Core banking provider 10x Banking and lending-technology firm ezbob have agreed a partnership to help banks build and launch SME lending products in weeks rather than months, a direct answer to a UK market where small-business credit has shrunk to its lowest level in nearly three decades. Announced on 3 November 2026, the deal pairs 10x's modular core and ledger with ezbob's lending-orchestration platform, which handles onboarding, application, credit decisioning and the AI a

Bitget has turned its off-exchange custody offering into a six-partner network that lets institutional clients trade the exchange's spot, margin and futures markets while their coins stay with an outside custodian or bank. The Bitget Open Custody Network, announced in mid-October, connects providers including Copper, Fireblocks and Swiss bank Sygnum to Bitget's order books, so hedge funds, market makers and asset managers can reach its liquidity without first wiring assets in

Revolut has closed a secondary share sale that values the London-based fintech at $115bn (£87bn), a 53% jump from the $75bn it commanded a year ago and a figure that now places it above several of Europe’s established banks by equity value. The deal lets employees and early backers sell existing shares rather than raising fresh capital for the business, and it crowns a year in which Revolut secured banking permissions across four continents. The transaction was led by Glade B

Embedded finance is no longer a side quest, it's the main event. As of this week, new ESG rules are landing, African payment rails are scaling, and green fintech is finding real money. Here's how finance is quietly reinventing itself beyond the bank branch. If there is one story shaping finance this November, it is that "banking" is becoming an ingredient rather than a destination. Payments show up inside ride-share apps, loans inside e-commerce checkouts, insurance inside de

CrediMax, Bahrain’s first and largest card issuer and acquirer, has agreed to work with Mastercard to bring agentic commerce tools to merchants across the Kingdom, placing it among the first institutions in the country to help local businesses sell to AI shopping agents rather than only to people. The collaboration centres on Mastercard’s Agent Suite for Merchants, a set of capabilities that lets businesses embed AI-driven shopping experiences, product discovery, cart managem

As of this week, Hong Kong has a new AI compliance platform, Belgium's Nagelmackers has handed its reporting stack to Regnology, and a new industry forecast puts the RegTech market on a path to $112 billion by 2033. Compliance just became the fastest-moving story in financial technology. If you had to pick the sector where artificial intelligence has moved from PowerPoint promise to production grind the fastest, you would not pick trading or asset management. You would pick c