July 13, 2026
Swift blockchain ledger is now ready for initial use. Swift says the ledger is live for early adopters, with 17 banks across six continents lined up to pilot 24/7 cross-border payments using tokenised deposits. The list is not a group of niche crypto-friendly banks. ANZ, BNP Paribas, BNY, Citi, DBS, First Abu Dhabi Bank, FirstRand,
July 13, 2026
Klarna Germany facility is the company's first forward flow and warehouse financing deal in the country. Klarna has established a 900 million euro facility that it says will support up to 5 billion euros of Fair Financing originations there over the life of the program. Under the two-year agreement, Klarna sold a portfolio of existing
July 10, 2026
Amplify Goldman Sachs custody is a bet about what independent advisors really want. Amplify, a platform built around what it calls an AI-native data lake for registered investment advisors, launched its Custody Command Layer this week, integrated directly with Goldman Sachs Custody Solutions. The pitch is same-day account opening, real-time data, and no reconciliation, aimed
July 10, 2026
Account takeover confidence at financial firms sits far above the evidence supporting it. Secret Double Octopus, a passwordless authentication vendor, published its 2026 State of Identity Security in Financial Organizations report this week, based on a survey of 200 identity and access management leaders at US and Canadian financial services firms. The topline is a
July 9, 2026
Modern Treasury Depa Finance is a customer-logo announcement, not a product launch. Modern Treasury said this week that Depa Finance, a stablecoin-native cross-border payments provider, has picked its infrastructure to orchestrate payments across US bank rails and stablecoins. Depa says it processes more than 14,000 payments a day and over $1 billion a year across
July 9, 2026
Atomic Odynn partnership takes aim at a gap most banks have quietly accepted. Atomic, the embedded finance company best known for payroll and direct deposit switching, has partnered with travel loyalty startup Odynn to give banks and fintechs a way to offer travel rewards and loyalty tracking without building the infrastructure themselves. The pitch is
July 2, 2026
Neobank account or traditional business account? That is one of the first real decisions a new founder makes. For an underbanked founder, the pull is obvious. Speed, low fees, and a clean app beat weeks of branch paperwork every time. Yet that convenience hides trade-offs that rarely surface until money is on the line. So
June 24, 2026
Author: Abhinav Gupta, Founder, Profitjets Point-of-need credit is one of the most misread tools in founder finance. Picture a direct-to-consumer founder weeks out from a big inventory buy. One option is an embedded line of working capital tied to receivables, drawn only when it is time to restock. The other is a traditional term loan with
June 18, 2026
Author: Sudhanshu Dubey, Founder, Errna Emerging markets fintech rarely gets the credit it deserves, yet it is quietly rewriting the rules the whole industry will follow. Across LATAM, the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia, operators face constraints that would stall most Western product teams. Out of those constraints, though, comes a kind of invention
May 14, 2026
Author: Charitarth Sindhu, Fractional Business & AI Workflow Consultant Bank AI overhaul moved from boardroom talk to disclosed numbers this month. Three of the world's banks revealed sharply different angles on the same shift. Axis Bank in India confirmed a workforce reduction of roughly 3,100 staff over the past 12 months. Meanwhile, U.S. Bank expanded
May 4, 2026
Author: Callum Gracie, Founder, Otto Media Fintech AI Overviews now decide which brands consumers meet first when searching for a savings account, credit card, or personal loan. Google's AI summaries appear on roughly 91% of educational finance queries, per BrightEdge data. Meanwhile, Pew Research found only 8% of users click any link when an AI
May 1, 2026
Author: Kriszta Grenyo, Chief Operating Officer, Suff Digital B2B Virtual Cards arrived at our agency with high expectations and a clear problem to solve. We had physical corporate cards shared between team members. Manual expense tracking added friction. There was no easy way to assign spend to specific projects or clients. When we first introduced virtual
