The U.S. Senate ends the historic 41-day shutdown, but economic strain, weakened regulators, and fintech-led stopgaps highlight deep systemic risks.
Robinhood plans a fund to give small investors access to private AI companies, as private markets boom and the fintech sector reshapes investment access.
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Malaysia’s Louis Limited launches an AI-powered platform merging trading psychology, behavioral analytics, and real-time emotion tracking.
OpenAI’s $38B, seven-year partnership with AWS secures massive compute capacity, reshaping AI infrastructure and cloud competition.
A rare split inside the Federal Reserve exposes widening disagreements on rates and challenges Jerome Powell’s leadership amid economic uncertainty.
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The CFPB’s open banking rule faces a federal injunction. Here’s what the pause means for fintechs, banks, and consumers — and how the next phase could redefine financial data rights.
A federal judge has halted the CFPB’s open banking rule, delaying U.S. data-sharing reforms as regulators prepare a revised version.
Fiserv shares fell over 40% after missing profit targets, cutting forecasts, and announcing major leadership changes amid slowing fintech growth.
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With Pipit’s global cash-in network onboard, Qenta unifies legacy rails and blockchain to cut the cost and complexity of remittances
Fintech startup ZAR secures $12.9M led by a16z to expand access to dollar-backed stablecoins for Pakistan’s unbanked through local kiosks and remittance agents.
ClearBank joins Circle’s blockchain network to enhance cross-border payments and expand access to MiCA-compliant stablecoins across Europe.
The Central Bank of Nigeria hosted a fintech roundtable at the IMF–World Bank Meetings to refine policy and strengthen digital finance stability.
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The leading fintech funding platform for SMBs secures a $25M Series B equity investment, led by Klister Credit Corp.
San Francisco-based fintech Paygentic raises $2 million in seed funding to develop billing and payments infrastructure for AI-native platforms.
Mercurity Fintech presented its Digital Asset Treasury framework at EBC11, highlighting institutional adoption of tokenized treasury solutions.
BlackRock is prioritizing tokenized ETFs as it builds technology to bring on-chain assets to mainstream finance, awaiting clearer regulation.
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Leveraging a wealth of unprecedented real-time premium data, “WarrenAI” brings unprecedented AI capabilities to investing, combining ChatGPT-like technology with unparalleled market data and analytical prowess.
Egyptian fintech Money Fellows exceeds $1.5 billion in transactions and 8 million users as it digitizes community savings under central bank supervision.
Regulatory clarity and strategic pressure are driving banks in the U.S. and Europe to issue stablecoins, reshaping digital payments and finance.
U.S. authorities have seized $15 billion in bitcoin tied to a Cambodian executive accused of running a global forced-labor cryptocurrency fraud network.
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HSBC and Juspay have joined forces to build a full-stack acquiring platform for digital merchants, unifying payments, processing, and orchestration in one system.
Klarna is entering the UK retail banking market with a Visa-backed debit card and digital wallet, following new FCA authorization for e-money services.