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FCA finalises UK crypto rules and refuses to…
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published the final rules for the United Kingdom's cryptoasset regime on June 30, 2026, cutting stablecoin capital from 2% to 1%, building a bespoke market-abuse regime, and explicitly refusing to…
Riverty opens Luxembourg bank to serve 1,800 merchants
Riverty, the payments and credit arm of Bertelsmann's Arvato Group, begins operating as a licensed bank in Luxembourg this month, converting a Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) business serving more than 1,800 merchants into a…
Kord raises £6.4m to fight AI fraud in…
Regulatory technology spent a decade unbundling. Artificial-intelligence fraud is forcing it to bundle back up. UK fintech Kord has raised £6.4 million in a Series A round to combine client onboarding, identity checks, compliance and…
Platinum to $1,900 by Q3 2026: the deficit-versus-rates…
Platinum (XPT/USD) reaches $1,900/oz by September 30, 2026 in the base case, $2,200 in the bull case, and $1,450 in the bear case. The metal trades near $1,630 — its lowest since November 2025 —…
AUD/USD to 0.73 by Q3 2026: the RBA-carry…
AUD/USD reaches 0.7300 by September 30, 2026 in the bull case, holds a 0.6800–0.7200 range in the base case, and slips to 0.6700 in the bear case. The pair is caught between two hawkish central…
REPAY closes $372m KUBRA deal to scale US…
The flashy corner of payments is checkout. The profitable one is the electricity bill. REPAY has closed its $372 million cash acquisition of KUBRA, and the logic is the opposite of the agentic-checkout arms race:…