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Samsung announces native stablecoin integration into Samsung Wallet, positioning itself among the first major mobile brands to bring digital value transfers to smartphones.…
Visa's new Stablecoin Platform, alongside moves by Goldman Sachs and Samsung, marks a defining week in which traditional financial giants claimed the stablecoin arena as their own.…
Flexible Finance has filed applications with the FDIC and Utah regulators to charter Flex Bank, a move designed to scale its Flex Rent payments product.…
Edenred upgrades its EBITDA forecast after first-half 2026 results show early momentum from its tech-driven Amplify 25-28 strategic plan across 44 countries.…
From banks to fintechs, every financial firm is converging on one strategic prize: being first to tell customers what to do next with their money.…
Nium buys Cypher in July 2026 to advance its stablecoin strategy, as CEO Prajit Nanu targets growth in the evolving cross-border payments landscape.…
Seventeen African fintechs crack the global top 500, major banks scramble for Chief AI Officers, and Europe's banking union remains stubbornly incomplete — three fault lines reshaping global finance.…
A Deloitte consultant warns banks risk losing lower-value customers if AI deployment prioritizes customer tiers over the nature of the task at hand.…
The European Union has sanctioned HTX exchange as part of a 18-entity crackdown on crypto and payment services defying EU measures against Russia.…
The Japanese yen has collapsed to 163 per dollar, its weakest since 1986, as markets brace for hawkish Bank of Japan moves that threaten to unwind carry trades and rattle Bitcoin.…
Dango DEX will cease perpetual trading on July 29 and shutter its Layer-1 blockchain on August 13, declaring no viable path to commercial success despite prior fundraising.…
Cybercriminals seized control of Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev's X account to promote a fraudulent memecoin called Vladhood ($VLAD), falsely linking it to Robinhood Chain.…