The Financial Conduct Authority and the Bank of England on 18 May 2026 launched a joint Call for Input on tokenisation in UK wholesale markets, the clearest signal yet that the two regulators intend to move digital asset infrastructure from sandbox experiments into production. The plan covers prudential treatment, tokenised collateral, settlement instruments and near 24/7 sterling settlement, with industry feedback open until 3 July 2026. For finance professionals tracking th

European lenders gained direct access to Brazilian credit histories on May 18, 2026, after Mifundo integrated data from Equifax BoaVista, the Equifax Inc. subsidiary in Brazil. The Equifax-Mifundo partnership establishes the first non-European credit bureau link on the Tallinn-based platform, creating a Europe-Latin America credit data corridor aimed at the more than one million Brazilian nationals living and working across Europe. The integration delivers verified repayment

This week, financial services got fresh evidence that the era of "trust but verify" is over. The new motto: verify, verify, then verify again — preferably with a biometric. If 2025 was the year financial services started worrying about AI-enabled fraud, 2026 is the year the worry turned into a line item. As of this week, fresh disclosures, a regulatory rollout from FINRA, and the steady arrival of DORA's enforcement teeth are reshaping how banks, fintechs, and crypto platform

Institutional digital asset lending got its first dedicated, securities-finance-grade venue on May 14, when Digital Prime Technologies switched on live trading at Tokenet, with Galaxy Digital (Nasdaq: GLXY) executing among the inaugural transactions and EquiLend supplying the distribution network. The launch arrives as the institutional crypto lending market rebuilds toward its 2021 highs, and it directly targets the operational gap that finance desks have flagged since the 2

AWS, Stripe & Circle put AI agents on stablecoin rails. Quantum IPOs surge. JPMorgan tokenizes money funds. The week finance crossed a threshold.

Cavenwell Group, a regulated fiduciary and fund services firm administering more than $7 billion in client assets, has launched Assetize, a full-stack tokenization platform that compresses legal structuring, administration, custody, transfer agency, and on-chain issuance into a single coordinated workflow for institutional sponsors. The platform targets one of the most persistent bottlenecks in tokenized capital markets: the operational drag of stitching together six or more

Affirm crushes Q3, Brickken brings NAV oracles to tokenized real estate, and AI rewires credit. Inside this week's lending and PropTech shake-up.

Brussels delivered the regulatory text Europe's banks have been preparing for since 2023, and inside the same seven days, a regulated German bank flipped its retail core onto cloud-native rails. The post-PSD2 era is no longer hypothetical. There are weeks in financial regulation when very little happens, and there are weeks like this one. As of this week, two long-running storylines, Europe's post-PSD2 open banking rewrite and the slow grind of core-banking modernisation, hav

Elliptic, the London-headquartered blockchain analytics provider, has closed a $120 million Series D round at a $670 million post-money valuation, capital it will deploy to scale AI-native crypto compliance infrastructure for banks, exchanges and government agencies. The round, led by growth equity firm One Peak, pulls in three institutional investors whose participation says as much about the deal as the cheque size: Nasdaq Ventures, Deutsche Bank and the British Business Ba