At this year’s Singapore Fintech Festival , we brought a special moment to life: the Wheel of Fintech. Together with Apix , our own magazine, The Connector , and FIT – Flanders Investment & Trade, we had the pleasure of creating a stage where eight companies could present their work to an engaged and curious audience. It became a warm and collaborative session, not a competition, but a chance to let each company shine in its own way. Thanks to the strong partnership between

The project enables the rapid rollout of market-leading enterprise capabilities Press release: Lake Mary, Fla., US – December 11, 2025 –   Finastra , a global leader in financial services software, today announced British Caribbean Bank (BCB) , a Turks and Caicos-based financial institution focused on delivering innovative banking products to its customers, has successfully gone live with Finastra Essence, a next-generation core banking platform. This move signifies a major

Press Release - 3rd December 2025 – Frankfurt – The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation ( GLEIF ) today named MSC Trustgate as the winner of its global vLEI Hackathon in the Industry 4.0 – Industry, Commercial & Finance Processes & Operations  category. GLEIF's Global vLEI Hackathon saw an impressive 110 submissions from teams around the world, collectively showcasing the innovative ideas shaping the future of Digital Organizational Identity. MSC Trustgate's winning so

Integration combines Europe-wide credit data with next-generation decisioning to help banks reduce foreign-customer risk and scale lending confidently Press release: Tallinn/Berlin, 11.12.2025 - Mifundo , the pan-European credit-data platform enabling banks to instantly verify cross-border credit histories, has announced a new integration with Taktile , the Agentic Decision Platform that empowers financial institutions to rapidly unlock AI-driven efficiencies across the custo

From regulatory breakthroughs to instant payments everywhere, 2025 delivered the infrastructure that makes 2026's predicted innovations inevitable Consider a typical cross-border euro transfer; On January 1st, 2025, sending €1,000 from Berlin to Barcelona took three days and cost €35. Today, it takes 10 seconds and costs nothing. A year ago, operating crypto services in Europe meant navigating 27 different regulatory regimes. MiCA is creating a single passportable licence ac

By Marissa Weiss, Enterprise Sales & Product Specialist at Performativ When the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) went into effect in January 2025, regulated financial entities across Europe faced a clear mandate: maintain a comprehensive register of their Information Communication Technology (ICT) network and report it to regulators in the required technical format. For many firms, the challenge wasn’t awareness; it was execution. DORAedge was built to provide thes

Author: Rebecca Marina (Counsel) and Roxana Șerban (Associate) The European Union likes to see itself as a global leader in financial innovation. It has built sophisticated rules for open banking, instant transfers and digital assets, aiming to make payments within Europe seamless and secure. However, behind this ambition lies a problem that policymakers have struggled to solve. The EU’s legal framework for payments is fragmented. It has not developed as a single, coherent bo

By Pierre E. Berger, Esperanza Morales, Joris Latui LL.M., DLA Piper 1.Introduction Stablecoins are crypto-assets designed to maintain a stable value relative to a reference asset, usually a fiat currency such as the US dollar or the euro. Their market has expanded rapidly, with global capitalization surpassing USD 300 billion by September 2025.[1] It remains, however, dominated by dollar-denominated coins. This rapid expansion has made stablecoins a focal point in debates ab