OANDA, New York based forex trading serving provider recently revealed in an announcement that it has made a new addition to its APAC region senior level leadership team. As per statement released by the firm…
HSBC and Standard Chartered net deposit tokens on…
The first live interbank transaction on Swift's blockchain-based ledger did not settle on the ledger. HSBC and Standard Chartered announced on 19 August 2026 that they had completed the first live cross-border transaction using tokenised…
TransFi builds JARVIS in-house to unify KYC and…
TransFi has built an artificial-intelligence compliance intelligence platform called JARVIS, and the most useful thing to say about it is what it is not. It is not a RegTech product a broker or payment service…
QRIS-China QR link is two-way, but runs 205-to-1…
The Indonesia–China QR corridor is one of the few cross-border QR links in Asia that genuinely settles in both directions — and Bank Indonesia's own sandbox data shows why that distinction matters far less than…
Mastercard closes $1.8bn BVNK deal for $30bn stablecoin…
Mastercard has closed its acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK, and the number that matters is not the $1.8 billion price tag. It is $30 billion — the annualised stablecoin payment volume Mastercard now owns…
Yellow Card takes $40m from the bank its…
The most striking thing about Yellow Card's $40 million raise is not that Standard Chartered's venture arm led it. It is what Yellow Card's chief executive said about where this all ends. "The very near…
Ant International raises $1.2bn as agentic payment standards…
Ant International closed an approximately $1.2 billion Series A on July 21, 2026 — an unusual label for a business already carrying a $10 billion pre-money valuation, 150 million connected merchants and more than 2…
Swift ledger goes live with 17 banks on…
Swift's blockchain ledger is live with 17 banks across six continents preparing tokenised cross-border payments, and the architectural choice underneath it is the part institutional treasurers should read closely: this is an orchestration layer, not…
Flex raises $70m at $1.2bn to bank business…
Flex has raised $70 million barely seven months after closing a $60 million Series B — and the pairing of those two rounds says more about where fintech capital is going than either does alone.…