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Revolut has cleared a pivotal regulatory hurdle in Latin America's sixth-largest economy, receiving an Organisation Authorisation from Peru's Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP (SBS), the first of two formal approvals required to launch as a fully licensed bank in the countr y. The clearance positions the London-based fintech, which serves over 70 million customers globally, to become Peru's first entirely digital bank once a subsequent Functional Authorisation a

A ngola's Banco Angolano de Investimentos (BAI) is replacing its legacy core banking infrastructure with Finastra Essence , a cloud-first, open-API platform, in one of the most significant banking modernisation moves in sub-Saharan Africa this year. The upgrade extends a partnership between the two institutions that stretches back more than 15 years, and signals a broader acceleration of digital transformation across Angola's banking sector. BAI, one of Angola's largest fin

Wise has launched a full UK current account, directly challenging traditional retail banks with a product that combines multi-currency functionality, a 3.26% variable return on GBP balances, and zero hidden fees. The move is backed by substantial existing scale: the London-listed company already serves over 3 million active UK customers, who collectively hold more than £8 billion in Wise accounts. The product launch is a strategic escalation. Wise built its reputation on int

Bank integration and payment automation platform AccessPay has secured a majority investment from Accel-KKR , the global pri vate equity firm with over $10 billion in assets under management focused exclusively on enterprise software. The deal, terms of which were not disclosed, positions the Manchester-based SaaS company to scale enterprise operations, develop new product lines, and pursue acquisitions. The timing is deliberate. CFOs are navigating compounding pressure: ti

ECB's Eurosystem Payments Strategy Draws the Line on Stablecoins, Tokenisation and the Digital Euro The European Central Bank has published its most comprehensive payments policy document to date, setting out exactly where it will draw the line between central bank money and private digital instruments, and what conditions private players must meet to participate in the future of European settlement. Released on 31 March 2026, the Eurosystem's payments strategy covers the f

Institutional settlement is about to stop sleeping. BMO , in partnership with CME Group and Google Cloud , has announced plans to deploy tokenized cash infrastructure that will allow financial institutions to move collateral, meet margin calls, and settle positions around the clock, without waiting for traditional banking windows to open. The platform, expected to launch in the second half of 2026 pending regulatory approval, will run on Google Cloud Universal Ledger (G CUL

Swift ha s moved from design to active construction of a blockchain-based shared interbank ledger, targeting live transactions with tokenised deposits this year, a development that could reshape the architecture of cross-border settlement for its 11,500+ connected institutions across more than 200 countries. What Is Swift Actually Building? The minimum viable product (MVP) is a shared digital orchestration layer sitting atop existing bank payment infrastructure. Bu ilt on an

Nium has launched a stablecoin card issuance platform that lets businesses issue cards funded by stablecoin balances across both Visa and Mastercard through a single API. The significance is less about another crypto payments announcement and more about execution: enterprises that already hold digital dollars now have a route to spend them through existing card rails rather than building separate settlement, compliance and issuer relationships from scratch. For finance an