This week, the European Commission is pushing PSD3 toward summer publication, FiDA's trilogues are paused, and a US BaaS giant just signed a non-binding term sheet that could redraw the sponsor-bank map.

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Brazilian fintech infrastructure took a step toward maturity this week as Juspay and Cumbuca released the Open Finance Playground, a free, open-source documentation and simulator stack designed to compress the multi-week onboarding curve that has slowed new entrants into Brazil's Open Finance ecosystem. The release targets a structural bottleneck in the world's largest open banking market: regulator-grade specifications that describe what compliant systems must do, but offer

From a fresh €3 billion EU-backed green bond fund to a brand-new Nigeria-Ghana mobile-money corridor, the beyond-banking stack is graduating from buzzword to balance-sheet line item.

European post-trade infrastructure faces its most significant consolidation push in a decade. Euronext has opened the testing environment for its European Central Securities Depository (CSD) expansion, with BNP Paribas Securities Services, Citi and CACEIS confirming participation. The move sets a September 2026 go-live date for a unified settlement platform spanning Belgium, France, Italy and the Netherlands, layered onto existing CSD operations in Denmark, Greece, Portugal a

Negotiated pay pressures in the euro area are stabilising at levels closer to the European Central Bank's 2% inflation target, according to wage tracker data published on 6 May 2026. The ECB wage tracker now points to negotiated wage growth of 2.6% across 2026 when one-off payments are included on an unsmoothed basis, down from 3.0% in 2025 and a notable cooling from the post-pandemic peak that drove much of the bank's tightening cycle. The figures, drawn from active collecti

Compliance used to be the line item that survived budget cuts only because lawyers asked nicely. As of this week, it's the fastest-funding corner of fintech, and the AML stack is being rebuilt in real time. For years, RegTech was the unglamorous cousin of payments and trading platforms. Necessary, occasionally lucrative, never sexy. That story collapsed in the first quarter of 2026. According to FinTech Global, U.S. RegTech investment hit $2 billion across 103 deals in Q1 alo

Lean Technologies has expanded its Pay by Bank product onto the UAE's newly operational Open Finance rails, moving account-to-account (A2A) payments out of pilot territory and into regulated, nationally standardised infrastructure. The Riyadh- and Dubai-based fintech, which has processed more than $4 billion in transaction volume since 2019, is now bundling deposits, collections, checkout, and subscriptions into a single Pay by Bank suite for merchants including e&, Careem, D

TerraPay and Cooperative Bank of Oromia with Quantoz Payments have launched a blockchain-based settlement system for euro-denominated remittances flowing from Europe to Ethiopia, targeting one of Africa's largest inbound remittance markets. The Ethiopia remittance corridor handles more than $5 billion in annual inflows, and the new infrastructure routes euro settlement through the Xahau blockchain while keeping retail delivery within Coopbank's licensed domestic network. The