Long-form coverage of cards, IBANs, payment rails, regulation and the technology that moves money — in seven languages, written by working operators.
The European Central Bank has released its indicative operational calendars for 2028, offering markets and institutions a structured forward-planning horizon for eurozone monetary operations.…
Austrian central bank Governor Martin Kocher delivered concluding remarks at the OeNB-SUERF conference on monetary policy trade-offs across the euro area's diverse economies.…
OeNB Governor Martin Kocher opens a Vienna conference probing whether structural economic divergence across eurozone members limits the ECB's monetary effectiveness.…
Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel argues the digital euro is essential not just for payments innovation but for European sovereignty and integration.…
Gabriel Makhlouf opened the 10th Annual Macroprudential Conference in Dublin, co-hosted by four European central banks, marking a decade of coordinated financial stability discourse.…
A close read of how leading banks and fintechs translated company signals into price action during the week of June 18–25, 2026.…
Revolut long orbited the banking system without being embedded in it. A hard-won banking license is forcing Europe's fastest neobank to grow up.…
As financial institutions race toward AI-first service models, the U.K.'s FCA says managing machine autonomy is becoming the defining regulatory challenge of the era.…
Tencent has quietly embedded an intelligent AI assistant inside WeChat, one of the world's largest digital ecosystems, signaling a new era of agentic finance.…
U.S. Bank is deploying a payments-first approach to win Gen Z customers, aiming to build a low-cost deposit base amid fierce competition for retail funding.…
Massachusetts-based Hometown is acquiring a New Hampshire bank for $160M, adding $743M in assets and expanding its regional footprint northward.…
The SEC has updated its regulatory agenda to release a long-promised crypto safe harbor rulemaking for public comment as early as July 2026.…