetsNew York's Birch Hill has raised a $4 million seed round to structure and distribute US credit on public blockchains. Its live vault business is still tiny, which is what the money is for.
October 30, 2026
Fintech funding rounds, acquisitions and facilities, with the terms each announcement leaves out.
More funding and dealsCognitive Credit raised $40 million to expand its corporate credit data and AI tools. On the same day, LSEG agreed to pay $3.535 billion for Octus, a credit data rival.
October 26, 2026
October 26, 2026
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