Pliant, the Berlin-based business payments fintech, has secured full authorisation from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority as an electronic money institution, letting it issue cards and run payment accounts for British customers through its own regulated subsidiary rather than a third-party partner. The FCA granted the permission to Pliant Payments Limited on 14 October 2026, moving the company's UK operation inside a locally supervised entity for the first time. The Pliant

FinanceX Magazine is pleased to announce its official media partnership with the India Fintech Revolution Summit 2026, taking place on 18 November 2026 in Mumbai, India. Organised by TRAICON Events, the summit convenes investment banks, fintech innovators, regulators, and the financial institutions defining the next phase of digital finance across emerging markets. India now stands as the world's third-largest fintech ecosystem, with digital finance adoption reaching 85% amon

Franklin Templeton and its alternative-credit arm, Benefit Street Partners (BSP), have folded the investment team and a seed portfolio of Encina Lender Finance into their asset-backed finance business, adding 14 investment professionals and roughly $480m of existing commitments. The move pushes BSP into consumer and commercial lender finance, a corner of private markets that large managers are racing to build out as the broader asset-backed finance market swells toward an est

As of this week, a €17 million Series A extension, a BaaS acquisition closed on 7 October, and a Chase/Gusto payroll rollout have redrawn where the embedded-finance frontier actually sits. The destination, increasingly, is inclusion. Embedded finance used to be the dinner-party topic that bankers mentioned to sound current. Over the last seven days, it has become something stickier: a sequence of real deals, real licences changing hands, and real customers being folded into f

Humana has handed majority ownership of its roughly 150 CenterWell senior primary care clinics to BlackRock in a $2.8bn transaction that reorganises how the insurer finances its fastest-growing care business. Announced on 13 October 2026, the deal installs funds managed by HPS Investment Partners, BlackRock's private credit arm, as majority owner of a new joint venture, with CenterWell holding a minority stake and continuing to run every clinic day to day. What has Humana act

WEMIX has relaunched its CertiK bug bounty, a programme that now pays vetted security researchers up to $10,000 for a single critical flaw in its blockchain. The reset, announced on 14 October 2026, arrives less than two years after two security breaches cost the gaming-focused network real money and, in one case, its place on South Korea's largest crypto exchanges. For a project built on moving in-game value into tradable, real-world assets, the stakes of getting security ri