Barclays Partner Finance will offer early full and final settlements to some motor finance customers whose commission complaints it acknowledged on or before 1 October 2026, moving ahead of a redress timetable that has been frozen since the summer. The step gives eligible customers the option of compensation within weeks, instead of waiting out the legal challenges that have left the Financial Conduct Authority's motor finance redress scheme partially suspended until a tribun

As of this week, ESMA is openly hunting for evidence on tokenised collateral in central clearing, Hong Kong's Project Ensemble has gone 24/7, and Korea has finally put a date on T+1. The post-trade machinery just stopped being boring. Market infrastructure is the stuff investors notice only when it breaks. For the past decade, exchanges, clearinghouses and central securities depositories have been quietly rewiring themselves while the headlines went to meme stocks and crypto.

Revolut has been registered as a bank by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, becoming the country's first digital-only bank and only its 27th registered bank overall. The Revolut New Zealand banking licence, confirmed on 3 November 2026, drops a London-headquartered challenger into one of the most concentrated retail banking markets in the developed world, and it arrives with deposit protection and a headline savings rate aimed squarely at the Australian-owned incumbents. What h

As of this week, insurance technology has shaken off its 2024 malaise and is quietly becoming one of fintech's most interesting investment stories — with AI underwriting, embedded insurance and a maturing parametric market all moving at once.

Bitget reported $1.86 trillion in combined Q3 trading volume, its Q3 2026 Transparency Report shows, with growth spread across crypto derivatives, spot and contracts-for-difference. The same report gives a single paragraph to a September security incident. It does not state the figure. Independent investigators and security reporters put the theft at roughly $387.5 million, one of the larger exchange breaches of 2026, which makes the quarter's standout number the one the repo

Baillie Gifford is in early talks with HashKey Exchange to bring tokenised investment products to professional investors in Hong Kong, the two firms said on 2 November. The $260bn Edinburgh manager and Hong Kong's first licensed digital asset exchange will explore how a century-old active investor and a regulated crypto platform might work together on investor outreach, product distribution and digital asset management. No product, launch date or committed capital was disclos