National Bank of Georgia and Nasdaq will move Bank of Georgia, TBC Bank, Liberty Bank, Terabank and Basisbank onto a single shared Calypso instance, tying roughly $38 billion in sector assets to one treasury and capital-markets infrastructure.

The Nasdaq-listed payments software firm is in early talks to shed its Biller segment at roughly 10-12x 2025 EBITDA, according to people familiar with the matter — a preliminary process, not a signed deal.

A CoinDesk Indices analysis argues the crypto allocation question that matters is survivability, not selection — and eight weeks of Bitcoin ETF outflows followed by a two-week reversal show why.

The Stockholm-based trade-finance platform has acquired Paris-based Export Enterprises, folding a 50-plus-bank market-intelligence network into its financing rails without disclosing what it paid.

Tiger Global led the round in the four-year-old clearing bank, which already moves dollar volume for Kraken and is waiting on the OCC to convert a conditional national bank charter into a final one.

Facing backlash over spend-gated perks, Robinhood is loosening the caps on its top-tier card's travel and lifestyle credits without touching the $695 annual fee — a signal of how unforgiving the premium-card market has become.

Robinhood is raising the travel credit, cutting the DoorDash credit and dropping spending minimums on its premium card, after cardholders said the perks felt more like redeemable coupons than real value.

Chime Invest lets members buy stocks and ETFs commission-free or hand off to a managed portfolio starting at $1, with Prime members paying zero management fee and everyone else capped at 0.25% a year. The product runs on a licensed outside adviser and broker-dealer, not Chime itself.

HM Treasury still wants DIGIT, Britain's first tokenized gilt, trading by early 2027. Its own architects say the blocker isn't the ledger — it's the absence of a licensed sterling cash asset to settle it against.

A Wanchain bridge exploit on the Binance-Cardano corridor drained roughly 290 million NIGHT tokens Monday, crashing the price about 43% to an all-time low before a partial rebound — reviving Charles Hoskinson's case for replacing bridge operators with zero-knowledge proofs.

Forerunner's Kirsten Green led the round for the 11-month-old startup, whose CEO argues card and ACH rails were never built for machine-initiated, machine-speed transactions.

As HM Treasury folds roughly 60,000 more professional-services firms into its anti-money-laundering remit, the Financial Conduct Authority is turning to agentic AI to supervise a perimeter its headcount cannot match alone.

Prag Sharma, who built Citigroup's Global AI Centre of Excellence, joins Bank of Ireland in October 2026 as the bank elevates AI to a standing executive mandate through 2028.

A share sale priced at $2,017 a share lets Revolut employees and early investors cash out without the company raising new capital — its fourth valuation jump in three years, and its first time topping a major UK bank's market cap.

The Ant Group affiliate closed roughly $1.2 billion in fresh equity from existing shareholders Ant Group and Alibaba Group, with proceeds earmarked for cross-border payments, AI investment and agentic-commerce tooling.