Fintech Industry Trends

The wallet's bank owners are battling Apple and PayPal with an extensive marketing push, touting it as a more secure payment method.

"We're just in a dead sprint using AI to fight AI fraud," Zach Perret, the data aggregator's chief executive, said at the Money20/20 conference this week.

The company is in talks with Visa over a potential $2.5 billion acquisition, Axios reported.

The CEOs of Canada's RBC and BMO are the latest bank chiefs to warn customers about the dangers of linking their accounts to AI agents.

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Fireblocks denied an Axios report that Visa is in talks to acquire the crypto custody firm for around $2.5 billion.

A new draft targets a fourfold cut in the time it takes Ethereum transactions to become final, which could free up money transfer services tie up while customers’ payments clear.

Each SOFIE token represents $1 on deposit at SoFi Bank, earning 4.40% APY with FDIC insurance—a yield-and-protection combination ordinary stablecoins lack.

The new real-time market feeds will cover trade data from over 200 onchain venues across 12 blockchain networks.

SoFi has launched SOFIE, a tokenized deposit offering 4.4% APY and FDIC insurance, with the option to convert to SoFiUSD.

Barclays is the latest high street bank to announce a headcount reduction at the same time as an expansion in the use of AI.

Bitcoin as much as 2.9% to around $81,600 as Nasdaq futures dropped, while the CoinDesk 80 lost 3.5% and DeFi index slid 6%.

The London Stock Exchange (LSEG) has agreed to acquire credit data provider Octus in a cash deal worth $3.535bn.

The Nasdaq is down more than 2% as the AI bull market trade continues to unwind. U.S. interest rates are plunging even as oil surges.

New offerings include enhanced supplier-spend analytics, virtual-card fraud prevention capabilities and a live pilot enabling trusted AI agents to complete B2B invoice payments Visa (NYSE: V) announced three capabilities across commercial card growth, virtual card security and…

The general availability gives eligible organizations more flexibility with net 30-day terms, a dedicated business line of credit and streamlined reconciliation TreviPay, a global B2B payments infrastructure partner, today announced the general availability of Pay By Invoice for…

Cross-border payments remain slow and expensive but fintech outfits such as Wise and Remitly have substantially cut costs relative to traditional retail bank wires while stabelcoins still suffer from issues with friction, according to BIS research.

Citadel's founder says investors are almost certainly in an AI bubble, warns a chip glut could crash prices like empty airline seats, yet expects the survivors to lead for decades.

Nvidia's OpenShell Reference Architecture pairs a software sandbox on Vera CPUs with Sentry monitoring on BlueField-4 chips, aiming to let companies run autonomous agents while enforcing limits agents cannot reach.

The regulation bans direct yield payments to customers from stablecoin issuers, but the OCC said it would "evaluate" third-party yield arrangements on a case-by-case basis.

OpenAI says its models found PHP2Shell and led a two-month coalition to fix it. It's the same AI that broke into Hugging Face and an Australian government portal this year.

Adding the fintech's branded-wallet platform, stored value and technology would let Cross River "offer partners a complete embedded finance stack," the $8.5 billion-asset bank said.

The Pittsburgh-based regional bank has made big bets on AI internally. But Bill Demchak said agents transacting could "mess with people's lives."

At Sibos 2026, Red Hat and Kyndryl reveal how banks can balance AI innovation with core system resilience and embedded trust.

At Sibos 2026, the Euro Banking Association shares the ways in which banks can combat agentic AI disintermediation and reduce European payment fragmentation. How agentic AI could reshape bank brands and customer loyalty.

With just a few taps, customers get increased visibility, better management and more benefits U.S. Bank Payment Switch: Key Facts Payment Switch allows clients to seamlessly move recurring bills and subscriptions to a U.S. Bank debit or credit card with a few simple steps within…

GLOBAL, October 19, 2026 — WTW (NASDAQ: WTW) has announced the next-generation AI Assistant for RiskAgility Financial Modeller (FM), its flagship life modelling and financial reporting platform. The integration of semi-autonomous agentic capabilities in RiskAgility FM moves…

With both a global and Philippines lens on account-to-account payments, this interview provides insights and predictions for the instant economy and how to keep consumers, businesses and the ecosystem safe.

Jessica Rusu, FCA chief data, information and intelligence officerat Bloomberg's UK Policy Series. The Mills ReviewThat is why we commissioned the Mills Review, published in July, focused on how AI could reshape retail financial services by 2030.Some developments we anticipated…

Collaboration combines Updation’s AI-powered dealership operations platform with U.S. Bank embedded payments capabilities Key Takeaways U.S. Bank and Updation, an AI-powered accounts payable, vendor management and contract management platform built for automotive dealerships,…