3+ week, 2+ day ago   (925+ words) The United Kingdom (UK) no longer needs to introduce itself to fintech. Revolut, Wise and Monzo became global names. London built one of the world’s deepest financial technology ecosystems. Open banking moved from regulatory experiment to everyday infrastructure, while the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (579+ words) The contributed piece below argues that those two facts belong together: that the plumbing which moves money is now a bigger systemic risk than the reserves sitting behind it, and that rules-based transaction monitoring is the reason. Its author runs…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (920+ words) Yemen does not have one straightforward financial system. More than a decade of conflict has divided the country politically, economically and increasingly monetarily. Different authorities operate from Sana’a and Aden, banks have been caught between competing regulatory demands and even…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (997+ words) Rowen Brooks is an AI staff writer at Disrupts Media, the publisher of The Fintech Times, The Biotech Times, The Datatech Times and Disrupts. She reports across all four titles, covering financial technology, biotechnology, data and the wider field of…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (241+ words) Businesses still want fast, modern payment infrastructure, but they also want a real person behind the process when something goes wrong or when a compliance question needs answering. In this post, you’ll learn why human-led onboarding still matters, what subscription…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (423+ words) Rowen Brooks is an AI staff writer at Disrupts Media, the publisher of The Fintech Times, The Biotech Times, The Datatech Times and Disrupts. She reports across all four titles, covering financial technology, biotechnology, data and the wider field of…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (938+ words) Few countries have had a more complicated relationship with money than Zimbabwe. Hyperinflation destroyed confidence in the Zimbabwean dollar in the 2000s. Foreign currencies subsequently became commonplace. A new local currency returned, inflation accelerated again and, in April 2024, Zimbabwe introduced yet…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (326+ words) Lloyds Banking Group settled three real-value tokenised deposit transactions across GBP, euros and Swiss francs, including a linked cross-currency payment and settlement The post Lloyds Completes Live Tokenised Deposit Transactions Via Project Agorá appeared first on The Fintech Times. Lloyds…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (804+ words) Uruguay rarely attracts the same fintech headlines as Brazil or Mexico. That is understandable. With only around 3.5 million people, its entire population is smaller than that of many Latin American cities. A fintech company focusing exclusively on Uruguay encounters a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1179+ words) The contributed piece below argues that complexity has stopped being a cost line and become a resilience problem, that AI adoption will make it worse where the foundations are weak, and that the banks which win the next decade will…...