Where the global fintech community will gathers. Covering fintech infrastructure, real-time payments, AI, DeFi, sustainable finance, insurtech, embedded finance, regtech, ESG, financial health and much, much more.
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Europe's Fintechs Talk About Sovereignty. Most of Them Still Run on American Clouds.
FinTech Weekly Newsroom
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EBICS vs. PSD2: Europe Built Two Bank Interfaces. They Were Never Meant to Compete.
FinTech Weekly Newsroom
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BlackRock Says AI Agents Will Run on Stablecoins. The Agents Have Not Shown Up Yet.
FinTech Weekly Newsroom
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Europe's Central Banks Want Stablecoin Reserves Out of Bank Deposits. Here Is Why.
FinTech Weekly Newsroom
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The ECB Just Answered Tokenisation's Hardest Question: What Do You Pay With?
FinTech Weekly Newsroom
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The FCA Is Building a Sterling Stablecoin Market. The Rules That Kick In When It Succeeds Could Kill It.
Rosalia Mazza
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Washington Froze Crypto's Legislative Future on Sunday. By Monday, the Industry Had Already Moved On.
Rosalia Mazza
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Musk’s SpaceX–xAI Merger Plan Puts Orbital Data Centers at the Center of the AI Infrastructure Race
Rosalia Mazza
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When Washington waits, criminals move: The hidden cost of the CLARITY Act delay
Baran Ozkan
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BlackRock Launched a Bitcoin ETF That Dominated Inflows. Then It Launched a Second Product That Changes What a Crypto ETF Can Do.
Rosalia Mazza
SEP 21 - 25, Boston Fintech Week Home
Where the global fintech community will gathers. Covering fintech infrastructure, real-time payments, AI, DeFi, sustainable finance, insurtech, embedded finance, regtech, ESG, financial health and much, much more.
SEP 21 - 25, Nordic Fintech Week 2026
The largest finance and fintech gathering in the Nordics, with conference days on 23 and 24 September. Alongside keynotes and roundtables there is an R&D expo, startup awards and, somewhat...
SEP 28 - OCT 2, Atlanta Fintech Week 2026
A citywide week of panels, meetups and networking in one of the US payments capitals: roughly 70% of US card transactions are processed through Georgia. Five days, five themes, for...
Europe's Fintechs Talk About Sovereignty. Most of Them Still Run on American Clouds.
DORA, the Data Act, a proposed Cloud and AI Development Act, Wero and the digital euro all point in the same direction: Europe wants control over its financial infrastructure. The hard part is that most of its banks and fintechs depend on three US hyperscalers.
EBICS vs. PSD2: Europe Built Two Bank Interfaces. They Were Never Meant to Compete.
Open banking was supposed to make old bank channels obsolete. Eight years after PSD2, corporates still move their money over EBICS, and the next wave of EU rules (PSD3, the PSR and a slimmed-down FiDA) is more likely to cement that split than end it.
BlackRock Says AI Agents Will Run on Stablecoins. The Agents Have Not Shown Up Yet.
BlackRock's new paper on the "machine-native economy" argues that autonomous AI agents will need stablecoins and tokenised compute. The thesis is dominating fintech feeds this week. The on-chain data tells a more cautious story, and Europe's rulebook adds a twist.
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SEP 21 - 25, Boston Fintech Week Home
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SEP 21 - 25, Nordic Fintech Week 2026
The largest finance and fintech gathering in the Nordics, with conference days on 23 and 24 September. Alongside keynotes and roundtables there is an R&D expo, startup awards and, somewhat...
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SEP 28 - OCT 2, Atlanta Fintech Week 2026
A citywide week of panels, meetups and networking in one of the US payments capitals: roughly 70% of US card transactions are processed through Georgia. Five days, five themes, for...
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Europe's Central Banks Want Stablecoin Reserves Out of Bank Deposits. Here Is Why.In their response to the Commission's MiCA review, the ECB and the EU's national central banks ask Brussels to drop the rule forcing large stablecoins to hold 60% of reserves as bank deposits. The reason is financial stability, not crypto friendliness.
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The ECB Just Answered Tokenisation's Hardest Question: What Do You Pay With?With Pontes, live since 21 September, banks can settle tokenised securities in central bank money for the first time. The technology is not the story. The story is that Europe has decided the cash leg of on-chain markets should not depend on stablecoins or private deposit tokens.
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Crypto Headwinds in 2026: Balancing Decentralized Sovereignty with Local ComplianceCrypto regulation is moving from enforcement theatre to infrastructure design — but the legal foundation is still unfinished. As the Clarity Act window narrows before U.S. midterms, builders face a practical choice: wait for Washington, or architect systems that can survive shifting rules, local compliance demands, and future political reversals.
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