Crypto exchange operator Bullish has committed a $100m stablecoin credit facility to USD.AI, a protocol that lends against graphics processing units, extending an existing investor relationship into direct balance-sheet financing for the AI compute buildout. The facility, announced on 28 August 2026, gives USD.AI stablecoin liquidity to originate non-recourse loans secured against high-performance computing hardware. It is not Bullish's first exposure to the protocol: the NYS

As of this week, the world's two biggest card networks are running two very different playbooks on the same $300 billion table. One is buying its way in. The other is auditioning partners in public. Meanwhile, the ECB has just handed 36 firms the keys to the digital euro sandbox. If you thought August would be a quiet month for payments, you have not been paying attention. In the space of three weeks, the industry has watched a $1.8 billion acquisition close, a request for pr

FinanceX Magazine is proud to announce its media partnership with Finweek Bratislava 2026, one of Central and Eastern Europe's most established conferences dedicated to financial innovation. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary edition under the theme "Building Bridges, Not Borders," the event takes place on 13–14 October 2026 at Jurkovičova Tepláreň, a striking former municipal heating plant in the heart of Bratislava, Slovakia. The two-day programme convenes senior leaders

Gemini Enterprise, post-quantum wallets and ECB tokenisation moves are reshaping finance in August 2026. Here is what changed, and what to do next.

Centiglobe, the Swedish cross-border payment network, has added Greenbridge Markets as an on-demand liquidity provider, allowing member banks, payment firms and e-money institutions to convert between the network's tokenised deposits and fiat cash without holding capital in reserve ahead of every payment. Greenbridge joins Centiglobe Connect as what the company describes as an independent Affiliate Member, a counterparty that exchanges the network's bank-agnostic tokenised de

Experian, TransUnion, Rezolv and StegX are pushing AI underwriting and tokenised real estate into the mainstream. Here is what changed this week.

As of this week, the core banking modernisation trade is no longer a "brave CIO" story. It has hit profitability, priced-in cheques and a regulatory calendar that will not wait. The week the category found its floor For a decade, cloud-native core banking has been the sector everyone said would win eventually. As of late August 2026, "eventually" arrived. Between a £40m growth cheque, a $100m ARR milestone and a European regulator finally putting a stamp on the successor to P

Sixfold is routing its AI underwriting engine directly into insurers' existing Salesforce environments through a new partnership with PS Advisory, a move that lets carriers adopt agentic underwriting without ripping out the systems their teams already run on. The tie-up, announced on 27 August 2026, centres on a custom MuleSoft connector that passes submissions, enrichment data and underwriting decisions between the two platforms automatically, removing the manual rekeying an

Priority Technology Holdings has agreed to acquire IntelliPay, a Utah-based payments software provider serving government agencies, schools and healthcare organisations, in a move that establishes a dedicated public-sector unit and pushes the Nasdaq-listed group deeper into enterprise payments. The company, which trades as Priority Commerce, said on 26 August 2026 that it had signed a membership interest purchase agreement for the business, though it did not disclose the purc