Trading Central, the Paris-based analytics firm whose research feeds trading platforms used by millions of retail investors, has crossed the line from selling signals to packaging them as an investable product. Its first exchange-traded fund, the Trading Central Quant Europe 50 Equity UCITS ETF, began trading on 6 August 2026 and marks the firm's move from research vendor to asset manager, a step few analytics providers attempt. The fund lists under the ticker TCQE (ISIN IE00

From Yellow Card's $40 million Series B to Open USD's 140-partner debut, the last seven days have turned a "wait and see" narrative into a "go live" one. The week payments stopped rehearsing If you spent the summer wondering when stablecoins would leave the pilot deck and hit real corridors, this week gave you your answer. As of this morning, three separate announcements from the past seven days have re-drawn the map of cross-border money movement: a Series B round for an Afr

Sweden's municipalities and regions are carrying combined occupational pension liabilities of SEK 619 billion, according to a new mapping of public-sector pension obligations published by Skandia. After two years of historically high pension costs driven by inflation, the report projects near-term relief in those costs, giving local authorities a rare window to fold their pension obligations into longer-term financial planning rather than managing them reactively. The figure,

Citi has agreed to acquire commerce media and rewards platform Kard Financial, a move that positions the second-largest US card issuer to monetise its cardholder base as an advertising channel and puts it in direct competition with Mastercard, Chase and PayPal for brand marketing budgets. The deal, announced on 13 August 2026 by Citi's newly formed US Consumer Cards business, folds Kard's transaction-linked offer technology into a franchise that counts roughly 70 million card

Clop's ransomware claim against Fiserv, a $3.7 billion deepfake-fraud toll and DORA's first year of teeth have collided on the same news cycle. Financial-services CISOs no longer have the luxury of sequencing these threats. A very bad Tuesday If a chief information security officer at a global bank had drawn up a stress test for August, this week's news would have looked contrived. On 12 August, DeXpose and multiple threat-intelligence trackers reported that the Clop ransomwa

FinanceX Magazine is delighted to announce its media partnership with the Amsterdam Fintech Event (AFE) 2026, taking place on 7–8 October 2026 at the World Trade Center in Amsterdam. An initiative of the Holland Fintech Association and Cognito Amsterdam, AFE has become a fixed date in the calendar for anyone working in or around financial technology, and we are proud to help bring its programme to a wider audience. As a media partner, FinanceX Magazine joins the Amsterdam Fin

IBM's $10bn quantum bet, JPMorgan's new data centre, an FIS-Anthropic AI agent, and Robinhood's UK crypto launch. Seven days that made every "future of finance" slide look conservative. If you drew a circle around the last week of financial technology news, you would find that the topics on every strategy team's whiteboard, quantum computing, agentic AI, tokenised securities, and stablecoins, have all produced hard evidence rather than the usual vapour. As of this week, banks

The European Central Bank reported on 13 August 2026 that 92% of euro area companies with physical points of sale now accept cash, framing the figure as a recovery after years of decline. The headline is clean, but the comparison underpinning it is not: the ECB's own earlier reporting put 2024 cash acceptance materially lower than the baseline used in the new release, which complicates the story of a straightforward rebound. What did the 2026 survey actually find? The ECB's l

From a $1.7bn Klarna capital deal to Brussels flipping the switch on high-risk AI rules, this week has quietly rewritten the operating manual for anyone who lends, scores, or tokenises real estate. August tends to be the month when finance people pretend to switch off. This year, the market refused to co-operate. In the last seven days, lending, credit, and PropTech have thrown up a stack of stories that will shape balance sheets, borrowing costs, and property portfolios well