Pine Labs and Stripe will let retailers in Singapore run online and in-store payments from a single platform starting November 2026, with Stripe handling online payments and card transactions routed through Pine Labs terminals on the shop floor. For finance teams at multi-channel retailers, the offer replaces a familiar patchwork, one vendor for the website, another for the stores, and others again for instalments and analytics, with one partner and one consolidated view of e

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