FinanceX Magazine is proud to announce its official media partnership with Nordic Fintech Week 2026, the largest finance and fintech conference in the Nordic region. Taking place from 21–25 September 2026, with core conference days on 23–24 September, the event convenes the entire Nordic fintech ecosystem for a week of insight, connection, and collaboration. Hosted by the team behind Copenhagen Fintech, Nordic Fintech Week has grown since 2017 into the region's flagship gathe

The week of 18 August 2026 gave the payments world three signals that the plumbing is changing faster than most treasurers can spell "settlement finality". Here is what actually happened, and why it matters for anyone still moving money the old way. A quick pulse check on where payments sit right now Every August in payments used to be quiet. Not this one. In the last seven days, the industry has watched a stablecoin consortium of more than 140 firms turn into an actual settl

FinanceX Magazine is pleased to announce its official media partnership with the 20th Annual Collateral Management and Securities Lending Forum, organised by Fleming and taking place on 21–22 October 2026 at the Novotel Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in Hoofddorp, Netherlands. This partnership reinforces FinanceX Magazine's commitment to delivering authoritative coverage of the issues shaping the securities finance and collateral management landscape. Now in its 20th edition, the

BlackRock's tokenised money market funds, JPMorgan Kinexys, DTCC's runway, EU AI Act enforcement, D-Wave bookings. The plumbing of finance is being replaced at speed.

Standard Chartered has issued USD 200 million of three-year floating-rate digitally native notes on Euroclear's Digital Financial Market Infrastructure, becoming, by its own account, the first globally systemically important bank and the first UK issuer to raise money for itself on the platform. The distinction matters less for the headline number than for what it signals: a G-SIB is now willing to fund its own book through distributed ledger rails rather than merely build th

Datavault AI has agreed to acquire BankWyse, a Cheyenne-based holder of a Wyoming Special Purpose Depository Institution charter, in a move that would hand the loss-making tokenisation firm its own regulated custody and deposit-taking rails. The Nasdaq-listed company (DVLT) disclosed the definitive merger agreement on 19 August 2026, structuring it as roughly £16.4 million (approximately $22 million) in combined stock and cash, with up to a further $10 million in contingent c

Klarna's Q2 numbers, Casca's $29m raise, and Britain's proptech league table. This week, the story of lending is being written outside the legacy stack.

FinanceX Magazine is delighted to announce its media partnership with The PAY360 Awards 2026, the most prestigious event in the UK payments calendar. Hosted by The Payments Association and held in association with Mastercard, the awards take place on 7 October 2026 at the iconic Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London. Now marking 20 years, The PAY360 Awards is the night that defines the payments industry, bringing together 950+ senior leaders from 300+ organisations to cele

10x Banking bags £40m, Thought Machine crosses $100m ARR, and PSD3's countdown gets a little more real. As of this week, the modernisation trade has stopped being a thesis and started being a business. For years the core banking modernisation story sounded suspiciously like the flying-car story. Ambitious, well-funded, endlessly promising, and forever three years away from meaningful commercial traction. That framing no longer holds. Following this month's wave of vendor upda