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40 Week Issue 628
02 · 10 · 2026

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Everything is agreed. Almost nothing applies.

Europe and the US spent 2026 writing fintech's new rulebook. This issue sorts it into three rooms: in force, agreed but waiting, and stuck.

The Waiting Room - FTW Clarity Circle
The Waiting Room - FTW Clarity Circle

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The blossoming relationship between PE investors and FinTech start-ups

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5 min

2018 Lending Predictions – A New Game Awaits

**Digital fluency and a thirst for convenience are making the UK’s borrowers more capri...

4 min

CTO Insights: PIN-on-Mobile is coming

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12 min

Cryptocurrencies and ICOs – A Rough Guide to Regulation

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5 min

Will the overnight millionaire become an overnight pauper?

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4 min

Managing the risk and reward of PSD2

**Banks and financial services institutions are preparing for a shake-up, with the new ...

9 min

How to Get Press for Your ICO

**Enhance the visibility of your ICO when you learn what it takes to get the press need...

8 min

What about the ethics of FinTech?

**FinTech is rapidly becoming the backbone of consumers’ buying and investing habits, i...

6 min

How Robo-advice for Credit and Debt Will Disrupt the Industry

**Expensive asset managers today are struggling to deal with the twin challenges to the...

1 min

Startups @ WebSummit – Video Interviews (3-5min)

**We stopped by at some of the startups and established fintechs at this year's WebSumm...

3 min

Turf Wars - Consumer attitudes towards established and alternative ...

**They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Challenger banks are doing what...

5 min

When Fintech Meets Finance

**Fintech – the potent intersection of the finance and technology industries – has tran...

5 min

Why Machine Learning needs to be self-service to beat payment fraud

**My colleagues and I are often left bemused when we hear claims, from fraud experts fr...

5 min

Retail Trading Ripe for Fintech Disruption

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5 min

Emerging Tech in Mobile Banking

**Customers’ expectations for mobile apps are changing rapidly across the board. And th...

4 min

Why Robo-advisors are becoming popular

**Robo-advisory, along with artificial intelligence and big data, is a top trending buz...

13 min

Is This the Best Way to Do Digital Transformation in Banking?

**Match borrowers with lenders directly and there is no need for intermediaries anymore...

4 min

Prepare your business for the digital payments landscape of the future

**Blockchain and Bitcoin technologies look set to change and shake up the course of the...

3 min

Great Techspectations: why innovation is king, no matter who sits o...

**According to a recent report from the World Economic Forum, fintechs should start to ...

5 min

Regtech can help national regulators win the race for talent

**A race for regulatory talent is about to begin. Regardless of the outcome of the Brex...

11 min

Recent Developments in Digital Currency Regulation

**As the digital currency space has evolved and matured over the past several years, U....

3 min

Not Every ICO Is a Goldmine

**Investing in ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings) or functional new currencies can be extrem...

9 min

Unfair Competition In FinTech: A Familiar 
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**FinTech is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States and, as with an...

3 min

Emerging Cloud Trends in the Financial Sector: Cloud Adoption Soars...

Today, financial institutions face two major challenges. First, the large volume of hig...

5 min

Cryptocurrency Regulation: A Cross-Country Analysis

**Sixty-three percent of countries have favorable or mostly favorable regulation of cry...

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