The short answer is that stablecoins exist because traditional money cannot meet the needs of modern, global, digital ...

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A recent study by Statista shows contactless payments will cross $8 trillion in global volume by 2026, and the shift is ...

For years, the payments industry has been on a seemingly unstoppable path toward global harmonisation, integration and ...

Sustainability focus represents another distinction. Many neobanks integrate environmental initiatives as core features.

The Nairobi Securities Exchange Plc (NSE) of Kenya and the National Securities Exchange of Somalia (NSES) have today signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deepen cooperation in East ...

The EU has recently proposed to simplify sustainable transparency rules in the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation ...

The UK’s AI sovereignty and long-term competitiveness will depend on its ability to look inward as well as outward. While physical infrastructure provides the foundation, it is digital infrastructure ...

The European Council and European Parliament have reached an agreement on amending the existing payment services directive ...

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The European Commission proposed amendments to the EU’s environmental transparency framework for financial products - the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) - last week.

From an ongoing struggle to deliver AI ROI to regulations forcing banks to improve hit their ESG goals, 2026 is going to be a truly transformative year as the UK banking ecosystem grapples with major ...